2022 Grantee Organizations
Hello in There is proud to support Musicians on Call with a $50,000 grant in 2022. MOC delivers the healing power of music to patients in healthcare facilities. They are the nation’s leading provider of live music in hospitals, serving individuals in facilities ranging from children’s hospitals to adult facilities, VA hospitals, and hospices.
Hello in There provided a $50,000 grant to the Keep A Breast Foundation in 2022. Keep A Breast's mission is to reduce breast cancer risk and its impact globally through art, education, prevention, and action. Specifically, Hello in There supported KAB’s Give Back Grant program, which provides direct support to BIPOC women who are breast cancer survivors or have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
In 2022, HITF donated $25,000 to Thistle Farms, a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to helping women survivors recover and heal from prostitution, trafficking, and addiction. Specifically, the foundation supported Thistle Global, an aligned international network of artisan survivor enterprises supporting women’s dignity and economic freedom.
Room in the Inn received a $25,000 grant in 2022. The organization provides programs that emphasize human development and recovery through education, self-help and work, all centered in community and long term support for those who call the streets of Nashville home.
HITF made a $15,000 grant to A Step Ahead in 2022. A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee helps to empower women by partnering with clinics, social workers, schools, community centers, and other organizations to promote awareness and access to free, long-acting reversible contraception.
Through strategic partnerships, Raphah Institute confronts the root causes of societal harm and takes a uniquely crafted approach to create transformative healing for all. Its flagship program, the Restorative Justice Diversion Program, focuses on healing both persons harmed and responsible youth using restorative justice principles. The Raphah Institute was a featured nonprofit for the "Hello from the Hills" benefit concert, and received a $10,000 grant from the Hello in There Foundation in December 2022.
Healing Housing is a nonprofit residential recovery program serving women with limited resources throughout Middle Tennessee who are healing from addiction. They provide women a stable home and extensive support services rooted in love, acceptance and the power of community, to women transitioning from drug and alcohol treatment. Healing Housing was a featured nonprofit for the "Hello from the Hills" benefit concert, and received a $10,000 grant from the Hello in There Foundation in December 2022.
CARE is an international humanitarian organization fighting global poverty and world hunger by working alongside women and girls. HITF made a $16,000 grant in May 2022 to CARE’s Ukraine Crisis Fund.
In December 2022, the Hello in There Foundation made several $2,500 year-end gifts to small and/or grassroots organizations led by Women of Color who are doing important work in Nashville. Those organizations included:
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden
Girls on the Run Middle Tennessee
East Nashville Hope Exchange
The F.I.N.D. Design
Moves and Grooves
Nashville Freedom Schools
Tennessee Justice for our Neighbors
HITF provided a $2,500 event sponsorship to the Community Resource Center of Nashville in September 2022.
HITF provided a $1,000 gift to World Central Kitchen in December 2022.
EASTERN KENTUCKY DISASTER RELIEF
The Hello in There Foundation mobilized resources among our generous fan community to raise funding for Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief, and in August 2022 provided $15,000 in grant funds to the community organizations below. Oh Boy Records and the Prine Family matched donations up to $15,000, for a total of $30,000 to disaster relief efforts.
The Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center is a nonprofit law firm that fights for justice in the coalfields by using a high-impact three-pronged strategy for change: litigation, advocacy, and organizing. HITF donated $5,000 in August 2022 to help with disaster relief around Eastern Kentucky flooding.
The Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund was established by Governor Beshear to assist those impacted by the floods of July 2022. HITF donated $5,000 to assist with flood relief in August 2022.
Hope in the Hills/Healing Appalachia is dedicated to helping connect and grow communities of recovery and healing in Appalachia, raising funds and awareness to combat opioid addiction through a wide array of projects and programs from youth prevention, healthy lifestyles and wellness to recovery houses and recovery to work. HITF supported Hope in the Hills with a $5,000 grant in August 2022 to support their work in helping rebuild the Perry Cline Emergency Shelter in Pikeville, KY in the wake of catastrophic flooding.
Hello in There also partnered with Hope in the Hills and Healing Appalachia in January 2023 for the “Hello from the Hills” benefit concert, to raise resources and visibility for organizations working in recovery communities across in both Middle Tennessee and Appalachia.