Foundation Giving
The West End Home Foundation seeks to enrich the lives of older adults by investing in nonprofit organizations that address their unique needs. The programs that we support address a broad range of issues impacting people from all walks of life as they age. Our nonprofit agency partners transform our funds into meaningful outcomes that enhance lives and strengthen our communities.
Funding by Impact Area 2002-2023
The West End Home Foundation made its first grant in 2002. Since that time we have distributed $22,915,390.00 to sixty-nine different nonprofit agencies in Middle Tennessee. The chart to the left presents funding by impact area during our 20 year history of making grants.
Grant Awards Distributed in 2023:
Advocacy Programs
Legal assistance and education for issues related to aging, and advocacy for new or expanded initiatives to ensure a comprehensive system of care for older adults
AgeWell Middle Tennessee
Funding will support AgeWell Middle Tennessee’s core services with emphasis placed on growth of AgeWell’s impact as a convener, catalyst & advocacy leader in addressing unmet needs of older adults and family caregivers. Core activities & initiatives include Advocacy and Thought Leadership, Directory of Services and Other Resource Guides, Community Helpline, Community Outreach & Education and Eldercare Coach.
Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency
The Long Term Care Ombudsman Program protects the Federally mandated rights of the residents of long-term care facilities to assure the highest level of care and quality of life.
Nashville Public Television, Inc.
NPT Reports: Aging Matters informs Middle Tennessee about the major issues and concerns facing older adults, their families and caregivers.
NOAH (Nashville Organized for Action and Hope):
NOAH provides grassroots advocacy and community organizing around the issue of affordable housing for older adults. A listening campaign will be launched in 2023 to engage older adults in community conversations focused on a variety of issues related to affordable housing including home repairs, more affordable housing options and improved property tax assistance with the goal of influencing policies and funding priorities.
Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services
The Senior Legal Helpline helps older persons age with dignity and security by making civil legal help more accessible. This project will protect and enhance the essential rights and benefits of older persons in Davidson and contiguous counties.
Tennessee Justice Center
Independence provides legal advocacy for applicants encountering enrollment barriers with TennCare CHOICES, Tennessee’s Medicaid LTSS program, SNAP, Medicare Savings Programs, use of coronavirus relief funds, educates the public and stakeholders about how to navigate the programs and advocates for system changes in the programs. Funding will also support the acquisition and renovation of a permanent office space.
Enrichment and Socialization Programs
Opportunities for meaningful social interaction and lifelong learning
FiftyForward
FiftyForward Bordeaux – Lifelong Learning Center provides education, wellness and enrichment programs for center members in the North Nashville community.
Music For Seniors
Live Music Outreach for Socially Isolated Groups provides music programs to lower income older adults in nonprofit recreational and care settings.
Nashville Public Library Foundation
Nashville Public Library’s Digital Inclusion Program provides digital literacy inclusion for older adults in Davidson County. The program creates cognitive stimulation, eliminates isolation, reduces depression, builds bonds, creates easier access, provides access to critical health and government services, and encourages interested and able seniors to re-enter the workforce.
Food and Nutrition Programs
Services such as groceries, home-delivered and congregate meals to meet the nutritional needs of vulnerable older adults
Bethlehem Centers
The Bethlehem Senior Resource Center provides Meals on Wheels through partnerships with fourteen North Nashville churches and hosts the Active Seniors Circle to provide wellness and enrichment programs.
Graceworks Ministries
The Older Adults Food/Shelter Assistance program provides food assistance/hunger prevention and rent/utility assistance to vulnerable older adults living in Williamson County.
Home Bound Meals Program
The Providing Meals to the Elderly program delivers hot, nutritious meals to vulnerable older adults in Hendersonville and the surrounding area. Volunteers place special emphasis on developing friendships and provide much needed interaction with socially isolated older adults.
Lebanon Senior Center
The Food Security for Aging Seniors Program provides nutritious meals for older adults in Wilson County. The Senior Center works diligently to provide affordable home delivered meals, congregate meals and convenient curb side pickup service to address food insecurity within this population.
Martha O’Bryan Center, Inc.
Senior Services provides food, individualized counseling, financial assistance, medical referrals and opportunities for fellowship for the older adults living in and around Cayce Place.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee and FiftyForward
The Older Adult Essential Nutrition Partnership provides food and other supportive services to older adults in underserved areas of Davidson County. The third year of the collaboration will expand existing partnerships and build new connections in the Antioch/South Nashville, Old Hickory and North Nashville areas.
St. Luke’s Community House
St. Luke’s Senior Programs provides older adults with food security, hunger relief, enrichment, socialization and supportive care through mobile meals, food boxes, social club activities, community events, mental health support, volunteer opportunities and free tax preparation.
The Branch of Nashville
The Older Adult Care program identifies older adults in Southeast Nashville who need food assistance. The connection with these older adults opens the door to identifying other unmet needs and provides an opportunity to connect them with additional resources.
The Nashville Food Project
Meals Program for Seniors provides made-from-scratch, high quality meals to vulnerable older adults through collaborations with more than 10 nonprofit and community partners.
Healthcare Programs
Primary health care including diagnosis and treatment of chronic and critical conditions, oral health care and behavioral health services
Alive Hospice
Alive Hospice provides a warm and peaceful home away from home for patients and their loved ones. Many visitors travel to see patients and want to stay at their side as long as they can, knowing that time is short. New recliners and day beds will make their stay more comfortable and let them nap or even spend the night with their loved one at a time when they want to be together for every remaining moment.
Faith Family Medical Center
Health Care for Seniors provides high quality, affordable medical care and wellness services for working uninsured and underinsured older adults.
HEAR Nashville
Hearing Aids for Seniors provides financial and professional assistance for hearing aids to low income older adults in the greater Nashville area. The program also provides community education about hearing loss and its effects on quality of life.
Insight Counseling Centers
The Older Adult Care Program provides quality mental health services to older adults on an income-based sliding fee scale.
Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville
Smiles for Life provides high quality complete dental care, emergency dental care and oral hygiene education to low income older adults.
Tennessee Kidney Foundation
The Transportation Assistance Program provides impoverished and disabled older adults who have End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) with transportation to and from dialysis treatments.
Siloam Health
Siloam’s Culturally-Sensitive, Whole-Person Health Care to Vulnerable Seniors in Middle Tennessee serves uninsured older adults, most of whom are foreign born.
Housing Programs
Home repair and safety modifications, rent and utility assistance and access to appropriate housing solutions to facilitate safe and affordable housing
NeedLink Nashville
The Crisis Financial Support for Seniors to Prevent Eviction and Homelessness program provides financial assistance for rent, utilities or move-in costs for older adults age 60 and over who are at or below 200% of poverty level.
The Community Helpers
The Elderly & Disabled Assistance Program provides emergency financial assistance (rent and utilities), prescription drug assistance, coordination of services and referrals to other local community agencies in Rutherford County.
Westminster Home Connection
Westminster Home Connection provides critical repairs, mobility modifications, and sort-pack-move services to empower older adults to age in place safely and with dignity.
Transportation Programs
Safe and affordable transportation to ensure that older adults have access to needed services and have opportunities to remain engaged in community life
Community Life Bridge
Community Life Ride uses volunteer drivers to provide door-through-door transportation to older adults who no longer drive in order to support their independence and quality of life. Volunteers develop friendships and provide much needed interaction with socially isolated older adults.
Senior Ride Nashville, Inc.
Senior Ride Nashville provides courteous and safe door-through-door volunteer transportation along with guidance on mobility options allowing older adults to maintain health and quality of life. The program also facilitates meaningful relationships between volunteer drivers and riders.
Senior Ride Wilson, dba Wilson Rides
Wilson Rides provides safe, affordable, reliable and accessible transportation to older residents in Wilson County. The program helps make the community more livable by providing rides to local destinations in Wilson County.
Wellness and Supportive Care Programs
Prevention, wellness and in-home supportive services to promote and sustain healthy aging
Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc.
The Living at Home program provides home-based supportive services to help keep older adults living safely in their homes and communities. Refugee Elders provides long-term assistance to refugee elders by addressing their overall wellness through assessments and by developing case plans to manage chronic illnesses and mental health, provide English language and citizenship training and community engagement programs.
Community Resource Center
Through the Older Adult Support Program, the CRC partners with several nonprofit organizations that serve our aging neighbors to provide essential hygiene and household cleaning products at no cost. All participating older adults within this program receive pre-packaged CRC Support kits on a consistent basis, that contain a carefully curated selection of products that our older neighbors need to maintain hygiene, good health and human dignity.
FiftyForward
FiftyForward Supportive Care Services provides care management, FiftyForward Fresh home-delivered meals, Adult Day Care and other supportive services to enable vulnerable older adults to remain in their homes.
Mental Health America of the Mid-South
The Caregiver Support Program provides resources and support to those caring for older adults with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Individualized services for caregivers address the practical and emotional needs of caring for someone in all stages of the Alzheimer’s disease process. Services include free care consultations, presentations on healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease, training for healthcare professionals and law enforcement and support groups referrals.
Mindful Care Adult Day Service
The Mindful Care program offers opportunities to persons age 55+ with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive impairments to engage in a daytime program of meaningful social and therapeutic activities in a supportive non-institutionalized setting. The program aids in quality of life, promotes health, happiness and inclusion in a group of peers through music therapy and other enrichment activities. The program also offers caregivers the ability to work and an opportunity for respite.
Nations Ministry Center
The Front Porch Program: Welcoming Refugee Elders Home provides classroom experiences, enrichment events and case management to refugee elders.
Tennessee Respite Coalition
Funding is targeted to two projects: the Respite Voucher Program provides respite vouchers to caregivers who are at least 60 years old and caregivers of individuals who are at least 60 years old in the seven Middle Tennessee counties; the Sumner Senior Volunteer Program matches volunteers who are at least 60 years old to families who are in a caregiving situation. The caregiver provides assistance and companionship to the older adult who needs care.
Room In The Inn, Inc.
The RITI Flex Team for Older Adults provides Resource Navigation to equip individuals experiencing homelessness with the necessary tools and life skills to obtain and maintain housing and income. The FT includes key staff throughout the agency that are uniquely equipped to provide the resource navigation necessary for aging adults in their journey towards housing.
UCP of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
The Durable Medical Equipment and Home Access for Older Adults with Severe Disabilities program provides basic safety and independent living supports to older adults with severe disabilities.
Previous Grant Awards:
Abe’s Garden
2011, 2012—Abe’s Garden Phase 1
AgeWell Middle Tennessee
2004—Scams Aganist the Elderly & Other COA Projects
2007—Council On Aging’s Expansion of Services
2011—Strengthening of Council On Aging
2012—Council On Aging
2014—Building Capacity to Assist Seniors and Caregivers
2015—Expanding Information and Resources for Seniors
2016 —Supporting Transportation and Resources for Seniors
2017—Senior Ride Nashville
2013, 2017–2021—Identifying Needs and Driving Solutions to Assist Seniors and Caregivers
2022—Advancing Solutions for Aging WellAlive Hospice
2012–2014—Grief Support Services and Patient Care
2014—Residence Bed Replacement
2015—Electronic Medical Records Project
2016—Murfreesboro Residence Building Project
2017—Telehospice
2020—HVAC Upgrades
2021—Nurse Call SystemAlzheimer’s Association
2014—Social Engagement Program
2015—Respite for Caregivers
2016—24/7 Helpline & Community Care ConsultationArc of Davidson County & Greater Nashville
2015–2016—Senior Supports Program
Bethlehem Centers of Nashville
2003, 2005, 2008, 2011–2014, 2016–2022—Senior Resource Center & Hot Lunch Program
Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc.
2018-2022—Living At Home
2021-2022—Refugee EldersCedar Seniors, Inc.
2018—Kitchen Refurbishments
2019—Part-time Director
2020—Bathrooms RefurbishmentCenterstone of Tennessee, Inc.
2004, 2006, 2008, 2012–2013, 2015—Older Adult Services
Community Life Bridge
2019-2021—Senior Ride Sumner
2022-Community Life RideCommunity Resource Center
2015, 2018-2021—Senior Kits
2022—Older Adult SupportCumberland University
2015—Promoting Health and Wellness for Middle TN Seniors
Disciples Village of Nashville
2004, 2007—Disciples Village of Nashville
Domestic Violence Program, Inc.
2015–2016—Emergency Services for Elderly Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse, and Stalking
Easter Seals Tennessee
2003—New Frontiers Program
Faith Family Medical Center
2005, 2007, 2011–2022—Healthcare for Seniors
2020—Capital Funding for new Medical CenterFamily & Children’s Services
2004—Help for Seniors and Their Families
FiftyForward
2002, 2004—Living At Home Services/Salvation Army Red Shield Initiative Collaboration
2006—Peer Counseling, Respite Care, and Victory Over Crime
2008—Accessing Services Through Transportation Initiatives
2011—Integration of Physical and Mental Wellness Initiatives
2012—Maximizing Participation of Older Adults
2013–2015, 2017–2022—Living At Home/Supportive Care Services
2015–2016, 2018-2022—Bordeaux Center Program
2017—Bordeaux Center Expansion Study
2018—Aging Mastery Program
2019—Capital Funding for new Bordeaux CenterFriends In General, Inc.
2017—Wellness Wednesdays for North Nashville Senior Adults
2018—Patient-Centered Care for Senior Adults
Gilda’s Club Nashville
2012–2016—Psychosocial Support of Seniors Impacted By Cancer
GraceWorks Ministries, Inc.
2021 – 2022–Hunger Prevention/Rent & Utility Assistance
HEAR Nashville
2022-Hearing Aids for Seniors
Home Bound Meals Program
2022-Providing Meals to the Elderly
Guardianship and Trusts Corporation
2002, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2017, 2019—Indigent Senior Ward Program
Insight Counseling Centers
2018-2022—Older Adult Care Program
Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville
2005, 2007, 2011–2022—Smiles for Life—Comprehensive Dental Care for Seniors
2019—A Smile Changes Everything! capital grantJewish Family Services of Nashville and Middle Tennessee
2011—Personal Emergency Preparedness
Lebanon Senior Citizens Center
2018-2021—Social Services Coordinator
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands
2014, 2016-2017—Health and Elder Law Program
Light In The Nations
2007, 2011, 2013—Senior Assistance Ministry
Martha O’Bryan Center, Inc.
2003, 2005, 2011 – 2012, 2014–2022—Senior Assistance Program
MDHA Housing Trust Corporation
2020 – 2022–COVID-19 Resource Navigator
Matthew 25, Inc.
2014—Substance Abuse Counseling
2016—Renovation of Living QuartersMatthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center, Inc.
2018—Senior Smiles
2019—Dial Down Diabetes on the Go!
2020—Seasoned Adults Living TriumphantlyMental Health America of the MidSouth
2004—Substance Abuse Education, Screening and Referral for Older Adults
2013—We Care Fair
2014–2016—Just the Facts—Aging and Alzheimer’s Support for Older Adults and Caregivers
2018-2020—Aging and Alzheimer’s Services for Middle Tennessee Aging Caretakers
2022-Caregiver Support ProgramMetropolitan Nashville Teachers’ Apartments, Inc.
2011, 2013—Safety System
Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency
2016—Meals On Wheels
2017—Serving Abused Seniors
2018-2022—Advocating for Vulnerable Long-Term Care ResidentsMusic For Seniors
2015, 2017–2022—Live Music Outreach for Low Income and Differently-Abled Seniors
Nashville Food Project, Inc.
2015–2022—Meal Distribution and Garden Programs for Seniors
Nashville Public Library Foundation
2018-2022—Nashville Public Library’s Digital Inclusion Program for Seniors
Nashville Public Television, Inc.
2013–2022—NPT Reports: Aging Matters
Nations Ministry Center
2018-2022—The Front Porch: Welcoming Refugee Elders Home
NeedLink Nashville
2015–2022—Emergency Housing & Utility Assistance for Older Adults
Progress, Inc.
2014—Senior Transportation
Rebuilding Together – Nashville
2014—Building A Healthy Neighborhood
2015—Safe at Home Program
2020—Target Community—Homeowner Education Pilot Program
2021 – 2022—Bordeaux Initiative
Rochelle Center
2003—Four-Season Sensory Stimulation Room
Rooftop Foundation
2016–2018—Emergency Housing Assistance for Seniors
Room In The Inn, Inc.
2014—Transitional Housing for Elderly Homeless Women
2017 – 2021–Guest House Supportive Living Program for Aging Adults
2022–Resource Navigation for Older AdultsSecond Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee & FiftyForward
2021 – 2022—Older Adult Essential Nutrition Partnership
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013–2017—Filling the Pantry for Seniors
2019—Fighting Senior Hunger
2020—Ending Senior Hunger TogetherSenior Ride Nashville
2018-2022—Volunteer Driver Program
2021—Friendly Neighbor ProgramShepherd’s Center of Madison
2007—Shepherd’s Center Programs
2011—Food Program for Older FolksSiloam Health
2004, 2007, 2012–2022—Providing Whole-Person Health Care to Vulnerable Older Adults in Middle Tennessee
2021-2022—Health Happens Here Capital CampaignSt. Luke’s Community House Episcopal, Inc.
2003, 2005, 2011, 2013–2022—Seniors Program
Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services
2022–Senior Legal Helpline
Tennessee Justice Center
2016—Our Sister’s Keeper
2017–2022—IndependenceTennessee Kidney Foundation
2018-2022—Transportation Assistance Program
Tennessee Respite Coalition
2014, 2016, 2018-2022—Family Directed Respite Voucher Program
2021—Senior Companions Program
2021-2022–Sumner Senior Volunteer ProgramThe Branch of Nashville
2022–Fresh Solutions for Older Adults
The Community Helpers, Inc.
2018-2022—Elderly Assistance Program
UCP of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
2015–2017, 2019-2022–Durable Medical Equipment and Home Access for Seniors
Urban Housing Solutions
2020—Aging & Fraility: Resilience and Energy in the Second Half of Life
2021-2022—AFRESH: Wellness & Supportive Housing for Older AdultsVanderbilt University
2018, 2020—Medical-Legal Partnership for Disadvantaged Older Adults
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2013—Research Grant: “Preventing Cognitive Decline in Older Adults with Dementia in Assisted Living Facilities”
2014—Supporting Faculty Leaders in Geriatrics—Establishing a Career Development Award
2016—Research Grant: “Nutritional Care in Nursing Homes”
2019—2020—Older Adults Living with Functional Dementia
2021—Age-Friendly Healthcare for Hospitalized Older AdultsWestminster Home Connection
2013–2022—Home Safety Repair & Modification for Older Adults
You Have The Power Know How To Use It
2018—Elder Abuse Prevention
YWCA of Nashville & Middle Tennessee
2005, 2007—Domestic Violence Services for Older Women
2013—Elder Abuse Prevention
