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2024 Freedom Fund Banquet
2024 Freedom Fund Banquet
When
Nov 02, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT
Where
Renaissance Nashville Hotel - Downtown,
611 Commerce St, Nashville, TN 37203

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NAACP
Nashville Branch

“All In" The Impact of Our Collective Power
OUR IMPACT Report


The Nashville Branch of the NAACP is deeply committed to promotion, and community involvement, investment and reinvestment,
prioritizing collaboration, and executing impactful programs that embody our mission of justice and equality. Our strategic plan has been meticulously crafted to expand our outreach and honor our rich legacy of community engagement and advocacy.


Governance and participated in:

• Friends & Families Day 92-Q (Membership Drive/Voter Registration) June 18th, 2023
• YWCA Annual Rally Against Racism - May 2022 & 2023
• Voter and Member Registration on October 22, 2023, with Friendship Baptist Church
• Partnership of support with United Against Banned Books (UABB) March 14th, 2024
• Partnered with the TN NAACP State Conference hosting Image Awards - February 25, 2023
• Predators Partnership Conference - July 14, 2023
• Housing Education Event- January 28, 2023 & February 4, 2023
• Conscious Conversation with Mayor Freddie O’Connell- July 30, 2024
• Urban League of Middle Tennessee Equal Opportunity Day - February 7, 2023
• EEOC Nashville Office - April 21, 2023
• NAACP National Board of Directors Meeting- February 17, 2024
• NOAH Event- Gun Reform/Special Session - August 16, 2023
• TN Environmental Council/Community Clean-Up Planning - October 4, 2023

Civil Rights Advocacy:

• Completed CRATI Session (Civil Rights Training Advocacy Training Institute) May 2-4, 2023
• Participated in the Susan G Komen Advocacy Summit - June 12, 2023

March for Justice and Convocation- Jefferson Street - January 11, 2024
• Co-hosted “End Police Brutality” Community Townhall w/Officers - February 23, 2023
• Completed the NAACP policy and resolution training.
• Stop the Attack on HBCU’s National Mass Press Conference- April 1st, 2024
• Hosted to 2023 & 2024 NAACP Statewide “Day on the Hill”
• Civil Rights Advocacy and Training Institute (CRATI) Virtual- April 11th -13th, 2024

Youth and College Engagement:

• Nashville ACT-SO Competition (A National NAACP Youth Program) - April 2023 & 2024
• Participated in: Youth Symposium - January 16, 2023
• Participated in: Race Relations Youth & Advocacy Summit - March 3-4, 2023
• Participated in: MLK 60 March on Washington - August 26, 2023
• Engaged College Chapters at the HBCUs and other area colleges throughout 2023.
• Youth Summit and Executive Leadership Briefing- Jackson, Tennessee, April 6th, 2024
• Participated in: March for Justice and Convocation - January 16, 2023

Sponsored:

• Veterans Day Event: Seventy-five veterans at the VA Hospital received gift bags from the Branch.
• Annual IMF MLK, Jr. Day Gala - January 12, 2023 & January 11, 2024
• “Women of Legend and Merit” awards - April 11, 2023, TSU
• RH Boyd Legacy Ball - June 17, 2023
• Urban League of Middle TN 56th Annual Equal Opportunity Day- February 22, 2024
• “Silence the Violence” - August 19, 2023

Civic Engagement:

• Strategically Invest in voter registration, voter awareness, education, and GOTV civic engagement campaigns.
• Actively participating on local, state, and federal levels
• Collaborated with other civil rights organizations to develop NAACP Candidates
• Developed forums that elevate the civil rights agenda of the local, state, and, national NAACP
92-Q, Radio Station encouraging GOTV Radio August 4, 2023
• Music City Community Court Expungement Clinic & Voting Rights Restoration Fair - since January 2022
• Live Streaming of Civil Rights Then & Now - February 18, 2023
• Free The Vote Voting Rights Restoration Statewide Convening - September 27-28, 2023
• Project 2025 Playbook- July, 2025
• Participated in Labor & Human Rights Event - January 13, 2023
• Supported Black Fatherhood Matters” Bus Tour - Black Voters Matter Fund - August 21, 2023
• Co-hosted Nashville Mayoral Forum - June 29, 2023

Financial Sustainability:

• Established a Membership Committee, currently recruiting members for the Branch is ongoing.
• Black Mental Health Matters of TN Grant Recipient- June 2024
• Executing a successful Freedom Fund Banquet, adding revenue to reinvest in the community programming support.
• One hundred percent of the Executive Committee and staff participating in annual giving.
• Collaboration with Worshipful Grand Hall for Black Mental Health- June, 2024
• Partnered with the TN NAACP State Conference hosting Image Awards - February 25, 2023
• Regions Bank in Memory of Latrisha Jemison, Regions Bank September 11, 2024
• Department of Homeland Security Meeting - Domestic violence extremist, resources - June 29, 2023

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