Programs
"CommunityNashville has made me believe in myself and made me who I am."
- Sarah Goodrich, Freshman Vanderbilt University
Through our Building Bridges Program, CommunityNashville develops and delivers programs that equip established and emerging youth and community leaders with the tools to address intergroup relations. CommunityNashville addresses diversity issues, social justice, and community building through dialogues, workshops, retreats, camps, youth development and empowerment programming, educator and workplace training and more.
Today, CommunityNashville works with youth, educators, government leaders and institutions, business leaders, news and advertising media, and faith leaders.
Building Bridges
In June 1995, the Building Bridges Program was initiated in Nashville. The goals of the program are to overcome biases and prejudices among area youth without sacrificing individual or group identities of faith, culture or gender, and to produce anti-oppression programs within their schools. This program offers:
AnyTown
"CommunityNashville and Camp AnyTown has made me realize that I am unique and nobody can change that about me."
- Will Rasmussen, Senior East Literature Magnet High School
"Hands down -- I had the best week of my life at AnyTown!"
"I couldn't think of a better way to spend a week. I will remember it forever."
- Chloe Stillwell, Senior University School of Nashville
"AnyTown was life changing."
AnyTown is a life-changing, weeklong human relations and leadership program for area high school students.
MiniTown
"MiniTown helped me help my school and meet lots of great students from other schools in Nashville. I really had a great time."
- Kylie Long, Senior St. Cecilia
MiniTown is a three-day leadership retreat for high school students interested in building and fostering more respectful and inclusive environments in their schools.
UniTown
"UniTown opened my mind to other cultures and other's feelings. UniTown gives me an understanding about these cultures; thus helping me to survive and go on through any trial or tribulation. Overall, camp has made me feel included and loved. Everyone has made a new friend which can cause a change."
"I had fun. We learned lots of new ideas to bring people together at Whites Creek."
UniTown, a new program, is a three-day leadership retreat that works within one school to promote tolerance and inclusion and to develop youth-led social action programs.
View a Channel 5 clip on UniTown :
UniTown Video
OurTown
OurTown, now in its 3rd year, is a multi-cultural, inter-generational program based on the town model to serve families and groups from ages 14 on up. At OurTown we look at diversity through the lens of age.
Youth Advisory Council (YAC)
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation."
- Pearl S. Buck
Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is a selected group of dedicated student leaders, CommunityNashville program alumni, who serve on our youth board to work on a variety of mission-based projects.
Diversity Week
Diversity Week is collaboration with high schools to focus on student-led projects to promote tolerance, respect, and understanding.
Clergy for Tolerance
Clergy for Tolerance is a community collaboration with other organizations that brings faith leaders together to find common ground on complex diversity issues such as immigration and new arrivals.
Workplace Diversity Trainings
Workplace Diversity Trainings are customized introductory sessions for adult groups to raise awareness of diversity and inclusion at work. Contact CN for more information.