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Academy of Country Music Board members and staff of the ACM Charitable Foundation, located in Burbank, California, honored TSB with a personal visit and presented a $20,000 check to benefit the school's music programs. The ACM Foundation is committed to supporting and embracing programs dedicated to music awareness, growth and education.
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Caring Hearts Pat Galvin, a member of the Board of Directors of Friends of TSB, founded "Caring Hearts," a group of volunteers dedicated to community service to TSB, in 1986. Over the years Caring Hearts has raised thousands of dollars to assist students at TSB. |
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CBRL Group Foundation The CBRL Group Foundation supports programs that strengthen and preserve the community. In recognition of the efforts Friends of TSB is making to provide opportunities for students by empowering them with the necessary skills to become self-reliant and contributing citizens, in May, 2007, CBRL Group Foundation made a generous and greatly appreciated donation to help fund Friends' Electronic Library Initiative. This marks the second time that Friends has been awarded a grant from CBRL Group Foundation. For more information about CBRL Group Foundation, please visit their website at http://www.cbrlgroup.com/foundation.cfm#education.
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Charity Circle of Murfreesboro Each year the Charity Circle of Murfreesboro conducts an auction to benefit organizations in the community. For the past several years, Friends of TSB has been the recipient of funds from that activity.
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Dollar General Corporation Dollar General Corporation, with stores in more than 30 states, has in its mission statement a commitment to serving others to include community support. Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards some 2.6 million dollars annually to help organizations such as Friends to further the cause of literacy and basic education. In May, 2007 Friends of Tennessee School for the Blind was most honored to have been awarded a Dollar General grant for financial aid in funding Friends' Electronic Library Initiative. For more information about the good works being done by Dollar General Corporation, please visit their website at www.dollargeneral.com. |
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Gibson Foundation The Gibson Foundation was established to support programs that encourage the study and pursuit of excellence in music. Both Gibson Guitar Corp., and its subsidiary company, Baldwin Piano, have a 100 year plus tradition in this mission, and it was their support of the TSB Music Program, through Friends of TSB Foundation, that made possible the addition of 5 new Baldwin pianos for use in the many levels of music programs, education, and performance opportunities provided to the students at TSB.
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Louis R. Draughon Foundation The Louis R. Draughon Foundation has been a special friend to TSB for many years. Most all of the CCTV’s in the school were purchased with grant monies from The Draughon Foundation. In 2007 a grant in the amount of $7,000 was received that will provide 5 Braille + Mobile Manager devices for the students at TSB. These "high tech" devices will enable students using large print or braille to acquire knowledge from the written page, to access the internet, and to manage activities of daily living. There is a strong connection between TSB and the Louis R. Draughon family: Susan Jayne Gwinn, a graduate of TSB, is the granddaughter of Mrs. Jeanette Dorris, a Board Member of the Louis R. Draughon Foundation. Mrs. Dorris is a blood sister of Mrs. Elizabeth Draughon, founder of the organization. Susan’s mother, Elizabeth Dorris Gwinn, is the niece and namesake of Mrs. Elizabeth Draughon. |
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Murfreesboro Breakfast Rotary Club
Each year the Murfreesboro Breakfast Rotary Club sponsors a Blindness
Awareness Golf
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tournament
to support projects undertaken by Friends of TSB. For the past several
years, this tournament has proven to be the Foundation’s biggest annual
fund-raiser.
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Nashville Predators Foundation
On April 2, 2008, the Nashville
Predators Foundation awarded Friends of TSB a Grant for $2,100, in
support of the addition of Phase 3 of the TN School for the Blind
Inclusive Playground. This new Play Area is designed to provide
special swings, safety surfaces and access paths for multi-challenged
students using wheel chairs or other means of support.
The completion of this addition will
make the TSB Playground accessible to students of all abilities.
This is the 4th Grant presented to Friends of TSB from the Predator Foundation. TSB students also benefit annually from the Predators Community Relations Program "Give & Go", which provides free tickets for students to attend home hockey games. The announcement marks the tenth grant distribution by the Predators Foundation. Since its inception in 1998, the Foundation has awarded in excess of $2 million in financial grants to Nashville and Middle Tennessee community service and charitable organizations.
You can read more about the work of the Nashville Predators
Foundation by visiting their website at:
(LEFT) With the assistance of Gnash, Gerry Helper (R end), President of the Nashville Predators Foundation presents a check for $2.100 to Friends of TSB. Accepting the check on behalf of Friends are Bobby Bass, Treasurer and Pat Galvin, Secretary. |
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TSB Alumni Association
No other group is
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Members of the TSB Alumni gather in |
more supportive of the students at the Tennessee School for the Blind than
the former students. The Alumni Association has been an organized
effort for almost 100 years. The purpose of the Alumni Association is
to form a union of the graduates and former students of the Tennessee School
for the Blind and to promote the interest of the school, it’s alumni, and
the blind in general. Each year the Alumni, collectively and
individually, donates thousands of dollars to Friends to assist with the
projects undertaken by the foundation to benefit the students at TSB.
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Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation THE MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS FOUNDATION (MHOF) made a donation of $5,000 for the purchase of a digital piano for the Music Therapy Room. MHOF supports music education and its many benefits through the donation and repair of musical instruments to under-served schools, community music programs and individual students nationwide. MHOF was inspired by the acclaimed motion picture Mr. Holland’s Opus, the story of the profound effect a dedicated music teacher had on generations of students. The film's composer, Michael Kamen, founded MHOF in 1996 as his commitment to the future of music education. For more information about MHOF, please visit their website at: http://www.mhopus.org/
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Lowe's Toolbox For Education
Friends of Tennessee School for the Blind was recently notified of its selection by Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation (LCEF) to receive a grant in the amount of $7,500 to subsidize our efforts to make improvements and upgrades and to purchase much-needed furnishings and teaching aids in the Family & Consumer Sciences Building on the campus of the Tennessee School for the Blind. Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant program is funded by the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation, which has supported thousands of grassroots community and school projects in the communities where Lowe’s does business. The Lowe’s Toolbox for Education program has already donated nearly 5 million dollars to nearly 1,000 Schools in all 50 States and the District of Columbia in 2006 and 2007.
To learn
more about the good works being done by
Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation,
please visit their website at:
http://www.toolboxforeducation.com/index.html |
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Wal-Mart Charitable Giving
In
response to an application from Friends of Tennessee School for the
Blind, Wal-Mart recently made a donation of $500.00 toward the Friends
project to computerize the TSB Library (See
Electronic Library Initiative). |
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Cullum & Maxey In recent years, donations from Cullum & Maxey have continued to help fund major projects to benefit TSB students. We are fortunate, indeed, to have such "Special Friends" in the local business community.
To learn more about Cullum & Maxey,
please their website at:
http://www.cullumandmaxey.com/ |
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CIC FOUNDATION, INC.
Pictured are Mr. Garry Forsythe (3rd from L), President and CEO of CIC FOUNDATION, INC., and Ms. Donna Tilley (2nd from L), Administrator for the CIC FOUNDATION and Mr. Irv Johnson (R), Treasurer, FRIENDS OF TSB; and Mr. Jim Oldham (L), Supt., TSB, accepting one of several donations from CIC FOUNDATION, INC. Donations from CIC FOUNDATION, INC., are made in honor of Ms. Marie Herndon (Not Pictured), a retired CIC employee and TSB graduate. |
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Gaylord Entertainment Foundation Out of thousands of applicants, Friends of TSB is honored to have been selected as a 2008 recipient of a grant from Gaylord Entertainment Foundation. The grant will be used to help defray the cost of completing Phase III of the Playground. The Gaylord Entertainment Foundation focuses on giving in the state of Tennessee, specifically supporting Community Arts Programs, Education at all levels, and Programs Assisting local Disadvantaged Youth. To learn more about the good work done by Gaylord Entertainment Foundation, please visit their website at: http://www.gaylordentertainment.com/Community/5.5_Community.htm
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