CURRENT needs
Here is a quick link to our most current needs including Basic Essentials, Afghan Allies support, and current disaster support
amazon wish list
Want to help from your couch? Here is way to order items that we need and have them sent directly to the CRC
giving options
Wanting to give to help financially sustain the CRC during this troubling times? Here are way to support us financially
CRC Intiatives
All in for Hygiene
Join us for a one of a kind night with casino games, prizes, bites from your favorite restaurants, beverages you will love and raising funds to support the efforts of the Community Resource Center.
Our Programs
What our partners say about us:
vanessa melius
MDHA
I volunteered to help unload kits and had an amazing day. It was so wonderful to see the residents come down and interact with the social workers as they picked up their kits. The gratitude and human kindness I witnessed yesterday will sustain me for a long time. It makes me proud to work for MDHA and grateful to have such incredible and generous partners like Community Resource Center and the Frist Foundation.
melvin fowler
Fifty Forward
Partnering with CRC has been one of our greatest partnerships. When Covid 19 shut everything down 7 months ago, CRC came to our rescue. FiftyForward Bordeaux was able to pick up FREE items to share with members. The items became a lifeline for our members.
♠️ ❤️ SAVE THE DATE ♦️ ♣️
We are SO EXCITED to announce that we are hosting All in for Hygiene - a casino-themed party celebrating and supporting the CRC!
We’ve got such a fun night planned with casino games, live music from the @nashvillespaz , food and drinks from your fav Nashville spots, amazing prizes & more!
Mark your calendars for September 23!! Tickets go on sale on our website www.crcmidtn.org on August 15. Be sure to grab your 🎟 to the BEST party in town! We can’t wait to celebrate with you at @rocketown ❤️ 🃏
🚨 1 in 5 🚨
One in 5 students right here in Middle Tennessee struggles to afford their most basic needs.
🤯That's over 70,000 students in the CRC's seven county coverage area. 🤯
The CRC believes that ALL students deserve access to their most basic hygiene needs. That’s why we’re partnering with nine school districts across seven counties in Middle Tennessee to provide FREE hygiene assistance for students in need.
Our staff and volunteers are hard at work to ensure that EVERY student in our community can walk into their first day of school feeling clean, confident and ready to learn.
Already this summer, the CRC has packaged over 📦 5,000 hygiene kits 📦 and distributed an additional 🧼 50,000+ hygiene items 🧴 to support our local students and schools.
And we're not done yet.
🤝 Want to help? 🤝
You can give a student the gift of dignity with your donation to the CRC. All donations, no matter the size, ensure that we can purchase and provide the hygiene items our students and families need this school year.
❤️ Give the gift dignity now at the link in our bio
#backtoschool #hygiene #basicneeds #nashville #nashvillenonprofit #giveback
The CRC continues its Back to School support - but this time in Robertson County!
Larry (our awesome Warehouse Coordinator) delivered over 6,000 Back to School hygiene essentials to Robertson County's Family Resource Center today! The truck was FULL of soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, period products and laundry detergent - all the tools students and families need to come to school feeling clean, confident and ready to learn!
We're so excited to support RCS students and families as they go back to school on Aug. 8! 🥰❤️
📸 Corporate Partner Spotlight 📸
We are so grateful to our friends at @jackson_national for their support of the CRC!
Earlier this year, the CRC was overjoyed to receive its first-ever Jackson Community Grant in support of our Hygiene Pantry Program. With this grant, the CRC will soon be launching TWO additional community-based hygiene pantries in Nashville!
Jackson employees truly know what it means to give back to their local community. In the past few months, volunteers from Jackson have sorted and organized hygiene items in the CRC warehouse AND assembled 400 Hygiene HERO kits for students experiencing homelessness in Metro Schools.
Thank you to @jackson_national for your incredible support of the CRC. Together, we are erasing barriers to basic hygiene for our neighbors in need!
🦸♀️ Hygiene HEROes, ASSEMBLE! 🦸🏽♂️
…. Literally!
We had a blast 💥 this morning with our HYGIENE HERO volunteers who came together to assemble over 600 Hygiene Kits! 🤩
🚐 Where do these kits go?? 🚐
These Hygiene HERO kits are being delivered to support the nearly 5000 students who are experiencing homelessness across Middle Tennessee.
The CRC has partnered with nine school districts across seven counties to ensure that these incredible students have the supplies they need for the upcoming school year - which includes access to HYGIENE
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In total, the CRC will package and distribute nearly 5,000 Hygiene HERO kits over the next school year. Each kit includes a shampoo, soap, deodorant, toothbrush and toothpaste.
A big thank you to our Hygiene HEROes who have made this work possible through donations AND volunteerism. We ❤️ you!
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We still have 1,700 kits to make and could use your help! A donation of just $10 purchases a hygiene kit for a student in need.
You can donate at the link in our bio or via venmo @ crcnashville
Let’s send ALL kids back to school this year feeling clean, confident and ready to learn! 🎓
#hygieneheroes #hygienehero #backtoschool #basicneeds #backtoschool #supportstudentsuccess #schoolsupplies #hygiene
Congratulations to incoming CRC Board Member, Margaret Harrison, for being named the 2022 Technology Winner at @nashchamber Nashville Emerging Leader Awards! #nela22
We are so proud of you and can’t wait to serve our neighbors together at the CRC! ❤️
❤️ Need 19,000 reasons to smile today?? ❤️
😯 CRC staff and volunteers spent yesterday loading up our truck with over 19,000 hygiene items. 🤩
Where exactly are these supplies headed?!?
🏫 Sumner County Schools!! 🏫
The CRC has partnered with the Sumner County Schools’ Family Resource Center to meet the hygiene needs of their ENTIRE school district this school year. Together, we’re making sure ALL their students and families have access to the hygiene supplies they need to start this new school year feeling clean, confident and ready to learn🎓
Keep an 👁 👁 out for updates on how we’re supporting students across Middle Tennessee this Back to School season!
You can help give students the gift of dignity this school year by making a donation at the link in our bio! ❤️ 🧼 🪥
It's almost the second Saturday of the month, and you know what that means. We're headed back to Waverly with @onegenaway ! We have loaded up our truck with Hygiene Kits including Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Shampoo, Soap, and Lysol wipes plus Paper Towels and Laundry Detergent.
If you are interested in volunteering...just show on up at 7:30am to lend a helping hand!
📍 Dollar Tree Parking Lot, 515 West Main Street, Waverly, TN
📅 Saturday, July 9
⏰ 9-10:30 a.m. (Volunteers at 7:30)
❤️ “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead ❤️
Sending love and gratitude to WISE, the Women’s ERG, at @sunbeltrentals for providing and packaging 100 Period Care Dignity Kits filled with period care supplies for our neighbors. We are so grateful for this support - especially at a time when period supplies are more expensive and harder to find.
It truly takes a village to do this work. We are so grateful to have @sunbeltrentals as part of ours 🤗
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#basicneeds #periodpoverty #hygieneinsecurity #womensupportingwomen #giveback #dogood #nashville #nashvillenonprofit
Reposted from @nicenashville
Don’t forget to register for the upcoming live storytelling event, Stories of Belonging, TOMORROW at 6 pm in honor of World Refugee Day!
Join the @crcmidtn @tnimmigrant @catholiccharitiestn @amactn @tenx9nashville @weareinspiritus @uwnashville and the Tennessee Office for Refugees as we hear true stories from refugees living in Nashville, and learn how you can get directly involved with the organizations working to empower our neighbors.
To register, visit @nicenashville and click the link in their bio! We hope to see you there!
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Tampons are not only becoming hard to find - but even harder to afford. The average price of tampons has risen nearly 10% in the last year.
Due to rising supply costs, we are seeing the beginning of a national shortage of tampons. This is a public health crisis that will impact half the population, many of whom already struggled to access or afford these essential products.
This shortage will only get worse in the coming months. P&G announced that supply chain constraints has led to ANOTHER price hike on period products which will go into effect July of this year.
❤️ How Can You Help? ❤️
The CRC is working to ensure that every neighbor in need of period products has consistent access to this fundamental human need.
Here’s how you can join us:
🌟 Make a donation to the CRC: Your donation allows the CRC to purchase period products in bulk. Just $10 provides a month’s worth of period products.
🌟 Send Period Products Directly: Send period products to the CRC from our Amazon wishlist. We’ve found the most affordable options online that you can buy with just one click.
🌟 Join our Dignity Circle: Dignity Circle members are passionate about ending hygiene insecurity in our community through a monthly donation to the CRC.
❤️ Click the link in our bio to help today! ❤️
Rising prices and inflation are impacting us all, but our most vulnerable neighbors are having to make incredibly difficult decisions about what they can (and can’t) afford during these trying times. Together, we can ensure that ALL our neighbors in need of period products have access to this fundamental human need!
We had such a great time hosting volunteers from @deloitte for Deloitte Impact Day! Volunteers helped sort, organize and pack over six pallets worth of basic essentials!! Thank you, Deloitte ❤️
❤️ Check out these goodies! ❤️
One of our FAVORITE parts of the day is when the Amazon delivery truck shows up in our parking lot. 🚛
Why???
Because it means amazing people like YOU sent hygiene items to us from our Amazon Wishlist!! 💌
Every day, our amazing community sends us the hygiene items we need to keep our shelves stocked for our neighbors in need. At a time when prices are high and supply is low, it is CRITICAL that the CRC continues to meet the hygiene needs of our community.
Giving the gift of hygiene couldn’t be easier — just click the Amazon Wishlist at the link in our bio and purchase any of the items on our Dignity List! Your donation is shipped straight to the CRC and goes right back out our doors to support neighbors experiencing hygiene insecurity.
Thank you to our community for filling our shelves (and our hearts) with love and dignity for our neighbors!! ❤️ We couldn’t do this work without you!
What does distributing $15,000 worth of hygiene products in just ONE DAY look like???
This picture right here 👆👆
Did you know that the CRC is Middle Tennesseee’s only Hygiene Hub? Every day, we pack hygiene items for over 300 nonprofit and school partners. Our partners tell us what (and how much) of each product they need and we do the rest!
The best part? We don’t charge them or their clients a thing!
Why? Because we believe hygiene is a human right that should be accessible to ALL our neighbors. 🪥 🧼
We can’t wait for our partners to pick up these orders today!!
Swipe 👉👉 to see what’s on the shelves!
❤️ A big thanks to our volunteers from @jackson_national who packed these orders with LOVE!
🏒 THANK YOU, PREDS 🏒
We are so grateful to the @predsfoundation @predsnhl and @smiledirectclub for their continued support of the CRC ❤️
Thank you so much to the Nashville Predators Foundation for your support of the CRC’s school-based Hygiene Pantry program. Together, we are erasing barriers to basic hygiene in our schools so that students have the tools they need to come to school ready to learn and PLAY every day! ❤️
#nashville
#nashvillepreds
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#giveback
#dogood
#hockey
#hockeyforhygiene
🚨 Volunteers Needed 🚨
Volunteers are needed in Waverly this Saturday, May 14!
The CRC is partnering with our friends at @onegenaway to distribute food and household essentials to our neighbors in Waverly this Saturday.
Volunteers will help package and distribute these basic needs items. We will be outside and moving boxes up to 25 pounds. Please dress accordingly.
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Simply show up at the time and location below:
📍 Dollar Tree, 515 West Main Street, Waverly, TN
📆 Saturday, May 14
⏰ 7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Swipe to the second picture for parking information!
See you there ❤️
❤️ 🦸🏽♂️ THANK YOU ❤️ 🦸🏿
We launched last week’s Big Payback with a $5,000 goal - hoping to provide 1,000 hygiene kits for students without housing. We knew this wasn’t enough to provide every student in need with a kit, but we figured 1,000 kits was a great first start.
Wow - did we underestimate you!
With your help, the CRC raised over $13,500 - enough to provide a hygiene kit to 2,700 of the 3,000+ students experiencing homelessness in @metroschools
Quite simply: we are overwhelmed with gratitude ❤️
Please know that we are so grateful for you:
📣 Our advocates
🤝 Our community
🦸♀️ Our heroes
Wow.
Words can't do justice to how grateful we are to you for your support of the CRC today. It's unbelievable to think that we can provide over 2,000 hygiene kits to students in need because of you.
But there's still one hour left.
There are roughly 600 students who still need our support. Can you help us reach this final goal so that we can provide a hygiene kit to EVERY student experiencing homelessness in Metro Schools?
Regardless of what happens with this final goal, please know that we are in awe of you. We are ending this day with the fullest of hearts for you: our advocates, our supporters, our heroes.
Friends, it is an honor to do this work together.
Donate at the link in our bio > click “Big Payback 2022”. Venmo us at @crcnashville
Imagine…
A middle school student being too embarrassed to talk to a friend because he hasn’t been able to brush his teeth
A high school student being too ashamed to participate in sports because she doesn’t have laundry detergent to wash her uniform
A mother having to make the difficult choice between paying rent, buying food, or sending her child to school in a clean set of clothes
A teacher, who barely makes enough to support her own family, buys deodorant and feminine hygiene products for her students to make sure their basic needs are met
Though critically important to health and human dignity, hygiene items are almost always overlooked when it comes to basic needs.
Friends: let’s make sure that ALL our students have access to these basic yet ESSENTIAL items.
Because everyone is worthy of being clean.
Make your Big Payback donation before 6 p.m. tonight at the Link in our Bio or on venmo at crcnashville
JUST 3 HOURS LEFT
There’s just THREE hours left to support the CRC for this year’s Big Payback. Thanks to you, we’ve raised over $11,000, which provides 2,000 hygiene kits to students experiencing homelessness.
We can’t believe we’re saying this, but can you help us get to $15,000 by the end of the day?
$15,000 would FULLY FUND THIS PARTNERSHIP!!
We’ve got a dream - a dream that every single backpack that gets distributed by Metro School’s H.E.R.O. Program will have a hygiene kit included.
That’s more than 3,000 students who will receive the gift of hygiene and human dignity.
We’re asking you to help us make that dream a reality - not for us, but for the students and families who need your support.
We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again:
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Today, in these last few hours of the Big Payback, let’s be that village.
Donate by 6 p.m. tonight at the link in our bio by clicking “Big Payback 2022” or Venmo us at @crcnashville