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
Be a Hygiene H.E.R.O.
During these 24 hours of giving, we’ve got a big goal to raise $5,000 which provides a hygiene kit for 1,000 students experiencing homelessness. For just $5 – the cost of your morning coffee or your drive-through lunch, you can give a student the gift of hygiene, the gift of health, and the gift of dignity.
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.
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! ❤️
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🚨 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
🚨 REMINDER 🚨
Thanks to our friends at @fleetfeetnashville - all donations up to $2000 will be MATCHED from 11 am - 1 pm TODAY!
For every $5 you give, the CRC can provide TWO hygiene kits to our students.
Need more reason to give?!? Your donation can win you some CRC SWAG! We will be choosing 5 people who donate between 11 am and 1 pm today to win a CRC T-shirt, Tote Bag, or Travel Mug.
Want all 3?? Anyone who donated $100 or more between 11 am and 1 pm gets ALL the goodies ❤️
Let’s do this, friends!!
Donate at the Big Payback 2022 link in our bio or Venmo us at “crcnashville”
And may the (swag) odds be ever in your favor!
Here’s the reality: our students cannot be expected to be present at school and ready to learn if their most basic needs are not being met. ❤️
Hear from our friends at the H.E.R.O. Program about why these resources are so important for the students and families they serve.
Can you give the gift of basic needs?
Support the CRC for this year’s Big Payback by donating now at the link in our bio (select The Big Payback) or Venmo us at @crcnashvile
For every $5 you give, the CRC can give a hygiene kit to a student in need. ❤️
We're so excited to tell you about the amazing partnership that inspired this year’s CRC Big Payback goal. The @metroschools H.E.R.O. (Homeless Education Resource Outreach) program exists to support the 3,000+ students in Metro Schools who are experiencing homelessness. Learn more about the H.E.R.O. program from our friends, Eliana and Kathleen.
Can you help support this important partnership?
Donate now at the link in our bio by clicking “Big Payback 2022” or Venmo us at @crcnashvile
The Big Payback Starts NOW!
Every day, more than 3,000 @metroschools students leave school without a stable place to lay their head at night. These students and their families are living in hotels, homeless shelters, on a friend or family’s couch, or sometimes in their car. These 3,000 students face significant barriers in meeting their most basic needs, let alone coming to school every day.
Yet, despite all this – these students and their families are resilient. These incredible young people, some barely just 4-years-old, desperately want to be at school – to learn, to laugh, to play and to write a new story for their future.
And that’s why the Community Resource Center is participating in this year’s Big Payback event – because we want to make sure that these incredible students have the basic essentials they need to come to school every day.
Over the next 24 hours, the CRC has a big goal to raise $5,000, which provides a hygiene kit to 1,000 of our students who experience the daily struggle of homelessness. And thanks to you, we’re nearly HALFWAY to our goal!
Can you be a Hygiene H.E.R.O. and help us reach our goal??
Donate now at the link in our bio - Click “Big Payback 2022” or Venmo us at @crcnashvile
Together, we can make sure our most vulnerable students can come to school every day feeling clean, confident, and ready to learn.
EXCITING NEWS! Our amazing friends at @fleetfeetnashville are MATCHING your Big Payback donation to the CRC!
Mark your calendars: From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow, @FleetFeetnashville will be matching all Big Payback donations to the CRC up to $2,000 - meaning your DOLLARS and your IMPACT will be doubled! 👏👏
Need more reason to give? How about a chance to win some CRC swag?! We'll be randomly choosing 5 people who donate between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on May 5 to win a CRC t-shirt, a CRC tote bag or a CRC travel mug.
AND! Anyone who gives $100 or more on May 5 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. will automatically receive all 3 items!!
We hope you’ll join us tomorrow by skipping that Starbucks run or that midday drive-through and pay it forward to a student in need!
Donations can be made at the link in our bio (Click “Big Payback 2022” or on Venmo to @crcnashville
Too many of our students face significant barriers in meeting their most basic needs, let alone making it to school every day.
⏰ Starting at 6 pm tonight, the CRC is participating in this year’s #BigPayback with a goal to raise $5,000. Your donations will provide hygiene kits to 1,000 students experiencing homelessness in Metro Nashville Public Schools.
Keep an eye on our Instagram for more information about our partnership with @metroschools H.E.R.O. Program and how you can be a Hygiene H.E.R.O. for a student in need.
Plus, we’ve got some exciting announcements to share, including how you can win some CRC SWAG with your donation!
❤️ Early Giving is live NOW so make your donation at the link in our bio!
Imagine…
You’re in 7th grade and the school 🔔 rings for dismissal. Your classmates all race out the door in excitement, but not you.
Immediately you’re worried. Your mom only has $70 left from this week’s paycheck - enough to buy one night at a motel, some food for dinner, or some laundry detergent to wash you and your brother’s clothes for picture day tomorrow — but certainly not enough to do all three.
What do you do??
The laundry is the first to go, right? It always is. That means another day of wearing the same thing, trying desperately to wash your clothes in the sink, and hoping no one says anything mean … again.
The CRC deeply believes that access to basic hygiene items is a human right and not just a privilege for those who can afford the cost of being clean. It is up to us as a community to ensure that all our neighbors – especially our youngest – have access to life’s most basic essentials.
Will you join us a Hygiene HERO?
Mark your calendars to give to the CRC during this year’s #BigPayback. From 6 pm on May 4 to 6 pm on May 5, the CRC has a goal to raise $5,000 - which provides 1,000 hygiene kits for students experiencing homelessness.
For every $5 you give, the CRC can give a hygiene kit to a student in need.
Can you help?
Give now or on May 4-5 at the link in our bio
OR venmo us at @crcnashville (☎️0️⃣4️⃣9️⃣7️⃣)
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Friends, let’s be that village ❤️
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The #bigpayback is just three days away but you can make your donation right now to support students experiencing homelessness in Metro Nashville Public Schools.
The CRC is working to ensure that our most vulnerable students have access to the basic essentials they need to come to school every day feeling clean, confident and ready to learn.
Be a Hygiene H.E.R.O. for a student in need by donating now at the link in our bio ❤️
We’ve shared this before, but it’s SO important that it deserves a second post.
🚨 More than 3,000 of our students (some just 3 years old) in Metro Nashville Public Schools are experiencing homelessness 🚨
As soon as our team found out, we sprung into action 🚀🦸♀️
We made a commitment to provide a hygiene kit to all 3,000+ students to ensure that they have ALL the tools they need to come to school feeling clean, confident and ready to learn. 🧼 🧴 🪥
And we’re putting out the call to our CRC Hygiene H.ER.O.es 🦸🏿 🦸🏽♂️ 🦸♀️
For this year’s #bigpayback the CRC has a goal to raise $5,000 which provides 1,000 hygiene kits to students in need.
Grab your capes (and your wallet) and join us on May 4 - 5 to be a Hygiene H.E.R.O. for the CRC!
Don’t want to wait to answer the call for help? Early giving is live NOW at the link in our bio. Simply click “Big Payback 2022” to spring into action! ❤️
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