CURRENT needs
Here is a quick link to our most current needs including Basic Essentials, Afghan Allies support, and current disaster support
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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.
We are placing our bets and going All in for Hygiene tomorrow night at Rocketown.
Our team and committee have worked tirelessly to put together an event unlike anything the CRC has ever done with the dream that this inaugural night will become our signature event! Tomorrow, we will gather with our community to support over 300,000 neighbors facing hygiene insecurity throughout Middle Tennessee.
We cannot say thank you enough to our generous sponsors who have raised their hand to support this new event. We look forward to an amazing night with each of you!
There is still time ⏰to buy tickets! Get yours now at the link in our bio! And don’t forget that Silent Auction bidding is happening online and will continue until Friday at 9 pm!
Let the Bidding Begin!
The All in for Hygiene Silent Auction is live NOW! Bidding is open and will run through 9:00 pm on Friday, September 23.
Bidding is open to the public. You can bid at the event OR from the comfort of your couch! But be sure to get your bids in by 9 pm this Friday night! ⏰
Click the All in for Hygiene Auction link in our bio to browse some of the amazing items we have available for you. Whether you're in the mood to travel, catch a show, plan a date night, or support your favorite local business - we've got something for everyone!
Ready to bid? Check out the All in for Hygiene Bidding FAQ at the link in our bio for information on how to register!
And don't forget - tickets 🎟 are still on sale to join us Friday night at Rocketown for All in for Hygiene. You'll see all the auction items live and in person while enjoying food and beverage from Nashville favorites, dancing 💃🕺to the Spazmatics, and hitting the casino tables🎲🎰 for a good cause! Buy your tickets now at the link in our bio!
📢 New Partnership Alert 📢
The CRC is so excited to announce our newest partnership in Robertson County! We have teamed up with United Ministries Food Bank, the only community food bank in Robertson County, to add hygiene to their shelves!
Just this morning, the CRC delivered over 800 🤩 hygiene kits, which allows the Food Bank to provide hygiene support to EVERY household they will serve this month!
Why Hygiene? Research shows that families who are food insecure ALSO experience hygiene insecurity. Unfortunately, hygiene assistance can be MUCH harder to find, forcing many families to go without. And that, friends, is where we come in! As the only Hygiene Hub in our community, we are working tirelessly to make sure that families have access to ALL their basic needs.
We are so proud that our neighbors in Robertson County now have access to TWO of their most basic needs (🥔🥬🪥🧼) in ONE place! ❤️
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Ps. Sending a special shout-out to the amazing volunteers from our friends @uwnashville who helped us unload all 800 bags and boxes this morning 💪🥰
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Pss. We need your support to make sure we can continue serving our neighbors in Robertson County and across Middle TN. Want to help? Make a donation to the CRC at the link in our bio today!
🚨 Tuesday Trivia Reveal 🚨
Thanks to everyone who gave their best shampoo guess!
The answer is…. 🥁 🥁
The CRC distributed 🧴 5192 🧴 bottles of shampoo in August of this year!
Congrats to our winner @stephcgrant ❤️ 🎟
Still looking for tickets to our All in for Hygiene event on Sept. 23? Head to the link in our bio to grab yours today!!
🚨 TUESDAY TRIVIA 🚨
Can you guess how many bottles of shampoo the CRC distributed in August of this year??
⬇️ Drop your guess in the comments below! ⬇️
The person who guesses correctly (or gets closest) will win TWO FREE TICKETS to our All in for Hygiene casino event on Friday, Sept. 23 from 6:30 - 10 pm at Rocketown. Tickets (a $200 value) include unlimited food and drink, live entertainment, and CRC bucks to hit the casino tables!
Guesses must be submitted by 6 pm CST on Wednesday, Sept. 14. We’ll announce the answer AND the winner Wednesday night!
May the odds be ever in your favor!
The CRC is hitting the casino tables for an exciting event you won't want to miss!🎰🎲
All in for Hygiene is the September party you've been waiting for, featuring delicious beverages and bites from some of your favorite Nashville names such as Martin's Bar-B-Que, Prince's Hot Chicken, City House, Anzie Blue, Tito's, and many more. Plus, you can enjoy live entertainment from The Spazmatics, an unbelievable Silent Auction, and your favorite casino games - all to benefit the CRC! ❤️
Scroll to check out some of our incredible beverages, bites, and auction items we've got in store for you on Friday, Sept. 23! Looking for tickets? 🎟🎟 Check the link in bio!
📢 We are SO excited to announce one of the CRC’s newest partnerships!
The CRC has partnered with Operation School Bell, a program of @assistanceleaguenashville, to provide hygiene support to students in need.
👚 👕 Through Operation School Bell, the Assistance League of Nashville provides free clothing assistance to thousands of students throughout Metro Schools. And now, for the first time ever, they are ALSO providing a Hygiene Kit to every student they serve!!
This school year, @assistanceleaguenashville and the CRC will serve over 3,500 students together! ❤️
At the CRC, we believe that teamwork TRULY DOES make the dream work! And it’s our dream that every single one of our neighbors has access to basic hygiene. Thank you to ALL our partners who are working with us to make that dream a reality! ❤️
🌟 Special shoutout to the FOUR rockstar volunteers who packed these 500 kits TODAY! 🤯 🌟
🚨 In a community where more than 350,000 people cannot afford their basic needs, the CRC is Middle Tennessee's ONLY nonprofit providing large-scale hygiene support to our neighbors.
🧼🧴Hygiene is the basic need we all have, but that no one seems to talk about. Mothers need diapers and baby wipes for the children. Kids need toothpaste and deodorant to go to school. Adults need laundry detergent and period products to go to their jobs. Older adults need soap and sanitizing products to stay healthy.
All these items feel pretty essential, so why is it SO HARD to access them?
These basic essentials aren't 🚫covered by government assistance and aren't 🚫consistently available in our schools, food banks, and nonprofits.
🎰 Friends, this is why the CRC is ALL IN for Hygiene
♦️Will you go All in for Hygiene with us on September 23? ♣️
On this special night, we'll eat, drink, and celebrate with our friends. But, more importantly, we will show up together with our community to protect, preserve and restore dignity for our neighbors in need ❤️
🎟 Buy your tickets now at the link in our bio.
❓Ever wondered what 5,833 period products looks like❓
Meet our friend and CRC volunteer @kelly_dean_p ! Kelly found the CRC through her passion to end period poverty in Middle TN (1 in 4 people who menstruate cannot afford period products 😡).
Kelly turned passion into action by creating an Amazon Wishlist filled with tampons, pads and everything in between - all with the goal to pack as many Period Care Kits for the CRC as she could.
Imagine everyone’s surprise when she received over‼️ 5800‼️period products in the 📫
She and her family (shoutout to Mr. P!) have now packaged over 500 Period Care Kits for the CRC!! We are SO grateful to Kelly for collecting, packing and delivering this INCREDIBLE donation 🤩
❤️ To use Kelly’s words - “Period products should be a basic right, period” ❤️
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Did you know that the CRC is Middle TN’s largest supplier of period products? We provide HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of period products to nonprofits and schools in our community.
We also like to remind people that these fundamental essentials are NOT 😡 covered by government assistance, but that’s a soapbox for another day.
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Want to collect and package period products for the CRC? Shoot us an email at hello@crcmidtn.org or slide into our DMs! 📧
On this important day, one year since the devastating floods that hit the city of Waverly, we remember.
We remember those who lost their homes, their businesses, their schools and their community. We remember and hold tight those who lost loved ones - 20 precious lives that will never be forgotten.
We remember how resilient the community of Waverly was. We stand in awe of how resilient this community continues to be.
We remember our neighbors from all over the world who raised their hand to help - sending supplies, donations and volunteers. We remember the trucks FILLED with tools, supplies, and basic needs that were made possible by you, our supporters and our friends. We can never say thank you enough for your generosity and compassion ❤️
Today, we remember. We remember that when tragedy strikes, there are neighbors who will always be there to help, to heal and to rebuild.❤️❤️
Sending love and continued support to our friends in #waverly
You've seen ALL the ways the CRC is supporting schools this #BacktoSchool season -- now take a look at the volunteers who made it happen! 💪
It takes a LOT of hands to support over 250,000 students 🤯 As a small but mighty team of 3.75 (‼️), we COULDN'T DO this work without our amazing volunteers! ❤️
👀 Take a look at the rockstar volunteer groups that spent time at the CRC this summer. These groups sorted and organized donations, assembled hygiene kits, prepped hygiene pantries and MORE! All to support students and families across Middle TN!
🌟 We can't say thank you enough to the volunteers who move our mission forward - we are so grateful for each and every one of you! 🌟
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Interested in being a volunteer? Individuals can sign up at the link in our bio. If you'd like to schedule a volunteer group, email us at hello@crcmidtn.org or slide into our DMs! 📧
We are so excited to announce that tickets are ON SALE NOW to our first-ever All in for Hygiene event – a casino-themed night benefiting the Community Resource Center.
Join us on Friday, September 23 at Rocketown for an evening of food and drink from your favorite
Nashville spots, live music with The Spazmatics, casino games, prizes, a silent auction, and more!
Your ticket includes food and drink, as well as $10,000 in CRC Bucks (just for fun, folks!) to hit the casino tables. Link for tickets in bio.
📧 Check out this awesome email we received from our partners at @ccsdtn !
We ❤️ working with our school partners to make sure students and families have access to life’s most basic essentials. It’s so easy to forget just how important hygiene and household items are … until you have to start making hard choices about what can - and can’t - fit into your monthly budget.
We’re so grateful 🥹 for our school partners. Together, we’re working to ensure that students and families NEVER have to make that kind of choice this school year.
🏫 Happy Back to School Season! 🏫
⁉️Did you know the CRC provides hygiene support to school districts across 7 counties in Middle TN??
CRC Staff and Volunteers have been hard at work making sure that ALL our students are going Back to School with the Basics this school year. Check out how we're putting 🧼 hygiene 🫧 in the hands of students this month:
📦 We're delivering nearly 6,000 Hygiene Hero kits to support students experiencing homelessness in @metroschools @ccsdtn @fssdschools @robcoschools @wcsnews @wilsonk12tn @rutherfordcountyschools and Sumner County Schools
🚛 We're delivering over 🤯 100,000 🤯 hygiene items to support Family Resource Centers in @metroschools @robcoschools @ccsdtn @wilsonk12tn and Sumner County Schools
🪥🧼We set up THREE new school-based CRC Hygiene Pantries in @metroschools so that students and families have access to hygiene support when and where they need it.
🎁 We provided over 1,700 Hygiene Kits to support Back to School events with our partners at @metroschools @the_find_design @shalom37066 @fcsnashville @firstbaptistchurchhopewell
❤️ And we're not done yet! ❤️
The team here at the CRC is wishing ALL our students a clean, healthy and confident school year ahead! 🎓🥰
♠️ ❤️ 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
