In less than one week, Middle Tennessee will spend 24 hours celebrating and supporting the important work of our nonprofit community through The Big Payback! To all our Big Payback participants, good luck, and thanks for your efforts to make this inaugural event a big success! Not participating? Be sure to check out the excitement and follow the leaderboard on www.TheBigPayback.org, and make plans to join the fun next year.

Thanks to all who provided data for this year's Capital Campaign Report. The report is now available and can be accessed on the GivingMatters.com homepage.

Since 2007, GivingMatters.com has produced this Capital Campaign Report to announce current and anticipated campaigns to funders, provide information on recently completed campaigns, and track fundraising trends over time. The report is a valued tool for these funders, and we all appreciate your assistance in making it such a rich resource! In this year's report, 74 Middle Tennessee nonprofits report on current capital campaigns, and an additional 166 report anticipated campaigns expected to launch in the next three years! Read the full report here.

 

In its sixth year, the program provides grants to organizations in urban areas and scholarships to underserved youth. Qualifying students must exhibit leadership qualities and a commitment to their communities, while qualifying nonprofit organizations must promote academic excellence as a means to achieving life-long financial wellness. This year the program will award grants and scholarships in Boston, Nashville, San Francisco, South Florida, and the Tulsa/Oklahoma City region.

 

Sun Life will award grants of $50,000 to twelve nonprofit organizations working to promote the academic achievement of underserved youth. In turn, each nonprofit will nominate an exemplary student to receive a $5,000 college scholarship. Later this year, Sun Life will surprise winning students with their scholarships at individual award presentations led by prominent members of their communities.

 

See the Sun Life Financial website for complete program guidelines and application instructions, or review the full Request for Proposals.