Trevecca staff helps create consortium of nonprofits to serve neighborhood
By Alayna Simons
Photo of the Love Thy Neighborhood Collective. Alayna Simons / TrevEchoes
Amid thousands of non-profits that exist within Nashville, the Love Thy Neighborhood Collective is working toward creating a community where non-profits can come together to converse and collaborate on actions that need to be made for the issues in the Napier Sudekum community.
“The Love Thy Neighborhood Collective exists to be a bridge to connect organizations and non-profits in 37210 to come together and do work for collective impact,” said Iris Gordon, co-founder of the collective and an adjunct professor at Trevecca Nazarene University.
The collective was talked about in 2019, but with the delay that the pandemic caused, the first meeting wasn’t until Sep. 2021.
Over 60 organizatio...