Avett Brothers. Photo credit: Crackerfarm
Bonnaroo Works Fund (BWF) has named nearly 40 nonprofit organizations as 2014 recipients.
The Bonnaroo Works Fund is the charitable arm of Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, and supports national and regional organizations that encourage the arts, education and the environment. Bonnaroo Works Fund is a component of the East Tennessee Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which administers the fund. Grantees are selected via a committee, based on need, mission and the specific use of funding.
The Avett Brothers have signed on as 2014 Bonnaroo Works Fund Ambassadors and will help raise awareness of the fund.
2014 Grant Recipients
Books From Birth, Nashville
CASA Works, Inc., Manchester
Center for the Arts, Murfreesboro
Coffee County Central High School, Manchester
Coffee County Raider Academy, Manchester
Coffee County Schools Libraries, Manchester
Coffee County Soil Conservation District, Manchester
Country Music HOF, Nashville Franklin County Arts Guild, Cowan
Friends of Warner Parks, Nashville
Highland Rim Habitat for Humanity, Tullahoma
Highlander Research & Education Center, New Market, Tennessee Humanities Tennessee, Nashville Manchester Municipal Arts Commission, Manchester
Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee, Nashville
Little Kids Rock, Serving Nashville
Mountain Goat Trail Alliance, Monteagle
Music Health Alliance, Nashville
Music Makes Us, Nashville
Musicians On Call, Nashville
Nashville Symphony Association, Nashville
National Museum of African American Music, Nashville
Nature Conservancy of Tennessee, Nashville
Notes For Notes, Nashville
Pencil Foundation, Nashville South Cumberland Community Fund, Tracy City
Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM) Rescue Project, Knoxville – benefiting Coffee & surrounding
Tennessee Clean Water Network, Benefiting Manchester
Tennessee Opportunity Programs, McMinnville
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC), Nashville
Tullahoma Fine Arts Center, Inc., Tullahoma
Tullahoma South Jackson Civic Association, Tullahoma
VH1-STM, Serving Nashville
Westwood Elementary School, Manchester
Westwood Middle School, Manchester
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