As the community joins together during this holiday season to share food and gifts with family and friends, there will be those who will not experience the same joy. There are many in need. The list of organizations below is just a sample of non-profits who can use the spirit of giving this holiday season. These organizations help those in need – including those who are experiencing food insecurity, substandard housing, homelessness, educational inequality, abuse, infirmities due to age, and caring for stray animals.
This is a small list of the organizations in the community who are there to help those less fortunate, however, these groups cover many of the deep needs within the community. They ask those with the resources to consider giving to one of them or their church or other organization dear to an individual donor’s heart during this season of peace and love.
Bethesda Center
124 South Main Street
Suite 101
Ashland City, TN 37015
(615) 792-1389
Bethesda Center is a thrift store and food pantry for those in need in the northern area of Cheatham County.
The Ark Resource and Assistance Center
710 Highway 70
Pegram, TN 37143
(615) 457-1931
The Ark provides resources for those in need in Pegram and Kingston Springs. The Ark operates a thrift store called Noah’s Closet, and it works with Second Harvest to provide a food bank.
United Way of Cheatham Co.
400 Warioto Way
Unit 307
Ashland City, TN 37015
(615) 584-9205
https://www.unitedwaygreaternashville.org/counties-we-serve/
United Way brings individuals, businesses, nonprofits and government decision makers together to have the tough conversations, mobilize the resources, and make the smart investments so that every person and every family in our community thrives. They bring the community together in a way no single organization can to develop, fund and scale collective solutions that attack our community’s most pressing problems at their roots.
Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency
1101 Kermit Drive
Suite 300
Nashville, TN 37217
615-331-6033
https://www.mchra.com/
Their mission is to help people help themselves by providing knowledge and resources to improve the quality of life in the Mid-Cumberland Region. They are involved with Meals-on-Wheels, long-term care facilities, in-home services and Youth CAN.
Child Advocacy Center
124 East Main Street
Suite 201
Ashland City, TN 37015
(615) 789-3035
https://23rddistrictcac.org/about-us/
The Child Advocacy Center works to increase children’s safety, to help children and their families heal from the trauma and victimization of child abuse, to prosecute child abuse perpetrators, to educate the community on ways to decrease the occurrences of child abuse, and to assist families in reclaiming a healthy safe home environment.
Cheatham County Habitat for Humanity
395 South Main St.
Ashland City, TN 37015
(615) 973-6732
https://www.habitatnashville.org/cheatham
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville builds new, quality, affordable homes for hardworking men and women in a five-county area: Davidson, Wilson, Cheatham, Dickson and Robertson counties.
Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency
385 South Main Street
Ashland City, TN 37015
(615) 742-1113
For more than 50 years, MCCAA has worked to improve the lives of low-income families, children, and individuals by offering services such as Head Start, home energy assistance, and USDA Commodities. MCCAA provides various services in Cheatham, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson, and Wilson counties. MCCAA provides Head Start services in Cannon County.
Saving Cheatham Animals Mission PAWSible, Inc
396 Sims Lane
Franklin, Tennessee 37069
(615) 423-5718
SCAMP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides financial support to facilitate services that include, but are not limited to the medical treatments and rehabilitation of sick or injured animals and improvement to shelter facilities that aid the quality of life for shelter animals of Cheatham County Animal Control. In short, we are here to raise money to help the animals at the shelter, when the county budget can’t meet the special needs that arise.
