With over 70 nonprofit organizations, universities, and churches, Hope Through Healing Hands proudly leads the Tennessee Global Health Coalition (TGHC), a robust networking system for better efficiency of programs through partnerships and support. We sponsor bi-annual meetings to provide a deliberate social space for these global health leaders in our community to build relationships with one another.
We welcome you to get to know excellent global health groups throughout Tennessee.
If your organization works in the global health arena in the state of Tennessee, please contact Jen St. Clair, [email protected]. We will put you on our TGHC mailing list, this web page, and update you with the latest news and events in global health happening in the area.
- Africa Education and Leadership Initiative (Africa ELI)
- African Leadership
- Amazima
- Baptist Global Response
- Belmont University College of Health Sciences & Nursing
- Belmont University School of Pharmacy
- Blood:Water Mission
- Brentwood Baptist Church
- Bridge2Rwanda
- Cathedral of the Incarnation
- Center for Health, Culture, and Society
- Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti (CNP)
- Christ Church
- Christ Presbyterian Church
- Christian Medical & Dental Associations
- Compassion International
- Cross Point Church
- CURE
- Divine Inheritance
- East Tennessee State University College of Public Health
- eXile International
- Fabulous Friends for Africa
- Fellowship Bible Church
- First Baptist Church
- Food for the Hungry
- Freedom's Promise
- Global Sounds
- Global Surgical Consortium
- Go Be Love
- Grace Chapel
- Hands & Feet Project
- Healing Hands International (HHI)
- Hope 2.2.1
- Hope and Healing.org
- Hope for Justice
- Hope Force International
- hopepark church
- International Children's Heart Foundation
- Lake Providence Missionary Baptist Church
- LEAMIS
- Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy
- Live FashionABLE
- LiveBeyond
- Living Waters for the World
- Love Everybody
- Lwala Community Alliance
- Manna Project International
- Medical Mission Exchange
- Meharry Medical College
- MercyShips
- Metropolitan Interdenominational Church
- Mocha Club
- myLIFEspeaks
- Project AK47
- Project C.U.R.E.
- Promise for Haiti
- ProviderTrust
- Real Religion
- Remember Me Mission
- Show Hope
- Siloam Family Health Center
- Soles 4 Souls
- Sweet Sleep
- The Haven Foundation
- The Living Water Project
- The Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville
- The Outreach Foundation
- The Passion Partners
- The Shalom Foundation
- The Zambia Project
- United Methodist Communications
- Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
- Vanderbilt International Anesthesia Program
- West End Untied Methodist Church
- Woodmont Christian Church
- World Vision
- Africa Education and Leadership Initiative (Africa ELI)
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By bridging gender gaps through education, girls and young women in South Sudan will become empowered to serve as national, local and family leaders, engage in business enterprise, improve health practices, and effectively counteract forces of conflict and oppression. Africa ELI-educated women will lead in developing a peaceful, civil society offering equal opportunities for all its citizens. - African Leadership
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African Leadership is a Christian leadership development organization committed to Africa's churches and people being agents of restoration and Truth so that 100% of Africa can find common ground with the Gospel. Currently, African Leadership is investing in over 9,000 servant leaders across the continent.
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Amazima Ministries feeds, educates, and encourages orphaned, vulnerable children and the poor in the country of Uganda. In the Lugandan language, Amazima (uh-mahz-i-muh) means "truth." Amazima desires to reveal the truth of God's unconditional love through Jesus Christ to the Ugandan people.
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Baptist Global Response (BGR) is a disaster relief and community development organization with a heart for helping people in desperate need. We seek to demonstrate the love of God so that people in need have the opportunity to experience the full and meaningful lives God created them to enjoy. Our desire is to see people live their lives with hope and peace, inspired to raise their families in confidence, build their communities with dignity and share this life with others.
Return to Top - Belmont University College of Health Sciences & Nursing
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The School of Nursing is a student-centered Christian community which embraces a culture of openness and mutual respect, excellence in teaching, and the privilege of service. We strive to provide an academically challenging education that enables men and women of diverse backgrounds to safely practice professional nursing with disciplined intelligence, compassion, courage, and faith.
Return to Top - Belmont University School of Pharmacy
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The Belmont University School of Pharmacy is an evolving learning community dedicated to rigorous and purposeful teaching, scholarship, service, and leadership in pharmacy in accordance with the University's learning objective and Christian-based ethical underpinnings.
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Blood:Water Mission exists to promote clean blood and clean water efforts in Africa, tangibly reducing the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic while addressing the underlying issues of poverty, injustice and oppression.
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Brentwood Baptist is a community of believers whose mission is to connect others to Jesus Christ through Worship, Discipleship, and Service.
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Bridge2Rwanda was formed in 2007 to help expand Rwanda’s global network of friends, to encourage foreign direct investment and to create opportunities for Rwandan students to study abroad. A few years later, President Paul Kagame asked B2R to develop a new scholars program to “burst the bottlenecks” that were preventing Rwanda’s best students from competing for international scholarships. The first class of Bridge2Rwanda Scholars was launched in 2011.
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The Cathedral of the Incarnation is the second Cathedral of the Diocese of Nashville. The Cathedral is both a sacred place for worship and a spectacular work of art.
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Access to mental health services is scarce in most African countries. There are many individuals willing to contribute to scaling up mental health services in Africa and others who are interested in collaborative research activities in Africa. We hope to facilitate a network of individuals, agencies, institutions and governments that can communicate in an open forum.
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The principle mission of the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti (CNP), a faith-based organization, is to improve the health and development of Haitian children, particularly those suffering from malnutrition, who can in turn help raise Haiti from poverty. CNP works to achieve its mission through partnering with Haitians in a local community approach and working with mothers through education, micro-enterprise, health care and women’s groups to help raise healthy children and families.
Return to Top - Christ Church
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As a church family, we are committed to wholehearted devotion to Jesus Christ and furthering the Kingdom of God. It is our desire for every individual to fulfill the purpose God has for their life and to walk in the power and authority of the Holy Spirit.
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As a family united in Christ and led by Scripture, we at Christ Presbyterian Church exist as partakers in a movement of God’s Kingdom that offers spiritual life, public faith, mercy and justice, and the integration of faith and work to the people, communities, institutions, and churches of greater Nashville, and through Nashville, to the world.
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We are dedicated to both domestic and international missions. Through our various missions, we provide opportunities for healthcare professionals to use their God-given skills to meet the needs of others around the world and share the gospel with them.
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Compassion International is the world's largest Christian child development organization that works through local churches to permanently release children from poverty. Founded in 1952, Compassion successfully tackles global poverty one child at a time, serving more than 1 million children—pre-natal through higher education—in 26 of the world's poorest countries. Recognizing that poverty is more than a lack of money, Compassion works through local churches to holistically address the individual physical, economic, educational and spiritual needs of children—enabling them to thrive, not just survive. Compassion has been awarded eight consecutive, four-star ratings by Charity Navigator, America's largest charity evaluator.
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Cross Point Church is a place where Everyone’s Welcome, because one of the things we’ve learned is that Nobody’s Perfect, and with God we believe that Anything’s Possible. No matter where you’ve been or what you believe, you’re welcome here. Cross Point meets every Sunday at multiple locations around the Nashville area and online, for services that clearly communicate the hope found through Jesus Christ. We use engaging music, compelling videos, straight-forward teaching and many other elements to help people connect with a God who is incredibly passionate about you and your story. We hope you feel right at home here.
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CURE International is a Christian health care network that operates charitable hospitals and programs in 30 countries worldwide, where patients experience the life-changing message of God’s love for them, receiving surgical treatment regardless of gender, religion, or ethnicity. Since 1998, CURE has had over 2.7 million outpatient visits, provided over 191,000 life-changing surgeries, and trained over 7,200 medical professionals.
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We exist as a multigenerational mission whose lives are devoted to reaching those in need with the love of Christ. Our work spans 4 generations with a 125 year presence throughout SE Asia and has covered bible translation and literacy work, community development and sustainability, church planting and leadership training, orphans and the rescue of child soldiers from rebel armies. Our heart is to develop the leaders of tomorrow by equipping children at high risk with skills and a moral backbone so they can be children who grow in influence like Daniel and Esther to walk in their God given destiny and to impact their own people for good. In short: we are nurturing nation changers.
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A comprehensive College of Public Health offering both public health training programs at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level, and supporting a wide range of research and service programs.
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eXile international exists to instill hope, healing, and love to the traumatized children of war in Congo and East Africa by providing art/expressive therapy and in teaching peace and reconciliation skills through a program called the HOPE Initiative.
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Fabulous Friends for Africa is a group of women that host a Valentine's Dance each year to raise funds and awareness for various projects of African Leadership, a local organization which works to address the physical and spiritual needs of Africans.
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Fellowship Bible Church is a faith community that exists to help people mature in the faith and give their lives away. Fellowship is involved globally with strategic partners in Sudan, Peru, Nigeria, Germany, Russia and a number of other countries with an emphasis in building the church and training leaders.
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First Baptist Nashville is a caring congregation that welcomes anyone and everyone. We want you to discover the joy that we share when we come together to worship God in spirit and in truth.
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We provide life-changing resources such as clean water, medical aid, food, equal educational opportunities to girls and boys, vocational training and empowerment in the midst of unimaginable hardships. Our view of poverty is holistic and complex. We honor the people we serve by inviting them to contribute to the process. We are grateful to be invited into the communities we serve and work side-by-side with local leaders, responding to their needs with transformative solutions, which are both sustainable and implemented at the hands of the communities themselves.
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Freedom's Promise is dedicated to the prevention of human trafficking in Cambodia. There are many existing organizations focused on the rescue and rehabilitation of young girls and women. We felt it was important to look into the root causes of trafficking and determine how we could impact Cambodian's long term. The main causes we identified are extreme poverty leading to forced migration, lack of education, and corrupt government.
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Global Sounds: Ultrasound Development Project exists to equip physicians in resource-limited settings with ultrasound equipment and the knowledge to image at the bedside to help provide more effective care to their patients.
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The Global Surgical Consortium provides accurate data from the poorest countries revealing limited access to surgery and safe anesthesia. Through data GSC raises awareness on the critical shortage of basic surgery and anesthesia, and provides solutions for improving access and safety. In collaboration global partners, GSC supports solutions for the global surgical crisis through education, training, necessary safety equipment and medicines.
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Go Be Love International is a 501(c)3 nonprofit mission-supporting organization established in 2005 under the name Visiting Orphans as a way to fulfill the biblical mandate given in James 1:27 to “visit orphans and widows in their distress”. Today, our mission has expanded to include caring for families and communities, orphan prevention, and missionary care. We partner with ministries and missionaries in the US and abroad, and send short-term teams to support their efforts and meet needs on the field.
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Equipping people to be passionate servants of Jesus Christ.
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In the summer of 2004, the members of Christian music group, Audio Adrenaline, founded the Hands and Feet Project. The Project, inspired by fan reaction to the song “Hands and Feet”, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing family-style, residential care for children in crisis.
The organization broke ground on their first Children’s Village in Cyvadier, a small town on the Southern coast of Haiti, and began their journey of serving the forgotten children of the impoverished Caribbean nation. Now, The Hands and Feet Project has grown to include multiple locations across the southern peninsula and is also dedicated to providing sustainable solutions that fight against Haiti's orphan crisis.
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Healing Hands International (HHI) is a Christian humanitarian relief organization that seeks to empower those who are living in poverty around the world with the skills and resources needed to care for their families and lift themselves out of hopelessness. This mission is accomplished through agricultural training, water well drilling, providing medical and educational supplies and disaster relief and recovery.
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Hope 2.2.1's (2 Continents, 2 Histories, 1 Future) focus is providing opportunities for our community to impact communities in Rwanda.
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Hope and Healing.org is a ministry of the Church Health Center in Memphis, Tennessee dedicated to health. Our mission is to reclaim the Biblical call to care for all bodies and spirits.
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We exist to bring an end to modern slavery by rescuing victims, restoring lives, and reforming society.
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Hope Force International is a Christian 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of individuals dedicated to utilizing their expertise to inspire, equip and mobilize thousands of volunteers into areas of crisis around the world. HFI trains volunteers in advance so they are prepared and allowed to respond, often in restricted areas, when disaster strikes.
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hopepark church is about three things: growing faith, giving hope, and spreading love. Founded in 1988, hopepark has become known in our community as a church where all are welcome because we believe every life is important to God.
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International Children's Heart Foundation is a not for profit providing pediatric cardiac surgical services and education to the children and health care providers in developing countries around the world.
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"Changing Lives with the Unchanging Word," we envision a Christian ministry that reaches all people with the Gospel from the cradle to the grave.
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LEAMIS seeks transformational development through spiritual and vocational training which increases the standard of living (economic, health, and responsible Christian stewardship of the earth) in developing nations.
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The College of Pharmacy at Lipscomb University is dedicated to preparing students for their role as Pharmacists, by combining rigorous academics in a faith-based approach.
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While living in Ethiopia, Rachel and Barrett Ward saw firsthand how extreme poverty forced so many young girls and women to make awful choices for money. Lacking meaningful resources and a sense of hope, many women resort to prostitution as a means of supporting themselves and their families. They wanted to figure out a way to give women another choice – one that would provide an opportunity to earn a living, rather than establish a dependency on charity. For this purpose, FASHIONABLE was conceived.
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LiveBeyond is a faith-based, humanitarian organization bringing medical and maternal health care, clean water, education, orphan care, community development, and the gospel of Jesus Christ to the oppressed in Thomazeau, Haiti.
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Living Waters for the World (LWW) is a faith-based organization (FBO) which trains and equips mission teams to work with local partners to install technologically appropriate sustainable clean water systems in communities with available but contaminated water. The installations are accompanied by a basic health and hygiene education program where a "teach the teacher model" is employed, and community education continues after the team leaves.
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Love Everybody has helped with the facilitation of the Konyok School for Girls in Akon, Sudan. The school currently has 550+ students enrolled. Love Everybody's goal is to instill hope, strength, and excellence to all students who attend so they can prosper in life. Their mission statement is to "Highlight the good, inspire greatness, and encourage mutual responsibility for the betterment of humankind. -- Love Everybody."
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An alliance of communities whose mission is to build the fundamental human capacity of the people of Lwala to advance their own comprehensive well being, including physical health, educational opportunity, economic freedom, cultural vitality and spiritual growth.
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Manna Project International (MPI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that utilizes the passions and energy of young people to empower developing international communities through hands-on learning and service.
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The goal of Medical Mission Exchange (MMEX) is to facilitate referrals of underserved patients to appropriate medical specialists in Belize, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras and Guatemala.
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Meharry Medical College is the nation's largest private, independent historically black academic health center dedicated solely to educating minority and other health professionals. The College is particularly well known for its uniquely nurturing, highly effective educational programs; emerging preeminence in health disparities research; culturally sensitive, evidence-based health services; and significant contribution to the diversity of the nation's health professions workforce.
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Around the world today, billions of people live in fear and desperation, with impure water, inadequate food, and little or no access to health care. Behind every statistic is a person waiting for hope and healing. Utilizing hospital ships, Mercy Ships delivers medical excellence with integrity and compassion to the world's forgotten poor by mobilizing people and resources worldwide. Mercy Ships has served all people without regard for race, gender, or religion since 1978.
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Metropolitan Interdenominational Church is a community of believers inclusive of all and alienating to none, leading the way to spiritual growth by sharing God's love with the world.
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Mocha Club is about connecting your community with our community in Africa. You start by giving up $7 a month, the cost of 2 mochas. And you get to pick where that money is going. We have many different ongoing projects around Africa - pick the one that YOU love. Then start your team so you can invite others to join you in making a difference!
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myLIFEspeaks works to develop a Christ-centered community in the village of Neply, Haiti through: Orphan Care & Prevention, Education, and Public Health.
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Project: AK-47 rescues young girls and boys who are enslaved as child soldiers in Southeast Asia's armies (where there are over 100,000 child soldiers) and provides dedicated, comprehensive care, education and vocational skills and/or university prep for them.
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Project C.U.R.E. is the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies in the world, with a mission to identify, solicit, collect, sort, and distribute those supplies and services according to the imperative needs of the world.
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A 501(c)3 philanthropic organization dedicated to dedicated to providing Healthcare, Education, and Clean Water in Haiti.
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ProviderTrust is a leading healthcare risk mitigation and technology services firm based in Nashville, Tennessee. We offer Software as a Service (SaaS) credentialing, continuous nationwide monitoring of licenses and information management solutions for healthcare facilities, individual providers and staffing agencies.
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Real Religion sends medical enzyme cleaners to developing countries to make surgeries safer.
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Founded in 2011 by recording artist Mark Schultz and his wife Kate and named after one of his most beloved songs, Remember Me Mission is a non-profit organization that exists to support organizations and individuals who are dedicated to providing direct orphan care as well as those committed to decreasing maternal mortality through access to obstetric services and education.
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Show Hope is a ministry that enables individuals and communities to change the world for orphans by not only addressing a child's need for food, shelter, care, and spiritual nourishment, but by also addressing the root issue for an orphan: the lack of a family. Our medical efforts are specifically focused on the special needs orphans in China.
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Think globally. Heal Locally. Siloam Family Health Center cares for the uninsured in Middle Tennessee by providing high-quality, affordable health care designed to meet our patients’ physical, emotional, spiritual, and social determinants of health. The clinic aligns staff, more than volunteers and donors to carry out this ministry of health, healing and hope for people who have few options for medical care. Our mission is to share the love of Christ by serving those in need through health care.
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Nashville-based Soles4SoulsTM facilitates the donations of both new and used shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide.
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Sweet Sleep is a faith-based nonprofit organization that exists to share God's love by providing beds to the world's orphaned and abandoned children.
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The Haven Foundation's mission is to provide humanitarian aid to the poor and indigent of third world countries. They strive to accomplish this goal by acquiring surplus and seconds from business and distributing them in markets that will not affect the contributing companies. Their main area of humanitarian aid is food, medical supplies, clothing, shoes, and household items.
Return to Top - The Living Water Project
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The Living Water Project is an effort to fund projects that provide clean and accessible water for people in impoverished areas of the world, thereby extending to them the love of God.
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The Lost Boys Foundation of Nashville is committed to the reunification and living enhancement of the Lost Boys of Sudan who have made Nashville their home.
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The Outreach Foundation is a validated mission support group of the PC(USA) that works to strengthen Presbyterian involvement in and support for evangelistic mission work around the world.
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Passion Partners is the faith-based global missions organization of Her Passion ministries. With rapidly expanding projects in Community Development including healthcare, child & maternal health, education & clean water, our vision is to engage in collaborative partnerships in order to provide leadership and funding to existing as well as emerging faith-based projects around the world.
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The Shalom Foundation is a Christian humanitarian aid organization dedicated to serving children living in extreme poverty. Shalom Foundation serves children in Guatemala through Medical, Nutrition, Education and Home Construction Programs.
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The Zambia Project is dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to the people of Zambia using methods that are responsible, meaningful, culturally relevant, and sustainable.
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Global health is a major focus for the United Methodist Church, which has more than 11.5 million members internationally and is in mission in more than 125 countries. A new Global Health Initiative (GHI) aims to combat diseases of poverty such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis, as well as to create conditions for better health for people worldwide through partnerships, awareness, giving, health-education infrastructure and advocacy. The denomination has long been a key player in the fight against malaria, operating hospitals, clinics and mission centers across africa for more than 160 years.
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Global health is an inextricable component of modern-day medical, public health and nursing practices. Increasing demands for health professionals who can compete and excel in a global market have created an urgent need for comprehensive research, service and training programs in global health. The Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) initiates and coordinates programs in health research, service and training, which reflects commitment to improving health services and outcomes in settings with limited resources. As a leader in international training and education, VIGH has a vision to improve health and well being of people in local and global environments.
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Vanderbilt International Anesthesia (VIA) program is built upon our institutional strengths and resources in order to achieve unique goals in international perioperative care. The overriding objective of VIA is to benefit the lives of others by sharing the professional medical skills and knowledge of the faculty, staff, and trainees of the Vanderbilt Department of Anesthesiology.
Return to Top - West End Untied Methodist Church
- Everyone is welcome at West End! We seek to be the loving light of Christ in Nashville and beyond. We gather as the people of God with a wide range of religious backgrounds, education levels, political and theological perspectives, and we value that diversity. We welcome and celebrate the gifts God has given to all without regard to gender, race, sexual orientation, economic or family status, ethnicity, mental or physical ability. We believe God loves everyone unconditionally. Return to Top
- Woodmont Christian Church
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Growing disciples of Christ by seeking God, sharing love, and serving others.
Return to Top - World Vision
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World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
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