St. George's Enterprise Ministry
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Our social enterprise partners receive grants as well as business mentoring, leadership development, professional and volunteer connections, and support of their social enterprise from our church members.
Café Momentum
2024 Grant Recipient
Café Momentum is an award-winning restaurant and culinary training facility. They aim to transform young lives by equipping our community’s justice-involved youth with life skills, education, and employment opportunities to help them achieve their full potential. Their primary goal is to build a sustainable model that provides justice-impacted youth (ages 15-19) with the holistic support they need to truly thrive.
Current Partner
Friends Life
The Friends Life Treat Truck is a social enterprise from a non-profit called Friends Life Community, which helps young adults with developmental disabilities gain social and work skills. The Treat Truck started as a self-sustaining way to get Nashville “friends” to work on their skills and to educate the community about people with developmental disabilities. Staff drive the truck to different locations, and the friends take orders and hand out treats - sometimes as part of their curriculum, and sometimes as a work opportunity.
Previous Partners
Corner to Corner
Corner to Corner exists to extend the hope of Christ through gospel word and loving deed, focusing on education, economic development, and spiritual growth in our community, believing Nashville can be a place where all neighbors flourish. To learn more, visit cornertocorner.org.
Crossroads Campus
Crossroads Campus seeks to end the cycle of poverty and homelessness for young people who have been impacted by inequity, social inequality, and other traumas while striving to end the unnecessary euthanasia of abandoned animals. They provide job training, employment, and affordable housing for young adults and adoptions for homeless dogs and cats through their Crossroads Pets Shop and Adopt, a non-profit pet retail and grooming business. To learn more, visit crossroadscampus.org.
Daybreak Arts
Daybreak Arts is a social enterprise nonprofit that provides opportunities for artists overcoming homelessness to engage in creative outlets, learn income through selling artwork and merchandise, develop entrepreneurial and professional skills, and build community relationships. To learn more, visit daybreakarts.org.
Humphreys Street Coffee
Humphreys Street Coffee was born out of a desire to create jobs, provide mentoring opportunities that empower youth, and train teenagers in job skills such as customer service, marketing, and craftsmanship. One hundred percent of their profits are reinvested into programs and scholarships that support their students. To learn more, visit humphreysstreet.com.
Justice Industries (Just.Wash)
Justice Industries focuses on hiring valuable contributors who have been seen as “unemployable.” Their staff and employees come from a variety of backgrounds and are all survivors of trauma such as homelessness, addiction, incarceration, mental illness and domestic violence. They seek to provide a clear track of upward mobility — maximizing each person’s personal growth, professional development, and overall opportunity for expanded income and self-sustainability. To learn more, visit justiceindustries.org.
Knowledge Bank
Knowledg Bank creates economic hope where hope may not have existed before by equipping youth with tools to become financially literate and healthily participate in free enterprise. Their mission is to produce a generation of financially knowledgeable, responsible and empowered youth. To learn more, visit knowledgebanknashville.org.
My Bag My Story
Children in foster care often travel with nothing more than a trash bag to hold their belongings. My Bag My Story is on a mission to improve the lives of children in foster care, elevating their sense of dignity and self worth. For every bag purchased, one bag is donated to a foster child in need. Since its inception, My Bag My Story has given over 1,000 bags to children in foster care. To learn more, visit mybagmystory.com.
Project Return’s PROPS
Project Return is solely dedicated to the successful new beginnings of people who are returning to our community after incarceration with the goal of a full and free life after incarceration. PROPS is Project Return’s social enterprise focused on counseling, training, and employment of these people to do property maintenance work. To learn more, visit projectreturninc.org