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by Dr. Kevin Dean, President & CEO, Tennessee Nonprofit Network If you pull out a map of Tennessee, you will notice something deeply impractical: our state was shaped like a long piece of geometric gum. It takes nearly eight hours to drive from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. That is longer than it

by Dr. Kevin Dean, President & CEO, Tennessee Nonprofit Network It began on a Tuesday morning with an urgent phone call from a local livestock haulage company. The executive director of a mid-sized literacy nonprofit, who was at that moment trying to figure out why the office coffee maker was leaking brown sludge onto the

Why it matters: Congress is voting on a measure that could pause sweeping changes to federal grant rules. Tennessee nonprofits are encouraged to contact their representatives today to support this delay. How to act: Scroll to the bottom of this update for a ready-to-use email template you can send directly to your U.S. Senators and