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Debbie Henry Receives Caroline J Cross Award
LAUREN SULLIVAN | REALTOR® LaurenMyAgent@Gmail.com | LAURENSULLIVAN.CO
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The Board of Directors of Leadership Franklin has selected Debbie Henry as this year’s recipient of the Caroline J. Cross Award. Henry is the Executive Director of Franklin’s Transportation Management Association. She is also the Associate Executive Director for Leadership Franklin. She has served on the boards and advisory committees of organizations including Franklin Tomorrow, the Education Foundation of Williamson County, Williamson Inc., Middle Tennessee Clean Fuels, and the MidCumberland Region Coordinated Public Transit Advisory Committee. She has been recognized as a Williamson County Hall of Fame Impact Award winner by the Nashville Business Journal, as a Franklin Tomorrow Exemplary Community Volunteer Spirit Award winner, a Woman of Influence in Nonprofit Leadership, and as an Outstanding Chamber Member of the Year, among other honors. The Caroline J. Cross Award was established to honor Caroline J. Cross, Founding Executive Director of Leadership Franklin, and create an ongoing award that identifies a leader in the community who exemplifies the values and lessons of Leadership Franklin. This award was created as the class project in 2007. Criteria for nomination include leadership that motivates and inspires other individuals along with traits of creativity, character, dedication, and community service. Leadership Franklin is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to develop leadership and community engagement to further a vision for Franklin and Williamson County. For more information about the organization, visit leadershipfranklin.org.
The Big Payback Raises $4.2M for Middle Tennessee Organizations The Big Payback’s eighth annual 24-hour online giving event ended by raising more than $4.2 million — $4,265,674 — in 32,941 donations to participating area nonprofit organizations, schools, and religious institutions. The preliminary total includes funds raised and prize totals. In its history, The Big Payback has helped more than 1,000 area nonprofits by raising more than $25 million — $25,219,297— in cumulative gifts. An event-record 1,017 Middle Tennessee organizations from thirty-three counties signed up to participate in this year’s event, an initiative of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT). The Big Payback is a community-wide online giving day designed to give the public the opportunity to pay back the nonprofits that make this a place we are proud to call home. This year’s event included eighty-seven organizations from twelve counties that were participating in The Big Payback for the first time. Categories included human services, education, community improvement, arts and culture, youth development, animal welfare, health, housing and shelter, and the environment. The Community Foundation exists to promote and facilitate giving in the forty counties of Middle Tennessee and beyond. It does this by accepting gifts of any size from anyone at any time and by empowering individuals, families, companies, nonprofits, and communities to respond to needs and opportunities that matter. For more information, call 615-321-4939 or visit cfmt.org.
