George Plaster, local sports broadcaster legend, is bringing in a first-string panel to discuss “The State of Collegiate Sports.” The panel will include: James Franklin, Head Football Coach at Vanderbilt, Watson Brown, Head Football at Tennessee Tech, and Rick Byrd, Head Basketball Coach at Belmont. The Patricia Hart HeART to Heart After Dark Event takes [...]
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Happy Tales Humane
Monday, Jan 16th
Happy Tales Humane was founded in 1996 to provide the area with an animal shelter that does not use euthanasia to make room for additional animals. HTH operated as a ‘virtual shelter’, housing all animals in dedicated foster homes, until 2000 when a shelter for the cats was opened in The Factory at Franklin. All [...]
Give Them Wings
Monday, Dec 5th
Boxwood Bistro and Philanthropy are teaming up to bring you the Franklin Dove Tree campaign. The Franklin Dove tree is helping to provide Christmas gifts for children whose parents would otherwise not be able to afford them. ———————– To learn more about Franklin’s doves and to pick up a dove on either tree, please visit [...]
Jingle Bell 5K Run/Walk for Arthritis
Monday, Nov 7th
Get in the spirit this holiday season at the Arthritis Foundation’s Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis®. Be one of the thousands of runners and walkers who hit the nation’s pavements, pathways and parks this winter to fight arthritis, the nation’s most common cause of disability. Jingle Bell Run/Walk® is a fun and festive way to [...]
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Monday, Sep 26th
The enrollment and matching team made 27 (23 Community Based and 4 Site Based) new matches during the month of August. When you consider this group has been understaffed for awhile, and has to deal with an ongoing shortage of ready to be matched (RTBM) volunteers, not a bad month. That brings our total number [...]
Fall Banquet
Monday, Sep 26th
Barefoot Republic’s annual fall banquet is the organization’s biggest fundraising event of the year. Funds from the event support Barefoot’s operational expenses, capital improvements and hundreds of families in middle-Tennessee and beyond through our “Counting the Kids” scholarship fund. Our scholarship fund ensures that ALL youth may be provided with meaningful and impactful camp experiences. [...]
Next Gen
Sunday, Aug 28th
The Next Generation (NGHF or Next Gen) of the Heritage Foundation is comprised of members ages 21 to 40. The Heritage Foundation of Franklin & Williamson County is a 44-year-old non profit membership organization whose purpose is to protect and preserve the architectural, geographic and cultural heritage of Franklin and Williamson County and to promote [...]
Smart preparation, smart future
Saturday, Jan 1st
Franklin Tomorrow is a non-profit civic and citizen participation initiative, that began in early 2000 in response to concern by citizens, business leaders, preservation groups and local government officials who wanted to maintain the charm, cultural history, landscape and unique attributes of Franklin in the face of tremendous growth and development. These leaders organized themselves [...]
Involvement Guide
Wednesday, Dec 9th
At FranklinIs.com, we want to let the community know how they can pitch in a helping hand. Check out these featured non profits and philanthropics to learn how you can get involved and work together! Franklin’s Charge is dedicated to preserving threatened Civil War battlefields. Mercy Children’s Clinic is a non-profit, pediatric heathcare ministry. Bridges [...]
Get Involved, Franklin!
Wednesday, Jul 22nd
written by Caroline Graham I have always been taught that giving is better than receiving. And while when I was a child this concept seemed completely ridiculous, I now look back on the 22 years of my life and begin to understand, as my favorite and most rewarding memories are the ones in which I [...]