Annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction
A benefit for the East Nashville Hope Exchange Summer Program
Tickets are now available for purchase online: Single or Couples
Tickets are now available for purchase online: Single or Couples
East Nashville Hope Exchange is a learning community for elementary school children and those who care for them. Our five-week summer program develops local children’s literacy and leadership skills while strengthening caregiver and community involvement in children's education. Transcending socio-economic, racial, and religious barriers, we provide a safe and supportive environment that fosters learning.
Our History. We began our program in 2002 as Freedom School, a program of the Children’s Defense fund. The guiding concern behind The Freedom School was focusing on disadvantaged children’s needs for literacy, structure and a creative learning environment during the summer months. After two years of working closely with the children and families in our community, we decided they needed a program that was more flexible and more closely addressed the various learning challenges they presented, we decided to create our own program called East Nashville Hope Exchange.
Today. In 2004, we changed our name to East Nashville Hope Exchange. Our focus is on children who have completed grades 1-3. We designed a unique “thematic curriculum” that encourages children’s interaction with people, animals, geography, and stories of different cultures and continents. So far, we’ve traveled to Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific on our “journeys” abroad. With a very low student-teacher ratio and a highly engaging curriculum, our students’ reading levels improve significantly during the program and the children are thriving in this environment. In addition, our program includes family participation and a parent education component. Our parent/caregiver empowerment night continues to exceed 80% participation, and student retention from year to year is over 60%.
Our funding has been provided through grants, fundraisers, corporations and the generosity of individuals.
Our Future. It is our goal to work with other programs similar to East Nashville Hope Exchange, as our children graduate they will then have a program to go to with similar structure, discipline, creative learning environment offering caregiver and community involvement such as Hope Exchange.
East Nashville Hope Exchange is a community outreach program of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church
419 Woodland Street, Nashville TN 37206 615.254.3534
Our History. We began our program in 2002 as Freedom School, a program of the Children’s Defense fund. The guiding concern behind The Freedom School was focusing on disadvantaged children’s needs for literacy, structure and a creative learning environment during the summer months. After two years of working closely with the children and families in our community, we decided they needed a program that was more flexible and more closely addressed the various learning challenges they presented, we decided to create our own program called East Nashville Hope Exchange.
Today. In 2004, we changed our name to East Nashville Hope Exchange. Our focus is on children who have completed grades 1-3. We designed a unique “thematic curriculum” that encourages children’s interaction with people, animals, geography, and stories of different cultures and continents. So far, we’ve traveled to Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific on our “journeys” abroad. With a very low student-teacher ratio and a highly engaging curriculum, our students’ reading levels improve significantly during the program and the children are thriving in this environment. In addition, our program includes family participation and a parent education component. Our parent/caregiver empowerment night continues to exceed 80% participation, and student retention from year to year is over 60%.
Our funding has been provided through grants, fundraisers, corporations and the generosity of individuals.
Our Future. It is our goal to work with other programs similar to East Nashville Hope Exchange, as our children graduate they will then have a program to go to with similar structure, discipline, creative learning environment offering caregiver and community involvement such as Hope Exchange.
East Nashville Hope Exchange is a community outreach program of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church
419 Woodland Street, Nashville TN 37206 615.254.3534
