Impact Nashville

Impact Nashville is Nashville's local service plan as part of the Cities of Service national coalition. Nashville’s comprehensive strategic plan, entitled “Impact Nashville,” seeks to leverage institutional and cultural capital through impactful volunteerism directed toward two of the mayor’s top priorities: public education and the environment. With measurable outcomes in each of these areas, and with Impact Nashville promoting service as a core community responsibility, the standards of volunteerism across the public and private sectors will be further raised. Read Impact Nashville's Service Plan.

Impact Nashville focuses on educational volunteerism and environmental projects applied toward flood recovery and prevention. Impact Nashville volunteers are implementing these initiatives while also promoting, increasing and raising the standards of volunteerism across our community. From September 30, 2010 through May 1, 2012, 3,849 volunteers have given 25,365 hours towards Impact Nashville initiatives.

Cities of Service

Mayor Karl Dean joined New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and mayors from ten cities across the country on September 11, 2009 to launch Cities of Service. The founding mayors met for a half-day summit at Gracie Mansion where they signed a Declaration of Service, a commitment to finding new ways to tap the power of volunteers to address each city’s most pressing challenges. Cities of Service has now grown to be a bipartisan coalition of mayors representing more than 38 million Americans in 80 cities, who will work together to engage millions more volunteers in service.

On Martin Luther King Day, 2010, Cities of Service and the Rockefeller Foundation announced that Nashville was one of 10 cities selected nationwide to receive a two year grant to hire a Chief Service Officer dedicated to developing and implementing a strategic service plan focused on educational volunteerism and environmental projects applied toward flood recovery and prevention. On June 30, 2010, Mayor Dean joined Mayor Bloomberg in New York City to announce the next ten Cities of Service leadership grants at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service.