Tag: Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

TIRRC, Conexion Americas Now ‘Coordinating the Provision’ of Nashville ‘Belonging Fund’ for Immigrants They Helped Seed

Tom Pappert
TIRRC Money

The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) and Conexion Americas are now “coordinating the provision” of money raised for the “Belonging Fund,” which was announced last month by Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell as a joint effort between Metro Nashville and the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT).

TIRRC and Conexion Americas are managing the fund’s distribution after helping to seed it with over $30,000 at its inception. These contributions came despite the nonprofits receiving millions in Biden-era stimulus money from Metro Nashville.

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Nonprofits Behind Immigrant ‘Belonging Fund’ Unveiled by Embattled Nashville Mayor Received $200,000 from Nonprofit Tied to Soros

Tom Pappert
George Soros

Two nonprofits associated with the “Belonging Fund,” announced by Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell in response to a federal immigration enforcement operation in May, received grants from the Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS), a private foundation primarily funded by billionaire investor George Soros.

Grants from FPOS to both the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT), which O’Connell announced would operate the fund, and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), which seeded the “Belonging Fund,” are visible in the grant database made public by the Open Society Foundations (OSF), another entity founded and primarily funded by Soros.

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