SSA/ Clothing Resources

Clothes Closet
262-5531

Eastminister United Presbyterian Church
3930 Gallatin Rd, Nashville, TN 37216
Program that provides secondhand clothing for people who cannot afford to purchase these items at retail prices. Community clothes closet is open Wednesdays from 9-11am.

Kid Savers of America, Inc.
452-0051

124 & 128 South Water Avenue, Gallatin, TN 37066
Clothing provided to low income families in crisis.

Music City Mission
333-9377
413 Veritas St, Nashville, TN 37211
Provides clothing for all sizes child to adult to low income individuals.

East Nashville Cooperative Ministry

Our Mission
East Nashville Cooperative Ministry (ENCM) is a Christian, ecumenical ministry organized for the purpose of improving the health and welfare of the residents of the East Nashville Community.

Our Vision
ENCM envisions a Nashville where citizen’s needs—spiritual, educational, economic, mental, physical, and emotional—are holistically met and neighborhoods are enabled to thrive. We contribute to this vision with food, clothing and education.

ENCM Main Street
807 Main Street • Nashville TN 37206
615 244 7312

ENCM Inglewood
Eastminster Presbyterian Church
3930 Gallatin Pike • Nashville, TN 37216
615 262 5531

OIC (Opportunities Industrialization Center)

Location	1819 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203

Contact Info

Phone	1 (615) 248-2906
Email	hfarrow@oicnashville.org
Website	http://www.OICNashville.org

About

Founded in 1968, Nashville OIC Helps Others Help Themselves through GED Preparation, Computer Training, and Job Placement.

Mission

The mission of Nashville Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) is to provide education, training, counseling and job placement services for citizens of the community who are disadvantaged economically, educationally, and socially.

Our vision is to guide people on a successful road to self-achievement: leading to self-reliance.

Hearbeat Ministries

http://www.hhbconline.com/serve/heartbeat_ministry.php
(615) 883-5034                             

Located at 3475 Lebanon Rd., Hermitage, TN 37076 

The Heartbeat Ministry exists for the sole purpose of meeting people's basic needs: food, clothing, and spiritual guidance. Each weekend on Friday and Saturday, the Heartbeat Ministry gives out food, clothing, and spiritual guidance to people in our community who are in need.

The Heartbeat Ministry's regular hours are Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm. The Heartbeat Ministry is located on the Hermitage Campus at Door #5.     

For more information regarding the Heartbeat Ministry, please e-mail Dwight Moody at dmoody@hhbconline.com.

Catholic Charities

Phone (615) 352-3087                                                               
http://www.cctenn.org/

Provides a variety of services including financial assistance, clothing, food, immigrant and refugee assistance, parenting and child trauma services, adult daycare, counseling services, pregnancy and adoption. They serve anyone in need regardless of their race, religious affiliation, or ethnic background.  

Located at 30 White Bridge Road, Nashville, TN 37205 8:00am – 4:30pm, Monday through Friday

Donelson Church of Christ

                                                     

Phone (615) 883-6666
www.donelsonchurch.org


The Help Center stores a large supply of clothing, a pantry of canned goods, some furniture and other items, and a quilting room. DCC members keep the center supplied with financial assistance, food, clothing, and other items. We also receive donations from others in the Donelson area who have heard of this good work. In addition to helping people in our own community, we’ve been able to provide aid to tornado and hurricane victims, and send supplies to the poor in the mountains of Appalachia.

Every Tuesday morning, food, clothing, and other services are provided.
                                   

Located at 2706 Old Lebanon Road, Nashville, TN 37214

Salvation Army

Phone (615)  242-0411                                             
http://www.salarmy-nashville.org/

The range of programs that we offer encompasses the following:

• After-school programs
• Summer camp
• Transitional Housing for homeless families and single women
• Men’s Lodge
• Weekly feeding programs, featuring our Breakfast Brigade and Soup Wagon
• Life Skills Learning, which includes GED classes and Budgeting Classes
• Disaster Response
• Emergency Services Assistance

Emeregency Assistance provides food, personal care items, clothing, household items and short-term financial help with housing and utilities. The program also provides referrals for other needed social services. Target population is low-income and homeless families living in Davidson and surrounding counties and those facing crisis situations. This program serves approximately 10,000 individuals per year and consistently ranks in the top five providers on United Way's "211" information and referral service.

Located at 631 Dickerson Pike, Nashville, TN 37207 and at 6214 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN 37209

Ladies of Charity

Phone (615) 327-3453 

www.nashvilleloc.org                                                

Provides emergency food, clothing, and financial assistance as well as burials and spiritual and medical assistance.

The Ladies of Charity of Nashville is an organization of Catholic Women who volunteer their time and talents in many areas of charitable work in the local community.

The Welfare Office distributes clothing, food, payments for utilities, rent, prescription medicines and funeral expenses to needy people in Nashville. It receives funds from the United Way and helps people referred by the Department of Human Services and the Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement program. The Ladies of Charity serves nearly 10,000 women, children and men each year.

The Thrift Shop was opened in 1948 in order to help fund the Welfare Office budget. Over the years, it has grown into a large operation and has served as a model for the many consignment sales that are now operated by many organizations as a way to raise money. The Thrift Shop, which has become a Nashville institution, opens twice a year in the spring and fall. Clothing is accepted on consignment by invitation only and all items must meet high standards. The Thrift Shop is shopper friendly, featuring a wide selection of good quality, fashionable clothing at reasonable prices for the whole family.

Located at 2216 State Street, Nashville, TN 37203

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Goodwill

Our network of 165 independent, community-based Goodwills in the United States and Canada offers customized job training, employment placement and other services to people who have disabilities, lack education or job experience, or face employment challenges.

http://www.goodwill.org/

*One fellow Social Worker informed me that in the past she has donated goods to them in exchange for a gift card to Goodwill- this would be great if you had something you didn't need that you could barter with!

Music City Mission

Provide clothing, food boxes, household items, furniture, counseling, holiday meals, and special events for needy families. The emphasis is on providing services for those coming out of homelessness, domestic violence and addiction centers, and prison.

Music City Mission is a Christian, Non-profit organization dedicated to "healing the city, one life at a time" through evangelism, discipleship and social action. We accomplish this by offering Meals, Clothing, Volunteerism, Food Boxes, Discipleship, and Evangelism Outreach.

Located in the heart of South Nashville, MCM has been serving hundreds of Nashville's families every month since September of 2003. MCM has consisently been in the top 20 of the United Way "211" referral agencies and in the Spring of 2010 moved up to the top 10. Music City Mission gives individualized attention, prayer and time to each and every family and situation. Being the hands and feet of Jesus is the most important way MCM can effectively make a difference in someone's life.

http://www.musiccitymission.org/

*there is a form on the website you can fill out to request services/referrals.

CALL 615-788-1490

MAILING ADDRESS ONLY:
4636 Lebanon Pike #133
Hermitage, TN 37076
PHYSICAL ADDRESS:
413 Veritas St.
Nashville, TN 37211