Nashville Peacemakers

What Nashville Peacemakers does

Nashville Peacemakers is a 501(c)3 community-based nonprofit founded in 2003 by Clemmie Greenlee in North Nashville, Tennessee, in the wake of her son's death in gang violence. The organization delivers youth violence prevention and grief support programs aimed at counteracting the documented public health crisis in which homicide is the leading cause of death among African-American boys ages 10-24 in Nashville. It operates three core programs: Back to Basics (a six-week life skills and self-worth curriculum for girls aged 12-17, capped at 10 participants per session), Straight Talk (a six-week dialogue and construction-trade curriculum for boys aged 12-18 with tutoring in reading and math), and Mothers Over Murder (M.O.M.), a grief, advocacy, and peer support group for parents who have lost children to violence. A fourth program, Off the Street Make a Beat, provides structured music production and music-business training for competitively selected youth aged 12-14 through on-site recording studios.

The organization's distribution model is direct and street-level: programs are delivered in person at the North Nashville programming space (830 Fesslers Parkway, Suite 118), in correctional facilities (Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility, Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, San Quentin State Prison), and through community street-level outreach. There is no proprietary technology platform; delivery is human-facilitated, grounded in trauma-informed and "unconditional love" principles articulated by the founder.

Revenue is generated entirely through four streams: individual donations (online via Network for Good, in-person, mail, and the Kroger Community Rewards program at NPO 37736), foundation and government grants (Impact Nashville, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, prior Soros Justice Fellowship), corporate sponsorships and in-kind contributions (Kroger food support, Galaxy Star Entertainment and Bughouse ENT curriculum, 22VisionZ concert proceeds, Sam's Club/Walmart grants), and special event fundraising (annual M.O.M. dinner, Clemmie G. Community Day, City-Wide Baby Shower, Sedona Taphouse Dine Out). Programs are provided at no cost to participants. Strategic partnerships include the CDC, Davidson County Sheriff's Office, Kroger, the Mayor's Office of Neighborhoods and Community Engagement, Thistle Farms/Eden House, and Triumph Specialty Cleaning.

Name

Nashville Peacemakers

Legal name

Nashville Peacemakers

Website

https://nashvillepeacemakers.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Nashville Peacemakers is a Nashville-based 501(c)3 nonprofit delivering youth violence prevention, life-skills, and grief support programs to at-risk youth and mothers impacted by gun violence, funded through donations, foundation grants, corporate sponsorships, and community events.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Violence Prevention & Youth Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (624110), Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Justice, At-Risk Youth & Violence Prevention Nonprofits (BPAGADAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Youth Mental Health, Counseling & Wellbeing (Education-Linked) Nonprofits (BPAGADAK), Crisis Response & Threat Assessment (Suicide Prevention, Violence Prevention) (EDAJAIAH), Domestic Violence & Abuse Support Services (BPAGAEAD)

Keywords

• Youth violence prevention
• Grief support services
• Community youth mentorship
• Trauma-informed programming
• At-risk youth intervention

Headquarters

HQ city

Nashville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Monetary donations are accepted online through Network for Good, in-person at the business office (Monday through Friday 8am–5pm at Matlock Endoscopic Repair, 830 Fesslers Parkway), and by mail. Donors can also enroll in the Kroger Community Rewards program to generate funds automatically based on purchases.
2. Foundation and Government Grants: The organization receives grant funding from Impact Nashville and the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. A Soros Justice Fellowship grant was previously awarded to Founder & CEO Clemmie Greenlee for a community center. Grants fund trauma-informed therapists and specific programs like Off the Street Make a Beat.
3. Corporate Sponsorships and In-Kind Contributions: Corporate partners including Kroger provide food and event support. Sam's Club made a $500 gift through the Walmart Community Grant Program for recording studio equipment. Galaxy Star Entertainment and Bughouse ENT provide in-kind music business curriculum. 22VisionZ Entertainment directs a portion of Live And Not Die concert tour proceeds to Nashville Peacemakers.
4. Special Event Fundraising: Annual fundraising events include the M.O.M. fundraising dinner and the Clemmie G. Community Day. David Fischette and his wife Christine organized a Christmas Eve dinner and made a $1,000 donation. The Sedona Taphouse Dine Out for Charity generates $2 per qualifying entrée sold.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Nashville Peacemakers is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that delivers free community-based programs to at-risk youth (ages 12-18) and bereaved mothers in Nashville's low-income neighborhoods. Its core offerings are three pillars of service — Back to Basics (girls' life-skills and self-worth program), Straight Talk (boys' mentorship and construction-trade training, also delivered in correctional facilities), and Mothers Over Murder (grief support and violence-prevention advocacy for mothers whose children have been killed) — plus the Off the Street Make a Beat music production pilot for youth ages 12-14. Programs are funded entirely by donations, grants, corporate sponsorships, and event fundraising.

Product overview

Nashville Peacemakers operates as a nonprofit violence prevention organization offering a suite of community programs. The portfolio consists of three core pillars: Back to Basics for girls and Straight Talk for boys, both providing life skills and self-worth development to steer youth away from violence, plus Mothers Over Murder (M.O.M.) for grief support to mothers impacted by child loss to violence. An additional pilot program, Off the Street Make a Beat, provides music production training as an alternative engagement channel. These programs collectively address violence prevention, trauma recovery, and youth empowerment through direct intervention, mentorship, and therapeutic support.

Differentiator

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Back to Basics A six-week, free life-skills program for girls ages 12-17 in Nashville's low-income and distressed neighborhoods. Limited to 10 girls per session, the program teaches life and coping skills, basic financial literacy, self-worth, and employment readiness through guided discussions, providing hands-on support for difficult experiences at home, work, and among peers.
• Straight Talk A free, six-week program for at-risk boys ages 12-18, offered both in Nashville neighborhoods and inside correctional facilities (Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility, Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, and Beauty Behind Bars at San Quentin State Prison). The program guides participants toward self-awareness, masculinity, fatherhood, financial planning, and success in love and life; includes tutoring in reading and math and hands-on construction-trade training.
• Mothers Over Murder (M.O.M.) A free grief-support and justice-advocacy program for women and families who have lost children or loved ones to violence in Nashville. Through bimonthly group meetings, peer mentoring, congressional advocacy, and community education on violence prevention, M.O.M. walks participants through the stages of grief and turns them into advocates for peaceful dispute resolution. Members serve as peer mentors for newly grieving parents.
• Off the Street Make a Beat A free music production program offering disadvantaged Nashville youth (ages 12-14) an alternative to idle street time through structured training on music production, writing, programming, and music-business careers. Operates through an on-site recording studio at the North Nashville programming space and off-site access at Rocketown's studio. Curriculum is delivered in partnership with Galaxy Star Entertainment and Bughouse ENT.

Quantifiable outcome

• Back to Basics Fall 2017 session served 10 young ladies with life skills, financial literacy, and mentorship activities.
• +4 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Mayor's Office of Neighborhoods and Community Engagement (Lonnell Matthews)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Lonnell Matthews from the Mayor's Office of Neighborhoods and Community Engagement personally championed and assembled volunteers for the Off the Street Make a Beat program, soliciting in-kind equipment donations to bring the initiative to disadvantaged Nashville neighborhoods starting with North Nashville. This partnership also supported building recording studios for Nashville Peacemakers across Nashville.
• Centers for Disease Control & PreventionflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017In partnership with the CDC and Davidson County Sheriff's Office, Nashville Peacemakers' Straight Talk curriculum was integrated into anti-recidivism efforts at the Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility and Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. This represents a significant federal public health partnership to reduce violence through evidence-based programming.
• Davidson County Sheriff's OfficeflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Partnered with Nashville Peacemakers and the CDC to bring the Straight Talk program into correctional facilities, targeting young men who need support transitioning from incarceration to peaceful and productive life choices to lower recidivism rates.
• Galaxy Star Entertainment and Bughouse ENTcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Galaxy Star Entertainment and Bughouse ENT provide the Off the Street Make a Beat music business curriculum, implementing it city-wide in partnership with Nashville Peacemakers. Nathan Clayborne serves as executive director and Thomas Fennessee as director of the program.
• KrogercoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2017Kroger contributes to virtually every program and food-related event of Nashville Peacemakers. The Kroger Foundation also participates through the Kroger Community Rewards program, allocating funds based on purchases made by enrolled supporters (NPO number 37736).
• Mt. Carmel Baptist Church / Bishop Marcus CampbellcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Dealer-turned minister Marcus Campbell (Bishop at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church) joins Founder & CEO Clemmie Greenlee on regular street missions distributing donated food and personal hygiene bags to Nashville's hungry and homeless. Bishop Campbell also leads the Gentlemen and Not Gangsters program through Partners in Struggle, participating in Straight Talk at correctional facilities.
• Triumph Specialty CleaningcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017In collaboration with Triumph Specialty Cleaning, Nashville Peacemakers gives young men on parole or probation an opportunity to exchange street involvement for legitimate employment cleaning construction sites around Nashville, while developing personal attributes that increase long-term employment prospects.
• 22VisionZ Entertainment / T-Ran GilbertminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2017International recording artist T-Ran Gilbert and his Nashville-based record label 22VisionZ Entertainment direct a portion of proceeds from the annual nationwide 'Live And Not Die' concert tour to Nashville Peacemakers since 2015. Other contributors include Cinder Entertainment, ChildFund International, JL Davis Talent, and Lucid Artists Management.
• RocketownminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2017Rocketown provides an off-site recording studio for Off the Street Make a Beat participants in addition to the on-site studio at Nashville Peacemakers' North Nashville programming space.
• PRISM (People Responding in Social Ministry)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017PRISM's mission is to provide basic needs for individuals and families struggling to make ends meet. Founder & CEO Clemmie Greenlee travels to St. Louis, Missouri every summer to provide three days of mentoring to troubled teens as part of PRISM's 10-year mentoring program.
• Beauty Behind Bars / Once in a WifetimeminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Tiffany Love, founder of Beauty Behind Bars (a self-esteem ministry of Once in a Wifetime nonprofit), joins Nashville Peacemakers CEO Clemmie Greenlee in presenting at San Quentin State Prison about realities of life on the outside to reduce in-prison rebellion and post-release recidivism.
• Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility and Riverbend Maximum Security InstitutionflagshipImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2017The Straight Talk curriculum was implemented in these correctional facilities (run by Corrections Corporation of America) as part of anti-recidivism efforts, in partnership with the CDC and Davidson County Sheriff's Office.
• Thistle Farms / Eden House (New Orleans)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012In 2012, Clemmie Greenlee temporarily relocated to New Orleans to help Thistle Farms founder Becca Stevens establish Eden House, a shelter for victims of sex trafficking. Thistle Farms (supported by Charlotte Avenue-based Thistle Farms) originally rescued Clemmie Greenlee from drugs, violence, and prostitution through its Magdalene recovery program.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Roca: Massachusetts-based nonprofit serving very high-risk young men (including those on parole/probation) with employment, behavioral change, and recidivism-reduction programming. Closely aligned with Nashville Peacemakers' Straight Talk model for justice-involved young men and Triumph Specialty Cleaning employment pathway.
• Mothers in Charge: Philadelphia-based nonprofit founded by mothers who have lost children to violence; provides grief support, advocacy, and violence prevention programming. Direct peer to Nashville Peacemakers' Mothers Over Murder (M.O.M.) program and has formally recognized Clemmie Greenlee for similar work.
• Youth Guidance: Chicago-based nonprofit providing school-based SEL, mentoring, and violence prevention programming for at-risk youth. Comparable in delivering trauma-informed youth services to distressed neighborhoods with similar cohort-based intervention models.
• Thistle Farms: Nashville-based nonprofit providing recovery, employment, and housing for women survivors of trafficking, addiction, and abuse — and the organization that originally rescued Clemmie Greenlee through the Magdalene program. Strong mission and operational overlap as a Nashville-area peer.
• Homeboy Industries: Los Angeles-based nonprofit providing gang intervention, reentry support, and workforce development for formerly gang-involved and formerly incarcerated individuals. Comparable in mission, target population, and reentry-employment pathway (analogous to Triumph Specialty Cleaning).

Regional players

• Eden House: New Orleans-based shelter for survivors of sex trafficking that Clemmie Greenlee helped establish in 2012 alongside Thistle Farms founder Becca Stevens. Operates a closely aligned recovery and survivor-services model in a different geography.
• PRISM (People Responding in Social Ministry): St. Louis-based community ministry addressing poverty and basic needs where Clemmie Greenlee travels annually to provide three days of mentoring. Comparably structured community-mission model operating in a different metropolitan geography.

Broad incumbents

• Communities In Schools: National nonprofit that places site coordinators inside K-12 schools to connect at-risk students with mentoring, basic needs, and life-skills support. Operates the same conceptual model (integrated youth supports to prevent dropout and risk behavior) at much larger scale.
• Cure Violence Global: National/international organization that treats violence as a public health issue and deploys violence interrupter and outreach worker models in distressed neighborhoods. Operates the same conceptual framework as Nashville Peacemakers but at substantially larger scale with multiple city chapters.

Emerging players

• Beauty Behind Bars: Self-esteem ministry of Once in a Wifetime that partners with Nashville Peacemakers to deliver inside-prison programming at San Quentin State Prison. Highly comparable mission around incarcerated-youth reentry and post-release recidivism reduction.

Market position

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Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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