Harvest Hands Community Development

What Harvest Hands Community Development does

Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation is a 501(c)-equivalent nonprofit founded in 2007 in Nashville, Tennessee, operating Christ-centered community development programs across South Nashville neighborhoods including Napier, Vine Hill, Wedgewood-Houston, and the area surrounding the fairgrounds. The organization delivers a four-pillar service model spanning education, healthy living, spiritual formation, and economic development, with concrete programs consisting of daily after-school care for approximately 100 kindergarten-through-eighth-grade students across four campus locations (Napier, Vine Hill, South End Methodist, Harding Place), Empower Sports leagues serving roughly 250 young athletes annually in soccer, flag football, and basketball, mental health counseling and trauma support services, and a Work-Based Leadership Program that has employed over 150 youth across 18 years.

The organization's signature commercial asset is Humphreys Street, a wholly-owned social enterprise that produces and sells hand-roasted coffee and hand-made soaps, employing 20+ youth and young adults annually. Humphreys Street distributes through three retail coffee shop locations in Nashville (Wedgewood Houston at 424 Humphreys Street, Broadway, and a kiosk inside Bridgestone Arena), a direct-to-consumer e-commerce storefront at HumphreysStreet.com, and a wholesale channel serving corporate gifting, coffee cart programs, and bulk orders. Profits from the social enterprise are reinvested into youth employment and program operations, creating a self-sustaining funding loop layered on top of the nonprofit's primary revenue streams.

Revenue is generated through a diversified mix including individual donations, $25+ monthly Empowerment Partner recurring gifts, corporate sponsorships, donor-advised funds, stock gifts, legacy giving, foundation grants, Facebook fundraisers and themed events, passive Kroger Rewards designations, payroll deduction and matching gift programs, and volunteer grants. The organization is led by Co-Founder and CEO Brian Hicks, who co-founded it with Courtney Hicks in partnership with Brentwood United Methodist Church, and it maintains strategic relationships with Nashville Soccer Club and Capstar Bank (a division of Old National Bank). The tech stack is conventional nonprofit infrastructure (Kindful for donations, Monday.com for volunteer signups, Squarespace for web and e-commerce), with no proprietary platform, mobile app, API, or disclosed AI/ML capabilities.

Name

Harvest Hands Community Development

Legal name

Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation

Website

https://harvesthandscdc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Harvest Hands Community Development is a Nashville-based nonprofit founded in 2007 that delivers after-school programs, sports leagues, counseling, and youth employment to underserved South Nashville communities, supplemented by its Humphreys Street social enterprise selling coffee and soap.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Development Services

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts, Sports & Recreation-Based Youth Development Nonprofits (BPAGADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dropout Prevention, Alternative Education & Re-Engagement Nonprofits (BPAGADAL), Small Business & Entrepreneurship Community Education (EDAAAFAK), Sports Fundraising & Development Services (Foundations, NIL Collectives Support) (MPAKAKAK)

Keywords

• Community development
• Youth afterschool programs
• Social enterprise
• Youth employment
• Nonprofit community services

Headquarters

HQ city

Nashville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: Harvest Hands generates revenue through individual donations, monthly Empowerment Partner recurring gifts ($25+), corporate sponsorships, donor-advised funds, stock gifts, and legacy giving. The organization hosts fundraising events and participates in giving days.
2. Social Enterprise Product Sales: Humphreys Street sells hand-roasted coffee and hand-made soaps through three retail locations and wholesale channels. Profits are reinvested into youth employment programs. Products are also sold as corporate gifts and bulk orders.
3. Grants: The nonprofit receives grant funding from foundations and organizations to support programs including afterschool, sports, counseling, and youth employment initiatives.
4. Corporate Partnerships: Businesses can support through wholesale partnerships, coffee cart programs, point-of-sale campaigns, payroll deduction, matching gifts, and volunteer grants.
5. Retail Programs: Kroger Rewards program allows shoppers to designate Harvest Hands as their charity, generating passive donations through grocery purchases.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Harvest Hands Community Development is a Christ-centered nonprofit that delivers afterschool programs, Empower Sports leagues, work-based leadership training, and trauma counseling to underserved youth and families in South Nashville. Programs are funded through donations, grants, and the Humphreys Street social enterprise, which produces and sells hand-roasted coffee and hand-made soap at three retail coffee shop locations and online.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Humphreys Street: Social enterprise brand producing hand-roasted coffee and hand-made soaps, operated by youth and young adults from under-resourced communities in Nashville. Includes three coffee shop locations in Nashville.

Products and services

• After-School Programs Kindergarten through eighth grade afterschool programs serving approximately 100 students daily with homework help, literacy and math lessons, arts, leadership development, spiritual formation, and social emotional learning including music, coding, poetry, gardening, and science. Free for participant families in South Nashville.
• Empower Sports Affordable local youth sports leagues and wellness programs for children ages 5-13 in Nashville, including soccer (in partnership with Nashville Soccer Club), flag football, and basketball. Serves 250 young athletes annually.
• Work-Based Leadership Program Youth employment and leadership development program providing financial literacy training, 21st century skill building, job readiness training, and academic scholarship opportunities. Employs more than 20 youth and young adults each year through the Humphreys Street social enterprise.
• Counseling Services Trauma-informed counseling, education, and resources for children and families that have experienced trauma, including tools to proactively guard against traumatic experiences.
• Humphreys Street Coffee Hand-roasted coffee produced by youth employees at the Humphreys Street social enterprise, sold through retail coffee shops, the HumphreysStreet.com e-commerce storefront, wholesale partnerships, and corporate gifting. All profits are reinvested into the program to create more jobs and mentorship opportunities.
• Humphreys Street Soap Hand-made soap products created by youth participants in the Humphreys Street social enterprise as part of the work-based leadership program teaching entrepreneurial skills. Sold through retail shops, e-commerce, wholesale, and corporate gift bundles.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 2,000 students have participated in programs since 2007
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and foundational.

• Nashville Soccer ClubcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHarvest Hands partnered with Nashville Soccer Club to launch their Grassroots Soccer program after pausing sports leagues due to the pandemic. This partnership enables delivery of soccer programming to youth participants.
• Brentwood United Methodist ChurchfoundationalStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrentwood United Methodist Church initiated the community development effort in 2007 when Dr. Howard Olds felt the church should utilize its resources to impact under-resourced communities. The church partnered with Harvest Hands to purchase the first property and launch programs.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• YouthBuild USA: National network of programs combining construction/industry training, education, and leadership development for opportunity youth. Comparable for the same dual-track model of education plus paid workforce training and credentialing for youth from under-resourced communities.
• Roca: Chelsea, MA-based nonprofit delivering intensive youth workforce development, counseling, and re-engagement programming for young adults impacted by violence and incarceration. Comparable for its combination of workforce training, behavioral health, and long-term youth follow-through in an underserved urban community.
• Homeboy Industries: Los Angeles nonprofit operating social enterprises (tortillería, café, bakery, merchandise) that employ and train formerly incarcerated and gang-involved youth. Comparable operating logic to Harvest Hands: wraparound social services funded by branded product/retail social enterprises that reinvest profits into workforce development.
• Martha O'Bryan Center: Long-standing Nashville community services nonprofit operating afterschool programs, family support, and workforce development in East Nashville. Comparable for its faith-rooted, multi-service community development model serving Nashville youth with similar afterschool and economic mobility programming.
• Thistle Farms: Nashville-based nonprofit social enterprise employing women recovering from trafficking, addiction, and homelessness through a café, body care product line, and retail locations. Closely comparable to Harvest Hands because both operate faith-adjacent social enterprises that integrate product manufacturing, retail, and reinvested profits into human services for an underserved Nashville population.
• Cafe Momentum: Dallas-based nonprofit restaurant and culinary training program that employs at-risk youth in a fully-operating restaurant. Directly comparable to Harvest Hands' Humphreys Street model: a social enterprise restaurant/café using food/beverage operations as the training and revenue mechanism for youth from under-resourced communities.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee: Operates out-of-school-time programming, sports leagues, and youth development services across the Nashville metro area. Comparable as a youth services nonprofit serving similar elementary-age cohorts with afterschool and sports programming in the same geographic market.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee: Nashville-based youth mentoring nonprofit pairing adults with at-risk children. Comparable as a youth development nonprofit serving similar demographic segments in the same Nashville metro market, though with a narrower mentoring-only service model.

Broad incumbents

• Mercy Corps: Large international humanitarian and community development organization with youth, economic development, and economic mobility programming. Comparable at the broadest sector level as a nonprofit that integrates education, health, and economic pathways for underserved populations, though at significantly larger scale and geographic breadth.

Regional players

• United Way of Greater Nashville: Regional federated giving organization operating across the same Nashville metro footprint and channeling workplace-giving dollars to community nonprofits including youth services. Comparable as a regional funder/capacity-builder addressing the same South Nashville community needs, though operating as a grantmaker rather than direct service provider.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/harvesthandscdc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/harvest-hands
• Instagraminstagram.com/harvesthands
• Xx.com/harvesthands

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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