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How Businesses Are Helping Nashville Flood Victims

Via: Nashville Business Journal

Area businesses are putting their money and their manpower into the region’s recovery efforts. Several area organizations and companies are organizing volunteer efforts and accepting donations. To share your company’s efforts, e-mail Dan Hieb at dhieb@bizjournals.com. To learn how you can help out as an individual, click here.

  • Read more: How businesses are helping Nashville flood victims – Nashville Business Journal:AT&T Tennessee will donate $25,000 to the Red Cross, and is also providing cell phones with unlimited voice and data airtime to emergency shelters at David Lipscomb University in Nashville; the Jewish Community Center in Nashville; and Al Menah Shrine Temple in Mt. Juliet; as well as shelters in other parts of Tennessee. The company is also supplying phone bank trucks to two disaster assistance centers in Nashville — Bellevue Community Center and Coleman Community Center. Each truck features 24 wireless phone lines and Wi-Fi connections.

  • Kroger is teaming with the Red Cross and is accepting donations at all of its 62 Middle Tennessee locations. The grocery retailer also is supporting Second Harvest Food Bank’s relief efforts. Customers can drop off non-perishable food items in barrels at the front of any area store. The retailer also is donating water and other supplies.

  • Goodlettsville-based Dollar General is donating supplies to the Red Cross such as personal hygiene products, socks, underwear, diapers and other baby products. The company is also donating cleaning supplies to Second Harvest Food Bank. The company will also accept customer donations to the Red Cross at its check-out registers.
  • The Bellevue Chamber of Commerce has established an account to help flood victims. Donations can be sent to 177-A Belle Forest Circle, Nashville, TN 37221, payable to Bellevue Flood Aide. For further information, call (615) 662-2737.
  • Nashville-based Soles4Souls, which usually provides footwear to people in poverty-stricken countries, will deliver 20,000 pairs of shoes and work boots to area flood victims. Some are being donated directly, but others will be donated through local agencies, including the Old Hickory Community Shelter at 1050 Hadley Avenue in Old Hickory. CEO Wayne Elsey says people can volunteer and find out more about the distributions by going to www.giveshoes.org.
  • Fresenius Medical Care has extended hours at its clinics and is arranging dialysis treatments for area patients. People on dialysis typically need treatments every two to three days, Anyone who needs treatment, whether or not they are a Fresenius patient, can call (615) 312-1668 to find the nearest open clinic.
  • Community First Bank & Trust of Columbia has sent 80 cases of water to Nashville. It will be distributed through the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
  • Goodbuy Girls, an East Nashville consignment shop, is taking vintage and designer clothing donations at its shop at 307 N. 16th St. Pickup of donations can also be arranged by calling (615) 618-7774. Proceeds from the collected items will go to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.
  • Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has has opened its office to clients and to other law firms that may have suffered flood damage. “This is a time for everyone to pull together for the greater good,” managing partner Robert Wood said. The law firm has also made a $25,000 donation to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee’s Flood Relief fund. The office (615-244-2582) is at 1600 Division Street, Suite 700.
  • The First Tennessee Foundation has pledged to donate up to $500,000 to flood relief efforts. The foundation, which is established by First Tennessee Bank owner First Horizon National Corp., will donate $125,000 each to the Red Cross and Salvation Army, and will match donations made to the organizations by employees and customers, up to a total of $250,000. Donations can be made at any First Tennessee bank location.
  • Clear Channel Radio-Nashville will donate $10,000 in matching pledges as part of its Middle Tennessee Flood Relief Radiothon, which continues through midnight Tuesday. Donations can be made on station websites or by calling toll-free 1-888-540-5200. WLACWNRQWRVWWSIX and WUBT are all participating.
  • SunTrust Bank is compiling a list of opportunities for employees to help people impacted by the flood. Time will be made available through SunTrust’s Solid Give Back program, which allows employees to have two paid days off to work in the community.
  • The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation is donating $25,000 to the American Red Cross in Nashville to support disaster relief efforts.
  • Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, 1200 Forrest Park Drive, is free to the public through Friday May 7 in order to help give flood victims, volunteers and the entire community somewhere to come and escape, work (there is wifi in all buildings), entertain kids out of school, and more. “We are delighted to be able to provide a place of retreat amidst such disaster in Nashville,” said Allison Reid, Vice President, Exhibitions and Programs. “Cheekwood survived the storm with minimal damage.” Cheekwood is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
  • The Mercy Lounge, One Cannery Row, will host a benefit concert Wednesday night to raise money for Hands On Nashville and The Community Foundation. There will be no cover charge, but donations will be expected. Doors open at 8 p.m. and the music will start at 9. Bands include Paper Route, How I Became the Bomb, Hillbilly Casino, The Dozen Dimes and more.
  • Anheuser-Busch is trucking 4,312 cases — or more than 103,000 cans of drinking water — to Nashville from the company’s brewery in Cartersville Ga. The water will arrive Wednesday morning between 6 and 7 a.m. and will be available for local emergency workers to distribute in Davidson County, the company said.
  • Logan’s Roadhouse is donating $1 for each entree sold Tuesday at Nashville area restaurants to the Tennessee Disaster Relief Fund, spokesman Steve Anderson said in an e-mail. The company has also deployed a “roadside relief” trailer to provide hot meals to flood victims, and employees are donating bottles of water and bags of peanuts to shelters.

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