Endowment

A $3M endowment will ensure that PENCIL is always connecting the community to our schools and students.

Your gift ensures we can always provide critically needed resources to MNPS through our programs and PENCIL Partnerships, such as:

  • Experiential learning opportunities for high school students to provide exposure to in-demand career paths
  • School supplies so every student and teacher has the basic tools they need
  • Caring adult mentors to encourage and tutor young people who need extra reading or math support
  • Celebration opportunities to acknowledge students and teachers

Invest to ensure Metro Nashville students have equitable resources and opportunities for years to come:

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You may make a one-time gift now that will immediately begin earning income for PENCIL, or a planned gift. To discuss planned giving options, please contact Christiane Buggs, President & CEO, CBuggs@PENCIL615.org. We are happy to work with you as you contemplate this commitment.

Testimonial Series

Listen to PENCIL board members and community leaders explain what inspires them about the work PENCIL does.

Thank you to our Endowment donors

Legacy Society for Planned Giving

  • John Doerge
  • Jeff W. Gregg
  • Kaitlyn Jones
  • Kathy & Pat Nevill
  • Lisa Price
  • Sue & Andy Spickard
  • Angie Underhill Adams

Principal of the Year
$100,000+

  • Anonymous

Teacher of the Year
$40,000 – $99,999

  • Amazon

Honor Roll
$5,000 – $39,999

  • The Enchiridion Foundation
  • Ingram Charities
  • The J.W. and M.H Straker Foundation
  • Kathy & Pat Nevill
  • Susan & Jerry Geraghty
  • Susan & Rick Mattson
  • The Spickard Family Advised Fund
  • Fifth Third Bank

Star Pupil | $500 – $4,999

  • Katherine & Todd Figler
  • AllianceBernstein (AB)
  • Jennifer Puryear
  • Mahmuda & Rashed Fakhruddin
  • Shari & Farley Day
  • Deborah Payne
  • Elizabeth & Larry Papel
  • Stacey & Sonny Clark
  • Kim Cannon & Renee Dowell
  • Elliott & Donte Noble-Holt
  • Rachel & Colin Hockenberger
  • Lynn Schultz
  • Anne O’Duffy & Jim Kelley
  • Devin & Jeff Lintzenich
  • Evelyn & Stephen Blackmon
  • Devon & Ashton Bushong
  • Decosta Jenkins
  • Kathy & Darin Matson
  • Roger McWhorter
  • Gealita & LeShane Greenhill
  • Joel & Ashley Wright
  • Cyrus Bahrassa
  • Angela & Craig Becker
  • Belmont University
  • Beth & Paul Brill
  • Jane & Bill Coble
  • Mary Cook & Charlie Cook Jr.
  • Deloitte
  • Stephanie & Josh DePriest
  • Annette Eskind
  • James & Laura Hampton
  • Bren Hardison
  • Rachel & Justin Hawksworth
  • HCA Healthcare
  • Judith Lefkowitz
  • Brian Manning
  • Heather & Keith Maune
  • Vanessa Morel
  • Karly & Darin Murphy
  • Sommer & Marc Pearson
  • Anita & Brent Poulton
  • Gayle Ray
  • Jake Rendleman
  • Courtney & Jason Ross
  • Rebecca Fair & Justin Sheeler
  • Allen DeCuyper & Steve Sirls
  • Sue Spickard
  • LaTonya & Juan Williams
  • Rob Jack
  • Angie Underhill Adams
  • Brandi & Mark Smith
  • Holly & Drew Mallory
  • Melissa & Jonas De Souza
  • Kaitlyn Jones
  • Christie & Rob Laird
  • Kendrick Robinson
  • Trish & Jim Munro
  • Hallie & Cooper Jones
  • Robyn Williams
  • Stephanie Fulbright
  • Sarah Fisher Gardial
  • Jeff Gregg
  • Blake McDaniel
  • Jacqueline Thomas & Tom Paquette
  • Betsy & Knox Walkup
  • David Taylor & Michael Ward
  • Brittany Adams-Davis & Kris Davis
  • Lynsie & Joe Bennett
  • Abigail Copenhaver
  • Leslie & Jonathan Godfrey
  • Colleen Hoy
  • Jessica Robinson
  • Jim Stokes
  • Jane Meneely
  • Anonymous
  • Lamar Allen
  • Jena & Pend Armistead
  • Kelli Baughn
  • George Campbell
  • Cynthia & Jay Cash
  • Caroline Davis
  • Chuck Dunn
  • Caroline & Thomas Everett
  • Mike Geffken
  • Lily & Robert Giffin
  • Van Pond & David Glasgow
  • Mimi & Granville Grant
  • Gail Greil
  • Jennifer & Stuart Hall
  • Katie Hickman
  • RJ Hurley
  • Tina & Ken Ives
  • Allison & Dan Lechleiter
  • Elizabeth & Mike Lewis
  • Nicole & Timothy Mason
  • Amanda & Shane McCarrell
  • Christopher McCune
  • Brandyn Payne
  • PNC Foundation
  • Patrick Read
  • Kylen Sharpe
  • Elliott Shipley
  • Brandon Sims
  • Beth & Clif Tant
  • Cecilia & Parr Thomson
  • Denine & Sean Torr
  • Sam Willett
  • Erika Wollam

Friend of PENCIL | Up to $499

  • John Doerge
  • Paul Hayaux
  • Anonymous
  • William Badley
  • Candice & Andy McQueen
  • Hasina & Shuaib Mohyuddin
  • Dana Morrow
  • Margaret & W. Anderson Spickard
  • Judy Laner
  • Charles McDaniel
  • Mimi Bliss
  • John Newman & Rebecca Lyford
  • Shani & Randy Dowell
  • Rachael Anne Elrod
  • Susan & Ron Gray
  • Bernadette & Patrick Murphy
  • Philip Bredesen & Andrea Conte
  • Sandra & John Sangervasi
  • Julie & Don Williamson
  • Etta & Raymond Zimmerman
  • Sammie Griffin
  • Elaine & Robert Smyth
  • Anita & Michael Blackmer
  • Holly & John Eddins
  • Deborah Miller & Bill Purcell
  • Kelly Rolf & Michael Hansen
  • Jane E. Ditmars
  • Marietta Shipley
  • Melissa Alexander
  • Becky Barkley
  • Margret & Thomas Burns
  • Brandi Coates
  • Dan Coleman
  • Stephanie & Dave Coleman
  • Andrea & Lance Couch
  • Kason Davis
  • Robert Fisher
  • Joan Fleming-Ridley & Keith Ridley
  • Olivia & Brandon Hill
  • Interiors by AR Design
  • Nicole Keefe
  • Bob Kucher & Pacer Harp
  • Julie & John McCoy
  • Jack McDaniel
  • Jim & Katherine McElroy
  • Amy McIntyre
  • Sarah & Mark Morrison
  • Perry & Kimberly Moulds
  • Edith & Paul Nau
  • Lisa Price
  • Brian Procter
  • Alice & Michael Russell
  • Chris Sowada
  • Constance Spencer
  • Megan Staples
  • Mike & Meredith Stewart
  • Zulfat & Rahaman Suara
  • Jeff Syracuse
  • Paul Walwyn
  • Rebecca Weikert
  • Phil & Brenda Wenk
  • Sonia Zuzek
  • Kiley Johnson
  • Margaret Kidd
  • Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
  • Mary Dauray
  • Bill Denny
  • Zita & Dan Elrod
  • Laurie & Steve Eskind
  • Robin Everhart
  • Laverne Flowers
  • Pam Garrett
  • Whitney & Zach Kalb
  • Carolyn Pearre
  • Linda & Hal Sauer
  • Shirley Zeitlin
  • Alex Bradley & Kenneth Crapse
  • Kimberly Bellamy
  • Tamara Bivins
  • Dane Brunett
  • Kent Cochran
  • Kirsten Dodson
  • Kelly & Thomas Feeney
  • Emily & Chase Gruening
  • Lila & Linus Hall
  • Rebecca Howell
  • Tari & Jim Hughes
  • Linda Hutcherson
  • Elise & Tom McMillan
  • Karla & Raul Miranda
  • Nicole & Zach Provonchee
  • Rebecca Ray
  • Kirsten & Frank Schriner
  • Jennifer Weinberg
  • Cari Wymer
  • Kelly & Robert Jackson
  • Betty C. Jones
  • Rachel & Joseph McAllister
  • Dorothy & Philip Ponder
  • Kathleen Fuchs Hritz
  • Matt Seaton
  • Dianne & Earl Davis
  • Hudson Bonner
  • Emily & Drew Warth
  • Jacki Artis
  • Christopher Coode
  • Abby Janis
  • Sara Myers
  • Quyen Nguyen
  • Maura Sullivan
  • Ben Vos
  • Brenda Wynn
  • Bank of America
  • Sara Davis
  • Navyashree Raghoji
  • Heather Vincent
  • Debra Gann
  • Graham Spencer-Orrell
  • Logan Matthews
  • Olympia Buckingham
  • Charles Callihan
  • Todd Chappel
  • Lynn Guthrie
  • Tom Stevens
  • Jennifer Ancevski
  • Taylor Gough