TALLU SCHUYLER QUINN LEGACY OF HOPE AWARD
Overview
This monetary award continues Tallu’s legacy: supporting women committed to changing lives through food, community, sustainability, farming and hospitality. The Legacy of Hope Award of $2,500 will help sow needed funds to women in Middle Tennessee who are working to change lives in the areas of food justice, food sustainability and food security.
It is awarded in the name of the recipient to the nonprofit they support.
Deadline to submit an application is July 31, 2024. Recipients will be notified by August 15, 2024.
Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. Please note that any blanks not completed, or filled in with N/A (Not Applicable), will render the application incomplete and thus ineligible for consideration.
Completed application packets can be scanned and uploaded to maryloubtate@gmail.com with the subject line "Legacy of Hope”Application for [YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME].
GRANT CRITERIA
Applicant must be a female resident of the area comprising the membership scope of Les Dames Nashville chapter, which broadly includes Middle Tennessee.
Applicants must work or volunteer in food, hunger mitigation, sustainability, hospitality and/or farming.
About Tallu Schuyler Quinn
Native Nashvillian and cherished member of Les Dames d’Escoffier Nashville, Tallu Schuyler Quinn made a profound impact in her too-brief life. In 2011, she founded one of the most consequential non-profits in our city: The Nashville Food Project. Her collaborative partnership model of growing, gleaning, cooking and serving nutritious food alongside other poverty disrupting work can be summed up in her catchphrase GROW-COOK-SHARE. Over ten years, her cadre of volunteers working out of a church kitchen expanded into 25 employees administering multi-pronged programs.
Diagnosed in July 2020 with terminal brain cancer, Tallu died in February 2022 at the age of 42. While we grieve her loss, we honor her memory with the Tallu Schuyler Quinn Legacy of Hope Fund.