Community Resources in Nashville 🫱🏽🫲🏾🪩
🥯 Free & Low-Cost Food Resources
The Nashville Food Project (thenashvillefoodproject.org) – Free meals, community gardens, and food security programs.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee (secondharvestmidtn.org) – Find food banks and pantries near you.
People’s Free Food Program (Nashville Free Store) – Community-led mutual aid offering free groceries and essentials. Instagram: @nashvillefreestore
Loaves and Fishes – Free hot meals served at Holy Name Catholic Church (weekly meal schedule available online).
🏳️🌈 LGBTQIA+ Resources
Oasis Center's Just Us Program (oasiscenter.org/justus) – Support groups, counseling, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ youth.
Tennessee Equality Project (tnep.org) – Advocacy, community organizing, and policy work supporting LGBTQ+ rights in Tennessee.
Launch Pad Nashville (nashvillelaunchpad.com) – LGBTQ+ affirming shelter for unhoused youth.
PFLAG Nashville (pflagnashville.org) – Support groups for LGBTQ+ people and their families.
❤️ Sexual Wellness & Reproductive Health
A Step Ahead Middle TN (astepaheadmiddletn.org) – Free long-term birth control (IUDs, implants) and transportation assistance to appointments.
Planned Parenthood Nashville (plannedparenthood.org) – Affordable STI testing, birth control, gender-affirming care referrals, and reproductive health services.
Nashville CARES (nashvillecares.org) – Free and low-cost HIV testing, PrEP services, and support for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Street Works (street-works.org) – Free HIV and Hepatitis C testing, harm reduction, and STI prevention resources.
The Clinic at Shade Tree (Vanderbilt) – Free reproductive health services for uninsured individuals.
Be Tennessee (The BE-Hive) (betennessee.org) – Community health initiative offering free condoms, STI prevention education, and LGBTQ+ health services.
Choices: Memphis Center for Reproductive Health (memphischoices.org) – Offers telehealth abortion pills, gender-affirming care, and reproductive health services.
🩹 Harm Reduction & Health Services
Street Works (street-works.org) – Free HIV testing, harm reduction, and syringe exchange services.
Room in the Inn (roomintheinn.org) – Day shelter and services for those experiencing homelessness.
Planned Parenthood Nashville (plannedparenthood.org) – Reproductive health care, LGBTQ+ affirming services, and gender-affirming care referrals.
The Village at Vanderbilt – Sliding scale medical care for uninsured and underinsured individuals.
🫂 Mutual Aid & Community Support
Nashville Free Store – Free clothes, hygiene products, and community meals.
Workers’ Dignity (workersdignity.org) – Worker-led organization fighting for labor rights and economic justice.
Nashville Community Bail Fund (nashvillebailfund.org) – Helping people post bail to prevent pretrial incarceration.
Southerners On New Ground (SONG) (southernersonnewground.org) – Grassroots LGBTQ+ organizing in the South.
If you are a community member in Nashville, TN, seeking support… please reach out to us.
Our #bagelmommies are plugged into our local activist networks, legal counsel, contraceptive access, food programs, LGBTQIA + resources & more through our personal networks, and would be happy to help connect you the best we can.
