Why learn about the nonprofit community?
Much like training for a marathon helps you run it better and how taking violin lessons develops your musical abilities, learning about the missions, impact, challenges, resources, and opportunities of our city’s nonprofits will help us all Do Good Well.

Why is one nonprofit featured and not another?
There are more than 800 nonprofit organizations serving the Nashville community. These organizations serve a very wide variety of constituents and enrich our city in countless ways. Working toward our mission of connecting volunteers with community organizations that need them, Hands On Nashville hopes to use educational programs like Do Good Well and in the information and materials at www.hon.org to increase volunteerism for all of these organizations. For this initial cycle of Do Good Well, Hands On Nashville will feature eight organizations that serve a broad range of missions and that welcome volunteers of all ages.

Are participants required to volunteer with one of the nonprofits?
Required, no. Many participants in Do Good Well will quite likely discover they wish to support or volunteer with featured organizations, but it is not a requirement of the program. The primary purpose of Do Good Well programming is educational—we simply want the individuals and families and groups of all ages who participate to complete the program with a more in-depth understanding of the cycle’s featured nonprofits. The resulting increase in volunteerism and pride in our city are very happy by-products, as more people are informed of needs and opportunities.

What does the future hold?
Next year some or all of the nonprofits featured in Do Good Well will be different—or, based on response from schools and the public, we may add a second series of featured organizations to run concurrently with the existing program. This first cycle is a pilot program that will help us define how best to develop Do Good Well as a lasting and enriching—annual—opportunity to focus on nonprofits in our city.