Mission

The East Nashville Cooperative Ministry is a Christian, ecumenical organization created and maintained for the purpose of improving the East Nashville community.

Vision

ENCM envisions an East Nashville where citizen’s needs—spiritual, educational, economic, mental, physical, and emotional—are holistically met and neighborhoods are enabled to thrive.  We contribute to this vision with food and clothing.

ENCM is a 501c3 non-profit, interdenominational organization, which is currently supported by several dozen faith communities and hundreds of individuals. This support enables us to serve as a “safety-net” and a “developer.” As a safety-net we help the elderly, poor, disabled, unemployed, and disadvantaged with emergency food assistance and emergency access to clothing.  As a developer, we work to empower community wellbeing through food security.  We educate on matters of food production and consumption and  grow, glean, and reclaim fresh whole foods for allocation in East Nashville .