Youth Encouragement Services, or YES, has been helping children in Nashville for nearly fifty years.  They specialize in helping at risk children in inner city areas maximize their full potential through offering after school programs from tutoring to fall and winter basketball.  

Academics: YES offers back to school services, providing pencils, paper, etc. to children whose families struggle to provide them with the necessary school supplies.  They offer homework help and after school tutoring, and they don’t forget to reward the kids for exceptional effort.  Academic achievement is rewarded at the end of the year with a special field trip for honor roll kids. 

College Scholarships- It is extremely rare to find viable scholarship opportunities for inner city kids, but YES has done just that, thanks to the generosity of their donors.  

Read more: YES Helps Inner City Kids

Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee is one of the most important food donation charities in Nashville.  Hunger is a growing problem in the United States, with over 35 million Americans unsure of where they will get their next meal.

Read more: Second Harvest Food Bank

 Google is inviting kids in grades K-12 to try their hand at designing a new logo for their homepage  This is the third annual Doodle 4 Google competition, and will be shown on the homepage May 27th. 

If you want to enter the competition, you need to talk to your teacher, and pay close attention to due dates.  Teachers must register their classrooms for the contest, and the deadline is March 17th.  All entries must be submitted by March 31st.  

This year’s theme is: “If I could do anything I would....”  So get your imagination running and your crayons sharpened!   

 For more information about the contest go to google.com/doodle4google.