Tullahoma, Tennessee · Since 2021

Nobody gets out of poverty alone.

Getting Ahead is 20 weeks in a room with people who understand. You bring what you already know about your own life, and we bring the dinner, the childcare, and a plan you build yourself.

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Free to attend, every Monday night. If a form is not your thing, call Ernie Jones at 865-244-9321.

Getting Ahead graduates and their families on stage at the Tullahoma Bridges graduation ceremony, holding certificates under a balloon arch.

Graduation night. Certificates, families, and a room that showed up for twenty straight weeks.

What the class actually is

One night a week. Twenty weeks. Everything else is on us.

20weeks

Start to graduation

Every Monday, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, with a real ceremony and a banquet at the end of it.

$25a night

Because your time is worth something

A gift card for every session you attend. Showing up costs you an evening, so it should not also cost you money.

$0to attend

Dinner and childcare included

Supper is at 5:00 pm for the whole family. Your kids have their own program while you are in class.

6–12people

Small enough to be honest

Not a lecture. A small group working through real struggles and real solutions, together.

“I learned I was in generational poverty. I figured out the resources I had and the ones I lacked. I went from poverty to wealth.”

Getting Ahead graduate, Tullahoma

What we run

Four ways in, one bridge.

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For adults ready to move

Getting Ahead

Twenty weeks with a small group, working through the real reasons people stay stuck and building a plan to get out. Dinner, childcare, and a gift card every single night.

For graduates

Staying Ahead

Finishing the class is not the end of it. Graduates keep meeting to work on money, parenting, relationships, service, and work.

For their kids

Bridges for Students

While parents are in class, their kids get their own night: mentors, friendships, life skills, and a plan of their own. Plus days out like Machine Falls.

For your organization

Bridges Workshops

A half-day workshop that shows your team, church, or business how poverty actually works in Coffee County, and what to do differently on Monday morning.

Where the money goes

$500 carries one neighbor all twenty weeks.

That is the gift cards, the dinners, the childcare, the workbook, and the graduation banquet. Not overhead. One person, first Monday to last.

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We do this alongside

First Church of the Nazarene