The Tennessee Titans are excited to announce the launch of the Home Field Advantage Catalyst Fund, a new housing support program under the 'Neighborhoods' pillar of the team's ONE Community platform. This $5 million investment is part of the Titans' ongoing commitment to the well-being of neighborhoods across the Nashville and Middle Tennessee community.
During the program's first awards cycle, ONE Community awarded a total of $805,000 to 14 housing nonprofits in Nashville impacting the following areas: emergency shelter services, affordable housing development, rental assistance, homeowner assistance, supportive housing, and community development programming.
"Titans' ONE Community is committed to making a tangible impact in our local neighborhoods and communities," said Johari Matthews, Vice President and Executive Director of ONE Community & Titans Foundation. "Through Home Field Advantage, we are passionately working to help eliminate barriers to safe and affordable housing."
Over 400 individuals will be impacted by the first round of Home Field Advantage grants through resources such as rental assistance funding, substance abuse recovery, recidivism assistance, financial literacy, and housing education. The awards will also contribute to 19 new housing units and developments.
Between Nov. 10 and 18, Titans representatives, including cheerleaders and mascot T-Rac, visited award recipients' spaces and invited others to the Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park to receive their funding and share in celebration.
Inaugural grant recipients include:
- Building Lives Foundation
- Dream Streets
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville
- Home Together Nashville (HERO Housing)
- Inspiritus, Inc.
- Operation Stand Down TN
- Park Center, Inc.
- Samaritan Recovery Community
- Sylvan Street Baptist Church
- The Big Table
- The Urban League of Middle Tennessee
- The Village at Glencliff
- Tucker's House
- William Franklin Buchanan CDC
"We are so thankful for the Titans' investment in the future of Nashville's neighborhoods," said Staci Coleman of Black Diamond Development (Sylvan Street Baptist Church). "Support from the Home Field Advantage Catalyst Fund helps make projects like ours possible and ensures our seniors have a safe and beautiful place to call home."
This is the first series of funding awarded for the Home Field Advantage Catalyst Fund – applications for the second round will open in early 2026.
About ONE Community
'ONE Community' is the Tennessee Titans' multi-faceted philanthropic platform that reaches many of Nashville's most underrepresented and marginalized communities with a focus on three areas – Opportunity, Neighborhoods and Education. The Titans have binding partnership agreements with each ONE Community organization supported, and a six-member advisory committee to help foster growth and provide accountability, oversight, and reporting measures. Powered by the Titans Foundation, ONE Community strives to create generational change one person, one family, and one community at a time.
About Home Field Advantage Catalyst Fund
The Home Field Advantage Catalyst Fund is a financial resource program within the Neighborhoods pillar of the ONE Community platform. The program includes a $5 million fund housed at Citizens Bank Savings and Trust Company to award capital towards shovel-ready projects and non-profit initiatives supporting the pathway to affordable homeownership.
