Johari Matthews, Vice President and Executive Director of ONE Community and the Titans Foundation, said there was a wide range of first-time homeowners who were able to move into new homes, from single parents to elderly adults who owning home first time, at Sunday’s event.<\/p>\n
“It is incredibly important for us, a meaningful moment for us to be a part of,” Matthews said.<\/p>\n
Lauren Payne, Chief Philanthropy Officer for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville, called it a special day.<\/p>\n
“These moments, as these families are pursuing their dream of home ownership,” Payne said, “I like to say that it is not that you see that there is a problem with the affordable housing community, but our partners, like the Titans, stepped up and said there is a problem and we want do something about it.”<\/p>\n
Simmons, a three-time Titans nominee for the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award, said he was happy to be a part of it.<\/p>\n
And, in the future, he plans to keep doing more.<\/p>\n
Since launching the Give Em A Reason Foundation in 2022, Simmons has consistently been active in communities in Nashville, and back home in Mississippi.<\/p>\n
“I’m grateful to be in this position,” Simmons said, “and praise God for (putting me) in a position to be a light and help out her family.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johari Matthews, Vice President and Executive Director of ONE Community and the Titans Foundation, said there was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,786,6,1018,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-833994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-team-football-news","12":"tag-tennessee","13":"tag-tennessee-titans","14":"tag-tennesseetitans","15":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116292865609323086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}