TMCCF performs the following major tasks:
- Manage, facilitate and pool donations;
- Create public-private partnerships;
- Develop strategies to address community needs; and,
- Offer special grant making opportunities for donors that include donor-advised funds, endowments, scholarships, field-of-interest funds, giving circles, as well as management of regular foundations, and more.
B. O. Music Festival and Tuskegee Macon County Music Hall of Fame
In partnership with the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Tuskegee University, TMCCF holds the annual B. O. Music Festival and Tuskegee Macon County Music Hall of Fame. We feature musicians of all genre and honor people who were born, worked, or lived in Tuskegee/Macon County or Tuskegee University and have made a significant contribution to music. Community Service Awards are given to individuals and businesses who have contributed to the community
Robert “Bobby” Owens, 1996 Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Guitarist. B. O. Music Festival honors him.
The Movement 46
The Movement 46 (TM46) is a grass roots community based undertaking. We are committed to assisting our County, City and Town officials to prepare our communities to be healthy, beautiful and ready for economic and community development. TM46 is comprised of individuals and organizations collaborating and working to achieve the goal of a viable Macon County as well as enhance the quality of life. We encourage everyone to join and be a part of a defining moment in our history. Our motto is: Just talking and no action is a thing of the past.
Combating the Coronavirus
BE SAFE OR BE DEAD
Combating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Tuskegee/Macon County
Tuskegee Macon County Food Pantry: Dr. Lucenia Dunn shares safety information about COVID-19 with Ms. Marian Garmon and Mr. Michael Johnson
Mr. Marion King, Owner, The New House of Stewart Restaurant, and, Ms. Vinaida Robnett, Epidemiologist, retired from Tuskegee University, and member of TM46, 2801, Alabama State Highway 80, Tuskegee Institute, AL 36088. She visited every restaurant and food enterprise in Tuskegee giving out flyers and suggesting taking orders and delivering them to the car. She encouraged also that they posted flyers.
Attorney Crystal James, Chair, Department of Public Health, Graduate Program, Tuskegee University, a partner with Tuskegee Macon County Community Foundation, Inc. and that helped to fashion the public message about the COVID-19. Participating as guest on TM46 Live Stream, March 19, 2020. Other guest included Dean Ruby Perry, Acting President, TU, Frank Lee, Director, Emergency Preparadness and Homeland Security and Louis Maxwell, Chair, Macon County Commission. Message: What is the COVID-19; how does it spread; and, how does one avoid contamination. People called and asked questions. Viewers were about 2,000.
Mr. Harold Washington, Owner, Family Foods, who closed down his store to sanitize it after learning about the coronavirus. Here he takes a flyer to give them to customers. Dr. Lucenia Dunn, TM46 gives more flyers.
Big Bear Pharmacy, located on Lee Street, Tuskegee, AL, is a medical clinic and pharmacy who is a strong advocate of following the protocol for containing the coronavirus.