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Aspire Events

Aspire Events bring education, business, and community together through experiential learning designed to prepare people for what comes next. From Dream BLDRS college and career readiness programming to student recognition events, professional development experiences, community initiatives, and corporate partnerships, each experience is designed to build skills, expand exposure, strengthen relationships, and create meaningful pathways to opportunity.
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Signature Aspire Events

Aspire’s annual events extend our work beyond the classroom and create opportunities for Dreamers, families, businesses, educators, and community partners to come together around shared purpose. Each experience reflects a different part of Aspire’s mission, from recognizing student growth and expanding access to opportunity to mobilizing partners around pressing community needs.
Aspire BE THE DREAM Day promotional graphic for a city-wide celebration recognizing students who complete the Dream BLDRS program.

BE THE DREAM Day

City-Wide Dream BLDRS Student Celebration

BE THE DREAM Day is Aspire’s annual student recognition and experiential learning celebration honoring Dreamers who complete the Dream BLDRS college and career readiness program.

Students, families, educators, corporate partners, and community leaders come together to celebrate student growth, leadership development, goal achievement, and the skills participants have developed throughout their Dream BLDRS experience.

BE THE DREAM Day gives students an opportunity to see their progress celebrated by the broader community while strengthening the connections between education, business, families, and the people invested in their future.

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Annual BE THE DREAM Foundation 100 Dreams Turkey Drive in Nashville featuring volunteers, donors and community partners distributing Thanksgiving turkeys.
Feed 1,000, One Dream at a Time

100 Dreams Turkey Drive

Feed 1,000, One Dream at a Time

The Annual 100 Dreams Turkey Drive is an Aspire-led community initiative created to help combat food insecurity in Nashville. This year, Aspire is working to provide Thanksgiving meals for 1,000 people in East Nashville while bringing businesses, schools, volunteers, community organizations, and local leaders together around a shared commitment to service.

With support from partners including 101.1 The Beat, Bernheim Kelley Injury Attorneys, Slim & Husky’s Pizza, Metro Nashville Public Schools, and community leaders, the annual Turkey Drive turns collective support into direct local impact for families during the holiday season.

The event is built on a simple idea: when communities work together, individual contributions can become something much larger.

 

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Aspire Dream BLDRS award-winning college and career readiness program and curriculum for student leadership, professional skills, and social-emotional development.
College & Career Readiness in Action

Dream BLDRS Experiences

Aspire Dream BLDRS award-winning college and career readiness program and curriculum for student leadership, professional skills, and social-emotional development.

Dream BLDRS is Aspire’s award-winning, research-driven college and career readiness program and curriculum designed to help students build the mindset, skills, and strategies needed for success in school, work, and life.

Throughout the year, Dream BLDRS comes to life through interactive workshops, student experiences, career exposure, recognition moments, corporate engagement, and special events that connect classroom learning to real people, places, companies, and opportunities.

Participants develop skills across vision, goal setting, strengths, communication, leadership, career awareness, social-emotional development, and professional readiness while learning how to turn aspirations into actionable pathways toward the future.

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Dream BLDRS+ for Business
Education. Service. Recognition. Opportunity.

More Than an Event

Aspire Events are designed to create moments that continue to matter after the event ends.

Students

For students, that can mean being recognized for their growth, entering a corporate environment for the first time, meeting professionals who expand what they believe is possible, or developing the confidence to communicate their own vision.

Families & Communities

For families and communities, Aspire Events create spaces for celebration, support, access, and connection.
BEST, Asurion’s Black Employee Resource Group, supporting Dream BLDRS students during the Aspire Awards

Companies & Organizations

For companies, schools, and organizations, they provide a meaningful way to invest resources, people, expertise, and influence into experiences that directly support Dreamers and the communities around them.
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Aspire’s signature events are strengthened by organizations willing to invest their time, resources, expertise, platforms, and people in the communities we serve.

We work with companies and corporations, schools and education institutions, nonprofits, foundations, civic organizations, community groups, and individual leaders to create partnerships that strengthen Aspire Events while advancing shared education and community goals.

A partnership can take many forms. Organizations may sponsor an event, host an experience, provide speakers or mentors, contribute products or resources, mobilize volunteers, create career exposure opportunities, amplify an initiative, or collaborate with Aspire around a larger community objective.

Corporate & Business Partners

Companies can support Aspire Events through sponsorship, employee engagement, volunteerism, workplace exposure, mentorship, speakers, product contributions, brand participation, and community investment. We work with partners to create involvement that is valuable to the people we serve and meaningful to the organization participating.

Education Partners

Schools, districts, colleges, universities, GEAR UP programs, and youth-serving organizations can participate through student engagement, Dream BLDRS programming, event participation, family outreach, career readiness experiences, recognition initiatives, and collaborative education programming.

Community Partners

Nonprofits, foundations, civic organizations, neighborhood groups, local businesses, and community leaders can work with Aspire to expand reach, provide resources, recruit volunteers, connect families to services, and strengthen the community impact surrounding each event.
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Stories, Updates & Impact from Across Aspire

Aspire News

Stay connected to the latest from Aspire, including event announcements, partnerships, student experiences, community initiatives, Dream BLDRS programming, and milestones from across our work. Follow how students, educators, businesses, families, and community partners are helping Aspire build stronger connections between people and opportunity.
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Get updates on upcoming Aspire Events, Dream BLDRS experiences, community initiatives, partnership opportunities, student programming, and ways to support the work. Whether you are a student, parent, educator, company, community organization, volunteer, or supporter, there is a place for you in what Aspire is building.
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Aspire Case Studies

Explore how Aspire works with schools, companies, community organizations, and institutional partners to turn shared goals into meaningful experiences and measurable outcomes. Our case studies go behind the work to show the challenge, approach, programming, partnerships, experience, and impact behind Dream BLDRS, student engagement, career exposure, professional development, corporate partnerships, and community initiatives.

Questions about Aspire Events, Programs, and Partnerships

Aspire Events are signature experiences led by Aspire that bring students, families, educators, businesses, community organizations, and leaders together around education, service, student recognition, leadership, and community impact. Annual events include initiatives such as BE THE DREAM Day and the 100 Dreams Turkey Drive, alongside other Aspire-led experiences throughout the year.
1What annual events does Aspire host?
Aspire leads recurring events designed around different areas of our mission. BE THE DREAM Day celebrates students completing Dream BLDRS and recognizes their growth and achievement, while the annual 100 Dreams Turkey Drive mobilizes partners and volunteers to help combat food insecurity and support Nashville families during Thanksgiving.
2What is BE THE DREAM Day?
BE THE DREAM Day is Aspire’s annual city-wide student recognition celebration for participants completing the Dream BLDRS college and career readiness program. Students, educators, families, companies, and community leaders come together to recognize student growth, leadership development, goal achievement, and progress toward future college and career pathways.
3What is the 100 Dreams Turkey Drive?
The 100 Dreams Turkey Drive is an annual Aspire-led community initiative focused on combating food insecurity in Nashville. The 12th Annual 100 Dreams Turkey Drive aims to provide Thanksgiving meals for 1,000 people in East Nashville with support from businesses, schools, volunteers, community organizations, and local leaders.
4Who can participate in Aspire Events?
Participation varies by event. Aspire Events may include students, families, educators, schools, volunteers, companies, nonprofits, sponsors, community organizations, and members of the public. Event-specific information will identify registration requirements, eligibility, volunteer opportunities, and other ways to participate.
5Are Aspire Events open to the public?
Some Aspire Events are open to the broader community, while others are designed for specific students, schools, program participants, partners, or invited guests. Registration and attendance information is provided for each individual event.
6How can my organization partner with an Aspire Event?
Organizations can partner with Aspire through event sponsorship, financial or in-kind contributions, volunteer engagement, speakers, mentorship, student opportunities, product donations, community outreach, media support, or other forms of collaboration. Aspire works with partners to identify opportunities that align organizational resources with the needs and purpose of each event.
7How can companies and corporations partner with Aspire Events?
Companies can participate as sponsors, hosts, volunteers, speakers, mentors, workplace partners, resource providers, or community collaborators. Corporate partnerships can help expand student access, create career exposure, support families, strengthen event experiences, and connect employees with meaningful community engagement opportunities.
8How can companies and corporations partner with Aspire Events?
Companies can participate as sponsors, hosts, volunteers, speakers, mentors, workplace partners, resource providers, or community collaborators. Corporate partnerships can help expand student access, create career exposure, support families, strengthen event experiences, and connect employees with meaningful community engagement opportunities.
9Can companies sponsor Aspire Events?
Yes. Sponsorship opportunities may be available for select Aspire Events and initiatives. Depending on the event, sponsorship can support programming, student experiences, meals, transportation, materials, community resources, recognition, or other event needs while creating an opportunity for companies to visibly invest in the communities Aspire serves.
10How can schools and education organizations participate?
Schools, districts, colleges, universities, GEAR UP programs, and other education organizations can participate through student engagement, Dream BLDRS programming, event attendance, family outreach, recognition initiatives, career readiness opportunities, and collaborative experiences designed around student development.
11How can nonprofits and community organizations partner with Aspire?
Nonprofits, foundations, civic groups, neighborhood organizations, and community partners can help extend the reach and impact of Aspire Events through volunteers, family outreach, services, resources, community connections, collaborative programming, and other forms of support aligned with the needs of an event.
12Can my organization provide volunteers, products, meals, or other resources?
Yes. In-kind contributions and volunteer support can play an important role in Aspire Events. Opportunities vary by initiative and may include food, products, student incentives, professional expertise, event resources, transportation support, volunteers, communications support, or other contributions that directly strengthen the participant experience.
13How do I stay updated about upcoming Aspire Events?
Sign up for Aspire updates to receive announcements about upcoming events, registration opportunities, Dream BLDRS experiences, community initiatives, volunteer opportunities, partnerships, and other ways to participate in Aspire’s work.