Nashville Organized for Action and Hope (NOAH)
We first reported on NOAH in 2021, indicating that its (then) lead organizer, Mike Hodge, advocated for LGBT ideologies and same-sex “marriage” on social media, while NOAH itself was a member of a pro-abortion, pro-contraception, pro-LGBT organization called the Power Together Coalition. Since 2014, NOAH has received seven CCHD grants totaling $325,000. It’s most recent grants total $85,000:
In this 2025 update, we have found that the leadership of NOAH is pro-abortion and pro-LGBT.
According to NOAH’s webpage regarding it’s “team,” NOAH’s president is Linda Brown-Saffore.
Saffore has posted several times in favor of abortion and against abortion restrictions.
On 26 June 2022, Saffore complained that the overturning of Roe v. Wade was just the beginning of some imagined war on the right to education.
That same day, she published an article titled, “If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything,” saying, “This says it all.”
On 14 February 2021, Saffore posted an article denouncing an anti-abortion bill.
Saffore isn’t the only member of NOAH’s leadership that favors abortion. Another is board member Judy Cummings, who serves as NOAH’s chair for the Recruitment Committee.
On 24 June 2022, Cummings loudly lamented the overturning of Roe v. Wade, calling it “harmful” to “Black women, girls, transgender, and gender non-conforming people.” She said that the overturning of Roe was “painful” and called upon her followers to “donate to your local abortion fund.”
On 16 June 2022, Cummings participated in a public forum as a speaker on the topic, “Reproductive Justice in a Post Roe v. Wade America.”
In announcing the event on 14 June, Cummings said, “The foundation for reproductive rights is women’s self-determination over their bodies and sexual lives. Women’s equality is tied to their reproductive rights.”
Cummings’ participation in the discussion begins at the 18:30 mark in the following video. In it, Cummings attempts to address the question as to how she – as a Christian – can also support abortion as a “right.” Bumbling around the topic without any real clarity, Cummings simply reduces the question to a matter of “equality” and a woman’s “right to choose what to do with her own body.”
This pro-abortion mentality even trickles down among the ranks of the organizers. We already mentioned that the former lead organizer Mike Hodge (retired in Dec. 2022) was openly pro-LGBT and pro-same-sex “marriage.” Another of NOAH’s organizers is Adrianne Thompson, who organizes for “Transformational Justice.”
On 24 July 2024, Thompson posted a “VOTE” meme indicating that one should vote in favor of abortion and LGBT ideologies.
CONCLUSION
NOAH should have been disqualified from CCHD funding for its involvement in the pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Women’s March, but despite this, it has received two additional CCHD grants since our last report for $85,000. As can be seen, NOAH’s involvement in the Women’s March was not incidental, but was the result of a leadership that is ideologically committed to abortion as a “right.” This stands as yet one more example as to why the CCHD must be shut down.
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