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Kim and Jim Coleman

Kim Coleman is a journalist with over 20 years of experience in newsrooms as a reporter, editor and graphic designer, including ten years with The Commercial Appeal as Design Director/Senior Editor and Print Planning Editor. 

 

Jim Coleman is a freelance writer, covering a variety of topics from high school sports, community news and small business. He has written for different news organizations over the past 20 years, including The Commercial Appeal, Community Weeklies, Lexington Herald-Leader and The Albuquerque Journal.

Kim and Jim Coleman's Latest Articles

Explore Bike Share will introduce the industry’s first and largest BCycle Dash system to Memphis by the spring of 2018, with 60 stations and 600 bikes with a planned 30-station and 300-bike expansion in 2019.
Bike share program will connect South Memphis, Orange Mound & Binghampton with core city

In line with its mission, Explore Bike Share will deliver a first-ever bike share program to Memphis with 60 stations housing 600 bikes across high-density areas of Downtown and Midtown as well as connector neighborhoods of South Memphis, Orange Mound and Binghamton.

Agape Child & Family Services is a faith-based, non-profit organization dedicated to providing children and families in Memphis with healthy homes.
Agape Child & Family Services seeks $6M to serve Memphis neighborhoods

Agape Child & Family Services has launched a $6 million campaign themed “Love Your Neighborhood.” The campaign is an effort to fund the agency through 2020 and to extend services to thousands more Memphians in under-resourced communities per a two-generational model that wholly supports parents and children with a host of wraparound services.

Staff and volunteers participated in a training exercise inside the operating room.
Fedex creates a portable emergency hospital to be staffed by International Medical Corps

Fedex lends itself to global disaster relief by creating a portable emergency hospital that can be shipped anywhere in the world in 48 hours. 

Pam Cooper, left, and Ginny Parker are promoting Boosterville at the Indiana PTA convention in early May. The Coopers have a strategic relationship with the National PTA. and have loaded in 32,000 PTAs across the country in the Boosterville app.
No more door-to-door: Local tech company reboots the fundraising model

“Rather than the school having to sell $50,000 worth of cookie dough and wrapping paper, our platform makes it easy for supporters, parents and teachers to patronize a local merchant instead."

Sara Day was recruited to UTHSC College of Nursing to lead the new Center for Community Partnerships and Nursing Innovation.
UTHSC leads new partnerships to improve health outcomes in the Mid-South

The College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center launched a new Center for Community Partnerships and Nursing Innovation to advance the practice of nursing and improve community health.

The summer of acceleration heated up at the Memphis in May BBQ Festival as startups went through 10 rounds of a 60-second speed pitch competition and afterward enjoyed food from the Rendezvous.
Innova Memphis raises new $31M investment to fund innovation in farming

Innova Memphis announced the close of its latest fund, Innova Ag Innovation Fund IV. The $31 million fund will focus on early-stage investments anchored in rural America, and will work with national farm organizations and other partners to identify, enable and accelerate startups with high growth potential in the AgTech sector.

The Central High School concert singers perform at the commemoration ceremony. In 1917, many students from Central High School missed school to attend the lynching of Ell Persons, adding to the festival-like atmosphere of the horrific event. Students
The lynching of Ell Persons finds a lasting imprint on the Memphis NAACP chapter

One hundred years later, Memphians gathered by the Wolf River out Summer Avenue to commemorate historical markers in memory of the lynching of Ell Persons, a dark moment in Memphis history that ended up having a significant impact on the Bluff City in the founding of the Memphis NAACP.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is adding more solar to its power portfolio with  the construction of a solar facility at the Allen combined cycle gas site in Memphis. The one megawatt  facility will be the largest TVA-owned solar project in its servi
TVA building its largest solar energy facility in Memphis

The Tennessee Valley Authority expands its renewable energy portfolio with a new solar farm at the Allen Combined Cycle Plant on President's Island.

Amelia Thompson is the new development associate for Ballet Memphis.
Amelia Thompson comes home to Memphis arts scene with new role at Ballet Memphis

Amelia Thompson, the new development associate for Ballet Memphis, has lived in big, culturally vibrant cities like Washington D.C. and New York City. But her roots are here in Memphis.

Church Health and YMCA “better together” with opening of shared facility at Crosstown Concourse

The new Church Health YMCA at Crosstown Concourse stands out from any other fitness and wellness facility in the region.

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