Songs and games: designing careers with Music Monsters and Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis
Kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis are becoming paid game designers through a new partnership involving the Music Monsters app.
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Doing good: STS Enterprise
STS Enterprise and Co-founder and Vice President Alton Cryer are helping shape Memphis' young men into the leaders and business owners of tomorrow.
Memphis Gun Down sets sights on a safer South Memphis
The Memphis Gun Down program is seeing positive results in its second year helping youths avoid making poor decisions and quell violence on the streets of South Memphis and Frayser.
Faith heals: community, church and wellness in 38109
Through an unlikely partnership of healthcare and area churches, the Congregational Health Network's one-year pilot program is focused on reducing health problems within the 38109 zip code by connecting patients to healthcare through the pulpit.
Coming attraction: The shifting landscape of the Memphis film scene
Memphis is seeing more creative content produced each year by local independent filmmakers as the rise of episodic television props up an industry hurt by Tennessee's lack of competitive film incentives.
New start-up DepthChartz to give student athletes a fighting chance
University of Memphis MBA student Zach Harrison is the founder of the new DepthChartz website, which helps high school and college student athletes gain first exposure.
Doing Good: The Philanthropic Black Women of Memphis
For the eight members of the Philanthropic Black Women of Memphis, every April and May for the past decade has been the season of giving. The organization, which focuses on supporting programs or projects geared towards economic self-sufficiency, provides as much as $20,000 each year in grants to local causes.
Memphis home to hopping beer scene
The Memphis beer scene continues to expand, prompting new investments in breweries, tap houses, retail stores and community events.
West Tennessee Veterans Home plans to build new local facility
There are nearly 75,000 veterans living in the tri-county area, yet the nearest veterans' home is 100 miles away. That has prompted the non-profit organization West Tennessee Veterans Home to plan a big new development.
