This year, the transit nonprofit My City Rides has joined forces with the Southern College of Optometry, setting its sights on students. As students return to campus this August, many of them will have cars, some will have bus passes and now some will even have My City Rides scooters.
National nonprofit AmeriCorps has launched a program that places volunteers in Memphis public schools that are at-risk for low scores in math and reading comprehension.
ElectroLyfe Juice Bar and Smooth Living Health Food Restaurant bring healthy and fresh food options to the Whitehaven community.
Dr. Champion is the first African-American doctor of pharmacy to be hired by a hospital in Memphis and the first African-American pharmacist to be hired by a chain drug store in Memphis. Now 87 years old, he shares decades of experience at Champion’s Pharmacy & Herb Store in Whitehaven.
SILQ-EDU, an educational dashboard created by local startup SILQ Inc., can alert teachers to subtle changes in student progress, giving educators a chance to intervene early before a student drops out.
"The proof of concept is what happens when you take an underserved population, in this case boys, and you provide them with excellent instruction in academics, but you also provide them with a significant number of adult mentors,” said Diane Terrell, executive director of the Memphis Grizzlies Foundation.
As the home of legendary Stax Records, Soulsville is known as Memphis' music-first neighborhood. As part of a unique artists-in-residency program, a muralist and filmmaker have moved into the neighborhood to encourage creativity among their neighbors.
Sarah Baumann illustrates the special pieces of a city in 8x10 or 11x14 prints, including those places that locals call their favorite part of their city.
O.R. Nurses Nationwide, a temporary staffing agency founded in 1988, has seen it all from the unexpected death of a founding partner and embezzlement, to sustained growth and two mergers with a multi-state presence.
Why wait for business school? MIT trains Memphis high school students in launching their own businesses before they even get to college.
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