Coverage of community groups bringing about changes, innovations, and solutions in their community.
Slingshot Memphis, an innovative nonprofit fighting poverty in new and creative ways, is supplying community members with tools and resources that get more mileage out of their end-of-year-gifts this holiday season. These new resources are enhancing and taking poverty-fighting philanthropy efforts to new heights.
Task force members are looking back on the work they've accomplished and the groundwork they've laid for continued progress toward dismantling health disparities in Michigan.
Sanctum House creates a living environment that is welcoming and safe for women survivors of human trafficking. We talk with Karen Moore, executive director, about the real challenges residents face in moving forward with their lives.
Kirk Mayes is the outgoing CEO of Forgotten Harvest. We talked with him about changes the organization has experienced and new models for combatting food security.
“He believed that city-building was a process, not an outcome,” says Casey Shannon, one of Pacello’s close associates who is helping to organize the fund’s launch. “Our hope for this fund to serve as a platform for driving more of the work that he devoted his career to – creating great places where people could gather and thrive.”
Agape’s partnership with Workforce Mid-South and American Job Center will provide job training, career education, and more.
Inspired by the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis and their efforts to amplify Black Philanthropy Month this past August, we checked in with some of the Black-led nonprofit organizations doing incredible work here in the 901.
“The Executive Program offers class participants the opportunity to experience firsthand the difficulties many within our community face and allows them the opportunity to enact positive change,” says Reggie Crenshaw, President and CEO of Leadership Memphis and Volunteer Memphis.
Black Americans face many unique mental health challenges, including higher rates of emotional distress and lower access to behavioral health care.
“It is only by God’s grace, mercy and blessings that Collins Chapel continues to thrive by receiving these wonderful grants for example and has survived here for nearly 181 years,” says Rev. Bethel L. Harris, pastor of Collins Chapel Church.
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