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Natural products keep Aunt Key’s Apothecary fresh

Carla Worth started Aunt Key’s Apothecary in 2013 as an all-natural cleaning company. She’s since expanded to include a variety of all-natural products she makes by hand.

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Memphis a model for on-the-ground funding, ioby says

The impact from ioby, an online crowdfunding platform, has been significant in Memphis with 203 projects funded since early 2014. 

Residents and student of the University of Memphis planning department discuss Klondike Smokey City's future at a March 2016 meeting.
Facing disinvestment, Klondike Smokey City charts its own path to development

Facing chronic public and private disinvestment, Klondike Smokey City is taking development into its own hands in creating a neighborhood plan with University of Memphis students.

Dr. Beverly Cleaves brings hot meals and good health to Klondike

Once a month, Dr. Beverly Cleaves brings her endocrinology practice to the Klondike community. Her longstanding Friendship Feeding Program provides a medical clinic, clothes and food drive and a hot meal to North Memphis.

Midwife-led birthing center bridges Memphis’ health disparity gap

Memphis' first birthing center will provide pre and post-natal care, midwife-led birthing, mental health services, abortion services, care for sexually transmitted diseases and ongoing reproductive health education with an emphasis on serving pregnant women in impoverished communities. 

Memphis combines art and therapy in growing field

Art therapy grows in popularity as a creative way to manage addiction recovery. Christian Brothers University, The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and The Oaks at La Paloma treatment facility are among the groups making use of the practice.

Q&A: UTHSC faculty named to the nation’s highest advisory board for alcohol abuse policy

The appointment enables Dr. Alex Dopico to provide advice to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Community LIFT launches fund to boost community development

The fund, which is the city’s only dedicated source of funding solely for CDCs, will help with revitalization efforts in blighted neighborhoods.  

Art lights up lesser-known Flicker Street in Midtown

Recently, small business owners have banded together to brand the one-block area as the Flicker Street Arts District. However, that banner doesn’t mean that greater Memphis necessarily knows where Flicker Street is located.

North Memphis asks where their children will learn as schools shutter

With the closing of two schools over the past two years, much uncertainty remains around education in the Klondike Smokey City community.

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