Mid-June means community on Tate Street. For the past 20 years, South Memphis resident Betty Isom has hosted a Stop the Violence Block Party, which is meant to inspire pride in the community and decry violence.
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.
In 2016, the Memphis Fire Department responded to approximately 130,000 calls requesting emergency services and 25,000 of those calls were classified as non-emergency. Those non-emergency calls take up time and could cost lives. Key Memphis partners came together in early June to revamp how Memphis accesses emergency services.
The Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis plans to invest $10 million to uplift ZIP 38126, which one of the poorest ZIP codes in America. By strengthening support organizations, the foundation hopes to give residents the necessary tools to combat the effects of poverty.
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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.
B.B. King, Aretha Franklin and Isaac Hayes have all called Club Paradise home. Opened in South Memphis in the 1960s, the building shuttered in 1999. It opened last year under new management, and supporters believe the new Club Paradise could lead the way to community growth and good times.
Fedex lends itself to global disaster relief by creating a portable emergency hospital that can be shipped anywhere in the world in 48 hours.
Tom Jones, principal at Smart City Consulting and primary writer of the blog Smart City Memphis, writes that the present Memphis regional economy would be $22.2 billion larger if there was no disparity between workers as a result of their race.
Dan Lamontagne, founder of Peddler Bicycle Shop and one of Memphis' first all-natural restaurants, trades the brick-and-mortar store for life as a local meditation instructor.
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