The Aging Mastery Program teaches seniors a wide variety of skills ranging from cooking nutritious meals to advance planning and medication management

Respecting our elders: the Plough Foundation’s Aging Initiative

With a ballooning elderly population and an overall lack of community services to address their unique needs, it was clear to the Plough Foundation something aggressive needed to be done. Through pioneering collaboration and vigorous investment from the Foundation, senior citizens in Shelby County are now getting the help they need.

Buccaneer Lounge
Beloved dive bar reopens under new management

High Ground sits down with new Buccaneer owner Jonathan Kiersky to talk about what's next for the iconic Midtown music venue -- and what makes this dive bar worth saving.

COO Justin Brooks; CEO Ashley Moy; CTO Jason Troutner, wearing Cast21's exoskeleton cast
Student accelerator team creates waterproof cast

Cast21 solves problems with the modern cast by creating a waterproof, open-structured design.

Carla Worth
Memphis entrepreneur finds success in Crosstown

In 2013 Carla Worth launched her own natural cleaning business, Aunt Key's Apothecary, housed in the Crosstown neighborhood.

Future optometrists learn procedures through advanced technology

Southern College of Optometry students were the first group of students in the state of Tennessee to witness live LASIK surgeries performed by Ophthalmologists from the Eye Specialty Group.

"ORG Connect links both schools and their associated parent and student organizations to each other to create collaboration networks."
Non-profit platform aims to streamline parent volunteer programs in Memphis schools

ORG Connect is a non-profit online platform that connects schools and their associate parent organizations.

Eikon Ministries reaches Binghampton’s youth

Eikon Ministries uses programs such as its Club Nathan and Bing Dance House to minister to Binghampton’s students while showing them what’s possible in life.

Save the date for Memphis Demo Day
Pashon Murray
Pashon Murray

Pashon Murray is the co-founder of Detroit Dirt and a lifelong champion of waste reduction, sustainable practices, and circular economies. She has become a spokesperson for these movements, and even more so, a representative of the real working American public. 

The Homey team is Sašo Pompe, Co-Founder; Vid Staric, Android Developer; Sanja Zepan, Co-Founder; and Sandi Mihelic, iOS Developer
Startup Homey turns chores into fun

What started as a joke solution for passive-aggressive notes from roommates and chore charts that didn’t yield results is now Homey, a mobile application that gamifies household chores.

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