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.
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.
Fedex lends itself to global disaster relief by creating a portable emergency hospital that can be shipped anywhere in the world in 48 hours.
Why wait for business school? MIT trains Memphis high school students in launching their own businesses before they even get to college.
Beneficiaries of the Better Memphis Fund also receive job and soft skills training from the city’s Workforce Investment Network.
The College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center launched a new Center for Community Partnerships and Nursing Innovation to advance the practice of nursing and improve community health.
Innova Memphis announced the close of its latest fund, Innova Ag Innovation Fund IV. The $31 million fund will focus on early-stage investments anchored in rural America, and will work with national farm organizations and other partners to identify, enable and accelerate startups with high growth potential in the AgTech sector.
“Rather than the school having to sell $50,000 worth of cookie dough and wrapping paper, our platform makes it easy for supporters, parents and teachers to patronize a local merchant instead."
Memphis schools have space. Boys & Girls Clubs have programming. Now they just need money to put clubs in three schools.
It's start-up season in Memphis. This year, 18 teams will participate in rigorous entrepreneur training across the six unique accelerators.
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