Mark your calendars for the GreenUp Memphis Festival presented by Mayor AC Wharton and Memphis City Beautiful this Saturday 10am-2pm at the Downtown Memphis Farmers Market. This free event will be the final celebration of our first Sustainability Month for Memphis and Shelby County. View the flyer here: http://bit.ly/KgMTzf There will be live music, food, [...]
Tomorrow (Saturday, April 28), the streets of Soulsville erupt in a celebration of the past and the future of Memphis culture. Centered around the Stax Music Academy, the Soulsville Charter School and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Stax to the Max returns for its second year of in-the-pocket funkiness. “Last year we had [...]
Ben Adams is CEO of Baker Donelson Law Firm where he has practiced for 30 years. He has been active in the community for many years. Currently, he serves as Chair of the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission, Vice Chair of Memphis Tomorrow, Immediate Past Chair of Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Trustee of Elmwood [...]
These days, no one is a bigger man on campus than new University of Memphis head football coach Justin Fuente. He takes the reins at U of M after creating an offensive power house at TCU, where he was offensive coordinator. In his first two seasons as coordinator, TCU set single season school records for [...]
Memphis is full of people and organizations doing important work away from the TV cameras and without headlines. The Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis heads that list. Under the leadership of executive director Ruby Bright, the 17-year-old Women’s Foundation focuses on programs that give women and children their best opportunities to reach their [...]
The Urban Child Institute has recently published another outstanding publication about early childhood development, “Kindergarten Readiness Begins at Birth.” We’re featuring it weekly for the next four weeks. To read the introduction, click here. Also, take a look at The Institute’s Parent’s Guide: Early Brain Development and It’s Importance for Kindergarten Readinness. This resource will [...]
The Wolf River Conservancy and Shelby Farms Park are throwing a party on Saturday evening, June 2 at the Park. We need a title or name for the party. Post your suggestions on the WRC’s Facebook page and results will go to a small group planning the event. The winner will get two tickets for [...]
Baptist Memorial Health Care donated $25,000 to Agape’s Families in Transition (FIT) Program for the 2nd year in a row. This donation came as the 2nd installment in a $50,000 total donation Baptist Memorial Health Care has made to Agape’s FIT Program. “We are proud to support the Agape FIT program,” said Stephen C. Reynolds, [...]
As executive director of Strong Towns, Charles (Chuck) Marohn sees a different future for American cities “if we think differently about our places and in the process not only strengthen our economy but become a better people.” In support of this different thinking, he is presented one of his Curbside Chats in Memphis at 5:30 [...]
Memphis is fortunate to have a business community that is strongly involved in a variety of civic and charitable activities, and they do it for the most basic of reasons: their love for their city. Huey’s President Lauren Boggs McHugh, in the latest issue of the restaurant’s newsletter proved it once again and said it [...]
