YPConnect: Interactive Social Networking for Young Professionals YPConnect is a monthly networking session of Memphis Urban League Young Professionals, this month at Bleu at 221 South Third on Tuesday, December 13 from 6 – 8:30pm. This FREE event offers a truly unique networking experience as it will be Memphis’ first digital event. Enjoy an evening [...]
On Tuesday, November 29, 2011, the team members at Youth Villages, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families, donated 31 units of blood to assist those in need this holiday season. A mobile unit from Lifeblood – the region’s only full-service, non-profit blood center – came to the [...]
The Memphis Urban League Young Professionals (MULYP) will host its 2nd Annual Agents of Change Awards, Saturday, December 3rd at Opera Memphis (6745 Wolf River Parkway). MULYP is in need of volunteers to help with a variety of tasks such as setup, registration, greeting guests, serving refreshments, take down and cleanup. Interested parties can click [...]
In October, 2011, City Auto gained approval from the Memphis-MidSouth Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® to launch a new, sanctioned campaign to raise funds to fight breast cancer. The campaign, entitled Cars2Cure, has already raised $35,000 in support of breast cancer awareness and research. “Cars2Cure holds a unique significance for many members [...]
Lifeblood is giving each of its platelet donors a movie pass for donating platelets now through Monday, November 28. The movie pass can be used for any movie at any Malco theater. The purpose of this promotion is to increase Lifeblood’s platelet supply, which is currently decreasing while the need for platelets is increasing. Patients [...]
Memphis’ 3rd Annual Downtown Dining Week takes place November 14 – 20, 2011! Enjoy three-course dinners or special offers at some of your favorite Downtown restaurants all week. View menus at participating restaurants click here. In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 14th- 18th, Launch Memphis is hosting a full schedule of events to promote [...]
On the evening of Saturday, November 5, Agape Child & Family Services hosted its annual Hearlight event, themed “Extraordinatory.” This year’s event featured Ron Hall, who is the co-author of the best-seller Same Kind of Different as Me, a novel that explores his life-changing journey with a homeless man, Denver Moore and their unforeseen “Extra-Ordinary” [...]
For the past few months, the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau (aka, the place where I work) has been working on an iPhone app that makes it easy to find all of the great things in Memphis. I’m really excited to announce that it’s finally done. The app features an event calendar loaded with things [...]
A 16-year-old Haitian boy named Stevenson Pierre was brought to Memphis this month by faith-based charity Childspring International to receive free surgery for an unusual congenital leg deformity. Campbell Clinic donated clinical services from physician Dr. Jeffrey Sawyer, while LeBonheur provided hospital care and Smith & Nephew donated the implant. Stevenson was born with a [...]
Please join the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) for a series of public meetings November 7th -10th to give feedback and input as they reveal potential service scenarios designed to improve public transportation in the Memphis area. All meetings are from 5PM- 7PM. For more information contact Karen Moore at karen@trustmkt.com. Monday, November 7, 2011 [...]
