The Urban Child Institute, in partnership with the Neighborhood Christian Center, has developed a flyer that sums up all the research and policy papers into four crucial verbs to giving every baby his best chance to succeed in life: Touch, Talk, Read, Play. The flyer can be taped to the refrigerator at your house and [...]
In honor of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lifeblood is offering its donors two ways to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement. Option 1 Lifeblood is holding a mobile blood drive from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, January 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr., Day – at the National Civil [...]
Memphis Connect is a strong supporter of The Urban Child Institute (TUCI), our local think tank on early childhood development and the importance of optimal brain development on the futures of our children. Bill Day is The Urban Child Institute’s award-winning artist. Memphis Connect hopes to help spread Bill’s powerful visual messages with the weekly [...]
Memphis Connect is a strong supporter of The Urban Child Institute (TUCI), our local think tank on early childhood development and the importance of optimal brain development on the futures of our children. To personalize TUCI’s research, Matt Timberlake, writer, musician, and communications consultant, will journal for us as he prepares for the birth of [...]
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 [...]
The Holiday season is finally here, and that means Nutcracker at the Orpheum! A Memphis tradition, this spectacular 25th anniversary presentation of Nutcracker reunites Ballet Memphis with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra for four unforgettable performances at The Orpheum Theatre! With magical costumes and original choreography created by Ballet Memphis and showcasing exquisite sets from the [...]
Downtown Memphis invites you to kick off the holiday season with carolers, dancers, and more as we turn the holiday lights on Main Street and in Court Square! Local historian Jimmy Ogle will emcee as the holiday lights in Court Square and along Main Street are turned on for the holiday season. Festivities include entertainment by [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
At the Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation Partners Breakfast on November 1, 2011, funding was announced for several community agencies including a $20,000 gift to Agape Child & Family Services. These funds will support mentoring efforts through Powerlines Community Network led by Agape and its community partners in Hickory Hill and Whitehaven. Jenny Turner Koltnow, Executive [...]
