In 2012, two recent college graduates and incoming Teach for America (TFA) corps members were struck by the lack of opportunity that existed for...
Category - education
Jennifer Shiberou teaches 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in an optional visual arts program. Using real issues to inspire her students, she then works...
Perea Preschool, funded by Church Health, a local non-profit healthcare organization, enrolls 160 three and four-year-old students. The school...
The Carpenter Art Garden opened in 2012 on a street that its founder was told to avoid. There were drug houses and crime on Carpenter Street but also...
Every week over 1400 volunteers lovingly tutor students in our city’s schools through Team Read, a volunteer tutoring program that helps second...
Let’s Innovate Through Education (LITE) equips African American and Latinx students with the skills, connections, and capital to create wealth. Since...
Kimbal Musk’s Kitchen family of companies has a shared vision of strengthening communities through real food. Two of the ways it does so are through...
REACH Memphis started after Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination almost 50 years ago when a local businessman and a guidance counselor at a public...
Donald Jenkins, warehouse supervisor for Advance Memphis and owner of Jenkins Lawn Care and Tree Removal Service, shares the story of how he moved...
Marlon Foster’s family has lived in the same neighborhood since his grandparents moved there in 1947. When he was a senior in high school, his best...