‘A win for the kids’: Local real estate company launches initiative to help at-risk youths
The Mending Hearts program was started in 2017 to allow children from third to eighth grade who lost a parent to explore creativity through performing arts and community-building activities. (Courtesy Orpheum Theatre Group)
Cushman and Wakefield | Commercial Advisors has launched a program to help fund art programs for at-risk youth at several local organizations.
The real estate company launched the Empowering Art for Self Expression, Empathy and Learning initiative to donate $35,000 annually to the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Orpheum Theatre Group.
The three nonprofits provide programs to support children dealing with trauma, death and stress through stage performances, art classes and instruments.
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Dima Amro
Dima Amro is a native Memphian who covers commercial real estate and economic development for The Daily Memphian. She received her B.A. in journalism at the University of Memphis and M.A. in investigative journalism at American University.
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