New Agape report highlights poverty reduction, workforce efforts
Agape is making progress in reducing poverty for families it serves in Frayser, Hickory Hill and Whitehaven, but its CEO says there are still "huge systemic matters to be addressed."
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Agape is making progress in reducing poverty for families it serves in Frayser, Hickory Hill and Whitehaven, but its CEO says there are still "huge systemic matters to be addressed."
There is a history of Memphis startups entering the Summer of Acceleration and three more are spreading their wings in the incubator intensive right now.
The career fair is part of a Greater Memphis Chamber effort to “upskill” 10,000 people for jobs in the Memphis market.
Construction on the third phase of Foote Park at South City on the west side of Danny Thomas Boulevard is to be completed by June 2021.
Orange Mound homeowners saw property values decrease by 26% from 2009-2019.
The Superlo loan is identical to one granted by the same body last year for a new Cash Saver in Southgate Shopping Center.
With the Orange Mound location, Stepherson Inc. will operate nine grocery stores in the Memphis area, including one in Southaven, Mississippi.
The Shelby County Health Department will operate its Commodity Supplemental Food Program from the warehouse at 1020 S. Bellevue Blvd.
Slingshot Memphis has grown from four partner organizations to 17 in three years and has tripled the funds going to these partners to help reduce poverty.
South Memphis Renewal CDC executive director and court-appointed receiver of Aretha Franklin's birthplace said the property at 408 Lucy Ave. is “very stable now.”
Porter-Leath opened its first Early Childhood Academy in 2017 in South Memphis.
Shelby County Assessor Melvin Burgess said that the task force would go on a tour of the area.
The Works Inc. owns several vacant lots around its South Memphis office in ZIP code 38106.
Claudette Boyd, president of the Orange Mound Parade Committee, said the effort will ensure Orange Mound “is not left out of the (holiday) celebration.”
An emergency shelter is planned in Westwood; in Midtown and the Medical District, a property owner is requesting its apartment buildings be "legitimized."
Memphis organizations held youth-focused Global Entrepreneurship Week events.
Organizations and businesses in several Memphis neighborhoods are employing different tactics to encourage holiday consumers to shop there.
Film director Tom Shadyac opened the indoor rock-climbing gym in March 2018. It is now offering a vegan brunch every third Sunday adjacent to its "Juice Almighty" juice bar.
Muggin' Coffeehouse was one of two building permit applications filed recently for Whitehaven.
Southwest's foundation honored Fred Davis, Charles and Patra Temple, student scholarship recipients, sponsors and donors.
Student government association leads protest at LeMoyne-Owen College after learning vice president of academic & student affairs Dr. Terrell Strayhorn and other college administrators were fired by president Carol Johnson-Dean.
A $300,000 project will expand a donor call center for ALSAC on the college’s campus that first opened in March 2018.
LeMoyne-Owen College’s interim president is pleased with feedback from the school's accreditation body.
Creating the authority would require City Council and County Commission approval. The task force will also ask that all Shelby County Land Bank-owned properties in Orange Mound be turned over to the authority.
ChenMed plans to open multiple locations in each of its five new markets, including three in Memphis.