There are 11 articles by Mary C. McDonald :

• March 2019

  • Business

    Seize the Day: Laundromats join child literacy campaign

    To promote literacy and parent-child engagement in reading, Pinwheel Playroom is located in a place where parents have to spend time, and children get bored. For families with limited resources, laundromats are one of those places.

    By Mary C. McDonald March 14, 2019

• February 2019

  • Business

    Seize the Day: Finding the next big thing

    Six Memphis business innovators pitched their new ideas at The Next Big Thing, a competition with a cash prize hosted by The Society of Entrepreneurs and Epicenter. 

    By Mary C. McDonald February 28, 2019
  • Business

    Seize the Day: Matters of the heart

    Thousands of people have survived a stroke or congenital heart defect, and what can feel like an ending can actually be the beginning of a new chapter in life.

    By Mary C. McDonald February 14, 2019
  • Business

    Seize the Day: War Horses for Heroes helps veterans find hope and healing

    Childhood friends Trey Lawson and Pearson Allen are helping veterans heal emotionally and physically through their nonprofit equine-assisted therapy program, War Horses for Heroes.

    By Mary C. McDonald February 11, 2019

• January 2019

  • Business

    Madonna Learning Center celebrates its 50th anniversary

    Madonna Day School, now Madonna Learning Center, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It is a private, independent, faith-based school for children and young adults with disabilities.

    By Mary C. McDonald January 10, 2019

• December 2018

  • Business

    Seize the Day: One year, 365 chances to make a difference

    New Year’s resolutions are tempting to make, and they are even more tempting to forget. In spite of the insatiable appetite our society has for self-improvement and excellence, good habits just seem hard to acquire.

    By Mary C. McDonald December 27, 2018
  • Business

    Seize the Day: It’s never too late to reclaim hope

    It’s an inner-city neighborhood. It’s an area of burnt-out buildings and crack houses. The signs of homelessness, poverty and violence are etched into the neighborhood and into the faces of those who line up each day at the door to the church’s soup kitchen. It is, for most of them, the only food they have had since the day before, at the same place, at the same time.

    By Mary C. McDonald December 16, 2018

• November 2018

  • Business

    Guest column: Goodwill Excel Center shifts model to benefit adult students

    There really is no such thing as “one size fits all,” especially when it comes to education. The needs and life circumstance vary from student to student. For adults who dropped out of high school for whatever reason and want to earn a high school diploma, Goodwill Excel Center and Shelby County Schools have worked the past few years to determine the exact fit for those students.

    By Mary C. McDonald November 21, 2018

• October 2018

  • Junior Achievement educates and inspires young people to value free enterprise, business and economics

    He came to help for a few months just to volunteer to get their fund-raiser started. But here he is, 23 years later, now their president and CEO.

    By Mary C. McDonald October 24, 2018
  • Business

    Seize the day

    “Anytime you can move the needle on home ownership in Binghamton, it’s a good day. And today is a good day.”

    By Mary C. McDonald October 11, 2018

• September 2018

  • Business

    Artesian Schools will be a catalyst for post-secondary opportunities

    “Just as tapping into an artesian aquifer helped restore the city of Memphis back to health after the yellow fever epidemic in the late 1880s, Artesian Schools Inc. will be the catalyst to restore vibrancy to post-secondary opportunities for students in our community.”

    By Mary C. McDonald September 27, 2018