There are 33 article(s) tagged nonprofit:

• November 2018

  • Metal Museum makes its case for Overton Park’s Rust Hall

    The Metal Museum proposes to spend $21 million to renovate Overton Park’s Rust Hall and make it a “world class museum and educational center." The museum board approved what it calls the “expansion plan" in September as part of its campaign to win the keys to Rust Hall. The 78,000-square-foot headquarters of Memphis College of Art becomes available after the school closes in May 2020.

    By Tom Bailey November 22, 2018

  • FUNdraising Good Times: Increase your fundraising success with matching gifts

    There’s a public secret that benefits many individuals and nonprofits. It’s called matching gifts. That’s the term for when an employer – or other organization – commits to make a gift to a nonprofit that “matches” the gift made by an employee or other qualified individual.

    By Mel and Pearl Shaw November 13, 2018

  • FUNdraising: Ten last-minute year-end campaign ideas

    It’s almost 2019 – do you have a plan for year-end fundraising?

    By Mel and Pearl Shaw November 06, 2018

  • Home equity: New leader making mark on United Housing

    Amy Schaftlein was an elementary student in the Arlington area in the 1990s when her yellow school bus stopped in front of a blighted house.

    By Tom Bailey November 05, 2018

• October 2018

  • Center for Independent Living moves to Clark Tower

    The Memphis Center for Independent Living has just moved from its street-level headquarters in Midtown to the eighth floor of the 34-story Clark Tower in East Memphis.

    By Tom Bailey October 11, 2018

  • Philanthropy forum joins Momentum Nonprofit Partners

    A Memphis network of 30-plus organizations and companies that collectively give more than $380 million yearly in charitable grants has joined with a network of 800 Memphis nonprofits that receive such grants.

    By Tom Bailey October 08, 2018

• September 2018

  • BRIDGES taps insider Dana Wilson to succeed Cynthia Ham

    Bridge Builders vice president Dana Wilson has been named the next president and chief executive officer-in-waiting of BRIDGES, a Memphis youth leadership development organization.

    By Wayne Risher September 27, 2018

  • MIFA celebrates jubilee year

    Since its founding by church and community leaders on Sept. 15, 1968, the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association has spawned a number of organizations and has grown into one of the most important nonprofits in the Mid-South. In fiscal 2018, which ran from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, MIFA served more than half a million meals to more than 3,600 seniors; helped more 3,500 families with utility, rent and mortgage assistance; distributed more than 11,000 food vouchers; connected more than 250 families with permanent, stable housing; and screened more than 7,000 calls through a 24-hour homeless hotline.

    By Elle Perry September 22, 2018