Hope Activated: ‘Without hope, all of us are gone’
After he lost one son to gang violence and another was sent to prison, Randy Taylor, a Memphis Police Department officer, created local nonprofit Hope Activated to mentor the city’s youth.
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After he lost one son to gang violence and another was sent to prison, Randy Taylor, a Memphis Police Department officer, created local nonprofit Hope Activated to mentor the city’s youth.
ALSAC, the fundraising organization of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, says it has laid off 29 of its 1,700 employees.
Two nonprofits organized a colorful way to hand over scholarship checks of $2,000 each to 104 girls and young women on Friday, June 18.
Letters today discuss gun violence and the dilemma nonprofits face thanks to the pandemic.
The open letter issued Monday calls for police reforms and anti-poverty initiatives. It also accuses Memphis Police of an "egregious" response to peaceful protest in the city. The black-led coalition includes a diverse group of many of the city's nonprofits, from community development corporations to arts groups to housing initiative leaders as well as social justice groups.
Hard-hit Latino families formed a 2.5-mile line and waited for hours Friday morning to receive a week's worth of free groceries. COVID-19 hardships are growing even as Memphis nonprofits report a $32 million drop so far this year in revenue.
Arieale Munson is a product of North Memphis. “A lot of people think if you come from the hood that you won’t make it out, but I’m a witness that you can."
Memphis Goodwill has set the opening date for its 16th store, in a former Rite Aid at 1810 Union Avenue in Midtown, for Tuesday, Oct. 29.
Mid-South Food Bank helps an average of 200,000, food-insecure Mid-Southerners each year, but now plans to assist more people with its new, larger headquarters in Southeast Memphis.
The co-founders unveiled the well-funded 275 Food Project, a comprehensive “social enterprise” to boost the local-food economy in Memphis as well as access to local food and the jobs it creates.
UnitedHealthcare is striving to improve the health of its members by giving $1 million in grants to seven area nonprofits to address the social determinants of health.
The nonprofit organization Emerge Memphis sold its historic Downtown building for $3.55 million, and will use the money to help fund Memphis startup companies.
Cash is king, but organizations can expand their fund development and fundraising to include in-kind gifts and services. Here are five benefits and things to consider when building an in-kind program.
Leading a fundraising campaign requires groundwork that you alone cannot build. Here are 12 things you need to be curious about before you say yes or no.
Nonprofit planner Bridget Ciaramitaro, president of Ciaramitaro & Associates LLC, defines strategic plans and fundraising plans and explains how to create them.
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