Support for a Food Policy Coordinator
GrowMemphis is seeking funds to support a Food Policy Coordinator for the Food Advisory Council for Memphis and Shelby County. This position is an AmeriCorps VISTA and is part of other matched funding
GrowMemphis is seeking funds to support a Food Policy Coordinator for the Food Advisory Council for Memphis and Shelby County. This position is an AmeriCorps VISTA and is part of other matched funding
Traditional charm, modern day living that's our Vollintine Evergreen neighborhood. A quaint community listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This campaign will install seating at 24 bus stops in Memphis, in a partnership with Memphis Area Transit Authority.
Vollintine Evergreen get a new playground at the Living Hope Church and VENSchool.
With your support, the Carpenter Art Garden will provide daily programming to engage Binghampton students and adults in the at no cost to participants!
Let's Innovate through Education empowers students of all backgrounds to launch social ideas to improve Memphis through a rigorous entrepreneurship curriculum, seed investment, and mentor matching.
Fun sports build friendships, character, and exercise!
We will make the Old Forest trails easier to navigate by replacing outdated trail markers and adding mile markers to the limestone running trail.
1. Teaching gardening and a healthy lifestyle 2. Leading students to take action, creating gardens at their own homes 3. Creating an avenue for students to take pride in their own space
Better Basketball Courts, Stronger Communities: Striping lines, covering graffitti and making other minor basketball court improvements in City of Memphis basketball courts.
The Rockville Bike Hub aims to enable members of the community to maintain their bicycles, to educate community members about benefits of biking and to promote bicycle transportation.
SML gives homeless women in North Memphis who have barriers to traditional employment the skills to create, design, market and sell their creative products thereby giving financial stability.
Join our team to reduce school waste, provide needed compost for our garden and wildlife habitats, and give students an empowering, lasting way to improve their school community and environment.
We want to highlight our "green" school with new solar lighting! Solar lights are a natural fit with our school's STEAM curriculum.
We are building a garden from the ground up with a focus on edible indigenous species.
We will transform a blighted lot by engaging the neighborhood, cut monetary costs and increase access to fresh produce for neighbors, and teach social responsibility to students through sustainability!
ACT UP is a free weekend-long ACT preparatory workshop open to 60 Shelby County high school students who couldn't otherwise afford ACT tutoring.
Upon the 50th anniversary of the leader’s death, artists, educators and activists in Harlem ask an urgent question: What if Malcolm X had lived?
A block-party with a purpose, an arts event for the people, a celebration of hope.
Help us pre-build the MMS Wolf River Harbor Boardwalk with design plans, permitting fees, site prep, and boardwalk footings. Full build coming this spring.
We plan to purchase and install a bike repair station (with tire pump, bike stand and repair tools) for the Belle Isle Bicycles Skills Area.
Help Leadership Memphis take 400 Shelby County School students on local and regional college and career tours to help launch their post-secondary plan(s).
The Indy Redbud Project is an urban environmental art project that will plant redbud trees and bring residents together to help make the inner city better.
$10,000 funds Operation Crosstown projects for a year!
ASAP is fundraising toward fiscal sponsorship, website hosting, and our public events!
This project allows for the preservation of our local heritage, as well as the rich history of the US Forest Service, by the adaptive reuse of two former Ranger Stations into a Museum and Welcome Center.
Local artists, along with volunteer community members, will create a one-of-a kind mural on both walls of the underpass on Central Avenue.
Students will learn how to prepare healthy snacks and meals using organic fruits and vegetables grown in the school garden.
We aim to improve the transit riding experience at two high volume bus stops in Shelby Park and SoBro.
Children will learn to develop a story, from an idea on paper to moving images on the big screen.
Williamson Park needs a makeover, and we're here to make it happen. Come help us out!
Shining a light on Highland Park with 200 community-owned solar-powered streetlights.
The Cowry Collective Timebank is a network of people engaged in reciprocal exchange of services, skills, and goods through a timebank where the currency is an hour of time for everyone.
Good design cultivates inquiry-based learning in the classroom.
Artist David Eppley will create a gorgeous piece of public art on The Flatbush Trees at Empire Blvd and Flatbush Avenue.
Help us complete the final build-out of our learning garden. With your support, we'll grow more food, create better spaces for teaching kids, and add more beauty to this unique learning and gathering place.
A 3-day women's theatre festival to celebrate women in theatre.
Let's create little free libraries in East Memphis!
Richbriar Little Free Library... a place to gather, discover, and share children's stories.
Send the 2014 JUMP OFF Champions and the JUMP CLUB Coach to SUMMER CAMP!
Nettleton Community Orchard -- creating community through fruit trees.
Are you familiar with the beautiful green space at the intersection of Madison and Belvedere, across from Zinnie's Restaurant? Beautiful area right!? Let's make it a space for idea sharing and creative collisions!
We hope park visitors will enthusiastically embrace free public shuttles and protect Overton Park's recreational spaces from overflow parking. But first, we must pay for the shuttles.
Everyone poops. Be someone who helps keep it off streets and out of yards.
Along with Memphis College of Art artists, volunteer community members will paint a colorful mural on both walls of the underpass on Cooper Street at Peabody Park.
New tools for the AMEF Urban Forest & Community Garden in Soulsville, Memphis. The tools will help expand the existing garden and provide a source of fresh food and pride for the community.