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Community Partners Who Share in Our Vision.
We partner with other organizations to help spread awareness of each others’ causes and get more people on the road to success.
We partner not just with employers to help get their employees on the road, but also other organizations that share our vision of empowering people with unlimited potential, but limited means. Organizations like Slingshot Memphis™ help take us, our Flyers, and our other partners even further! Read further down to find out how you and your company can benefit from a partnership with us!
The Excel Center: Free High School for Adults
The Excel Center is a first-of-its-kind adult high school which creates an opportunity for those who previously dropped out of high school to reengage in their education and earn a full, state-recognized high school diploma. The Excel Center was the first adult high school in Indiana and the first-of-its-kind in the nation. The Excel Center is a nationally proven school model founded by Goodwill Education Initiatives, Inc. (GEI) which has grown from 1 school in 2010 to 41 schools today. Click the logo above to visit their website, and the links below to download information about how the Excel Center impacts our community!
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Memphis Excel Center Research Report
Excel Center Annual Report 2023
The Excel Center: Who We Are
Slingshot Memphis:Fighting Poverty, Accelerating Impact
Slingshot Memphis is a center of influence for setting off a poverty fighting movement with intent to help and empower all Memphians. They help equip the right people with the right resources to better strengthen the poverty-fighting effectiveness of our community. Click below to read our Impact Study (Opens in this window), and the “S” logo above to visit the Slingshot Memphis website!
2024 Slingshot Impact Study
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RISE Memphis: Realizing Income Stability and Empowerment
RISE Memphis is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization with a mission to improve the community by offering access to financial literacy tools and incentives to assist families in need with building assets and making more secure financial choices. RISE Empowers people to become self-sufficient by building and maintaining human and financial assets. They look to transform the financial well-being of low-income working people, and by extension, improve the community.
Click the RISE logo above to learn more about their mission and how they help strengthen our community, and the GMFEC Logo to learn more about their free one-on-one financial counseling!
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Memphis: Great Futures Start Here
The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis declares a mission statement of enabling all young people, especially those in the most need, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Area’s of focus include:
-Education and Leadership
-Character Development
-Career Awareness
Click the logo above to learn more about their mission and how they help strengthen our community!
JuicePlus+ Technical Training Center
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GROWWTH: Growing Relational and Occupational Wealth in West Tennessee Households
GROWWTH is an organization out of University of Memphis that is dedicated to removing barriers that far too many families in West Tennessee face. They are an initiative to address the needs of low-income families, and over the last few years since 2022 have been able to shift from planning, to action. Their services focus on areas such as:
-Financial Assistance and Career Development
-Family Wellness
-Transportation Solutions
-Childcare Support
Click the GROWWTH logo above to learn more about their mission and how they help strengthen our community, and the U of M logo to learn more about the University!
Persevere: Real Hope. Valuable Skills. Meaningful Opportunity.
Persevere works to transform lives through technology, creating pathways to opportunity for justice-impacted individuals both inside correctional facilities and throughout communities. Founded by and for people with lived justice experience, our comprehensive approach combines technical education with holistic support—addressing mental health, life skills, trauma recovery, and family reunification alongside career development. Click the Persevere Logo above to learn more about their mission and how they impact our Community!
HopeWorks: Building a better Memphis through Hope and Work
Memphis Area Cooperative began in 1988 as a collaborative effort among local churches with a mission to address the homeless issue in Shelby County. The pillar of the initiative was a Life Skills Lab designed to support the under-resourced population. The organization was renamed HopeWorks and received its 501(c)(3) status in 1998. The bedrock soft skills programming was fortified and titled Personal and Career Development (PCD). Their services help bring important facets of life to the Memphians who need them most.
Learn more about their mission and how they service our Community by clicking the HopeWorks logo above!
Tech901: Power Up Your Tech Career
Tech901 is a nonprofit founded in 2015 by community development and business leaders. Their goal? Training a Memphis workforce to meet local IT hiring needs. Together, they crafted a plan to facilitate IT business growth in Memphis by recruiting, training, and developing a pipeline to place semi-skilled and skilled workers in open positions. Working with Memphis’ leading businesses, Tech901 is able to create quality IT training tailored to fit local hiring needs. Tech901’s unique structure pre-tests applicants for aptitude, and alleviates common impediments to success (training cost, program length, and location). Today, highly qualified Tech901 grads are working in any number of organizations right here in the Memphis area.
If you want to learn more about their mission in the community, click the TECH901 Logo above!
Memphis Allies: Together for a Safer Memphis
Memphis Allies believes that the solution to community safety lies primarily within the community itself. They are collaborating with leaders and organizations, identifying opportunities for their continued success within Memphis Allies and expanding effective services to meet the needs of our community. Due to many factors including generational poverty and lack of opportunity in communities, the African-American community is overwhelmingly impacted by violence in Memphis and Shelby County. Memphis Allies are elevating lived experiences from those most affected by violence.
If you’d like to learn more about their mission and the work that they do, click the Memphis Allies or Youth Villages logo above!
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