Don Wade

The first Next Gen Philanthropic Initiative cohort had eight participants like Pooja and Kush Shah. Barbara and Pitt Hyde, of the Hyde Family Foundation, sponsored the program and provided mentorship.

KIPP’s elementary, middle and high schools started STEM classes last year. First year high school has STEM lab. Came to be after grant proposal netted $2M from Tennessee Department of Education over four years.

David Brooks, author and regular New York Times and NPR contributor, is the speaker at MIFA’s Sept. 21, 2023, event in Memphis. Although tickets are sold out, people can still sign up to be on a waiting list.

It was the largest and shortest public school district merger in United States history. A decade later, leaders on both sides recall the road that led to an unhappy “shotgun wedding.” 

Memphis resident Bill Courtney is best known for his 2012 Academy Award-winning documentary, which is called “Undefeated.” He now has a successful podcast, which is called “An Army of Normal Folks.”

When highly publicized crimes shake a community, as recently happened in Memphis, the emotional and mental aftershocks linger. And leave behind the most uncomfortable of questions: Why do bad things happen to good people? 

Minor league baseball players always have invested in their dreams at the expense of real-time dollars. But is that fair? MLB recently settled a $185 million class action lawsuit filed by three minor league players who alleged that Major League Baseball had violated federal fair labor practices.

Domestic abuse offenders: What do they have in common? Memphis area officials including Shelby County’s chief domestic violence prosecutor, Greg Gilbert, District Attorney Amy Weirich, give their take.

“Long COVID” symptoms that include fatigue, brain fog and shortness of breath may strike women more often than men — many ages 20-50 — and are just as likely to occur among those whose initial case was very mild.

“We’re tired,” Sutton Mora, executive vice president and COO of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis (CFGM) said, speaking for one and all. “That’s the word I keep using over and over.”