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Since 1987, Alpha Omega has specialized in providing housing and supportive services—including counseling and job training—to homeless and disabled veterans with a goal of fully reintegrating them with family and community. It has an incredibly exciting project on the horizon, one that needs community support.

Naturally Nurtured Birth Services amplifies the voices of pregnant women and improves black maternal health in our community by providing doula care and offering culturally appropriate support to those at risk of poor outcomes.

In our recent panel event, What’s Driving Poverty and how do we change the roadmap?, local experts in social services, health, and housing emphasized the importance of an integrated approach to create better, more sustainable outcomes.

This fall, 139 students who otherwise may not have had the opportunity will step on college campuses across the country, ready to embark on the next phase of their educations. They were supported by nearly $600,000 in scholarship awards from 28 different scholarship funds managed at the Community Foundation.

Motivated by shared family values passed from his grandmother and parents, Memphis Grizzlies star Jaren Jackson, Jr. believes much is required of him to give back through service.

It’s Black Philanthropy Month, and we’re sharing stories of generosity throughout August. When she talks about the power and potential of Black philanthropy, real estate developer Alexandra Willis Boddie focuses on contributing time, talent, and treasure to the nonprofits that strengthen the community.

CPA Charlotte Henderson of Reynolds Bone & Griesbeck encourages some tax-advantaged giving strategies in your charitable planning.

Retired business executives Belinda and Calvin Anderson are extraordinary contributors in the Memphis community, and part of a multi-generational legacy of giving.

When thinking about leaving a legacy, retired pastor Sonia Walker invited others to help create a collective impact through values-based community investment.

The City Council earmarked $1 million for scholarships for students who are graduating or have graduated from a high school located in Memphis and Shelby County and are attending or will attend an accredited historically Black college or university.