For over 50 years, Agape Child and Family Services has worked to strengthen families by creating healthy home environments. In 2009, Agape wanted to live their mission more deeply by offering innovative, effective services to reach people living in neighborhoods with...
A large managed care insurer provides specialized Medicaid plans to over 600,000 low-income people members across a mid-south state challenged by significant social and health disparities. In 2011, it launched a transformative journey to reduce healthcare disparities...
A diverse coalition of early childhood educators, healthcare providers, social service agencies and families align resources for healthier babies and strong families. The Early Success Coalition (ESC) is a collective impact initiative to improve early childhood...
Higher education, business and philanthropic leaders increase access to nationally accredited childcare to low-income families by 1800% in ten years through Ready, Set, Grow! In 2003, the Mayor of Shelby County, the University of Memphis and Memphis Tomorrow,...
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare aligns its resources with hundreds of churches and community organizations for better population and community health. Methodist Healthcare (MLH) is an integrated health care delivery system dedicated to the art of healing through its...
In 2018, the National League of Cities (NLC) partnered with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to launch Cities of Opportunity (CoO), an agenda for action that builds capacity of city leaders to establish “Cultures of Health” by holistically improving the economic,...
United Way of the Mid-South (UW) is Driving the Dream (DTD) to combat pervasive, intergenerational poverty. In Memphis, Tennessee, a city with an overall poverty rate of 26.2% and in which 43% of kids live in poverty, the United Way is committed to helping people...