Workforce Development (2020-2021)
Committee Accomplishments (This subcommittee is no longer active.)
The Shelby County Nonprofit Committee brought together nonprofits across varied sectors to share concerns and draw attention to issues that are barriers to residents’ success. We collectively identified major issues per sector and identified ways to address a part of a systemic problem. This is a different approach. Our focus has been on narrowing a focus, coming up with a project that chips away at a big problem, that’s achievable in a year. Previous projects in this sector include:
- Problem: Awareness of Workforce Services is lacking in the community despite a number of organizations providing services.
- Strategy: The Workforce Development Committee has developed a public-facing online screening tool to better connect residents in need of workforce solutions with the many services available that best fit their needs. Visit www.NextSteps901.org to find a workforce organization that's right for you.
Participating Nonprofits
- 2Unique Community Salvation Foundation
- Abyssinian Community Services, Inc.
- A Fresh Start to a New Beginning
- Agape Child & Family Services, Inc.
- Alzheimer's & Dementia Services of Memphis
- Binghampton Development Corporation
- BLDG Memphis
- Bluff City Community Development Corporation
- Class A Driving Academy
- Community LIFT
- Communities In Schools of Memphis
- DeafConnect of the Mid-South, Inc.
- Dress for Success Memphis
- Easters Helping Hands Project
- Frayser Community Development Corporation
- Goodwill Excel Center Midsouth Inc.
- Greater Memphis Financial Empowerment Center (GMFEC)
- Greater Whitehaven Economic Redevelopment Corporation (GWERC)
- HopeWorks
- Hyde Park-Homeland Community Development Corporation
- IOBY Memphis
- Kingdom Community Builders
- Leadership Memphis
- LITE Memphis
- Literacy Mid-South
- Memphis Dawah Association
- Memphis Shelby Crime Commission
- Meritan, Inc.
- MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope)
- New Memphis
- Persevere Now
- Priority Teachers University
- ProGeny Place
- Refuge Memphis
- RegionSmart
- Restoration Time Family and Youth Services
- RISE Foundation
- Riverview Kansas Community Development Corporation
- Second Chance Connections Inc.
- Seeding Success
- Soaring To Success, Inc
- The Collective Blueprint
- The Works, Inc
- United Way of the Mid-South
- Whitehaven Community Development Corporation
- Workforce MidSouth, Inc.