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Committee Accomplishments
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: Access to Mental Health has always been an issue but Covid-19 exacerbated the problem. Residents who need the services most are often unwilling to seek services or don’t know where to begin.
- Strategy: The Health and Human Services Committee wants to increase awareness of and access to mental health resources for under and uninsured people through a communication campaign and improving an online resource directory.
- Problem: Language Access limits Non-native English speakers from utilizing the many nonprofits that provide vital services, simply because they are not able to speak English.
- Strategy: The Health and Human Services Committee is removing language as a barrier to services for those who are not English language proficient by increasing access to interpretive services for nonprofit organizations through a pilot program and creating a long-term strategy.
Participating Nonprofits
- A Step Ahead Foundation
- A Way Out Ministries
- Advocates for Immigrant Rights
- Agape Child & Family Services
- Alliance Healthcare Services
- Alzheimer's & Dementia Services of Memphis, Inc.
- Apple Seeds, Inc.
- Best Actual Health
- Bethany Christian Services
- BHW Estate
- Birthright of Memphis
- Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Caregivers Refresh Center, Inc.
- Catholic Charities of West Tennessee
- Christ Community Health Services
- Church Health Center of Memphis, Inc.
- Clean Memphis
- Communities in School of Memphis
- Community Alliance For The Homeless
- Community Legal Center
- Community of St. Theresa of Lisieux
- Dorothy Day House
- Friends For Life
- Greater Memphis Financial Empowerment Center (GMFEC)
- GOLDEN CROSS Senior Ministries
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis
- Hope House Memphis
- HopeWorks
- Ignite MOB Inc.
- Impact America Ministries
- Innovate Memphis
- Just City
- Latino Memphis
- Leo Project, Inc
- Memphis Area Women's Council
- Merge Memphis
- Meritan, Inc
- Methodist Healthcare Foundation
- Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association
- Mid-South Food Bank
- Mid-South Immigration Advocates
- OUTMemphis
- Panther Creek Stables
- Pathway to Dignity
- Porter-Leath Early Childhood Services
- Refugee Empowerment Program
- Relationship Unleashed
- RISE Foundation, Inc.
- Room in the Inn-Memphis
- Seed House Inc.
- Seeding Success
- Shelby Farms Park Conservancy
- Step by Step Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Foundation
- Sweet Cheeks Diaper Ministry
- Tennessee Innocence Project
- Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network
- The Arc Mid South
- The Neighborhood Christian Center Inc
- The Salvation Army
- The Salvation Army Purdue Center of Hope
- The Women's Advocacy Center
- The Works, Inc.
- United Housing
- United Way of the Midsouth
- West Tennessee Regional Forensic Services
- Wolf River Conservancy
- World Relief-Memphis
- YWCA Greater Memphis