Fiscal Year ended April 30, 2007 

Research and Initiatives Grants
Church Health Center - $50,000 for the Collaborative Community Pharmacy Group, which is designing a pharmacy program to assist the uninsured and underinsured in our community.  Other members of the collaborative include Baptist Health Care, Methodist Healthcare and UT College of Pharmacy.  

Teach for America - $50,000 for the recruitment and selection of 50 graduates from America’s top colleges to teach in the Memphis City School system’s most challenging schools.

Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis - $50,000 for the Memphis HOPE program that will serve  the needs of 633 low-income Memphis households in the Dixie Homes and University Place communities. 

LeBonheur Community Outreach and Center for Children and Parents  - $40,000 for a case management specialist to work with children and families and with operators of childcare centers. 

Shelby Farms Park Alliance, Inc. - $28,000 in two grants, one to facilitate the organization of a new community-based group to plan for Shelby Farms Park, and a second grant to co-sponsor the Greening Greater Memphis meeting, which drew an estimated 1,000 people to demonstrate grassroots support for a comprehensive system of connected parks and greenways in Shelby County.    

Community Grants
Frayser Community Development Corporation - $75,000 over three years to reduce foreclosures in the neighborhood, which has the highest rate in the city.  

Mid-South Minority Business Council - $75,000 over three years to provide business development training for minority and women-owned businesses.  

Stand for Children - $25,000 to improve educational opportunities for children in public schools by increasing parent involvement, training citizen leaders and advocacy for fair state funding.

Nonprofit Capacity Building Grants
Intermediary Grants
Volunteer Memphis - $35,000 in two grants, one for operating support to promote volunteerism, and a second grant to support its merger with Hands on Memphis. 

Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence - $10,000 for operating support to help nonprofits become more effective. The Alliance, formerly known at The Grant Center, was formed in 1992. 

Community Development Council - $10,000 for operating support to build capacity in local community development corporations seeking to revitalize low and moderate income Memphis neighborhoods.

Memphis Community Development Partnership - $10,000 for operating support to assist community development organizations.

Partners for the Homeless - $5,000 for operating support expertise and support provided to local providers of services to the homeless and to people without permanent housing.

Capacity Building Grants
Memphis Area Legal Services - $25,000 for improvements to Internet and computer systems.  

MIFA  - $13,000 over two years to strengthen operational and client tracking systems to more effectively serve families and seniors in Shelby, Tipton, Lauderdale and Fayette counties.  

The Blues Foundation, Inc. - $12,500 to develop a plan for a permanent home of The Blues Foundation, possibly to include a Blues museum.  

Ballet Memphis - $11,820 to enhance the company’s fundraising programs.  

Special Projects Grants
Tennessee Parks and Greenways - $10,000 to coordinate planning and development in the eight Tennessee counties which border the Mississippi River, culminating in a meeting in Dyersburg on Oct. 17, 2006, which included citizens, engineers, transportation planners, architects, landscape designers and technicians.  

Humanities Tennessee - $10,000 for the 18th Annual Southern Festival of Books, held in Memphis October 13-15, 2006.  

Zion Community Project, Inc. - $9,000 to organize surrounding neighborhoods in clean-up and marketing efforts for the Zion Cemetery, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 

Friends of Korean Culture - $7,500 for the Korean War Memorial Monument in Overton Park.

National AIDS Fund - $5,000 for the organization’s annual meeting in Memphis in April 2007.  

New Pathways Community Development Corporation - $5,000 to support their work to redevelop their neighborhood, which is south of Union and east of the FedExForum.

American Humanics - $2,000 to help prepare undergraduate students for careers in the nonprofit sector. 

Delta Axis - $1,500 for strategic planning services. 

Note: Grants shown are only those which exceeded $1,000.  In addition, the Community Foundation made a total of $2,000 in smaller grants to community organizations.

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