Downline Ministries’ “Emerging Leaders” program has become a recruitment tool for Millennials with staggering success rates. Designed with young professionals in mind, the program is rigorous and competitive and attracts college graduates from all over the country to come to Memphis and stay – and make a difference.   

LITE challenges high school students with a new kind of problem solving. Leaving traditional teaching strategies in the classroom, the organization puts students back in the community to launch social venture ideas to improve the city—and to learn valuable skills along the way.

Harnessing the power of sports fandom to promote literacy, two Memphis high school students created  Coaching for Literacy, an inventive program that incentivizes charitable giving by offering a chance to be "coach" for the day. Since its local launch in 2012, the homegrown project is now a national entity.