Agape Child & Family Services has launched a $6 million campaign themed “Love Your Neighborhood.” The campaign is an effort to fund the agency through 2020 and to extend services to thousands more Memphians in under-resourced communities per a two-generational model that wholly supports parents and children with a host of wraparound services.

Tom Jones, principal at Smart City Consulting and primary writer of the blog Smart City Memphis, writes that the present Memphis regional economy would be $22.2 billion larger if there was no disparity between workers as a result of their race.

Downtown's alleys can lead back in time to show a Memphis lost to change and redevelopment. 

Why wait for business school? MIT trains Memphis high school students in launching their own businesses before they even get to college.

Innova Memphis announced the close of its latest fund, Innova Ag Innovation Fund IV. The $31 million fund will focus on early-stage investments anchored in rural America, and will work with national farm organizations and other partners to identify, enable and accelerate startups with high growth potential in the AgTech sector.

The city of Memphis’ first community rugby field will open up this fall at Gestalt Community Schools’ Power Center Academy in the Hickory Hill area.

“Rather than the school having to sell $50,000 worth of cookie dough and wrapping paper, our platform makes it easy for supporters, parents and teachers to patronize a local merchant instead."

Mama Gaia, a start-up fast-casual organic vegetarian restaurant that opened in Crosstown Concourse in March, will open its second location inside the new Ballet Memphis headquarters in Overton Square in August when the facility celebrates its grand opening. .

Development work is underway on Bill’s Place, an ambitious $22 million expansion to Youth Villages existing campus in Bartlett, with completion slated for the spring of 2019.