2011 Members and Donors

Members List - 2011 funding

INDIVIDUALS

Happy Jones
Ellen Cooper Klyce
Dr. Owen Phillips
Lila Beth Burke
Gene Cashman
Dr. Nancy Hardt
Dottie Jones
Jocelyn Wurzburg
Judge Robert Childers
Ruth Lentz
John Stokes
Sherri Smith Lemmi
Art and Bert Wolff
Linda Bennett
Jack and Dottie Blake
Ruby Bright
Deborah Clubb
Bill and Julia Gibbons
Deborah Hester
Dr. Richard Janikowski
Rev. Margaret W. Jones
Sylvia Marks
Dennis Mathews
Linda K. Miller
Agnes Pokrandt
Dorothy Gunther Pugh
Jim and Karen Ralston
Elaine Sanford
Jeff Sanford
Danielle Schonbaum
Wayne and Donna Sue Shannon
James Strickland
Christine Todd
K.C. Warren
Dr. Charles Crawford
Dr. Mary Crawford
Dr. Carol Danehower
Suzanne Darnell
Mary Durham
Beth Flanagan
Donna Fortson
Juan Fuentes
Scott Hill
Dora Ivey
Kathy Kastan
Betsy Mandel-Carley
Dr. Valencia May
Theresa Mauer
Katie Midgley
Adrienne Pakis-Gillon
Bill Powell
Helen "Sandy" Riggs
Anne Shafer
Karen Shea
Dr. Barbara Ellen Smith
Gail Streete
Lura Turner
Amy T. Berthouex
Dr. David Ciscel
Belinda Anderson
Earline Duncan
Rev. Rebekah Jordan Gienapp
Meg Jones
Rosalva King
Beverly Nicholson
Carol G. Straughn
Julie Ware
Deloris Clayborne
Nancy Greenwalt
Las Savell

ORGANIZATIONS

Latino Memphis
Memphis Center for Reproductive Health
Ashley Scott 5K
Neshoba Unitarian Universality Church
The Urban Child Institute
Bornblum Foundation
Las Savell

HONORARIUMS

Denise Bollheimer In honor of Ruby Bright, Deborah Clubb and Dr. Owen Phillips
Noel Schwartz In honor of Happy Jones

Agape Child & Family Services

David Jordan, executive director
111 Racine Street
Memphis TN 38111
Phone: (901) 323-3600
Email: info@agapemeanslove.org
Website: www.agapemeanslove.org

Agape Child & Family Services is a Christ-center ministry seeking to be a strong voice advocating for the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of children and families. Agape offers adoption and maternity services, infant and special needs adoptions and post adoption services, Families in Touch housing for pregnant homeless women, individual and family counseling and foster care.

Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis

Dr. Lynda Sagrestano, director
339 Clement Hall
Memphis, TN 38152
Phone: (901) 678-2153
Email: crow@memphis.edu
Web address: http://cas.memphis.edu/isc/crow

The Center for Research on Women (CROW) conducts, promotes and disseminates scholarship on women and social inequality. Their approach to research, theory and programming emphasizes the structural relationships among race, class, gender and sexuality, particularly in the U.S. South and among women of color. Programs include community-based research projects, publications, workshops and conferences, an annual Community Issues Forum and semi-annual newsletter.

Exchange Club Family Center of the Mid South

Barbara C. King, executive director
2180 Union Ave.
Memphis, TN 38104
Phone: (901) 276-2200
E-mail: barbara.king@exchangeclub.net
Web address: http://www.exchangeclub.net/
The Exchange Club offers programs and services in three major areas to help end child abuse and family violence. They address issues of family violence and how it affects both children and adults. Their staff helps families learn how to identify and deal with family violence while offering clients a protected venue for child visitations. Through parenting education, they address the conflicts that arise from stressful parenting situations and divorce. They also address the issue of anger and explore alternative problem-solving skills, communication skills, the causes of anger, and reactions to anger as well as its aftereffects.

Girls Incorporated of Memphis

Deborah Hester, president and CEO
60 N. Third Street
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: (901)523-0217
Fax: (901)523-0456
Email: dhester@girlsincmemphis.org
Web address: www.girlsincmemphis.org

The mission of Girls Incorporated of Memphis is to promote a vision of confidence and self-sufficiency and to provide the means for making the vision a reality for girls. They offer comprehensive, researched, age-progressive, and prevention-based programs to girls ages 6-18. Their programs are structured around the following six core competency areas to ensure the overall development and success of girls in Memphis and Shelby County: Self-Reliance and Life skills, Careers and Life Planning, Health and Sexuality, Leadership and Community action, sports and adventure, culture and heritage.

Leadership Memphis

David Williams, president and CEO
119 S. Main Street, Ste. 425
Memphis TN 38103
Phone: (901) 278-0016
Email: dwilliams@leadershipmemphis.org
Web address: www.leadershipmemphis.org

Leadership Memphis is committed to working with proven leaders who demonstrate an ability to bring about innovative change within their field of expertise and challenging them to learn how to use their leadership skills for the benefit of the larger community. The purpose of Leadership Memphis is to provide accelerated preparation of community leaders via three strategic programmatic goals:

* To advance diversity and inclusivity
* To promote civic engagement that results in leadership accountability
* To increase creative and innovative leadership

Seedco

Mid South Regional Office
Lisa Pote, vice president
22 North Front Street, Suite 780
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: (901) 255-2955
E-mail: lpote@seedco.org
Website: http://www.seedco.org/memphis/

Seedco is committed to innovative, high-impact program development and delivery. Seedco provides intensive financial and technical assistance to networks of neighborhood-based partners, enabling them to launch model projects and realize their community-building goals. Seedco's sustained commitment to improving Memphis's most economically distressed communities was born out of the Ford Foundation's Neighborhood & Family Initiative program and has been solidified through partnerships with the University of Memphis, the City of Memphis, Memphis Community Development Partnership, LeMoyne-Owen College and the United Way of the Mid-South.

Tennessee Community Services Agency

Susan Adams, executive director
1407 Union Ave., Ste. 1300
Memphis, TN 38104
Phone: 901-543-4617
E-mail: Susan.Adams@TNCSA.com
Website: www.msccsa.com

Tennessee Community Services Agency, formerly Memphis and Shelby County Community Services Agency, was established in June of 1993 by the Tennessee State Legislature through the enactment of the Community Health Agencies Act of 1989. TCSA provides professionally trained case managers to coordinate the provision of goods and services to assist families and children. The mission is to ensure the safety and well-being of children and families through customized services and community partnerships.

Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis

Ruby Bright, executive director and CAO
8 S. Third St., Suite 110
Memphis, TN 38103-6600
Phone: 901-578-9346
Fax: 901-578-9446
E-mail: administration@wfgm.org
Website: http://www.wfgm.org

The Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis was established in 1995 to encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and to support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential. Thanks to broad-based support, the Women's Foundation will continue its efforts to expand collaboration with others in our community to create a network of initiatives that address the complex causes of poverty and bring about real poverty reduction; mobilize civic leadership that advocates, educates and influences action to remove barriers to women's empowerment and promote philanthropy and financial literacy for and among women.