Leadership Memphis

During fy2023 Leadership Memphis offered two programs: the executive program and the fasttrack program in spring and in the fall. A total of 141 individuals completed and graduated from their respective program. Executive program participants completed 120 hours of course work and fasttrack participants 40 hours. More than 120+ learning journeys took place outside the class setting and 120+ doing journeys (volunteer projects) were completed in conjunction with volunteer Memphis. Theexecutives engaged in service and learning projects in over eight disadvantaged neighborhoods around the city of Memphis.

Volunteer Memphis (vm) was previously known as volunteer mid-south. It became an action initiative of Leadership Memphis in 2015 and strives to increase volunteerism throughout the Memphis area. During fy2023 vm produced the 4-day mlk days of service featuring 91 service projects with 51community partners and more than 1,253 volunteers. Vm held and/or participated in multiple health fairs with over 3100 attendees. Vm also hosted the volunteer Memphis awards to recognize over 300,000 people who volunteer in the Memphis area every year. Nearly 300 individuals, nonprofits and businesses were nominated for awards in 8 categories that accumulated 25,000 votes and the awards reception had more than 200 attendees. Companies work with volunteer Memphis to organizeemployee service projects and individuals; families and teams can visit the vm website to find volunteer opportunities posted by nonprofits in search of volunteers.