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Celebrating the 2025 Chamber of the Year Winners

GrowthZone

Category Four: Greater Memphis Chamber* *special shout-out to our customers! GrowthZone extends our heartfelt congratulations to the 2025 Chamber of the Year winners in each category: Category One: Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Category Two: Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce* Category Three: Greater Fort Wayne Inc.*

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We can still choose love: Building loving communities that support student well-being and success 

Candid

The index found wide disparities, especially in cities like Houston and Memphis, which are in states that have not expanded Medicaidrestricting the funds available for school-based mental health services. This stark data point underscores a deeper crisis: the lack of equitable access to mental health support for students.

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Optometric Association Offers Free Lyft Rides to Eye Exams

Associations Now

Under the partnership, a free round-trip ride, up to a $25 fare, will be offered in 10 cities: Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Memphis, Miami, New York City, St. And to promote better vision care, AOA is teaming with the ride-hailing service Lyft to get more people to their nearest optometrist for an eye exam. ”).

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Rail Passengers Association Takes Message on a Field Trip, (Mostly) By Train

Associations Now

RPA’s field coordinator, Joe Aiello, and grassroots organizer, Madi Butler, are making a trip from Memphis to New Orleans, with a goal of promoting the economic benefits of passenger rail along the Gulf Coast, which has been limited in recent years. Memphis (and the new @memphiscentral_ ) deserves greater frequency for passenger rail!

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Meet You in Nashville: Where to Eat During #ASAE14, Part 3

Reid All About it

Or Memphis Sushi which is cheese and sausage on saltines. Downtown at 416 Broadway,3 miles/6 minute walk from the MCC. Peg Leg Porker ( Twitter ) has some intriguing dishes like BBQ Nachos, chips with lots of cheese sauce, smoked pork, spicy sauce and jalapeos. Closed Sunday. 903 Gleaves St.

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Closing racial wealth gaps with community land trusts 

Candid

Paul, Minnesota, and Memphis, Tennessee, are exploring community and trusts supports an expanded approach to making homeownership accessible. Memphis is doing something similar in its Orange Mound neighborhood. Two are looking specifically at one viable strategy for doing so: community land trusts.

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Kids Skate Free: Association-Managed Cause Marketing Campaign

SCD Group

Campaign) effort started in 2002 at seven Memphis-area Chili’s restaurants The National Christmas Tree Association modeled the Trees for Troops program after local efforts by growers in the Pacific Northwest. It was able to recruit FedEx as a sponsor.