by uwmsnewscenter | Feb 3, 2015 | Archive
United Way is committed to creating better health outcomes for the Mid-South area as part of our top community priorities work. We’re partnering with the Healthier Tennessee Workplace initiative launched by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam’s Foundation for...
by uwmsnewscenter | Feb 2, 2015 | Archive
[wpvideo 1TeY6dW6] Last Friday’s observance of National Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day and the ribbon-cutting opening of the Free Tax Prep Supersite at the Raleigh Springs Mall was a great success as leaders from across the area came together to promote...
by uwmsnewscenter | Feb 2, 2015 | Archive
Rev. Kenneth S. Robinson M.D. and Rev. Marilynn Robinson were honored with the Mayor AC and Attorney Ruby Wharton Mentoring Award at the Memphis Cares Mentoring Movement ceremony last Saturday. The Robinsons were honored for their work and leadership with programs...
by uwmsnewscenter | Jan 27, 2015 | Archive
(UPDATED 1/28) Friday, January 30th is National Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day and organizations are coming together to celebrate and spread awareness of this powerful tax program. United Way Free Tax Prep sites across the Mid-South will officially be opened...
by uwmsnewscenter | Jan 26, 2015 | Archive
We’re taking reservations now for our United Way Annual Luncheon, Thursday, March 26, 2015 at The Peabody, 149 Union Avenue, Memphis Tennessee. The event promises to be an all-new, very different celebration and we hope you’ll be there with us! Registration...
by uwmsnewscenter | Jan 23, 2015 | Archive
United Way of the Mid-South joins with the friends and family of Casel Jones in mourning his passing, which occurred Tuesday morning January 20th after a lengthy period of illness. Casel worked in United Way’s Labor Participation area for 30 years, and eventually...
by uwmsnewscenter | Jan 12, 2015 | Archive
United Way and the Free Tax Prep program’s work to improve local financial stability are featured all month on WYPL TV 18 and the Memphis Makers program. Memphis Makers is featured numerous times each week through the month of January. A listing of broadcast...
by uwmsnewscenter | Dec 19, 2014 | Archive
Yesterday’s fantastic Youth United Way “Shoebox Christmas” project brought smiles and laughter from the children at A.B. Hill Elementary yesterday as over 320 boxes filled with gifts were distributed to every student in the school in grades Pre-K to...
by uwmsnewscenter | Dec 8, 2014 | Archive
Saturday, teens in the Youth United Way Leadership Program assembled boxes of gifts and wrapped them in holiday cheer for this year’s Shoebox Christmas project. Shoebox Christmas is an annual Youth United Way tradition that sees the teens give gifts to young...
by uwmsnewscenter | Dec 5, 2014 | Archive
Here’s a shot of the legendary Bar-Kays at the pre-concert party at the Hard Rock Cafe in Memphis, TN. United Way benefited from concert proceeds, and Bar-Kays peformer James Alexander (with microphone) is a champion United Way volunteer, having served as a...
