The University of Memphis at Lambuth teamed up with the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis and United Way of the Mid-South through the Strengthening Communities Initiative to fund neighborhood-based projects and nonprofit groups in Jackson.
The purpose of the initiative will be to build up neighborhoods while working with the needs of their residents, offering small grants and capacity-building grants.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.