Initiatives & Community Efforts
The LPBC is focused on giving back and making an impact in the Mid-South. Our goal is to get more businesses and people actively engaged in the community. By engaging many with turnkey projects and efforts, we can achieve a tremendous amount together.
We work with nonprofits and organizations to help raise awareness, schedule tours and volunteer days, create action projects and campaigns, raise funds, and help with board placements. Examples include tutoring after school, mentoring, scrubbing graffiti off of buildings and bridges, washing the feet of over 3,000 kids and providing them with new socks and shoes, helping to pick up 90,000 pounds of trash at McKellar Lake, spearheading the Fallen Officer Memorial, launching a civic pride campaign called "Memphis Rocks," and hosting a telethon. We look to find as many ways as possible to partner with nonprofits and leverage our collective resources and weekly interaction with over 50,000 in the Mid-South community to make a difference.
Every LPBC event and program has a goal of giving back, so it is woven into the very fabric of our organization's DNA. Our media efforts are geared toward spotlighting nonprofits, positive stories and efforts, and those leading by example. You can learn more in the Media Center, but that includes our weekly columns, radio shows, television shows, and books.
We also select different charitable organizations to be spotlighted at each of our Signature Breakfast Series events. As a "Charity Spotlight" local nonprofits receive a number of special promotional opportunities, as well as a financial contribution on behalf of the LPBC partners. Charity Spotlights have included organizations, like St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, SRVS, AGAPE, Boy Scouts of America, Service Over Self, Streets Ministries, Memphis Oral School for the Deaf, Memphis Child Advocacy Center, Knowledge Quest, Girls Inc., Memphis Athletic Ministries, BRIDGES, Juvenile Intervention and Faith-based Follow-up (JIFF), Fire Museum of Memphis, CrimeStoppers, The Baddour Center, The Salvation Army, Cornerstone Prep, Collegiate School of Memphis, The Soulsville Charter School, Memphis Teacher Residency, and many more.
Aside from all of our efforts aimed at helping nonprofits, the LPBC has created initiatives and campaigns aimed at helping our community. These initiatives, like the "Power of the Dollar" campaign or "Memphis Rocks" were put together by the LPBC and launched using our collective resources. Over the years, they have quickly evolved and become community-owned, where they continue to expand in new directions. There are also a number of efforts that the LPBC is directly coordinating and spearheading, like Samaritans Feet Shoe Distributions and the Fallen Officer Memorial. In this section, you can learn more about some of these efforts and initiatives being lead by the LPBC. Overall, we invite you to learn more and to get engaged and help us make a difference here in the the Mid-South.
