Marquiepta Odom with the YWCA of Greater Memphis and Sherica Hymes, founder of Total Woman Summit, discuss this year's summit on September 28, the YWCA's work to support families fleeing domestic violence and how the summit and YWCA are working separately and together to empower women to put themselves first.

Aurora Collegiate Academy is a K-5 neighborhood school. Most of its students are Latinx and low-income. It's also Shelby County School's top-performing elementary charter school with a strategy for success that includes students, faculty and families.

Jared Myers with Heights CDC joins the High Ground team to discuss our new Community Contributor program, which aims to attract and train residents as neighborhood-based freelance reporters. 

On August 28, High Ground helped throw a parking lot party and second line parade celebrating Madison Heights and the debut of the Rain or Shine umbrella-share system. Watch the video here.

Rain or Shine is part public art, part community service. It debuts August 28 in Madison Heights. Cat Pena and Stacey Early reflect on the months of community listening that led their team to umbrellas as a way to serve all of the neighborhood's diverse people and needs.

On August 13, the Laughter for the Heart comedy show brought some of Memphis biggest names in local comedy to Hickory Hill to raise money for a new nonprofit investing in the neighborhood. 

Memphis loves basketball, but could tennis be a new favorite sport in Tiger Town? Tennis Memphis and the City of Memphis are investing in tennis to make the sport more accessible and relatable for youth across the city.