2009 Members and Donors

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS 2009

Dr. June Averyt
Judy Bell
Dr. Phyllis Betts
Dr. Linda Bennett
Amy Berthouex
Marcia Bicks
Jack and Dottie Blake
Toni Blankenship
Wight Boggs
Mary Bowen
Ruby Bright
Lila Beth Burke
Frank Cantrell
Judy Card
Dr. Cathy Chapman
Barry Chase
Carol Chumney
Dr. David Ciscel
Deborah M. Clubb
Julie Coffey
Veronica Coleman-Davis
Dr. Susanne Benson Darnell
Sally DiScenza
Marion Donohoe
Olliette Murry-Drobot
Mary Durham
Dr. Andrea T. Elberger
Georgianna Ensminger
Gayle Evans
Kathy Feinstone
Beth Flanagan
Donna Fortson
Desi Franklin
Africa Gonzalez
Dr. Nancy Hardt
Dr. Judi Harrick
Dr. Joseph Hawes
Deborah Hester
Janice Hill
Dr. Debbie Hooser
Mary Clare Incardona
Rev. Rebekah Jordan
Dottie Jones
Happy Jones
Gloria Kahn
Kathy Kastan
Ellen Cooper Klyce
Yvonne Leander
Ruth Lentz
Susan Mackenzie
Betsy Mandel-Carley
Carol McHann
Sylvia Marks
Dr. Valencia May
Pat Merrill
Pat Morgan
Linda Miller
Mary Jo Miller
LaRita Mitchell
Regina Morrison Newman
Kathryn Myrick
Beverly Nicholson
Cindy Pace
Janese Perry
Agnes Pokrandt
Carol Prentiss
Sapna V. Raj
Rep. Jeanne Richardson
Sandy Riggs
Judge Kay S. Robilio
Connie Ross
Dr. Lynda Sagrestano
Elaine Sanford
Beanie Self
Rachel Shankman
Donna Sue Shannon
Elizabeth Shelley
Claudette Jones Shephard
Mary Singer
Dr. Barbara Ellen Smith
Patti Smith
Dr. Pat Speck
Katy Spurlock
Kathy Story
Carol B. Straughn
Laura Terry
Christine Todd
Emily Trenholm
Lura Elliott Turner
Jeanne Varnell
Jodie Vance
Sonja White
Marguerite Williams
Jocie Wurzburg

ORGANIZATION MEMBERS

Agape Child & Family Services
Exchange Club Family Center
Girls Inc.
Leadership Memphis
Seedco
Tennessee Community Services Agency

HONORARIUMS

Denise Bollheimer In honor of Ruby Bright, Deborah Clubb and Dr. Owen Phillips
Noel Schwartz In honor of Happy Jones

Agape Child & Family Services

David Jordan, executive director
111 Racine Street
Memphis TN 38111
Phone: (901) 323-3600
Email: info@agapemeanslove.org
Website: www.agapemeanslove.org

Agape Child & Family Services is a Christ-center ministry seeking to be a strong voice advocating for the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of children and families. Agape offers adoption and maternity services, infant and special needs adoptions and post adoption services, Families in Touch housing for pregnant homeless women, individual and family counseling and foster care.

Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis

Dr. Lynda Sagrestano, director
339 Clement Hall
Memphis, TN 38152
Phone: (901) 678-2153
Email: crow@memphis.edu
Web address: http://cas.memphis.edu/isc/crow

The Center for Research on Women (CROW) conducts, promotes and disseminates scholarship on women and social inequality. Their approach to research, theory and programming emphasizes the structural relationships among race, class, gender and sexuality, particularly in the U.S. South and among women of color. Programs include community-based research projects, publications, workshops and conferences, an annual Community Issues Forum and semi-annual newsletter.

Exchange Club Family Center of the Mid South

Barbara C. King, executive director
2180 Union Ave.
Memphis, TN 38104
Phone: (901) 276-2200
E-mail: barbara.king@exchangeclub.net
Web address: http://www.exchangeclub.net/
The Exchange Club offers programs and services in three major areas to help end child abuse and family violence. They address issues of family violence and how it affects both children and adults. Their staff helps families learn how to identify and deal with family violence while offering clients a protected venue for child visitations. Through parenting education, they address the conflicts that arise from stressful parenting situations and divorce. They also address the issue of anger and explore alternative problem-solving skills, communication skills, the causes of anger, and reactions to anger as well as its aftereffects.

Girls Incorporated of Memphis

Deborah Hester, president and CEO
60 N. Third Street
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: (901)523-0217
Fax: (901)523-0456
Email: dhester@girlsincmemphis.org
Web address: www.girlsincmemphis.org

The mission of Girls Incorporated of Memphis is to promote a vision of confidence and self-sufficiency and to provide the means for making the vision a reality for girls. They offer comprehensive, researched, age-progressive, and prevention-based programs to girls ages 6-18. Their programs are structured around the following six core competency areas to ensure the overall development and success of girls in Memphis and Shelby County: Self-Reliance and Life skills, Careers and Life Planning, Health and Sexuality, Leadership and Community action, sports and adventure, culture and heritage.

Leadership Memphis

David Williams, president and CEO
119 S. Main Street, Ste. 425
Memphis TN 38103
Phone: (901) 278-0016
Email: dwilliams@leadershipmemphis.org
Web address: www.leadershipmemphis.org

Leadership Memphis is committed to working with proven leaders who demonstrate an ability to bring about innovative change within their field of expertise and challenging them to learn how to use their leadership skills for the benefit of the larger community. The purpose of Leadership Memphis is to provide accelerated preparation of community leaders via three strategic programmatic goals:

* To advance diversity and inclusivity
* To promote civic engagement that results in leadership accountability
* To increase creative and innovative leadership

Seedco

Mid South Regional Office
Laura Seidell, vice president
22 North Front Street, Suite 780
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: (901) 528-1206
E-mail: lseidell@seedco.org
Website: http://www.seedco.org/memphis/

Seedco is committed to innovative, high-impact program development and delivery. Seedco provides intensive financial and technical assistance to networks of neighborhood-based partners, enabling them to launch model projects and realize their community-building goals. Seedco's sustained commitment to improving Memphis's most economically distressed communities was born out of the Ford Foundation's Neighborhood & Family Initiative program and has been solidified through partnerships with the University of Memphis, the City of Memphis, Memphis Community Development Partnership, LeMoyne-Owen College and the United Way of the Mid-South.

Tennessee Community Services Agency

Susan Adams, executive director
1407 Union Ave., Ste. 1300
Memphis, TN 38104
Phone: 901-543-4617
E-mail: Susan.Adams@TNCSA.com
Website: www.msccsa.com

Tennessee Community Services Agency, formerly Memphis and Shelby County Community Services Agency, was established in June of 1993 by the Tennessee State Legislature through the enactment of the Community Health Agencies Act of 1989. TCSA provides professionally trained case managers to coordinate the provision of goods and services to assist families and children. The mission is to ensure the safety and well-being of children and families through customized services and community partnerships.

Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis

Ruby Bright, executive director and CAO
8 S. Third St., Suite 110
Memphis, TN 38103-6600
Phone: 901-578-9346
Fax: 901-578-9446
E-mail: administration@wfgm.org
Website: http://www.wfgm.org

The Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis was established in 1995 to encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and to support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential. Thanks to broad-based support, the Women's Foundation will continue its efforts to expand collaboration with others in our community to create a network of initiatives that address the complex causes of poverty and bring about real poverty reduction; mobilize civic leadership that advocates, educates and influences action to remove barriers to women's empowerment and promote philanthropy and financial literacy for and among women.