"For the First Time in Their Lives, Someone Was Listening To Them" - The Story of the Firs
Editor's Note: Last fall, Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) provided grants to three Shalom Zones to help them implement projects...
Everything Needed Was There: The Story of the SMSZ College Readiness Program
Editors Note: Last fall, Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) provided grants to three Shalom Zones to help them implement projects...
The Neighborhood History Project - Documenting History to Claim a New Story
Last week, the 2016 Neighborhood History Project came to a close. On Monday evening, the four youth history interns from Highland Heights...
Meet the Neighborhood Connectors - Kate
In March 2016, Kate Kananura joined the CTC team as the new Neighborhood Connector for the Us Making it Happen in Southeast Memphis...
Meet the Neighborhood Connectors - Meet Ashley
In March 2016, Ashley Black joined the CTC team as the new South Memphis Neighborhood Connector. Here, Ashley tells us a little about...
Meet the Neighborhood Connectors
Earlier this year, we posted that Jasmine Champion would be leaving CTC and her role as the first South Memphis Neighborhood Connector....
Dialogue Strategies for Transforming Conflict - A Conversation with Jean Handley
Jean Handley is a Memphis-based communications specialist who practices a communications model known as Mindful Communication. On June 8,...
The Neighborhood History Project - A Transformative Experience
Editor’s note: This post was written by CTC’s own Sumi Montgomery, who first learned about CTC through her involvement with the...
Two Tales of One City: Shifting our Perspective on Memphis and our Neighborhoods
Memphis is a city rife with crime, poverty, and blight. One of the most obese cities in America and one of the least educated. A city...
What's in a Name? - Reflecting on "Center for Transforming Communities"
Sometimes I get strange looks when I tell people where I work. “Center for Transforming Communities? So that’s what you do? Transform...
