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Office of Human Services
The Office of Human Services, part of the Division of Public Services and Neighborhoods, provides vital human service information about food, clothing, shelter, and referrals to the public and public agencies. It also assists local and national human service organizations in improving the quality of aid to people in need.
Office of Human Services
City Hall
125 N. Main Street, Suite 200
Memphis, TN 38103
PH: (901) 576-6503
FX: (901) 576-6200
TTY: (901) 576-6501
Nonprofit / Service Organizations
The City of Memphis has a number of organizations dedicated to providing service to those in need. The following links provide access to Memphis-based and national service organizations that help provide food, shelter, youth services, charity fundraising and more.
Local Nonprofit / Service Organizations
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Memphis
www.bbbsmem.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Memphis is an agency of the United Way that matches children from single parent homes with qualified adults who serve as mentors. These matches give kids more positive adult attention, which is the key to helping young people grow into positive adults.
BRIDGES
www.bridgesusa.org
With BRIDGES, ordinary youth find their voice, experience their power, build positive relationships and do the extraordinary.
The Community Forum
www.communityforum.info
The Community Forum is a neutral convener that professionally facilitates an inclusive, collaborative process of defining, discussing, and solving a wide variety of community issues and problems.
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
www.cfgm.org
The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis helps strengthen the community through philanthropy and helps donors support the organizations they care about most.
The Food Bank (Memphis)
www.memphisfoodbank.org
The Food Bank handles collecting and distributing donated food to less fortunate citizens in Memphis.
Hands on Memphis
www.handsonmemphis.org
Incorporated in March 1993, Hands On Memphis is a nonprofit organization that creates, manages, and leads "hands-on" volunteer projects which positively impact the lives of those in need in our community.
Junior Achievement
www.jamemphis.org
Junior Achievement helps young people recognize how their talents and abilities can create better lives for themselves and those around them.
Junior League of Memphis
www.jlmemphis.org
The Junior League of Memphis is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
Lifeblood
www.lifeblood.org
Lifeblood is the community blood center of the Mid-South providing blood for transfusion purposes to all area hospitals and transfusion centers. As a full-service blood center, Lifeblood performs all aspects of blood processing including recruiting donors, drawing blood, testing blood and more.
Memphis CAN
www.memphiscan.info/MemphisCan
Memphis Can is a broad-based initiative designed to assess our community's civic health and develop specific action plans to foster "civic democracy" -- real citizen involvement in making and implementing local policies.
The Memphis Center for Independent Living
www.mcil.org
The Memphis Center for Independent Living, is a community based non-profit organization dedicated to integrating people with disabilities into community life.
Memphis and Shelby County Partners for the Homeless
www.mscpath.org
Partners was established as a public-private partnership in 1995 as part of a joint initiative by Memphis Mayor Dr. W. W. Herenton and the Grantmakers Forum to more effectively coordinate, develop and implement solutions to homelessness in Memphis and Shelby County.
Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association
www.mifa.org
Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) began in Memphis in 1968 following the sanitation workers strike and death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Religious and lay leaders founded MIFA as a means for all people to put their faith into action and help the community.
MPACT Memphis
www.mpactmemphis.org
MPACT Memphis engages and supports today's diverse, creative generation of young professionals who want to connect with each other and contribute their unique talents to the community.
Ronald McDonald House of Memphis
www.rmhmemphis.org
The Memphis Ronald McDonald House is a home-away-from-home for 51 children and families who are in Memphis while receiving treatment at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Families find the support and comfort of others who share the experience of having a very sick child and may stay free of charge.
Volunteer Memphis
www.volunteermemphis.com
Volunteer Memphis serves as a focal point in recruiting and referring volunteers to non-profit organizations throughout Memphis and Shelby County. Volunteer Memphis also builds the capacity for effective local volunteering, and participates in strategic initiatives that mobilize volunteers to meet local community needs.
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis
www.wfgm.org
The Women's Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan grantmaking organization that seeks to fund programs targeted to help women and children achieve economic self-sufficiency.
YMCA Memphis
www.ymcamemphis.org
Memphis Chapter of the YMCA.
Yo! Memphis (Youth Opportunities Movement)
www.yomemphis.org
Yo! Memphis is a collaborative venture between the city of Memphis and grass root citizens, business, clergy, educators, government officials and public and non-profit agencies that are dedicated to helping youth develop into productive and contributing members of the community.
Youth Villages
www.youthvillages.org
Youth Villages offers help and hope to more than 2,000 troubled and troubling children and their families each year through home-based counseling, therapeutic foster care and adoption services, residential treatment, community-based programs and prevention services.
National Nonprofit / Service Organizations
American Red Cross
www.redcross.org
The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers that provides relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.
Dress for Success
www.dressforsuccess.org
Dress for Success is a not-for-profit organization that helps low-income women make tailored transitions into the workforce by providing interview suits, confidence boosts and career development to more than 30,000 women in over 70 cities each year.
Goodwill Industries International, Inc.
www.goodwill.org
Goodwill Industries provides people with the tools they need to succeed in working. Goodwill is one of the world's largest nonprofit providers of employment and training services for people with disabilities and other disadvantaging conditions such as welfare dependency, illiteracy, criminal history and homelessness.
March of Dimes
www.modimes.org
The March of Dimes takes pride in our history, our unique record of success - over six decades of service to the public, helping to save our nation's children and babies.
National Campaign Against Youth Violence
www.noviolence.net
The National Campaign Against Youth Violence (NCAYV) is a nationwide public awareness campaign that works to reduce youth violence by and against youth.
The Salvation Army
www.salvationarmy.org
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
www.hud.gov
United Way of America
www.unitedway.org
YWCA
www.ywca.org