Grantee Spotlights

  • Mississippi River Corridor - Tennessee

    Shelby County now boasts a new 38-mile bicycle/pedestrian trail that becomes a mid-section for the more than 3,000 mile trail connecting the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Itasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico.

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  • Community LIFT

    Community LIFT is an acronym for Leveraging Investments for Transformation, but perhaps, simply the word lift describes it best, because that’s its mission: to give Memphis neighborhoods a lift.

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  • Artspace

    Later this year, a block in the South Main Historic District will be the site of a $13-15 million construction and historic preservation project as a 1904 three-story warehouse is transformed into a hub for artistic talent and activity.

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  • Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE)

    Within public policy, education reform is full of acronym organizations, but SCORE is one of those organizations that says exactly what it does. It is the State Collaborative On Reforming Education.

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  • May 14, 2013

    In Memoriam: Maxine Smith

    All of us at the Hyde Family Foundations were saddened by the death of Maxine Smith on April 26, 2013.

  • May 10, 2013

    Sculpture Returns to Civil Rights Museum

    Five months after it was moved out of the National Civil Rights Museum, the 7,000-pound bronze sculpture that was ...

  • May 9, 2013

    Remembering Sid Selvidge

      Sid Selvidge knew music. His stock and trade was blues and folk, but his range went far beyond. It ...