Teaming up for youngsters

Corporate Giving story for The Commercial Appeal

January 16, 2009

While the Memphis Grizzlies may have their struggles on the court lately, they have handily won over some Memphians in need and the people working to help them.

In addition to a toy drive benefiting the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association Toy Store over the holidays, the canned-food drive for the Memphis Food Bank, and more than $21 million given to local organizations since its inception, the Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation is helping programs to serve Memphis youth.

The foundation’s Team Up program supports 35 organizations that are part of a Memphis mentoring partnership … (read more)