We are doing a spotlight on each City Hackathon challenge topic leading up to the big event! Our second challenge is improving transportation access for workforce development, sponsored by B.R. Distilling Company-Blue Note Bourbon. Learn more about the root causes, potential solution ideas and wide variety of skills you can contribute here: https://lnkd.in/ehsecF-B
Innovate Memphis
Civic and Social Organizations
Memphis, TN 994 followers
Delivering Civic Solutions
About us
We develop initiatives, nurture partnerships and incubate solutions to move Memphis forward. We work with diverse stakeholders to collaborate across public, private and non-profit sectors to develop and deliver bold solutions to pressing urban challenges and deliver impactful, sustained change. Innovate Memphis currently works in four main priority areas, City Innovation Projects, Reimagining the Civic Commons, Transportation and Mobility, and we serve as the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership partner for the region, delivering data resources, analysis, and capacity-building to local place-based organizations. City innovation projects have included innovations in city service delivery, homes and neighborhoods, blight, parks advocacy, and reducing demand on emergency medical resources. We previously incubated MEMFix, MEMShop, MEMMobile programs to improve neighborhood economic vitality.
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http://innovatememphis.com/
External link for Innovate Memphis
- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Memphis, TN
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2012
- Specialties
- innovation, insights and strategy, problem solving, facilitation, research, and urban planning
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516 Tennessee St
Memphis, TN 38103, US
Employees at Innovate Memphis
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We are doing a spotlight on each City Hackathon challenge topic leading up to the big event! Our first challenge is tackling blight and improving neighborhoods, sponsored by Allworld Project Management. Learn more about the root causes, potential solution ideas and wide variety of skills you can contribute here: https://lnkd.in/ePCv7vKz
Tackling Blight at the 2024 City Hackathon
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ICYMI: Executive Director Jessica Lotz recently joined Action News 5's Digital Desk to talk about the upcoming City of Memphis Hackathon on November 15-17. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/evmYGHaJ If you want to be part of the Hackathon, here are the links to: >Join a Hackathon team: https://lnkd.in/eHUytxBq >Volunteer behind the scenes: https://givepul.se/5wtwoy
Digital Desk: City of Memphis to host 2024 City Hackathon
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🚨🚨🚨We have TWO exciting announcements about our City Hackathon, now just three weeks away! 🚨🚨🚨 1) Thanks to our generous sponsors, we will offer a cash prize of $2,000 to one team with the best overall solution and $1,000 to three teams with the best solution for each challenge (blight, workforce transportation, and AI/Smart City technology). Don't miss your chance to register and win big: https://lnkd.in/eHUytxBq 2) Our behind-the-scenes volunteer signup is now live on Volunteer Odyssey too! Sign up for a role and time slot here to help the event run smoothly: https://givepul.se/5wtwoy Thanks to our Terabyte Sponsor Malasri Engineering, PLLC and sponsors Ting Internet, B.R. Distilling Company-Blue Note Bourbon, Allworld Project Management, Blue Suede Networks, Adams Keegan, Inc. and FedEx Institute of Technology for supporting this celebration of Memphis talent and ideas!
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Congratulations to Innovate's Transportation & Mobility Director, Jackson McNeil, for joining the Memphis Area Transit Authority Board of Commissioners! Get to know more of Jackson's work through our Transit Funding White Paper published earlier this year: https://lnkd.in/d2Ndyz2G
Introducing the Memphis Area Transit Authority's newest Board Members. These individuals bring a wealth of experience across industries that will help shape the future of public transportation in Memphis. Please join us in welcoming: -Brandon Arrindale, Senior Analyst & Principal, Southeastern Asset Management -Cynthia Bailey, Member, Memphis Bus Riders Union -Emily Greer, CEO, Greer Leadership Solutions, LLC -Sandi Klink, Former Executive Director, Memphis Center for Independent Living -Brian Marflak, VP of Global Planning, Engineering, Research, & Technology, FedEx -Jackson McNeil, Transportation and Mobility Director, Innovate Memphis -Anna McQuiston, Executive Director, MidSouth Development District Dana Pointer, CEO, Preserver Partners Maya Siggers, Associate General Counsel, Edward Jones
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One month from today, you (yes, you!) could be helping the City of Memphis develop new solutions to challenges like blight, transportation access for workforce, and unlocking the potential of new AI and Smart City technology at our City Hackathon. Learn more and sign up here! >Register to join a Hackathon team: https://lnkd.in/eHUytxBq >Help behind the scenes: https://lnkd.in/enew4bwm >Learn more: https://hackmemphis.com/
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We are thrilled to be among the Memphis partners making sure residents get the most out of the tremendous investments in our local parks and public spaces! Thanks to Reimagining the Civic Commons for continuing to invest in public assets with proven results in bringing more people together across diverse communities and backgrounds. Read all about it 👇
📣 Exciting news: National funders and local leaders recommit to the civic commons. 📣 Today, we are announcing new investments in civic spaces nationwide to address loneliness and nurture trust. Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/eYDVkzya THE JPB FOUNDATION Knight Foundation The Kresge Foundation Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition City of Akron, Ohio Live6 Alliance - Detroit City of Detroit Invest Detroit Memphis River Parks Partnership Innovate Memphis Overton Park Conservancy Heights CDC City of Memphis Downtown Memphis Commission Memphis Public Library Memphis Library Foundation Fairmount Park Conservancy Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Bartram's Garden CENTENNIAL PARKSIDE CDC STRAWBERRY MANSION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC Environmental Initiative Macon-Bibb County Consolidated Government Blue Grass Community Foundation CivicLex Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) Tri-State Trails Downtown Camden NJ Guadalupe River Park Conservancy #civicinfrastructure #publicspace #trust #connection #CivicCommonsUS
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🚨 🚨 🚨 EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 🚨 🚨 Innovate Memphis is partnering with City of Memphis on a city-wide #Hackathon November 15-17 at The University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology! We are looking for great minds to develop new solutions to address neighborhood blight, improve transportation for workforce opportunities, and leverage new #AI and #SmartCity technology. Register to join a Hackathon team: https://lnkd.in/eHUytxBq Help behind the scenes: https://lnkd.in/enew4bwm Learn more: https://hackmemphis.com/
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Thanks to our Civic Data Forum presenters Amanda O’Meara (City of Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development) and Adam Nelson (CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES INC), our host Church Health, and all of the Memphis-area data experts and champions who braved the rain today! If you are in the Memphis area and want to join our quarterly Civic Data Forum invites and mailing list, contact us at [email protected] #civicdata
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Today's the day! Join us at 6pm at the Hickory Hill Community Center where we will host Memphis Area Transit Authority's Transforming Transit community meeting:
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