MemWorks research was recently cited in support of two of Mayor Young's transition team recommendations. Workforce mobility and access to high-quality jobs with career growth opportunities that lift...
The theme of The SPARK February 2024 is “Research, Conservation and Restoration”. Host Jeremy C. Park interviews Jared Barnett, CEO of Slingshot Memphis, about MemWorks, a collaboration with MDRC...
According to Slingshot’s research, there are about 100,000 Memphians experiencing poverty that need academic remediation to successfully secure and retaining a living-wage job...
Lasting reductions in crime require us to address the root causes and broken systems perpetuating the cycle...
On a quiet dead-end street on the edge of Central Gardens, 16 people are working on what could be called our community’s Manhattan Project with the potential to change the world as we know it...
Jared and John provide insights on five of the most significant Roadblocks MemWorks has identified and how we can help address them...
Slingshot Memphis announced the MemWorks Initiative aimed at understanding the gap between local employers’ struggle to hire and retain workers while hundreds of thousands are under-employed...
Jared Barnett of Slingshot Memphis and John Martinez of MDRC highlight MemWorks collaborative effort...
We need to use research, data, analysis and experiences to understand the challenges and design evidence-based solutions...
