Data Points: Locally-focused Nonprofit Organizations
Number of locally-focused nonprofit organizations for selected metropolitan areas. The first column lists the number of nonprofits in each MSA and the second column is the...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 30, 2019 | Data Points
Number of locally-focused nonprofit organizations for selected metropolitan areas. The first column lists the number of nonprofits in each MSA and the second column is the...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 28, 2019 | Data Points, Talent
We have written before about how we are often hypnotized by our own hyperbole. It’s tempting to just dismiss the overstatements with comments like “fake it until you make it,” but the harsh reality is that the risk is that it...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 26, 2019 | Economic Development, Education
For too many years, University of Memphis has been taken for granted, but in today’s context of regional population decline, sluggish jobs growth, and one of the lowest percentage...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 22, 2019 | City of Memphis Government, Downtown Revitalization, Parks and Greening
The post below was published yesterday by the Brookings Institution – one of the nation’s leading think tanks – and written by Carol Coletta, acknowledged as one of the top 100 experts on cities and head of the...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 19, 2019 | Economic Development
At a time when our community is hungry for well-articulated economic development policies to inspire us, most comments only make us wince. We were reminded of this again a...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 15, 2019 | Downtown Revitalization, Parks and Greening
Note: There was a timely editorial in the New York Times a few days ago about the poisoning of our information system and the proliferation of conspiracies, false...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 12, 2019 | City of Memphis Government, Economic Development, Poverty, Shelby County government
For all the sturm and drang earlier this year about PILOTs and EDGE, it was in retrospect more of a pantomime whose actors already knew the script. Despite the ersatz...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 9, 2019 | City of Memphis Government
As I See It— By Jimmie Covington With Memphis City Council elections coming up in October, it is a good time to call on candidates to pledge to drop the unfair practice of declaring that actions of the council are not final...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 8, 2019 | Civil Rights, Neighborhoods
Circle your calendar for a special August 14 policy briefing by Dr. Andre Perry, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. His...
Read MorePosted by Smart City Memphis | Aug 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Eighty-eight year-old Nobel Prize winner and polymath Toni Morrison died yesterday. She was a writer of great wisdom and captivating prose. Some of her...
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Since 2005, this has been Smart City Consulting’s blog with the aim of connecting the dots and providing perspective on issues and policies shaping Memphis. Editor and primary author is Tom Jones, columnist, author of two books, and consultant on public policy. Smart City Memphis was called one of the most intriguing blogs in the U.S. by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change; The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal wrote that “Smart City Memphis provides some of the most well-thought-out thinking about Memphis’ past, present, and future you’ll find anywhere,” and the Memphis Flyer said: “This incredibly well-written blog sets out to solves the city’s ills – from the mayor to MATA – with out-of-the-box thinking, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ideas. If you have questions, submissions, or ideas for posts, please email Tom Jones, at tjones@smartcityconsulting.com.