Sandy Smegelsky was outraged. Eighteen Memphis-area institutions for the elderly didn't reply when the Shelby County Election Commission asked if residents wanted to vote in the March school- merger referendum. I just can't believe that they're that nonresponsive to the Election Commission. That is scary," said Smegelsky, who advocates for the rights of residents in the region's long-term care facilities as district ombudsman for Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association.
The thoughtful and dedicated Margaret Craddock is leaving the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association, the agency she has served for nearly three decades, the past 13 years as executive director. It's a good time for a transition," Craddock, 64, said with typical understatement and some irony.
...She believes deeply in MIFA's interfaith mission to provide a way for people to put aside t...
MIFA, the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association, has received a $100,000 grant from the Plough Foundation to replace six of its vehicles. The vehicles will be used in MIFA's Meals on Wheels and Transit programs. MIFA is expected to save $20,000 on repair costs by replacing these vehicles.
Sally Jones Heinz, a lifelong Memphian and longtime leader of local nonprofit organizations, is the new executive director of the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association. Heinz, MIFA's vice president of development since 2007, will succeed her boss, Margaret Craddock, who announced her departure last November after leading MIFA for 13 years.
By day, Sharon Wilson answers phones and sets up meetings for directors at FedEx Services Inc. In her off time, she delivers meals to the elderly for the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association, works on Habitat for Humanity houses , and builds decks, pressure washes, paints and tiles for "all those little babies" at Hope House.
The Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association will present a weekly series of free programs on world religions. One Light, Many Colors," to be held each Thursday from July 21- Aug. 18, is designed to promote dialogue and understanding among people of all faiths.
Most of the time, the chats Mae Pearl Pigue has with her 81-year- old minister friend are quite pleasant. Pigue, a volunteer for the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) "senior companion" program, makes regular home visits to do errands and shoot the breeze with her client, Rev. Jackie Knight.
Robert Patrick Dempsey was a man committed to social change in an era that demanded it. Mr. Dempsey prepared himself for the task, and beginning with the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association in the 1970s spent a lifetime working for change he envisioned for Memphis.
... to serve at a University of Tennessee interfaith center in Memphis brought him to a city still reel...
It seems community service projects are becoming as popular as corporate retreats in the world of employee team building, and that's good news for nonprofit organizations that rely on corporate volunteers as well as on corporate dollars. Some 75 Memphis-area Aramark employees descended last week on Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association's Estival Place and Memphis Grizzlies Place, transitional housing complexes for homeless families.
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