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~~October 04, 2019~~

~~Former NFL player speaks to Bolivar Central High School students~~

“I want them to know that they can achieve whatever they want to achieve in life, no matter what they’re going through, if they reach out for help,” Horn said.

~~September 20, 2019~~

~~Ex-CNM chief of staff lands education nonprofit job~~

Communities In Schools of Tennessee has announced that former Center for Nonprofit Management official Samantha Wigand will serve as the organization’s CEO effective Oct. 15.

~~March 14, 2019~~

~~Amazon paying for local professor to begin building talent pipeline~~

Amazon.com Inc. will spend $800,000 to endow a computer science professor at one of Nashville's historically black colleges and universities.

~~March 12, 2019~~

~~Amazon donates to Nashville's Communities In Schools, Project Return~~

Amazon might not be in Nashville just yet, but the business is making an early contribution to organizations that serve the city's schools and individuals newly released from prison.

~~February 21, 2018~~

~~EDUCATION CONVERSATIONS: Community Schools with Alison McArthur and Hank Clay~~

Listen to the latest episode of Education Conversations to hear Hank Clay and Alison McArthur discuss the community schools model and how CISTN and Community Achieves are transforming education here in Nashville.

LISTEN HERE

~~February 07, 2018~~

~~Communities In Schools of Tennessee is Working in Memphis~~

Today, CISTN serves 10,000 students at 20 schools in the Shelby County Schools and Achievement Schools District. It’s what Sonji Branch, executive director of CISTN at Memphis, calls tremendous and unprecedented growth in a short time, but something that also speaks to why CISTN’s efforts are needed here in Memphis.

~~January 02, 2018~~

~~Solving chronic absenteeism in schools is an integrated effort~~

Hank Clay, CEO of Communities In Schools of Tennessee, and Dale Erquiaga, president and CEO of Communities In Schools, share the importance of reducing chronic absenteeism in Tennessee.

~~August 15, 2017~~

~~Seeing generational poverty as a condition that can be treated~~

Before she became a Program Manager at our Memphis affiliate she was a single mom living in poverty, looking for childcare for her children. She was under-educated, unemployed and unfulfilled. But Nataline Purdy was a woman full of potential and promise and dreams.

~~August 01, 2017~~

~~Communities In Schools of Tennessee taps Clay as CEO~~

Communities In Schools of Tennessee, the state office of a dropout prevention program, has named Hank Clay as its new chief executive officer.

~~April 19, 2017~~

~~Nashville community completes more than 32k pushups to support education~~

On April 1, Communities In Schools of Tennessee (CISTN) raised over $22,000 during its inaugural Nashville Pushup Challenge fundraiser. The funds will go toward dropout prevention strategies for at-risk Nashville students.

~~January 07, 2017~~

~~David Waters: 'Slingshot' takes aim at chronic poverty~~

Communities in Schools of TN at Memphis selected to join Slingshot Memphis, a philanthropic venture that takes aim at chronic poverty by presenting it as an investment opportunity, along with Advance Memphis, LeBonheur's Nurse-Family Partnership and the Salvation Army's Purdue Center of Hope.

~~September 21, 2016~~

~~Why it’s hard to get students to come to class — and what one Memphis school is doing about it~~

How CISTN and Riverview School are working to lower chronic absenteeism.

~~July 26, 2016~~

~~Communities In Schools Helping Children In Shelby County~~

Memphis Affiliate Director, Sonji Branch, joins Bev Johnson to discuss CISTN.

~~July 14, 2016~~

~~Meet Communities In Schools of Tennessee State Board Member, Malika Anderson~~

Malika Anderson is the superintendent of the Achievement School District, where she oversees all schools, district-managed and charter-operated, in their turnaround from performing in the bottom 5% in the state to performing in the top 25% in Tennessee.

~~July 13, 2016~~

~~Communities In Schools at Memphis supports students through local partnerships~~

Three years ago, Communities In Schools came to Memphis and is partnering with local organizations to support a students’ academic success.

~~July 06, 2016~~

~~Communities In Schools of TN is a finalist in the 2016 Skanska Educational Enhancement Salute to Excellence Award~~

Each fall, CNM honors Middle Tennessee nonprofits with the Salute to Excellence awards dinner – the largest nonprofit awards event in the country. As a part of CNM’s 30th anniversary year, the 2016 Salute to Excellence event is building up to be the largest event yet. Save the date – this year’s Salute will take place on October 18, 2016 at the Omni Nashville Hotel.

Communities In Schools of TN is honored to be a finalist for the Skanska Educational Enhancement Award along with Conexión Américas and Homework Hotline.

Click the button below to see a full list of the finalists and read more about the event.

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~~July 06, 2016~~

~~Fox13 School Supply Drive to benefit Communities In Schools~~

Fox13 has partnered with Communities in Schools of Tennessee to host a series of school supply drives in Memphis throughout the month of July.

~~June 30, 2016~~

~~Communities In Schools of Tennessee welcomes new Director for Nashville Affiliate!~~

Communities In Schools of Tennessee hires liaison.

~~December 27, 2015~~

~~Bipartisanship Helps Students~~

Anne Weber, CEO/State Director, pens Letter to the Editor regarding the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act.

~~November 05, 2015~~

~~Communities In Schools of Tennessee at Memphis expands its work to 13 new schools~~

Program Adds Counselors to impoverished Memphis Schools.

~~October 26, 2015~~

~~New impact report highlights cost-effective solutions to address poverty’s effect of student achievement in Tennessee~~

See the results of our work in school year 2015-16.

CLICK HERE

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