Why should we care?
SCS’s ability to provide a quality, equitable education is being undercut by high teacher turnover and year-long teaching vacancies, as well as significant maintenance deficiencies within the schools, all of which leads to higher financial, educational, and health costs. A lack of access to wraparound services provided by qualified social workers, psychologists, and nurses inhibits the successful treatment of trauma or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). Abuse, neglect, and trauma significantly increase the likelihood of suspensions, juvenile criminal behavior, and incarceration. With a median age four years below the national average, Memphis’s population can support economic development, but only if we provide children in our community access to opportunities and support.
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Equipping people of faith and goodwill to organize communities for systemic change through collective action.
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Executive Director
Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope (MICAH) equips people of faith
and goodwill to organize communities for systemic change through collective
action. MICAH is a coalition of faith, labor, and community organizations
partnering for power and acting for equity in Memphis and Shelby County. We are
an “organization of organizations,” joining together to give a more powerful voice
for issues of justice--guided by our shared faith and values.
We seek a MICAH Executive Director to mobilize and lead the MICAH mission in
action and build the power of the organization using the Gamaliel methodology of
organizing people and organizing money.
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Interested candidates, please email your resume to HR@micahmemphis.org