Nehemiah Community Development
Individual and Family ServicesTennessee, United States0-1 Employees
Nehemiah Community Development is a small Memphis-based organization operating in the field of individual and family services. It pursues community-focused initiatives and partnerships to address poverty, food insecurity, and related social needs, with a program emphasis on urban leadership development. The group appears to have a very small internal staff. Its activities involve collaborating with nonprofit and community partners to deliver educational and leadership programs, such as Justified Anger: Black History for a New Day, created through alliances with groups including Second Harvest affiliates and the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development. The organization has also supported international development efforts, notably through a partnership with Treedom to introduce agroforestry in Kenya. In 2022, it launched a Worker-Owned Cooperative Startup Accelerator in collaboration with Gener8tor and the Madison Cooperative Development Coalition, illustrating an interest in cooperative economic development and local empowerment.