Imagine Memphis^tm is an organization that helps persons develop their imagination as city creators. It offers everyone, especially young persons, the opportunity to invest themselves in the city's future.

Imagine Memphis works in partnership with individuals and local organizations; schools, museums, churches, businesses, and community groups. Together, they design and implement innovative civic projects that build meaningful connections across generations and cultures and have lasting institutional and community impact.

Imagine Memphis encourages individuals and organizations to focus constructively on their capacities and opportunities to make a difference as they:

Imagine Memphis’s work encompasses a variety of initiatives but reflects three core processes. Each process focuses participant’s efforts by asking constructive questions that draw out the best of the past and build on that foundation to design and create a more vital future.

• dialogue – across cultural, racial, economic and generational boundaries.
• curriculum development – frameworks and organizers to understand, imagine and create projects that build community.
• network formation – to link individuals and organizations committed to developing a positive future for Memphis’s children.

Imagine Memphis identifies change agents in organizations, institutions and communities and gives them development tools and opportunities to make a difference. Imagine Memphis creates personal development opportunities that inspire, inform and can sustain lasting institutional, community and systemic change. Through its many collaborations, Imagine Memphis builds intergenerational and intercultural networks of individuals and organizations committed to developing a vital city-wide community.