Our Mission
MAM's mission is to help build Godly youth in under-resourced neighborhoods by teaching them to love God, love others and love self, thereby positively impacting their families and neighborhood.
Our faith-based programs are designed and delivered with the goal of positively changing the life of each youth through:
• Improved spiritual growth – Love God
• Improved relationships with others – Love Others
• Improved personal behavior – Love Self
“Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind...love your neighbor as yourself.”
MAM Highlights
MAM is pleased to report the following accomplishments for 2010:
• Our average daily after school attendance has climbed to over 1,200 youth.
• All 12 neighborhood centers now have fully functioning computer labs and all of our youth have online access to their personal web-based banking/shopping accounts.
• 1,100 youths actively participated in small mentoring groups, over 900 in academic enrichment and over 800 in Bible studies.
• The top 1,000 neighborhood participants average 2.7 contacts with MAM staff each week.
• Over 9,500 youth visited a MAM neighborhood center in 2010.
• In its fourth year, our Summer Academy program expanded to eight locations all over urban Memphis with more than 400 rising fourth through eighth-grade boys and girls attending.
• A new partnership with Memphis Teacher Residency is enhancing MAM’s academic efforts by supplying certified teachers with a heart for Christian inner city ministry.
• A new partnership with ArtsMemphis is giving our youth exposure to theater, museums, and many other cultural opportunities.
MAM Story
1998
The Memphis Leadership Foundation (MLF)'s vision for a ministry that promoted the ideals of sportsmanship and a Christian ideal of living to urban, at risk youth became a reality with the founding of Memphis Athletic Ministries (MAM). MAM initially served a small population of urban youth through one-time activities.
2001
Community sports activities initiated to entire community epitomize MAM's desire to foster unity among diverse segments of the community. MAM recognizes that putting youth in non-traditional neighborhoods in a fun-loving, safe atmosphere helps them see sameness, not differences.
2003
With the completion of the Memphis Grizzlies Athletic Center, the dream of a multipurpose building with basketball courts and meeting rooms to provide underserved youth with a nurturing environment was fulfilled. The MAM Park Golf Course was also opened as another avenue for broadening life experiences for urban youth and teaching them the Gospel.
2005-2010
MAM added twelve new neighborhood youth centers strategically located in under-served communities throughout Memphis.
Today
Today MAM serves over 1,200 youth daily (9,000+ annually) in its after school and summer programs at 14 neighborhood youth centers and 8,000+ youth in our community-wide sports activities. As one of the foremost youth-development organizations in Memphis, MAM has 42 full-time employees, countless volunteers and 144 community partners.
