Grizzlies Community

Grizzlies Community

The Memphis Grizzlies are committed to making a difference in the lives of underserved families across the Mid-South region. Our broad areas of support include education, health and fitness, and service.

Education

The Memphis Grizzlies are dedicated to helping prepare Memphis students for success in college and career and avidly promote education and college preparedness through targeted academic enrichment initiatives.

Read to Achieve

Read to Achieve

The Memphis Grizzlies Read to Achieve Program (RTA) is an excellent way to encourage students to read and develop a love for reading.

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Memphis Grizzlies Scholars Program

Memphis Grizzlies Scholars Program

The mission of the Memphis Grizzlies Scholars Program is to increase the number of youth with access to academically rigorous, competitive high schools as a pathway to success in college and career.

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rePRESENT Every Day

rePRESENT Every Day

Presented by Delta Dental of Tennessee is an incentive-based truancy reduction program designed to keep youth in school, learning and engaged.

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Robert Pera Scholarship Application

The Pera Scholarship will incentivize high-potential, high aptitude, dynamic students with an opportunity to attend a first tier private or independent high school within Shelby County, TN and the larger Mid-South region. The prospective recipients of this scholarship will demonstrate talent, ability and great promise in science, technology, and mathematics, as well as a passion for a future career in STEM.

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Health & Fitness

Committed to creating a healthier Mid-South, the Grizzlies aim to increase access to health and fitness options, educating individuals about healthy life choices and inspiring individuals to make healthy decisions. In 2013, the Memphis Grizzlies became the first and only sports team to win the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition.

Grizz Fuel

Grizz Fuel

GrizzFuel educates youth on how to make proper decisions about their healthy habits with nutrition. It provides hands-on engagement that allows them to see and demonstrate the correlation between proper foods with increased energy levels, moods and improved immune systems and weight loss from the choices they make in their daily lives.

Girls Summit

Girls Summit

The Girls Summit presented by Nike, introduces young women to career opportunities available through competitive sports with hand-on demonstrations and panel discussions. The event exposes girls to a range of movement, non-traditional and traditional sports clinics with hands-on demonstrations and panel discussions with former and current professional athletes.

GrizzFit

GrizzFit

GrizzFit is a “no-experience necessary” fitness program, designed to introduce students to different forms of physical exercise while educating and challenging them to make healthier choices in their everyday lives. The Memphis Grizzlies will host a series of GrizzFit sessions in Shelby County throughout the academic year to combat lack of access to affordable physical activity opportunities. GrizzFit features three, 10-minute workouts that may include a body weight workout, yoga/meditation, dance, or any other exercise to promote access to exercise without barriers.

Service

Grizzlies Connect

By leveraging our brand, resources and partnerships, our goal is to strengthen and foster more vibrant communities and engaged individuals. Each year Grizzlies players, coaches and front office staff give back to the community through a variety of service driven projects.

MLK Day of Service 2023

In honor of MLK Day, volunteers participated in a service project supporting Springdale Elementary, a local “Memphis 13” school, in the refurbishment of its Family Resource Room, Teacher Prep Room, Teachers’ Lounge, and painting a Mural.

Grizzlies Connect End of Year Day of Service

Employee volunteers packed 600 snack kits for displaced LGBTQ+ youth and Welcome Home Bags for troops returning from overseas. Following the event was a Grizzlies Connect celebration where we recognized our most committed volunteers in the organization.

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