Case Studies

Metro Nashville Airport Authority

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Earth Hour Nashville 2009

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How do you convince hundreds of Music City businesses, owners of major buildings and residents to turn off all nonessential lights for one hour on a busy March Saturday night?

Nashville Health Care Council

4/14/2009
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Nashville for All of Us Special Election Campaign

4/14/2009
For two years, a group in Nashville worked to make English the only permissible language for use by Metro government. Tapping into public anger over immigration issues, Metropolitan Nashville Council ...

Job Corps

8/22/2008
In 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program faced a problem in the Southeast: how to recruit more age- and income-appropriate students to the program’s education and job ...

Meth Destroys

7/29/2008
In September 2005, the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference retained MP&F to conduct a statewide anti-methamphetamine campaign. There were multiple objectives: to educate and inform the public, particularly school-age youth, ...

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Book'em Celebrates 21st Annual Read Me Day

2/26/2010

Book’em, a local children’s literacy organization, celebrated its 21st annual Read Me Day at Caldwell Enhanced Option Elementary School today. Read Me Day is Book’em’s annual celebration of the importance and fun of reading.

Mayor Karl Dean and school board member Gracie Porter were among those on hand to read to the students, and award-winning children’s songwriter Farmer Jason entertained the crowd. Each student received a new book as a part of the day’s activities.

Book’em is a local, nonprofit, children’s literacy organization focusing on two core areas: providing volunteer readers to local preschools and elementary schools, and collecting and distributing new books to children and teens in lower-income families who might not otherwise have books of their own. The organization’s mission is to inspire the love of books and reading in all children. Programs include Reading is Fundamental (RIF), Ready for Reading, The Dorothy Goldstein Memorial Library Without Walls and Biblioteca sin paredes. For more information please visit www.bookem-kids.org.

Photo 1: MP&F vice president and Book’em board member Alice Chapman reads to a class.

Photo 2: WKRN’s Christine Madella reads with a group of students.

Photo 3: Event chairwomen Judi Hartbarger and Kathy Edson with principal Michael Ross.

Photo 4: Book’em board president Kristi Gillis with school board member Gracie Porter.

Photo 5: Mayor Dean and Arthur read during Read Me Day.

Photo 6: Fox 17’s Scott Couch participates in Read Me Day.