Lucy McFadden's Fundraiser
Disrupt Poverty in Memphis
Invest in Slingshot Memphis!
Helen Wagner
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Elizabeth Truelove
"Atta baby!!"
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Jenna Levine
"Way to go Lucy! "
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Clayton Sachs
"You are the best Lucy! "
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Franklin Foster
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Marc Palatucci
"Thanks for being my pace car!"
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Brook Stroud
"Go Get Em Lucy! "
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Polly Silverman
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karen coxe
"go lucy!!"
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Justin Miller
"This world needs more Lucys!"
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Hollis Blair
"Run strong, Lucy! This is for a great cause! Holly and Hy Blair"
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Audrey Cadwallader
"You must be so excited all that training is coming to an end and your about to embark on this journey! "
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A supporter of Lucy McFadden
"Run, Lucy, run ! Jane and Charles Slatery"
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janet Miller
"Good Luck - you will do great!!"
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lily stroud
"Hurray!! Will be out there cheering for you XX "
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Colleen Coxe
"Good luck Lucy! "
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Annie McFadden
" Go, Lucy! Go, Mom!"
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Jane McDo
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Will Fadrhonc
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Alexandra Stevenson
"Go, Luc! Happy to support you and Memphis :)"
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Brendan Regan
"Good luck, Lucy! Run like the wind!"
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Bettina Terfloth
"Good luck to you, Lucy, we'll be thinking of you that day as you run for this great cause!"
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Victoria and Peter Philip
"Go Lucy!"
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Tiah Rubin
"Run Lucy, run! "
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James Talbot
"Good lucky Lucy! "
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Elizabeth Armstrong
"Good luck, Lucy!!!"
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Jake McFadden
"We are proud of Lucy and her lovely mother! Enjoy the race!!!"
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Join me in investing in Slingshot to disrupt poverty in Memphis, TN by supporting me in the New York City Marathon in 5 days!
My mom, Harriet McFadden, has committed her life to helping the city of Memphis. As a founding Board Director of Slingshot, she has been working with her colleagues to build and sustain the organization since late 2016. Slingshot aims to create a demonstrable reduction in poverty by promoting a results-driven poverty-fighting ecosystem.
Slingshot applies quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify, fund, and accelerate a portfolio of organizations with highly effective solutions that improve the quality of life for Memphians living in poverty.
Knowing that many of the partner organizations require additional, ongoing streams of revenue to maximize poverty alleviating outcomes, Slingshot recruits investors to join the IMPACT Fund. This fund allows Slingshot to aggregate dollars, mobilizing every level of donor from 1 dollar to $10 million. Every cent of every dollar invested in the IMPACT Fund directly benefits Slingshot's portfolio of poverty fighters. In 2017, Slingshot invested $500,000 in their partner organizations. Before year-end, Slingshot is working to raise and invest an additional $1 million.
Poverty and Memphis have been tightly linked for too long. For years, Memphis has hovered at or near the top of many national poverty rankings. The following statistics accurately describe Memphis today, but they need not be predictors of Memphis tomorrow.
- Memphis ranks #2 among 53 cities with populations greater than 1,000,000, in child poverty.
- Memphis ranks #2 among 53 cities with populations greater than 1,000,000, in overall poverty.
- 175,000 MEMPHIANS LIVE IN POVERTY
This is larger than the population of Chattanooga, TN.
- 76,000 MEMPHIS CHILDREN LIVE IN POVERTY
This exceeds the capacity of the University of Memphis football stadium by 15,000 people.
- 19,000 OPPORTUNITY YOUTH IN MEMPHIS
This is the highest proportion of 16 to 24-year-olds of any city in the US that are not in school or not working.
I am running the NYC Marathon in less than one week, and I want to run it to support Memphians. I am in awe of this organization and its commitment to disrupting the cycle of poverty in Memphis. Join me!