Service First: Memphis Nonprofits Struggle to Balance Client Needs With Funding Shortages

By Tom Wilemon

September 14, 2009, The Memphis Daily News — Rahema Barber gazed into the void of the Power House. It looked as though all the art had been wiped away: blank walls, empty rooms and silent space.

What had been a center of creative energy was about to become a shuttered building once again – just six years after the nonprofit Delta Axis had transformed the old coal plant into a venue for contemporary art and film.