About Fast Fruits Cares.
Fast Fruits Cares is a Memphis, Tennessee-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization building pathways to economic mobility.
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Why we exist.
Memphis is full of talent: musicians and makers, students and founders, professionals and creatives with the drive to build. The city’s history proves it, and its neighborhoods carry it forward every day.
Work is changing quickly. Technology, AI, and the creative economy are redrawing how people earn, own, and grow. As work changes, access increasingly shapes who moves forward: access to tools, knowledge, mentorship, and networks.
Fast Fruits Cares exists to expand access across Memphis, connecting talent to opportunity and opportunity to economic mobility.
Access creates opportunity.
Opportunity creates economic mobility.
How we began.
An idea became a business. A business built a track record. That track record became the foundation for a mission.
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2011
The idea begins
The idea for Fast Fruit begins: customizable, healthy snack experiences built with care.
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2018
Fast Fruits LLC is established
Fast Fruit grows into a healthy snack company serving consumers, corporate events, sports teams, universities, conferences, and community organizations.
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2023
A championship season
Fast Fruit supplies customized snack packs for the University of Memphis men’s basketball team during its championship season. The company also serves as a vendor and hole sponsor for Penny Hardaway’s Memphis District Golf Classic and provides snack experiences for Historic Clayborn Temple and community events across Memphis.
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MARCH 2026
The mission is recognized
Fast Fruits Cares receives federal recognition as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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TODAY
The work continues
Fast Fruits LLC continues as the parent company. Fast Fruit travels as a specialty pop-up experience, and a portion of every purchase helps expand access through Fast Fruits Cares.
Led by Renisha Mayes.
founder & executive director
Renisha Mayes is a strategist, solopreneur, singer-songwriter, and producer whose career spans music, entertainment, technology, organizational development, and entrepreneurship.
Her work includes serving as General Manager of Made in Memphis Entertainment, the first Director of Supply Chain at Beatroot Music, and Administrative Business Manager for The Bar-Kays. She is the founder of Fast Fruits Consulting and serves as Founder and Executive Director of Fast Fruits Cares.
Mayes is also an active recording artist, songwriter, and producer. She operates Emerge Music Group, her independent record label, and Emerge Management Group, her music publishing company.
She is the author of Music Revenue Readiness: From Talent to Trade, a practical guide that helps independent artists and creatives build sustainable income from their work.
She is a Memphis Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree, Class of 2020, and was featured as the inaugural Executive of the Week by A2IM, the American Association of Independent Music, in 2020. She is a member of the Recording Academy, Moms in Music, Atlanta Chapter, and the Music Managers Forum Nashville Chapter.
That combination of creative and executive experience shapes how Fast Fruits Cares works: with the discipline of a company and the mission of a movement.
Building pathways to economic mobility.
Fast Fruits Cares brings together a clear purpose, a documented history, and people committed to moving the mission forward.
Fast Fruits Cares, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.