The Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence will hold a workshop Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at its office, 5100 Poplar Ave., suite 502. Participants will learn about the importance of honesty and its impact on organizations and people. Cost is $99 for members, $150 for nonmembers and $89 for those in the Program for Nonprofit Excellence. For more information, visit www.npexcellence.org.

Greater Memphis Employee Benefits Council will meet Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crescent Center, 6075 Poplar Ave. The topic is “How Healthcare Reform Will Affect Your Clients.” Cost is $30 for nonmembers and guests. To register, call Leigh Ann Alexander at 820-5829 or leighann.alexander@fedex.com.

Leadership Memphis will hold its annual Leadership Memphis Community Leadership Luncheon Thursday at 11:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis, 3700 Central Ave. Tickets are $50 per person. For tickets, contact Leadership Memphis at 278-0016 or rsvp@leadershipmemphis.org.

Rhodes College will host a talk by Chris Bridges, West Tennessee program director for the Nature Conservancy, Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the Blount Auditorium of Buckman Hall. Bridges will discuss the conservancy’s innovative floodplain and river conservation work in West Tennessee. The talk is free and open to the public.

The Memphis/Mid-South Area Pulmonary Hypertension Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at Logan’s Roadhouse, 2710 N. Germantown Parkway. For more information, call Barbara Thompson at 251-1023.

WKNO will present a screening and discussion of the documentary “Freedom Riders” Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the University Theater on the campus of Christian Brothers University, 650 East Parkway S. For more information, call Michele Phillips at 452-1776.

The Rotary Club of Memphis Central will meet Friday from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Chickasaw Country Club, 3395 Galloway Ave. Philip Johnson and Tom Merriam, partners at Argyle Benefits Consultants, will speak. Cost is $25 for guests. For reservations, call Karen Shea at 683-9099.

Gallery Fifty Six will host a reception for artist Madison Sherman’s “Back to Canvas” Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., 2256 Central Ave. Sherman’s work can be viewed Wednesday through Friday from noon to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 276-1251 or visit www.galleryfiftysix.com.

Memphis City School Board Commissioner Kenneth Whalum Jr. will hold his second town hall meeting for teachers Friday at 5:30 p.m. at 3084 Southern Ave. Teachers, parents and students are encouraged to attend.