BrightStone, Inc.

Mission Statement

BrightStone provides comprehensive work, social support, and future residential community for adults with special needs expanding their potential and helping them develop mentally, physically, socially, emotionally and spiritually.

Buchanan Arts Inc

Mission Statement

To provide affordable, world-class art education to students of all ages, abilities and income levels in the historic heart of North Nashville. Buchanan Arts believes that all lives are improved through contact to art – some dramatically. We also believe that a city with affordable access to meaningful art education is a better place to live. Buchanan Arts increases access to high-quality visual art instruction. Buchanan Arts creates positive art experiences for students of all ages, abilities and income levels by offering affordable after school and continuing-ed programming led by top-notch instructors in professional grade facilities. The confidence and skills students gain will illuminate paths to rewarding careers in a wide array of creative fields and build self confidence through personal growth. Through rigorous programming with an emphasis on community access and engagement, Buchanan Arts will help elevate the arts in our city and take a position of leadership in affordable community-based education.

Building Lives Foundation

Mission Statement

Our mission is to eliminate homelessness among our country’s veterans. We do this by providing assistance to veterans who are on the verge of going homeless through our Homeless Prevention Program. Through Project Advance, our program to transition homeless veterans to sustained independent living, we also seek to reduce the population of veterans who are homeless or incarcerated, by providing the opportunities necessary for a successful re-entry into society to those veterans who have made a decision to change their lives. We do this in gratitude to those who have given so much of themselves to preserve the freedoms we so greatly enjoy.