In the mid-90s, founders Don and Nancy Bassett combined their love of archaeology with their passion for the Bible and formed a unique vision for an independent, non-denominational museum of the Bible. The vision began to take hold through a series of meetings around the kitchen table of founding board member, B’Lou Carter. Subsequent travels to Bible lands and negotiations with institutions like the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London led to the acquisition of a fine collection of archaeological artifacts and exact full-sized replicas of major archaeological discoveries from Bible lands. In 1997, the doors of the Biblical Resource Center & Museum were opened in Collierville, Tennessee. Today, visitors come from around the globe to this museum on what Parade Magazine has called “America’s Finest Main Street” on Collierville’s historic town square.

Learn more: http://www.biblemuseumonthesquare.org

Mempops are delicious hand-crafted pops that are as unique and genuine as the city for which they are named.

Learn more: http://www.mempops.com/

Bruce Elementary School prepares children to become confident lifelong learners, creative problem solvers, and responsible citizens in their communities and in the world.

Learn more: https://schools.scsk12.org/bruce-es/about/

Southern Polished is a Nashville, Tennessee area family-owned business that is steeped in Southern tradition and with a devoted appreciation for the elegance of that Southern tradition as expressed by superior style and dedicated craftsmanship.

Following college graduation, Trent Potter began his post-college business career in Nashville, but eager to express his entrepreneurial ambitions, Trent left his job in the corporate business world and made his long-held dream of opening his own business a reality. In 2012, Southern Polished was launched. A skilled artisan, Trent's brother, Heath Potter, soon left his role as a Nashville Public Schools educator to join the fledgling business. It wasn't long before the brothers were joined by their father, Norman Potter, a retired USAF colonel, who left his post-military job as a Nashville-area corporate vice-president to join in the excitement of the newly-formed business. Southern Polished had become a Potter Family affair! Two generations of Potters combined their business, artistic and managerial expertise and enthusiastically ventured forth as Nashville's newest high quality shoemakers, with the intention of expanding their handcrafted sandals throughout the South—and the nation.

The emblem of Southern Polished, a thoroughbred horse, was selected as the company emblem to represent their Southern heritage, commitment to superior quality, as well as the timeless and classic styling of every sandal made.

Handcrafted in Nashville, Tennessee, each sandal is made using the same methods as has been used in Italy for years. Most styles are able to be recrafted, thus giving you years of enjoyment.

Southern Polished has been featured in publications—as well as being featured in fine boutiques, retail stores and high-end hotels. Southern Polished can thank much of its success to the Potters’ devotion to the production of hand-crafted and superior quality sandals that will endure through the years of wearing.

Learn more→ https://www.southernpolished.com/

Mid-TN Supported Living is a small not for profit agency that supports nearly 30 people with intellectual disabilities. Mid-TN provides a wide array of services, which include Supported Living, Community Based Day, Nursing and Supported Employment.

Learn more→ http://www.midtn.org/

The Onsite Foundation provides funding to vulnerable populations including veterans, first responders, low income individuals and front-line helping professionals. This aids in the healing and rebuilding of those who struggle from the effects of trauma, abuse, stress, mental-health and relationship issues.

They work with Nashville based Onsite Workshops and their life-changing programs by providing scholarships to participants who would not otherwise receive the experience of emotional freedom.

Learn more→ https://theonsitefoundation.com

Mother To Mother is a nonprofit that provides vital health, safety and wellness items for infants and children in need by working with a special network of social workers, nurses, social service agencies and local hospitals.

They distribute diapers, car seats, clothes, cribs, strollers, and other essential baby items to low-income children from newborns to age 10.

Learn more→ https://mothertomotherinc.org/

The Salvation Army has been many things over the years as communities’ needs have changed over the years, but today, the focus of the Nashville Salvation Army is to fight poverty and prevent homelessness in our community through a myriad of comprehensive programs designed to bring a holistic approach to the individual’s or family’s need.

#RedKettleChallenge: For $1,000, you can provide one month of housing and food for a single man or women experiencing homelessness in your community. Through our Supportive Housing program, these individuals are actively working there way out of homelessness and into housing. Individuals exactly like Janice. Will you take the challenge to change a life?

Learn more: http://salvationarmynashville.org/

Bishop David A. Hall Sr. has embraced a theme that reflects a nonprofit group’s resolve to more directly affect the course of revitalization in the inner-city section of South Memphis that is re-emerging as South City.

“South City, can we have a Life Together?” That’s the theme associated with the Life Together 501 (c) 3, which Hall champions as pastor of historic Temple Church Of God In Christ (COGIC).

The City of Memphis is moving forward on its $250 million South City revitalization project, which includes a remake of the area that housed the Foote Homes and Cleaborn Homes housing developments.

Temple COGIC – known as the Mother Church – looks west toward Booker T. Washington High School and is next door to a boarded-up facility that has served the community in multiple incarnations, most recently as the Martin Luther King Center and Boys & Girls Club.

Hall has presented city officials with plans designed to breathe life into the vacant structures. The plans feature a cybercafé, medical clinic, senior citizens’ initiatives, a community theatre, youth initiatives and an entrepreneurial school.

“Life Together envisions a facility that will embrace and enhance the changing environment of the area and the diverse cultural needs of South City,” Hall said. “Life Together will be a thriving community renaissance project.”

United Housing works to support sustainable homeownership throughout West Tennessee by providing homebuyer education, foreclosure prevention counseling, affordable lending products and construction services.

UHI has helped nearly 10,000 families resulting in more than a $500 million economic impact on Memphis and the Mid-South.

Learn more→ http://www.uhinc.org