Sponsor Profiles

ArtsMemphis

Known around the world for its blues and rock and roll, Memphis has a recognizable special vibe. ArtsMemphis exists to nurture this unique character and to magnify the city’s creative voice.

ArtsMemphis is a 45-year-old arts funding organization (the sixth largest in the United States), which provides operating and project support to 27 arts groups. The ArtsMemphis tagline is “your support matters” and indeed it does. As major fundraisers, grant-makers and arts promoters in the city, ArtsMemphis contributed more than $4 million to the Memphis arts community in 2007, and it is a fact that 95 cents of every dollar raised in their annual campaign is directed to their funded organizations. ArtsMemphis builds partnerships among artists, arts groups, donors, educators and culture lovers throughout the city and region. Recognizing that a lively arts scene has a major economic impact and is essential to the quality of life in Memphis, ArtsMemphis is encouraging the entire community to interact with the arts like never before. The current enhanced website with its expanded calendar of events has been introduced with that goal in mind.

 For more information on ArtsMemphis visit their website at www.artsmemphis.org.

AutoZone

To learn more about AutoZone visit their website at www.autozone.com.

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation

Regarded as one of the premier health care systems in the nation, Baptist Memorial Health Care is an award-winning network dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality care for patients. With 15 affiliate hospitals throughout the Mid-South, Baptist combines convenience with excellence of care -- two reasons they have been named among the top health care systems in the country for several years. With the intention of caring for people close to their homes, the Baptist system also offers more than 3,100 affiliated physicians; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by the Baptist College of Health Sciences.  

To learn more about Baptist Memorial Healthcare Corporation visit their website at http://www.baptistonline.org/.

Burch, Porter & Johnson, PLLC

Burch, Porter & Johnson, one of the oldest law firms in Tennessee, engages in a highly-diversified litigation and business practice. The firm is ranked #1 in the state of Tennessee for Bet-the-Company Litigation and #1 in Memphis in Environmental Law by Best Lawyers. Since its founding over 100 years ago, the firm has maintained a tradition of involvement in the legal and community affairs of the region. Burch, Porter & Johnson’s principal office is located in downtown Memphis in buildings named to the National Register of Historic Places. For more information about Burch, Porter & Johnson, visit www.bpjlaw.com.

First Tennessee Foundation

Since 1864, First Tennessee has been committed to the customers and communities we serve. In addition to providing financial services and solutions, we demonstrate that commitment through community investment. Our company established a private charitable foundation in 1993 to support nonprofit organizations in the communities we serve. Because art plays a vital role in a healthy community, expressing the diversity within our common humanity, the foundation is a long-time supporter. One of our signature investments is the First Tennessee Foundation Award for Innovation in the Arts competition (formerly Bravo) that promotes artistic excellence in Memphis. By supporting artists and art organizations, we support the creativity that ensures a flowering of artistic innovation. Including our contribution to ArtsMemphis, our foundation awards $300,000 to the Memphis arts community annually.

FedEx Corporation

FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. We offer integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world's most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 275,000 employees and contractors to remain absolutely, positively focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities.

To learn more about FedEx visit their website at www.fedex.com.

The Hyde Family Foundation

The Hyde Family Foundations are private, independent grantmaking organizations whose unyielding focus is on Memphis, Tennessee. Our approach is proactive, research-based, action-oriented, and results-driven. We invest in programs that trigger lasting change to improve the lives of our fellow citizens and the future of our city. We look for investments that are strategic and create a confluence of energy and effort to produce transformational change for Memphis. To accomplish this, we are an independent voice and reliable source of information and research on critical public policies. Our work is anchored in a philosophy of partnerships with individuals and organizations who, working together, unafraid and determined, become forces for positive change.

Tennessee Arts Commission

Through its variety of programs, the Tennessee Arts Commission encourages excellence in artistic expression through the state's artists and arts organizations.

When the Tennessee Arts Commission was created in 1967, it was given a special mandate by the General Assembly to stimulate and encourage the presentation of performing, visual and literary arts throughout the state and to encourage public interest in the cultural heritage of Tennessee. That commitment has continued to expand through the years to ensure that the citizens of Tennessee have access to, and the opportunity to participate in the arts.

The Tennessee Arts Commission builds better communities by:

•Investing public dollars in Tennessee's nonprofit arts industry.

•Providing services to citizens, artists and arts organizations.

•Undertaking initiatives that enhance Tennessee's cultural life.

These activities give Tennessee citizens a better quality of life, provide our children with a more complete education and attract tourists to our state.

To learn more about The Tennessee Arts Commission visit their website at www.arts.state.tn.us/index.htm.

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