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Corporate sponsors of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art make many exciting exhibitions and events available to the community. The museum’s diverse and high-quality programs offer a variety of opportunities for your organization to formulate a valuable partnership with the Brooks.

AutoZone

AutoZone is happy to support the Brooks as a Community Partner. AutoZone and its founder, Joseph R. Hyde III, are dedicated supporters of the museum. In 2001, the Brooks was proud to receive the gift of two hundred and twenty-six works of art from AutoZone’s corporate collection. The AutoZone Collection, begun in 1978, offers a well-rounded selection of artwork created primarily in our region over the last twenty years. The Collection contains countless highlights, including works by Carroll Cloar, William Edmondson, Dorothy Sturm, and Walter Anderson—to name only a few. The Collection helps the Brooks fulfill its goal of placing a greater emphasis on regional art. AutoZone has also assisted the museum with funding for its strategic plan and for various special exhibitions, including Annie Leibovitz: American Music and Snap Judgments: New Positions in African Photography.

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

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.


CB Richard Ellis

CB Richard Ellis is the global leader in real estate services. Each year, we complete thousands of successful assignments—with clients from the gamut of industries. This volume creates market knowledge that allows us to seize opportunities, speed the business process, and create the most thorough, precisely accurate picture of global commercial real estate conditions and trends.
 
Every day, in markets around the globe, we apply our insight, experience, intelligence, and resources to help clients make informed real estate decisions. We do not exist without our clients—and we never lose sight of this fact.
 
Our mission is to deliver superior results for stakeholders by: Putting the client first—always; collaborating across markets and services lines; thinking innovatively, but acting practically; and providing a rewarding work environment.

For more information visit www.cbre.com 

First Tennessee

Art reflects our diverse culture and beliefs and elevates the human spirit. For that reason, First Tennessee is a long-time supporter of the arts. In Memphis we created the First Tennessee Foundation Bravo Series competition to promote artistic excellence and support deserving artists and a diverse array of cultural organizations. Through the Bravo Series and our contribution to ArtsMemphis, our foundation awards $200,000 to the arts annually.

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

For 120 years, Baker Donelson has placed one thing above all else: our clients. As a result, our client service standards, consistent across all of our locations, are what set us apart from other firms. Each one of our more than 560 attorneys and public policy advisors, and every staff member, understands that you expect more than just quality legal work when you choose a law firm – you want extraordinary service, and we're dedicated to providing that. From our roots as a one-man shop in 1888 through our evolution into an AmLaw 200 firm, we value our clients and our employees, and we strive to consistently exceed your expectations.  Our attorneys not only have served in a variety of international, federal and state government positions, but also have immersed themselves in their home communities, placing a high premium on local needs. Baker Donelson attorneys serve on boards for numerous civic, charitable, religious, academic and professional organizations.  Our business does not operate in a vacuum. A vital, thriving community is a better place to live and work, and Baker Donelson continues to do its part.


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/.


Thomas & Betts

Thomas & Betts offers more than 30,000 high-quality products marketed under a variety of market-leading brand names. Designed to help passively conduct electricity, Thomas & Betts products are found everywhere electricity is used -- inside commercial and industrial buildings, in homes and schools, inside complex machinery and original equipment, in the power generating plant and distribution network, outside your home and underground.

From power transmission lines crisscrossing the countryside to local service entrance connections to outlet boxes behind the wall and electrical conduit in the ceiling, Thomas & Betts products help control the constant - and increasing - flow of power and data. Thomas & Betts offer one of the broadest product lines in the industry, supplying over 70% of the items used in a typical electrical application -- be it commercial, industrial or residential construction or equipment maintenance and repair or original equipment manufacturing.

To learn more about Thomas & Betts visit their website at http://www.tnb.com/ps/pubint/.