About the Cornerstone Foundation
We are working to close the systemic gap in our American medical, mental health, educational, and pastoral care systems. For those who lack means to provide for themselves or their children and families through access to these systems, we are stepping in to offer the support and help they would otherwise be denied. Especially where the lives and relationships of vulnerable children and families are adversely impacted, we are striving to bring about enduring good, justice, and wellbeing.
We at the Cornerstone Foundation have partnered together with various nonprofit entities to help mend, strengthen, and build the lives of whole persons—body, mind, soul, and spirit. To this end, we seek to expand access to adequate medical care, mental health counseling, educational services, and pastoral care. Once properly set, these four foundation stones will provide the base upon which individuals, families, and whole communities will thrive.
Our Four Keystones
Healthy, whole individuals and relationships are more likely to thrive when built on a firm foundation. At the Cornerstone Foundation, we prioritize four fundamentals or keystones as the crucial building blocks for every human life. Each of these four builds in many ways on each of the others. Nevertheless, we afford the greatest value and significance to the fourth and final keystone.
Keystone 1: Body
Neurobiological Wellness
Research bears out that healthy neurobiological function plays a critical role in fostering individual and relational wellbeing. By subsidizing some clinical treatments and medicines supportive of healthy brain function, we aim to reduce to adverse impact on individuals and families of certain forms of mental illness and/or neurodivergence.
Keystone 2: Mind
Occupational Opportunity and Incentive
Access to adequate educational services varies from community to community, family to family, and individual to individual. As education access varies, so too do occupational opportunities and incentives. We subsidize services that aim to balance access and opportunity for those who would not otherwise benefit.
Keystone 3: Soul
Psychosocial Wholeness
Stable, supportive relationships are indispensable when it comes to human flourishing. Yet, psychotherapy and counseling are often a luxury available only to those who can afford them. Through our partnerships with like-minded nonprofit entities, we are working to close the gap and supply this need for the broken and vulnerable among us.
Keystone 4: Spirit
Spiritual Healing, Growth, and Pastoral Care
In theory, we can all walk into a church or place of worship and receive spiritual and pastoral care. The reality, however, is quite different. Pastors, pastoral counselors, chaplains, spiritual directors are often overworked and under-resourced. Our partner entities are working to reverse this trend through better training and resourcing in order to mend, strengthen, and build up the poor in spirit.
Our Partnership Model
Your donations and gifts to the Cornerstone Foundation help fund work of partnering nonprofits, who agree to support one or more of the keystones listed above. Individual caregivers and service providers working in related fields, become eligible for Foundation-sponsored subsidies by completing a Foundation-approved certification course or courses. Grants given by the foundation to nonprofit entities fund these subsidies when services are offered to those who would otherwise be unable to afford them. Apart from the Cornerstone Foundation subsidies, caregivers and providers would themselves not be able to sustain their own practices for long.
