Located in the Medical Building main lobby, the Tree of Hope is a perfect way to create a permanent memorial for a loved one while contributing to the Development Fund, which provides extended services for patients unable to pay privately for their care.

Tree of Hope foundation stones or bronze leaves may be inscribed with a personal message along with the donor's name or a designated name. These inscriptions are a beautiful way to highlight or commemorate joyous occasions such as sobriety, anniversaries, births and graduations, or to honor parents, family or friends.

To learn more about memorial donations and the Tree of Hope, contact the Brighton National Addiction Foundation at 810-225-2590 or Donate Online.

How can income from your charitable trusts or other gifts of charity help in the fight against addiction?   

The Brighton National Addiction Foundation (BNAF) seeks your charitable gifts and trusts to support its fight against all forms of substance abuse.  Dedicated to the mission of Brighton Hospital, one of America's oldest and most experienced substance abuse treatment facilities and the first to be licensed in Michigan, the Foundation offers ways for individuals, corporations and grant makers to invest in our national leadership through charitable trusts.  Income received through your trusts and gifts allow us to continue to be a leading source of hope through prevention, patient care, aftercare, education and research. By establishing a charitable trust for the BNAF, you can play a pivotal role in the fight against chemical dependency.  There are many philanthropic opportunities available for you to be part of the solution.

It is with great pleasure that Brighton Hospital welcomes the philanthropic leadership of the Brighton National Addiction Foundation.

"Brighton Hospital has had strong relationships with families throughout the United States and Canada for many years", comments Richard Kramer, President of the BNAF.  "These relationships, built on the importance of effective 12 step recovery programs and innovative treatments of these chronic diseases, are vital to the continual success of the hospital."

Supporting our "Brighton National Addiction Foundation" with income through gifts and trusts will help us:

• Build and expand the Brighton Hospital health care facilities.  The hospital has a campus exceeding 90 acres including Lake Serenity, wooded areas, and historic structures.  Treatment facilities all need updating and restoration to keep pace with hospital innovations and expansion.
• Help patients who need added days of rehabilitation.  In the world of alcohol and substance abuse, detoxification, and rehabilitation, research has shown a clear correlation between the length of stay in a rehabilitation center and the long-term success of the patient's recovery.  Insurance carriers, however, do not reimburse behavioral health and rehabilitation from substance abuse as generously as they cover a patient's medical and surgical needs.  The Patient Extended Care fund provides for this gap.
• Provide continuing education opportunities for our drug and alcohol treatment staff.  Inaugurated in 2006, the Brighton Hospital Addiction Fellowship is America's first clinically based addiction fellowship program.  It increases the quality and quantity of medical staff and supports the vision of the hospital as a national center of excellence and an innovator in alcohol and drug treatment and education.
• Help collaborate research programs with leading medical and nursing schools.  Funds are needed to sponsor research programs while they develop the resources needed to apply for extramural grants from government agencies and foundations.
• Provide scholarships for our youth drug and alcohol treatment services.  Through regional partnership, the Teen Drug Rehab Program enables more teens, ages 13-17, and their families to get the help they desperately need.  Scholarships provide assessment, intensive outpatient treatment for three months and aftercare.
• Fund and continue a variety of other programs, such as our clergy recovery series, our 30-day residential treatment series, our halfway house expansions, the restoration of our 1939 Ludington Peace Center, and the relocation and expansion of the gift shop and bookstore, all which keep us a leader in drug and alcohol treatment, and the rehabilitation center of choice over other highly regarded chemical dependency hospitals.

Philanthropic partners are people like you who have enriched their own lives while providing for the needs of others by supporting our charity with income through gifts and trusts.  There are a variety of ways that you can both provide for your own financial security and offer philanthropic support to our hospital by establishing a charitable trust for the BNAF.  In addition, the emotional rewards, which can only be described by those who have felt them, make supporting us a life-changing experience.

Thank you so much for your interest in the Brighton National Addiction Foundation and supporting our philanthropic mission with your gifts of charity.  For more information on planned gifts through wills and bequests, real estate, retirement assets, charitable lead trusts, appreciated stock, charitable remainder trusts and life insurance, contact foundation@brightonhospital.org.  Supported by your charitable trusts and gifts, we will build upon this lead for the sake of all who look to us for caring, compassion and clinical excellence in the face of addiction, a life-threatening, chronic disease.

The Brighton National Addiction Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization as classified by the Internal Revenue Service. Contributions are tax-deductible to the limits allowed by law for non-profit donations.  Organizations exempt under section 501(c)(3) are further classified as either public charities or private foundations.  The BNAF is treated as a public charity and is qualified to receive tax-deductible bequests, devises, transfers and gifts. 

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