Peixoto Foundation: 2025 Initiatives

The Peixoto Foundation was established with a straightforward conviction: the same discipline and long-term thinking we apply to building businesses should be applied to the communities where those businesses operate. As we enter 2025, the Foundation is expanding its programs across four focus areas — wildlife conservation, water and sanitation, education, and community development — with active initiatives in both Tennessee and Brazil.

In Middle Tennessee, our community development work is entering its third year. We partner with local workforce training organizations to connect residents in underserved counties with apprenticeships and certification programs in skilled trades, healthcare support, and technology. These are not abstract job-readiness seminars. Participants earn industry-recognized credentials and are placed directly into roles with regional employers. To date, the program has helped over 200 individuals move into stable, living-wage employment.

Our education programs in Brazil are focused on removing the financial barriers that prevent first-generation students from reaching and completing university. Through direct scholarship funding and mentorship partnerships with institutions in São Paulo and the Northeast, we support students from low-income families through enrollment, coursework, and graduation. This year we are expanding the program to include vocational and technical tracks for students who choose applied career paths over traditional four-year degrees.

Clean water access remains one of the most impactful and underfunded areas of development work. In rural communities across northeastern Brazil, the Foundation funds the construction and maintenance of water filtration and sanitation systems — infrastructure that directly reduces waterborne illness, keeps children in school, and frees families from hours of daily water collection. In 2025 we are scaling this program from pilot communities to a regional deployment model that can serve dozens of municipalities.

Wildlife conservation is the newest pillar of the Foundation's work, and one we approach with the same rigor we bring to everything else. Our initial efforts are focused on habitat preservation and species monitoring in the Atlantic Forest biome — one of the most biodiverse and most threatened ecosystems on the planet. We fund land trusts, support field research, and work with local landowners to develop sustainable land-use practices that protect critical corridors for endangered species.

Across all four areas, our approach is consistent: fund proven models, measure outcomes rigorously, and commit for the long term. We do not chase visibility or scale for its own sake. Every initiative the Foundation supports is evaluated on whether it creates durable, measurable improvement in people's lives or in the ecosystems we are working to protect. Where programs underperform, we adjust or reallocate. Where they succeed, we expand deliberately.

The Foundation is not a separate chapter from The Peixoto Group's business. It is an expression of the same philosophy. We build things that last — companies, communities, and the natural systems that sustain both. If you are interested in learning more about our programs or exploring partnership opportunities, we welcome the conversation.