Giving back
We build brands. We also build up the people around us.
JBowman Creative was started in Nashville by people who were shaped by their church, their neighbors, and a few nonprofits that showed up when it mattered. Giving back is not a line item for us. It is a big part of why the company exists.
- $100,000+paid to Ukrainian families for their work since we opened our doors
- 49+charities and nonprofits the JBC family of companies has teamed up with
- $70,000+raised for local charities
- 6nonprofit websites designed and built by our team
Signature partnership
Mechanics on a Mission
Love your neighbor. Fix the car.
Mechanics on a Mission is a Nashville nonprofit that fights transportation insecurity across Middle Tennessee. Single parents, veterans, widows, and families who have been through more than their share get free car repairs, and when a repair is not enough, a free vehicle. The work is done by volunteer mechanics and partner shops like Christian Brothers Automotive, Nelson Mazda, and Tire World, and it is led by Brian Sweatt, a pastor with Our Church Ministries who started it after the 2010 Nashville flood showed him what a city can do when it decides to help.
For the families they serve, a working car is the difference between keeping a job and losing it, between making the doctor's appointment and missing it, between getting the kids to school and not. In the last year alone the team has given away dozens of vehicles and repaired well over a hundred more at no cost to the owner. That is why this is our headline cause.
JBowman Creative designed and built the Mechanics on a Mission website, and we keep showing up with the things we are good at: photography on car giveaway days, video that tells the stories of the families who drive away, and creative for the events and fundraisers that keep the shop running. Every set of keys handed over is a family that gets its future back.
Visit Mechanics on a MissionYou cannot hand someone a set of keys and stay unchanged. Every giveaway day, our whole team comes back different.
Jonathan Bowman, Founder
Signature partnership
Standing with Ukrainian families
When the war in Ukraine began, we did not want to just post a flag. We wanted to do something that would still matter years later.
Since our founding, JBowman Creative has partnered with Ukrainian families to give them opportunities to earn a living, doing video editing, motion graphics, animation, and post production for the brands you see across this site. Nick Kotenko and Oleh Sharaburiak, two of the most talented editors we have ever worked with, cut and finish our work from Ukraine with their families beside them.
Earlier this year we passed a milestone we are prouder of than any award: more than $100,000 paid to Ukrainian families for their hard work. Every dollar came from client projects they made better, and every dollar went to a family holding its life together through a war.
Meet the whole teamHitting that number is the best thing that has ever happened to me in business.
Jonathan Bowman, Founder
Nick KotenkoVideographer and editor, working from Ukraine
Oleh SharaburiakVideographer and editor, working from Ukraine
Our church home
The Gospel Church
JBowman Creative is a company built by people of faith, and The Gospel Church in West Nashville is where many of us are on Sunday morning. The church exists to share the gospel and make disciples of Jesus who know they are loved and sent, and it is the reason giving back is baked into how we run our business.
We give the church our time and our craft the same way we give them to our clients, with video for services and events and creative for outreach. Some of our favorite footage we have ever shot was from the back of a sanctuary.
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Our work for nonprofits
Websites we have built for people doing good
A nonprofit's website has to do the work of a whole development office. It has to earn trust in seconds, tell a story that moves someone, and make giving simple. These are a few of the organizations we have built for, and we would do it again tomorrow.
Mechanics on a Mission
Free car repairs and free vehicles for single parents, veterans, and widows across Middle Tennessee.
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Team Annie Rose Foundation
Raises money for blood cancer research and for the Davis House Child Advocacy Center in Williamson County.
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Freedom's Promise
A Nashville anti trafficking nonprofit that prevents human trafficking through education and empowered local leaders.
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Homes 4 Homes
Safe, stable housing for vulnerable families: 1,600 homes built across 15 communities, from Brentwood, Tennessee.
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Education Arizona
Helps Arizona families understand every schooling option and take ownership of their children's education.
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Plus 3 Golf Foundation
Uses golf and peer support to build mental health and wellness for athletes, musicians, veterans, and families.
Visit the siteCauses we have supported
Nonprofits the JBC family has stood beside
Between JBowman Creative and Music City Dream Cars, we have teamed up with more than 49 charities over the years, through sponsorships, donated creative, and events that raised real money for real needs. A few of the names:
How we give
None of this is complicated. It is the same four things, over and over.
Nonprofit pricing
Every nonprofit gets our best rate, and the ones closest to our hearts get a good deal more than that.
Our craft, donated
Video, photography, design, and websites for causes we believe in, at no charge when we can make it work.
Showing up
Car giveaway days, serve teams, fundraisers, galas. We bring cameras, and we bring hands.
Employing families
Real work and real pay for families in hard places. Our Ukrainian team is the proof that it works.
Running a nonprofit? Come talk to us.
Tell us what you are trying to do. If we can help, we will, and we will tell you plainly what it would cost, which for a lot of nonprofits is nothing at all.
Let's talk Call (615) 708-3922