Mission: BRIGHTEN A LIFE helps low-income seniors and families stay in their homes by providing paint, repairs, and improvements; provides new facilities for public schools by building eco-friendly schoolhouses on campuses of elementary and middle schools; provides low-income families with after-school K-3 child care and provides mentoring and life skills for middle school students.
This is not an organization that believes in transparency. As mentioned, their bookkeeping is not kept separate from the green schoolhouse. They do not operate under the guidelines of a non profit.
It's a family affair, meaning founders and board members are related. No independent auditors.
This organization is not on the up and up. They co-mingle money with their sister business called The Green Schoolhouse Series, (greenschoolhouseseries.org) who has on-going cases with the Department of Labor in San Diego, (cases are listed in court records for anyone to see) for non payment of employees payroll. Employees who were let go without their pay were also not able to collect unemployment because the State of California did not have any record of the business filing reports or paying payroll taxes for several years. Noticed this business (brightenalife.org) has been in business since 1996 and taken in 2/4 million and no tax returns? Isn't that illegal?
