Meet our Team

The Founder of Charity Road

Tesina Painter (Tessie) is a unicorn. A creative, food obsessed, charitable, entrepreneur and a widow who raised 4 children alone while running businesses out of the home to support them. She is sincere; and she’s fun. With a passion for people in need; it’s their stories that are captivating for her.

Tesina taught special education, then became a diagnostician. After the birth of her first child, she identified a need affecting hospitals and new moms; and started a six-figure business from her home in 1993. She has a gift for seeing needs and finding creative ways to meet them.

She quickly moved into sales, consulting, and then commercial real estate, founding Strata Commercial.. All the while, Tesina has been building a network of friends who are volunteers, donors, nonprofits and others in need.

The two worlds of commercial real estate and hungry people came together with her genius idea to auction off the naming of streets to raise money to feed people. Then to share the stories of all involved to ignite involvement makes for an entertaining and motivating time.

Let’s not stop there! Tesina enlisted one of her besties and owner of WhiteSpace Methods, Scarlett Valente, to provide workshops for food recipients ready for opportunities to improve their lives. Tesina’s energy and ability to bring people together for a common and positive cause is invigorating. Tesina makes you want to be a part of the solution.

Lone Star

Planned Developments,LLC

Nathan is developing the first master-planned development in Paris, Texas…over 200 acres of single-family, multi-family, and commercial development.

With every project Nathan undertakes, he ensures that they not only enhance the well-being and character of each community but also incorporate charitable elements, such as involving Charity Road projects, the donation of land to school districts for new public schools, and contributing land for city parks.

Nathan understands the power of giving.

Noble Life Outreach

Aaron Buttrick started life in upper middle class with entrepreneurial Christian parents and as an adult started his own business in restaurants. Somehow a long the way he became addicted to drugs, lost his way and found himself to be homeless; a nomad living on the streets.

For 7 years he lived in the North West on the streets until coming to Dallas, getting cleaned up and deciding to turn his life around.

Now, for 11 years, he has run a non-profit that collects and distributes food and other items to those in needs. Noble Life is on site for disaster relief, outreach to people on the street and those who may need help for the first time. Noble is a business that can provide income opportunities.

Aaron has been 14 years sober and continues to be an inspiration.

God's Pantry

Sylvia Martinez has been the Executive Director of God’s Pantry since 2014. When she started, she was serving 200 families. In 2019, she served 330 families.

Since 2020, they now have served over 800 families.; and 1,000 homeless individuals every month.

Volunteer, she works 45 hours per week for free. She took a year off of work; and is spending her savings to get the pantry in shape.

Sylvia teaches how to use food efficiently to people and to maximize the use of every part of the food of a meal. #NoWaste

Whitespace Methods Workshop

Mindset Coaching In mindset coaching, we take stock of your beliefs, behaviors, and thought patterns to identify what is helping and what is hurting.

From there, we will map out strategy ways to change or adopt new thoughts and beliefs to promote a healthier and more product outlook on life.

Productivity Evaluation We will dive into a roadmap that will identify your goals, priorities and a timeline for achieving them.

There is more to productivity than just time management. Think of this coaching session as an owner’s manual for getting things done quickly and with less effort.

We will look at your resources, day to day habits and systems to crete momentum, create time, create opportunities.

Organizers & Academy You will learn important principles and practical step-by-step techniques for organizing and getting started in a career as a professional organizer.

Our dedicated team works meticulously to create an environment where their clients can thrive and focus on what truly matters to them. With our guidance, they rediscover the joy of a well-ordered life, full of motivation and energy.

Our Original Donors; Patel Bros

One day while driving my daughter to work, I saw Patel Brothers’ employees throw away food that looked edible.

At that moment, an employee bit a cucumber from the bin. I spoke to the manager; and then Darshan Patel. Darshan generously agreed to provide daily food from his stores.

I started picking up food and delivering it, the next day.

Patel donated 880 pounds, day 1; over 271K pounds the first calendar year; over 3.8M pounds in 2020; and combined with our partners, we have provided millions of pounds in less than 5 years from numerous grocery and financial donors.