Links to news articles with references to MDC and our experts:
- Fellows from University of Alabama's Blackburn Institute visit Bayou la Batre, where MDC's FEMA project was highlighted for creating relationships between the Asian communities and local disaster services, The Community Foundation of South Alabama Newsletter
- MDC quoted on the need for jobs and programs for disconnected youth in Durham at the Job Creation & Economic Growth Forum in The Herald-Sun
- MDC's Achieving the Dream initiative highlighted as a "useful clearinghouse for strategies to support persistence and completion" in community colleges in Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
- Achieving the Dream partner Kay McClenney discusses the initiative and its relationship to community colleges in The New York Times
- MDC's role in national Achieving the Dream initiative highlighted in The American Prospect Special Edition
- Durham Technical Community College has received a grant to help disconnected youth through the Gateway to College National Network, as a direct result of MDC's work on Disconnected Youth in the Research Triangle Region, The Herald-Sun
- MDC President David Dodson calls Gates Grant "a significant vote of confidence" in Achieving the Dream, News & Observer
- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation taps MDC to lead the Developmental Education Initiative, Philanthropy Journal
- MDC Senior Fellow Ferrel Guillory comments on Obama's victory in the "Seaboard South" in The News & Observer
- MDC Senior Fellow Ferrel Guillory comments on Dole-Hagan race, The New York Times
- Op-ed by David Dodson, "Finding Paths for Lost Teens," The News & Observer
- MDC Senior Fellow Ferrel Guillory reflects on Shadows on the Sunbelt in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Op-ed, "A boost for low-income workers," The News & Observer
- College Try, CommonWealth
- An $88-Million Experiment to Improve Community Colleges, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- South needs smarter, 'big' philanthropy, Baton Rouge Advocate
- John Cooper, MDC program diector, on environmental justice in Orange County, The Chapel Hill News
- Op-ed, "The power to eliminate abiding poverty," The News & Observer
- Philanthropy seen key to South's future, Philanthropy Journal
- Op-ed, "Building on strengths in disaster," by MDC staff associate John Cooper, Ph.D., who directs MDC's FEMA Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Program, The News & Observer
- Colin Austin, MDC senior associate, on immigrants and unemployment, The Charlotte Observer
- MDC and Duke rural poverty study, Philanthropy Journal News Briefing
- MDC's involvement in the Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count initiative, AScribe