After 15 years equipping individual foundations to invest in solutions to the South’s most pressing challenges, MDC will expand its approach to reach cohorts of Southern foundations through a new Passing Gear Philanthropy Institute.Continue reading MDC launches Passing Gear Philanthropy Institute to equip Southern foundations to address barriers to opportunity and inclusion →

Leaders in the Network for Southern Economic Mobility will meet in Charlotte for a convening that will highlight the work of Charlotte’s Leading on Opportunity initiative, which is taking a systemic approach to addressing the key determinants of early care and education, college and career readiness, segregation, social capital, and child and family stability.Continue reading NSEM teams meet in Charlotte and hear from ‘Leading on Opportunity’ initiative →

The myFutureNC Commission proposes a statewide education attainment goal: Two million 25- to 44-year-olds with a high-quality postsecondary degree or credential by 2030. MDC staff served as facilitators, advisors, and partners in the myFutureNC Commission’s year of research, community outreach, deliberations, and writing, supported by grants from the Lumina Foundation and the John M. Belk Endowment.Continue reading ‘This is nothing short of a crisis’: MDC facilitation supports setting N.C. postsecondary attainment goal →

A meeting this week in Atlanta kicked off a $75,000 grant from JPMorgan Chase & Co. to MDC in support of the Network for Southern Economic Mobility, a group of Southern communities committed to increasing upward economic mobility for youth and young adults in the lowest income brackets .Continue reading Atlanta meeting kicks off grant by JPMorgan Chase & Co. for Network for Southern Economic Mobility →

Six community colleges are becoming catalysts for improving health and wellness in their rural North Carolina communities through a partnership with MDC and its Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust-funded Healthy Places NC Community College Learning Network.Continue reading Community colleges address the health needs of their North Carolina communities →

A Q&A with Darrin Goss Sr., Coastal Community Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of MDCContinue reading Pushing levers that create sustainable change →

Leaders of three Southern foundations describe how MDC helped them use their social, moral, intellectual, and reputational capital, as well as money, to create lasting, equitable change. Continue reading Passing Gear Philanthropy tackles root causes of chronic disparities in three Southern communities →

Greenville, S.C., is one of seven Southern cities working to promote upward economic mobility for low-income young people with help from MDC’s Network for Southern Economic Mobility initiative.Continue reading Greenville, S.C., team investigates policy levers for youth economic mobility through MDC network →

Amarillo College President Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart, a partner in MDC’s Partners for Postsecondary Success initiative, is becoming a national model for how to infuse a community college’s culture with the understanding that poverty is a major barrier to student completion and success.Continue reading Making College Accessible to Everyone: A Q&A with Russell Lowery-Hart, President Amarillo College →

Mala Thakur and Micah Anderson join MDC to support its economic mobility and post-secondary success initiativesContinue reading MDC expands economic mobility and postsecondary success team →