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- Demonstrate Solutions
- Scale and Sustain
- Pathway Profiles: Network for Southern Economic Mobility Convenings in Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, and Charlotte, NC
- Early childhood and economic mobility
- Critical Infrastructure: Supporting and Strengthening Informal Child Care
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Driving Change
MDC projects over five decades have helped the South improve education, employment and economic security outcomes.
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MDC helps communities design, build and test practical solutions to vexing social problems.
We bring particular expertise developing integrated networks that connect low-income families with education, employment, and work, health and income supports so they can overcome poverty and build economic security.
MDC at Work
Career Pathways for a Green South
We used a U.S. Department of Labor education grant to help four southern communities overcome major manufacturing jobs loss by training low-wage and unemployed workers for work in emerging green industries.
NC VetsCorps
We created NC VetsCorps to deploy AmeriCorps members across North Carolina to help build the capacities of front-line community organizations and connect economically vulnerable veterans and military families with legal, food, medical, utility, education, employment and housing resources.
NETWORK FOR SOUTHERN ECONOMIC MOBILITY
Based on findings and recommendations in our The State of the South 2014 report, Building an Infrastructure of Opportunity for the Next Generation, we created a network southern communities to develop and implement purposeful policies and systemic practices that bolster prospects for 15-24-year-olds so they can achieve economic resilience as adults and a fulfilling social and civic life.
Working Families Success Network
MDC with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation manages a national network of community colleges delivering integrated services to low-income students.