Our Approach
- Frame an Agenda
- Mobilize for Change
- Demonstrate Solutions
- Scale and Sustain
- Transferring Success
- America’s Shame, America’s Hope: Twelve Million Youth at Risk
- Partnerships for Education and Economic Opportunity
- Greater Guilford Network
- State of the South 2018: Recovering Our Courage
- A Community Response for Partway Home Students
- Moving on Up: Transportation and Economic Mobility
Driving Change
MDC projects over five decades have helped the South improve education, employment and economic security outcomes.
LEARN HOW
Communities flourish when more people participate.
Yet too many communities struggle with the legacy of racial inequities and other factors that keep households in poverty, with little opportunity to move up the ladder to economic success.
Our approach, developed and proven over 50 years, helps partners and communities come to deeply understand the barriers their residents face and build what we call an “infrastructure of opportunity” that helps those residents thrive.
Let us help you:
Frame a community agenda by identifying the barriers your community members face and strategies for moving forward.
Mobilize for systemic change the key leaders in business, government, philanthropy, education and the nonprofit sector with the commitment and influence to drive it.
Demonstrate and test solutions, drawing from our years of experience and rich portfolio of proven tools and approaches to help communities design and test solutions to solve vexing problems.
Scale and sustain what works by aligning resources and creating sustainable civic ecosystems.