- Achieving the Dream
- Creating a Postsecondary Vision for Alabama
- Developmental Education Initiative
- Disconnected Youth in the Triangle: An Ominous Problem Hidden in Plain Sight
- Financial Empowerment Strategies for Student Success
- Indiana School Guidance and Counseling Leadership Project
- Latino Student Success
- Investing in Postsecondary Outcomes in the South
- Partners for Educational Success
- Partnerships for Education and Economic Opportunity
- Partners for Postsecondary Success
- Rural Community College Initiative
- Rural Leadership for Community Change
- Vision to Action in Africa
OVERVIEW:
In 2000, MDC and the Center for Community Change collaborated to move low-skilled Southerners into skills training and higher-wage employment. Charlottesville, VA; Charleston, WV; and Columbia, SC. Supported by the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation , the project had three sites: At each site, a grassroots organization, a community college, and employers collaborated to help disadvantaged adults get and keep decent jobs. In Columbia, the program focused on occupational advancement for Latino workers.
GO DEEPER:
For more information on MDC and Connecting People to Jobs, contact: Colin Austin, JD.
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