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Our Projects

  • Rural Investment and Prosperity
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Rural Investment and Prosperity

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Strengthening and Expanding Philanthropy’s Impact on Rural Equity

MDC is working in collaboration with the United Philanthropy Forum (UPF) to strengthen and expand philanthropy’s impact in promoting opportunity, health and equity in rural and Tribal communities, with particular focus on the intersections of racial, geographic and economic equity.

RuraLead

RuraLead is a learning initiative that seeks to understand the most effective leadership qualities and leadership development practices in rural communities throughout the United States.

Dan Broun Award and Internship

MDC offers an internship to honor the late Dan Broun, a staff member who championed place-based strategies to improve outcomes for marginalized people in rural communities in the South.

Rural Forward

Rural Forward identifies, strengthens, supports leaders to make rural counties healthier and thriving.

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Economic Security and Mobility

Build Up Initiative

The Build Up Initiative brings the innovative Integrated Services Delivery Network approach to local communities and builds up community capacity for using Integrated Services Delivery (ISD).

Southern Partnership to Reduce Debt (SPRD)

Sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, SPRD is a network of more than 20 state and local organizations working to tackle consumer debt issues that perpetuate wealth and income inequality.

Network for Southern Economic Mobility (NSEM)

Launched in 2016, the Network for Southern Economic Mobility (NSEM) is a group of Southern communities committed to increasing upward economic mobility for youth and young adults in the lowest income brackets.

Guilford Success Network

MDC, United Way of Greater Greensboro (UWGG), and community stakeholders partnered to design and build a “Family Economic Success Ecosystem” to empower vulnerable households out of poverty and towards economic success.

Equity Centered Philanthropy and Leadership

Emerging Leaders Fellowship (ELF)

Oak Foundation and MDC partnered to launch the Oak-MDC Emerging Leaders Fellowship (ELF) to support young leaders interested in social change, offering them an opportunity for practical experience as they learn how philanthropy can promote equitable systems-change.

Investing in Leaders of Color Fellowship (ILOC)

The Investing in Leaders of Color (ILOC) Fellowship is a one-year leadership- and capacity-building initiative to acknowledge and support the work of twelve leaders of color who serve communities of color throughout the Carolinas.

Autry Fellowship

The Autry Fellowship Program builds networks of emerging leaders who will address social issues related to equity in the South. Each year, MDC recruits a talented and passionate recent college graduate for this one-year Fellowship.

Equity Centered Leadership and The Equity Centered Leadership Institute

MDC’s Equity Centered Philanthropy and Leadership practice seeks to support a relational, ethical, and collaborative process of people and institutions fostering positive change that addresses the systemic impact of racial equity at the intersections of economic, gender, and other types of equity.

Education

NC Home Based Child Care Initiative

Learning for Equity: A Network for Solutions (LENS-NC)

In partnership with Oak Foundation, LENS-NC operates at the intersection of race, educational equity, and learning differences to advance stronger policy and practice by building a learning and action network across North Carolina.

Great Expectations

MDC serves as the activating agency for the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust’s Great Expectations early childhood initiative, a $40 million, 10-year investment focused on ensuring children in Forsyth County enter kindergarten ready to learn and leave set for success in school and life–regardless of their race, location, or economic status.

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