Founded in 1953, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation has a long history of working to help people and communities in the southeastern United States move out of poverty. Over the last several years, Babcock has become more intentional about supporting nonprofit and philanthropic networks that are working to achieve this goal. Grantamakers for Effective Organizations recently produced a case...
Appalachian Transition explores the emergent work by non-profit organizations and funders to advance a just and sustainable economic transition in the Central Appalachian region. The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation has a long history of investing in Appalachian people and places. To foster collaborative funding in the region and increase collective impact, MRBF helped co-found the Appalachia...
Building just and caring communities in the South was the stated mission of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation from 1994 to 2005. In 2004, the Board of Directors and staff of the Foundation undertook a time of reflection to assess the overall picture of progress and to examine the work the Foundation and its grantees had undertaken in the previous decade. The goal was to capture as much...
During 2004, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation took an in-depth look at its place among the people and landscape of the Southeastern United States. We did this at a key time in the Foundation’s history – the 50th year since its founding and a decade since the Foundation adopted a strategic mission to address poverty and racism in the South. This report describes our 2004 learning,...
MRBF's mid-course review published in 2010. This contains a review of our outcomes and explains the funding strategy that will carry us through 2015.
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