A fair, thorough and accurate census count is vital to nearly every aspect of our personal and professional lives. The Constitution requires the federal government to count every member of the population every ten...
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Deputy Director Gladys Washington accepted the Berea College Service Award on March 28, 2019. The award was created "to honor persons who in their daily lives and their service to humanity have exemplified the Berea Commitments."
While writing her speech...
While potential is universal, opportunity is not. In the American South, where the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation works, slavery, segregation and a host of laws, policies and practices have entrenched white...
The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is seeking consulting services to help staff capture and share useful lessons about civic engagement work in the South. The consultant will conduct interviews with several of our grantee partners and our program staff, then help produce a paper and other communications detailing key themes. The overarching goals are to highlight the expertise of our...
From our board leadership to our staff structure, this year brings significant changes to the Foundation, though many important things will remain the same, including our mission, values, and commitment to racial equity and to the people and organizations that make the South better each day....
We won’t sugarcoat it: 2018 was a tough year. The words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass frequently came to mind: “This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never...
The board and staff of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation are excited to begin 2019 with two new directors.
Stephanie Tyree is...
This post is adapted from one that originally appeared on the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' website . The Center is a nonpartisan research and policy advocacy institute, and one of the Babcock Foundation's grantee partners.
States and localities can do more to help undo the harmful legacies of racism and the damage of continuing racial bias and...
