Foundation for the Mid South Inc.
Foundation for the Mid South Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
The Foundation for the Mid South invests in people and strategies that build philanthropy and promote racial, social and economic equity in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
About
Community Development - Recognizing the need for community development across the region, the Foundation seeks to invest in municipalities, organizations, and people to help them develop solutions to allow their communities to grow and prosper. We do this by pursuing changes in systems and policy, including changes in coordination of services, contextualization of literacy and occupation skill development, combination of on-the-job training, development of career paths, strengthening the workplace to be a learning place, and improving policies. Continued on Schedule O.Community Development, Continued:In 2019, FMS supported a number of efforts to stimulate advanced economic impact. Amongst those were a new lineman training facility in the Mississippi Delta that continues to be featured nationally for its success in training entry level lineman for careers beginning well above the margin for family sustainability with upward mobility. Several linemen have attained journeyman status and one is already making six figures only seven months post completion. One interesting learning point from our work has been related to financial literacy within our training opportunities. We have been asked to increase the amount of financial education for all participants due to the nature of their increase in income and unfamiliarity with these amounts of flexible income. Trainings are now structurally imbedded within each grantees programming are being scheduled to highlight savings and large purchase clarity. The Foundation, serving as the operational support partner, was awarded a fellowship opportunity for six fellows from the West Jackson neighborhood to work with the Center for Community Progress on grass roots blight remediation. The Foundation's proposal was one of only three out of forty across the United States that was selected. FMS community development leadership provided guidance and assistance to Jackson's six fellows as they travel to different communities across the country to participate in peer learning opportunities. The fellowship culminated with a group visiting West Jackson to observe the work our fellows accomplished during in the 9 month period including development of a large scale trash cleanup campaign. To highlight some of our community partnerships The Refill Caf, West Jackson's opportunity youth workforce training program, hosted the group for two events including an evening community activism session. For more information on the program or the fellows from Mississippi, follow this link: https://www.communityprogress.net/our-press-releases-pages-31.php?id=491Major movement was made in the Arkansas Delta region as we launched our first cohort of AmeriCorps VISTA Delta Leaders. While this project is also under the AmeriCorps umbrella of CNCS, this project is dissimilar in that the members are actively working to build new capacity for the organizations where they are hosted. One of the major strengths of our initiative is our desire to see small, rural nonprofits and municipalities have access to the VISTA project idea without the cumbersome management of being a program supervisor. During 2019 the Community Development director embedded in the communities to develop strong relationships with the organizations and their staff members. This work culminated in a strong group of host organizations including several regional community action agencies, a local city government, a chamber/economic development foundation, and a health-related services entity. Additionally, the director will be hosting recruitment events across the Arkansas delta counties to be served to identify potential members and additional partners for the work going forward. One of our greatest learning moments with this project was that we must continue to engage partners to offer matching dollars to assist those who are unable to pay even the small matching requirement of just over $3,000 for a full year of service. Community development personnel attended the ACT Work Ready Community Workforce Summit in Charlotte, North Caroline. Several of our programmatic grantees were invited to speak at the conference based on the funded programming that the Foundation has been an integral part in. One organization was awarded for being the first county nationally to achieve their third level of compliance maintenance. Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas continued to focus on a large impact community development proposal. This work, which would ideally be funded in late 2020 will encompass an innovative approach to reintegration amongst those who are within six months of release from incarceration. This program looks at several of the statistically impactful recidivism areas including lack of support/direction upon release into the next positive steps for successful reintegration, specific skills training related to jobs that will hire returning citizens while incarcerated, and intentional connection with youthful offenders prior to their offenses reaching incarceration.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The mission of the non-profit, as stated in the filing, is “The foundation for the mid south invests in people and strategies that build philanthropy and promote racial, social and economic equity in arkansas, louisiana and mississippi.”.
When referring to its tasks, they were described as: “The foundation for the mid south invests in people and strategies that build philanthropy and promote racial, social and economic equity in arkansas, louisiana and mississippi.”.
- The non-profit is operating legally in the state of MS.
- The non-profit's address for the year 2020 is listed as 134 East Amite Street, Jackson, MS, 39201 in the filing.
- The form submitted by the non-profit organization for 2020 reports 6 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue less expenses is -$1,086,969.
- The organization has 7 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1989.
- The organization pays $641,575 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $2,700 in fundraising expenses.