Acknowledgements & Interviewees

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, NCRP would like to thank the funders, grantees and leaders who shared their stories during interviews and in focus groups. We would also like to thank the hosts of our focus groups for sharing their space and their convening power: Black Belt Community Foundation, Southern Partners Fund, Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky and Coastal Community Foundation.

Special thanks to our advisory committee members (see list below) who shared their time and perspective; Gita Gulati-Partee of OpenSource Leadership Strategies who provided valuable guidance throughout the research process; and Chris Kromm and Allie Yee at the Institute for Southern Studies who provided additional research and data for this project.

We are also grateful to The Educational Foundation of America, The Kresge Foundation and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation for their funding and support of this project.

Related: Read “On Fertile Soil: Introduction”

Advisory Committee

CLIFF ALBRIGHT
Southern Working Group,
Democracy Alliance

KIARA BOONE
Equal Justice Initiative

JOE BURRIS
Marguerite Casey Foundation

WILL CORDERY
Surdna Foundation

CHANTELLE FISHER-BORNE
Funders for LGBTQ Issues

LAVASTIAN GLENN
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation

REGAN GRUBER MOFFITT
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

STEPHANIE GUILLOUD
Project South

DERRICK JOHNSON
One Voice

SHAMAR BIBBINS
The Kresge Foundation

EDDY MORALES
Morales Public Relations

MARÍA RODRIGUEZ
Florida Immigrant Coalition

JERA STRIBLING
Alabama Giving

ALEYAMMA MATHEW
Ms. Foundation for Women

Related: Read “On Fertile Soil: Voices From the Deep South”

Black Belt + Delta Interview and Focus Group Participants

Ivye L. Allen
Foundation for the Mid South

Carol Burnett
Mississippi Low-Income
Child Care Initiative

Carol Butler
Mike & Gillian Goodrich Foundation

Esther Calhoun
Black Belt Citizens
Fighting for Health and Justice

Marcus Campbell
Sumter County Commission

Yvonne Cardona
National Coalition on Black Civic
Participation, Black Women’s Roundtable

Sulynn Creswell
Black Belt Treasures

Judy Collins
Selma Center for
Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation

Oleta G. Fitzgerald
Children’s Defense Fund

Kenneth Glasgow
The Ordinary People Society

Kate Gluckman
Sunflower County Freedom Project

Anna B. Gorman
Women’s Foundation of Arkansas

Callie Greer
Selma Center for
Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation

Erin Hogue
The Walmart Foundation

Ainka Jackson
Selma Center for
Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation

Lee Jackson
Farmer and entrepreneur

Adam Johnston
Black Belt Citizens
Fighting for Health and Justice

Maria Kennedy
The Daniel Foundation of Alabama

Heather Larkin
Arkansas Community Foundation

Martha B. Lockett
ArtsRevive

Felecia Lucky
Black Belt Community Foundation

Rosa Martin
Black Belt Community Foundation

Sally McGee
Black Belt Citizens
Fighting for Health and Justice

Sue McInnish
Alabama Civil Justice Foundation

Helen McRand
Selma Center for
Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation

James M. Mitchell
Wallace Community College Selma

Sammy Moon
Mississippi Association of Grantmakers

Reilly Morse
Mississippi Center for Justice

Christopher Nanni
Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham

Brendan O’Connor
Selma Center for
Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation

Joyce H. Parker
Citizens for a Better Greenville

Portia Shepherd
Portia Takes on the BlackBelt

David Stocks
The Educational Foundation of America

Martha Wallace
Black Belt Community Foundation

Corey Wiggins
HOPE Policy Institute

Johnny P. Williams
Alabama Art Casting/
Black Belt Community Foundation

Glenda Wooten
Black Belt Community Foundation

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