A Look Inside Our 2004 Planning Process

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 50 th year since its founding and a decade since the Foundation adopted a strategic mission to address poverty and Racism in the Southeastern United  States.
This report describes our 2004 learning, deliberations, and conclusions.

A Look Inside (PDF)

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Changes at the Babcock Foundation

In 2004 and early 2005, the Babcock Foundation studied future trends and current conditions in the Southeastern United States and reflected on the Foundation’s core values and work over the past decade. We decided to sharpen the Foundation’s focus on helping to move people and places in the Southeastern U.S. out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice. This report describes and reflects on a year of implementing our revised mission.

Changes at the Babcock Foundation (PDF)

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Reflections on a Decade of Building Just and Caring Communities

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 knowledge as possible and integrate that knowledge into the Foundation’s and its grantees’ future work on the enduring challenges of the racism and poverty in the Southeastern United States. This paper is a distillation of several documents produced by the Babcock Foundation and its partners over the past decade.
Main sections are:
Section 1: Reflections on the Bigger Picture
Section 2: Reflections on the Individual Program Areas
Section 3: Reflections on Philanthropy for Social and Economic Justice
Section 4: Reflections on the Challenges that Remain

Reflections (PDF)