MDC
David Dodson is a seasoned leader with extensive experience in nonprofit management and community development. Currently serving as a Senior Fellow at MDC since April 1999, David focuses on promoting equity and enhancing social mobility for marginalized communities in the American South. Additionally, as President of MDC, David drives strategies to dismantle barriers to opportunity and foster community advancement through research and program development. David's previous roles include serving as Executive Vice President at MDC from 1987 to 1999 and as Executive Director of the Cummins Engine Foundation, where David implemented grantmaking strategies aimed at poverty alleviation and community enrichment. An Independent Consultant since July 2020, David advises various organizations on addressing social inequities. David's educational background includes a magna cum laude BA and two master's degrees from Yale University, along with formative education at St. Albans School in Washington, DC.
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MDC is a nonprofit founded in 1967 and based in Durham, N.C., that equips Southern leaders, institutions, and communities to improve economic mobility and advance equity. We bring together foundations, nonprofits, and leaders from government, business, and the grassroots to illuminate data that highlight deeply rooted Southern challenges and help them find systemic, community solutions. Our approach uses research, consensus-building, and programs that connect education, employment, and economic security to help communities foster prosperity by creating an “infrastructure of opportunity”—the aligned systems and supports that can boost everyone, particularly those who’ve been left behind, to higher rungs on the economic ladder. Since 1996, MDC’s landmark State of the South reports have shaped the economic agenda of the region, shining a spotlight on historic trends, deep-rooted inequities, and solutions that offer rural and urban communities a path forward. MDC is supported by grants and contracts from foundations, governments, and the private sector. Learn more at www.mdcinc.org.