Freedom Project Network

Overview
Headquarters: 
Sunflower, MS
Website: 
freedomprojectnetwork.org
Size: 
1-10 employees
Founded: 
1998
Annual Budget : 
$100-500,000
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Populations Served: 
Rural
African-American
About Us
Mission: 

We believe that a free democracy demands a challenging, relevant education that prepares all citizens to participate actively in society. Educational inequity in Mississippi undercuts our nation’s ideals of equal opportunity. To address and help alleviate this inequality, the Freedom Project Network supports individual Freedom Project sites that provide educational enrichment, leadership development, and college preparation programming for youth in Mississippi. The mission of the Freedom Project Network is to strengthen, fund, and unite our current Freedom Project sites, serving the communities of Sunflower County, Meridian, and Rosedale, Mississippi.

Programs: 

Freedom Project Network supports the Sunflower County Freedom Project, the Rosedale Freedom Project, and the Meridian Freedom Project. Since the first one launched in the Mississippi Delta in 1998, Freedom Projects have empowered students to organize for racial & social justice and developed anti-racist curricula that use the history of the civil rights movement to educate and empower students to achieve their goals. We support students from seventh grade through college graduation. Each of these Freedom Projects operates as their own 501c3s with their own leadership, board, and staff. 

In addition, Freedom Project Network oversees two programs which are implemented at the Freedom Projects: Freedom Summer Collegiate, which recruits PhD Candidates to teach college-bridge summer courses for Freedom Project students, and the Alumni College Success Program, which supports Freedom Project alumni from high school graduation through college graduation. 

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industry: 
Nonprofit