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Jackson Foundation Awards $5,000 Grant to MC Dyslexia Program


Mississippi College’s dyslexia program recently received a $5,000 boost from the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson.

The funds will strengthen MC’s Dyslexia Education and Evaluation Center on the Clinton campus. The center helps students, parents and educators understand how to reach and teach dyslexic students.

The grant comes from a Jackson foundation that holds almost 200 charitable funds and endowments. These funds have invested more than $20 million in Madison, Rankin and Hinds counties over the past 15 years. The group’s president and CEO is Doug Boone.

“I’m very grateful to this organization,” says Mitti Bilbo, director of MC’s Dyslexia Education and Evaluation Center. “It is so much needed with the economy the way it is.”

The center at MC has a mission to help children with reading disabilities and work to prevent dropouts. The program now serves 15 students in metro Jackson between the ages of 7 and 13. In addition, MC’s dyslexia therapy graduate program in the School of Education has attracted students from Mississippi and four other states.

Launched in 2007, MC’s dyslexia program has received encouragement from the Mississippi Scottish Rite Masons and generous grants from the Phil Hardin Foundation of Meridian and the Robert Hearin Support Foundation of Jackson.