2024 Impact Report: Celebrating 10 Years Of Service In Mississippi

In 2024, Empower Mississippi celebrated its 10-year anniversary helping all Mississippians rise. Through our focus in Education, Work, and Justice, we have made tremendous progress over the past ten years to achieve our vision of a Mississippi where every child has access to a quality education, every adult has the opportunity to engage in meaningful work, and all citizens receive fairness, equality, and when appropriate, a path to redemption from our justice system.

As we took time to celebrate our past in 2024, we also doubled down on our commitment to empower the future for all Mississippians for years to come and secured some exciting wins for our state:

• We led the passage of a new education funding formula that puts kids at the center of the equation (page 8)
• Our initiative, Embark, supported the approval of two new charter schools (page 9)
• We released a landmark study on Mississippi’s labor force participation (page 18)
• We supported the expansion of the state’s work release program (page 19)

We also welcomed some of the state’s most impactful leaders to our 4th annual Empower Solutions Summit (page 22), and we crisscrossed the state (page 17) to engage in solution-based conversations with policy and business leaders, civic and non-profit organizations, and to empower our ambassadors to affect real change in their communities.

In this year’s Impact Report, we reflect on a decade of wins (page 12) that would not have been possible without the support of so many generous Mississippians. And as we embark on our second decade of service, we are grateful for your continued investment and look forward to working with you throughout the year.

Click here for the 2024 impact report.