The Magnolia Mothers Trust

We welcome all U.S. mayors to join our coalition to strengthen all our communities by supplementing the existing social safety net and driving forward this powerful tool for racial and gender equity.

Ciara McDonald, a single mother of three in Jackson, Mississippi, received $1,000 a month for a year. Here’s what happened.

Aisha Nyandoro: “You have to change the narrative, and to do that, you have to change the narrator. That means making sure that individuals with lived experiences of poverty have an opportunity to tell their truth and not have someone else tell that story on their behalf.”

While Nyandoro is glad to be able to offer the additional resources, she also feels they are wholly inadequate to address the magnitude of the problems facing the families she works with and the larger structural inequities that continue to limit economic opportunities for people of color.