It’s Been An Extraordinary Year Since MLT’s 10th Anniversary
By: John Rice, MLT Founder & CEO
Last May, MLT’s 10th Anniversary Gala and Rising Leaders Conference kick-started a transformational year that has accelerated our journey to develop 1,000 senior leaders and a pipeline of 10,000 more coming behind them.
I am excited to share a few of our accomplishments since MLT’s 10th Anniversary celebration:
- Welcomed our 5,000th Fellow to MLT and sent our 2,000th MBA Prep Fellow to a top MBA program;
- Raised $6.5M (to date) of our $10M growth capital campaign, including a $2M re-investment from New Profit, a leading venture philanthropy fund;
- Developed new partnerships with 13 leading companies to transform their talent pipelines, including Twitter, Andreessen Horowitz, The Carlyle Group, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Pandora, and American
Airlines; - Launched MLT Ascend, thanks to a $1.1M grant from the Citi Foundation, where MLT Rising Leaders coach 200 first-generation, low-income college freshmen to boost their persistence rates and academic success;
- In conjunction with the Milken Institute and African philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa, established the Africa Business Fellowship to provide young American professionals with global experience working in Africa-based companies;
- Established MLT as a leading voice on increasing diversity in the K-12 education reform movement, playing a key role in the Dept. of Education’s initiative and in the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit.
But we are most inspired by the stories that demonstrate that MLT is transforming the life trajectories of our Rising Leaders and positioning them to have broad impact on our nation. The support of the entire MLT community makes these stories possible:
- Erin Teague, director of product management at Yahoo!, was profiled in Glamour Magazine’s 35 Women Under 35
Who Are Changing the Tech Industry; - Edrizio De La Cruz’s entrepreneurial venture, Regalii, was featured on NBC News; Regalii enables individuals to directly pay bills for their relatives abroad from their computer or mobile phone for a nominal flat transaction fee;
- Career Prep Fellow Jourdan Henry was awarded the Harry S. McAlpin Jr. scholarship at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in honor of the first black journalist to cover a presidential press conference;
- Camille McGirt’s non-profit, Healthy Girls Save the World, was highlighted at the Clinton Global
Initiative University for its work promoting healthy bodies and minds for middle school girls.
Here at MLT, we are literally and figuratively changing the face of leadership in our organizations, our communities, and our country. MLT’s playbook and coaching give our Rising Leaders the genuine confidence that they belong on the path to leadership – and that they have what it takes to go the distance.
We are thrilled about all of the progress that has been made in the last year, thanks to our network of MLT partners, supporters, Rising Leaders, and staff. But we also know how much more work needs to be done to achieve our vision of putting the American dream within reach of everyone. If you aren’t doing so already, please join us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Here’s to another extraordinary year.