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The Mission of the Midian Leadership Project is to develop community leaders through holistic educational and social support, anchored in sports-related programming, for young people ages 10 to 25.
The Midian Leadership Project began with a group of young student-athletes in Charleston, WV, who banded together to build a successful future, ultimately winning a state football championship and raising their high school's graduation rate by ten percent. By 2018, with dozens of the original group in colleges across the region, they formed the Midian Leadership Project to amplify and reinvest their contributions in the rising generation.
In early 2021, Midian purchased a former industrial property across from West Side Middle School, renovating it into the Midian Safe Haven, which opened in January 2022, bringing new life to a formerly derelict block and creating a home base for the leadership development of the next generation.
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Midian's work is rooted in the Community Development philosophy of civil rights leader Dr. John Perkins, who believed that those who have grown up within the community, if given the right support, are best equipped to transform it from the inside out, welcoming others to be part of the process. The Midian Leadership Project works in schools, with sports teams, and in the neighborhood, holistically engaging education, sports, travel, and social development to help young people to mature into leaders who remain to reinvest and transform the community that raised them.