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Robert L. Jackson
serves as Treasurer of the Quitman/Tri-County Federal Credit
Union, a community development financial institution with
over $4.3 million dollars in total assets and has lent over
$11.75 million dollars since inception in August, 1981. This
credit union was founded by Robert himself and others in the
Quitman County Community while he served as a John Hay
Whitney Foundation Fellow from 1981-1983. Since March, 1987,
Robert L. Jackson has served as Chief Executive Officer of
the Quitman County Development Organization, Inc., a private
non-profit community development corporation serving the
needs of poor and low income people similarly situated in
Quitman, Tallahatchie and Panola Counties. He was an elected
official having been elected to the Quitman County Board of
Supervisors representing District Two in 1988 and served
until 1995.
He serves as Founder
and President of the 21st Century Investment Club, August 4,
1998. Robert founded the Big River Housing Development
Corporation in 1991, QCDO Child Development Center in 1995,
the Quitman County Youth Credit Union Program in 1996, and
serves on a number of non-profit boards of directors on a
number of other organizations on a local, state and national
level. He was selected as a Fellow to the prestigious W. K.
Kellogg Foundation, Kellogg National Leadership Program in
1993, where he studied leadership theory and practice from
1993 to 1996. He served as an advisor to the 100 Concerned
Black Clergy to start the newly formed Good Works Foundation
in Jackson, Mississippi in 1999-2000. He has participated in
the establishment of a number of other community development
corporations, both on a local and national level, all
dedicated to eradicating poverty, hunger, powerlessness, and
hopelessness of poor, low income and people of color. Robert
established the QCDO/Callie R. Woods High School Scholarship
Fund in 1998 and currently capitalized at $40,000.00, it
provides scholarships to deserving graduates from the
Quitman County area.
He is currently
enrolled as a student in the Delta State University,
Executive Masters of Business Administration Program in
Cleveland, Mississippi. He holds a B S Degree in Business
Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi,
Associates Degree from Northwest Community College in
Senatobia, Mississippi. He has done further studies towards
a Masters in Community Economic Development at Antioch
University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and is a third and final
year student in the National Federation of Community
Development Credit Unions- Community Development Credit
Union Institute held at the Southern New Hampshire
University, formerly the New Hampshire College.
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