MBC Consulting includes our client and partner-commissioned engagements, the applied, collaborative extension of our work. Here, we bring our data and mapping expertise to funders, agencies, and organizations looking to turn their own information into clearer, more equitable decision-making.
Users can explore community foundation’s territory, funding history, and type of support, whether a discretionary grant, DAF grant, or field-of-interest fund, giving a clearer picture of how philanthropic dollars are sustaining local media across the state.
Designed by MBC for the California Black Health Network in partnership with CHCF, the Health 4 Life: Healthy Black People campaign equips Black Californians with “How Do I…” resources to navigate the healthcare system, advocate for themselves and their loved ones, and take action against discrimination.
Philanthropic Flows in the Inland Empire maps the region’s nonprofit funding networks. Built for nonprofit leaders, advocates, and researchers, the dashboard reveals who’s funding whom giving the region’s philanthropic landscape a clearer, more navigable shape.
Prepared for the James B. McClatchy Foundation, Valley Voices Rising maps the Central Valley’s media landscape alongside county-level civic engagement and community vitality data, helping funders and stakeholders identify where regional journalism investment can strengthen community voice and representation.
Built for the Inland Empire Journalism Innovation Hub + Fund launch, this map clusters local news outlets across the region by type, service area, and ethnicity.
A report combining data visualization and narrative storytelling to humanize the Black Equity Fund’s impact in the Inland Empire; showing where the Black community is excelling and where need still exists.
This tool helps Santiago Canyon College students transition from the school’s prestigious real estate program into the workforce by mapping the areas with the highest concentration of job opportunities.
This map and StoryMap combines data visualization and narrative storytelling to humanize the impact of the Black Equity Fund in the Inland Empire, showing where the region’s Black community is excelling and where systemic need still exists.
Maps on disinvested communities, equity and inclusiveness, COVID recovery, and sustainability and environmental justice grounded the region’s planning process in data, helping ensure equitable decision-making.
Designed and developed to visualize Los Angeles County’s news ecosystem, we identified gaps in information reach across the region’s socioeconomically and racially diverse communities.
Our foundational project: MBC developed a map visualizing Southern California Gas Company’s giving patterns to Black-Led Organizations within their operating territory from 2019 to 2020, and paired that data with an in-house regional needs index to help SoCalGas make more impactful philanthropic decisions.
MBC’s inaugural project: as the official California liaison between the Census Bureau and Black communities statewide, MBC led a collaborative effort with Black media outlets to drive reporting, outreach, and community engagement in support of a complete count for the 2020 Census.
An easy-to-use dashboard built for media outlets during COVID-19, identifying vaccination rates in densely populated Black and Latino areas of Riverside County to help target under-reached communities with critical vaccination information.
The Racism as a Public Health Crisis Dashboard tracked county and city declarations across California municipalities, serving as the precursor to the Combating Racism as a Public Health Crisis platform before being discontinued.
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