Carter Peterson McMillan Foundation
Helping students fullfill the dream
Who We Are
The Carter Peterson McMillan Foundation has been established to continue a family legacy that started a century ago in the hearts of my grandparents Bessie Dobbins and Espie Carter.
Both born in 1897, Bessie and Espie struggled to complete their educational goals. While attending Oakwood Junior College in Huntsville, Alabama, they met, and later married.
While pursuing their own degrees, the Carters housed students who couldn’t afford room and board fees as well as their tuition. When their own education was complete, they moved to Ohio and started a nursing home business to care for the elderly in their community and generate an income to continue to help students. This venture also provided a summer work program for students to become vested in their own education.
Impact Stories
Veronica Thomas ~ Virginia
To GOD be the glory on the establishment of your new foundation! I definitely benefited from the generosity of Wanda Carter who impacted me so much – not only through the program but in how big hearted she was towards me, even opening the doors of her home. I attribute my attitude toward higher education to Wanda’s example and have fostered preparation for college while raising my children, who are both in the honors program in their schools. Wanda showed me that the foundation of education starts at home when you’re young; she loved her girls and I saw them as great examples of what a great home foundation can foster. You all rock! Be blessed!
