Founded in 1986, The Bethune-DuBois Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established to sustain and magnify the educational legacies of two of America's greatest leaders...Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois. Their examples and teachings, emphasized personal leadership and the importance of education and training in solving public policy problems and in advancing the status and contributions of all African Americans in American society.