This grant will provide funding to the Greater Flint Health Coalition to implement the Flint Healthcare Sector Initiative. The purpose of the initiative is to create sustainable employment and promote career advancement for low-income Flint residents by working with health industry employers to restructure their hiring, retention, and promotional practices for entry-level healthcare employees. The Greater Flint Health Coalition will continue to work closely with the National Economic Development and Law Center, who developed this project with a three-year research and planning grant from the Mott Foundation.

This grant renews general purpose support for the Center for Community Progress to further its mission of combating the negative effects of property vacancy and abandonment in post-industrial urban areas. Headquartered in Flint and with offices in Washington, D.C., the grantee addresses these issues at the federal, state, and local levels through a combination of research, policy reform and advocacy, technical assistance and capacity building, and communications programs.