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The Foundation’s 2008 annual report takes a look at the ways in which Mott is responding to the twin challenge of declining assets and greater need, with a particular focus on Flint and southeastern Michigan, a region the national media has sometimes dubbed “ground zero” for the country’s economic crisis.

Report on activities for fiscal year 2008

• Annual Message 

  The renovated Rowe Building (left) and the new Wade Trim Building (right) illustrate the revitalization taking place in downtown Flint.

• Flint: a snapshot in time [pdf]
• People [pdf]
• Partnerships [pdf]
• Policy [pdf]
• Endnotes [pdf]
• Civil Society program grantmaking activities [pdf]
• Environment program grantmaking activities [pdf]
• Flint Area program grantmaking activities [pdf]
• Pathways Out of Poverty program grantmaking activities [pdf]
• Exploratory & Special Projects grantmaking activities [pdf]
• Employee/Trustee Matching and Trustee-Initiated Grants [pdf]
• Finance [pdf]

Online Only Content

• The city of Flint is home to four institutions of higher education with a total enrollment of 29,400 full- and part-time students.

  Transforming industrial waterway into valuable community capital (11/2009)
• Tap: "The Great American Dance" — a slideshow featuring Flint resident and professional tap dance instructor, Bruce Bradley. (11/2009)
• Museum uses “virtual” membership to build college-age patron base (11/2009)
• [Slideshow] — Highlighlighting the efforts to strengthen the Flint area. (9/2009)
• Faded Glory: Polishing Flint’s Jewels — a New York Times story on Flint’s Carriage Town district. (8/20/2009)
• Restoring Carriage Town — a New York Times slideshow about the restoration of Flint's Carriage Town district. (8/20/2009)
• Hard-hit mayors slam partisan bickering in Washington — former Flint Mayor, Mike Brown, speaks about coping with Flint's economic concerns. (6/2009)
• Thirteenth year of high school gives at-risk students second chance (6/26/2009)
• Audio Q&A — Daniel Kildee helped found the Genesee County Land Bank in 2002. In this Q&A, Kildee discusses the economic and social impacts — and challenges — of the land bank model. [8:04] (10/28/2008)

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