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March 19, 2013
Contact: Carol D. Rugg,
810.238.5651,
crugg@mott.org
Mott Foundation hires communications officer
FLINT, Mich. — Morris Arvoy has joined the staff of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s Communications Department, taking on the assignment of communications officer for the Foundation’s Civil Society grantmaking team.
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Morris J.L. Arvoy
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Arvoy, who served as director of media relations at Albion College in Albion, Michigan for more than a decade, has more than 20 years of experience in public and media relations. Most recently, he worked as an independent communications consultant, assisting non-profit and corporate clients such as United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region, the City of Marshall (Michigan) and the American Red Cross of South Central Michigan.
Earlier in his career, he worked in a communications capacity for the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East at Harvard University and as a senior editor for the U.S. Tennis Association’s publisher in Lynn, Massachusetts.
A graduate of Albion College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English, Arvoy is a native of Flint.
The Mott Foundation, established in 1926 by an automotive pioneer, is a private philanthropy committed to supporting projects that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society. It supports nonprofit programs throughout the U.S. and, on a limited geographic basis, internationally. Grantmaking is focused in four programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty. Besides Flint, offices are located in metropolitan Detroit, Johannesburg (South Africa) and London. The Foundation, with 2012 year-end assets of $2.28 billion, made 439 grants totaling $91 million. For more information, visit www.mott.org.
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