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Dr. Bobby Mukkamala headshot.
Tony Smith headshot.
Robert Friedman headshot.
A dramatic black and white portrait of C.S. Mott in profile.
John Butler headshot.
Sisty Basil headshot.
Rosa Gallego headshot.
Brandee Cooke-Brown headshot.
Dan Kildee headshot.
Maryanne Mott headshot.
Michael Sherraden headshot.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger headshot.
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Ridgway White headshot.
Michelle Chan headshot.
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Alessandra Mathyas headshot.
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George Ross headshot.
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C.S. Harding Mott headshot.
William Piper headshot.
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Marise M.M. Sheehan headshot.
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Ridgway White headshot.
It’s the core of our belief that we should work with and partner with community in everything that we do.” Ridgway White
Mott Foundation President and CEO
A. Marshall Acuff Jr. headshot.
The response to the water crisis stands out in my mind because it was significant to the community, to the country, to the world.” A. Marshall Acuff Jr.
Mott Foundation Trustee Emeritus
Karen Aldridge-Eason headshot.
Mott has been good about understanding that you have to build relationships in order to effect change. And that takes time.” Karen Aldridge-Eason
Mott Foundation Trustee
Lizabeth Ardisana headshot.
The C.S. Mott Foundation has had an impact in so many ways, and in so many places that I’ve gotten an opportunity to experience.” Lizabeth Ardisana
Mott Foundation Trustee
John Butler headshot.
Clearly, the fact that Mott has been around for 100 years shows the value of grantmaking in perpetuity.” John Butler
Mott Foundation Trustee
Frederick Kirkpatrick headshot.
It takes time to build an organization. I think we’re one of the few that really funds on a long-term basis when we believe in something.” Frederick S. Kirkpatrick
Mott Foundation Trustee
Tiffany Lovett headshot.
As an educator, I think the work that’s been most impactful to me at Mott is the afterschool field and developing the 50 state networks and the Alliance, and giving both the local grassroots afterschool organization a voice and connection to a larger picture...” Tiffany Lovett
Mott Foundation Trustee
Webb Martin headshot.
One of the hallmarks of the Foundation’s approach to its activities, its philanthropy, is consistency.” Webb F. Martin
Mott Foundation Trustee
John Morning headshot.
Some of the work that I have found to be the most meaningful has involved what the Foundation has meant for the Flint Institute of Arts ... this is one of the outstanding medium-sized museums in the country.” John Morning
Mott Foundation Trustee Emeritus
A dramatic black and white portrait of C.S. Mott in profile.
It seems to me that every person, always, is in a kind of informal partnership with his community. His own success is dependent to a large degree on that community, and the community, after all, is the sum total of the individuals who make it up.”
C.S. Mott

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C.S. Harding Mott headshot.
For the future, I am sure that guided by the wisdom of our trustees the Mott Foundation will continue to support the most important asset we have — PEOPLE. Doing things for people rather than with people happily is a thing of the past. The Mott Foundation’s concept perhaps might be best described as one of ‘creative flexibility.’ This means to experiment, to venture, to provide birth and mobility for new ideas which will move forward toward solution of the problems a community faces in our present social structure.”
C.S. Harding Mott
Then president of the Mott Foundation, writing in our 1970 Annual Report
Maryanne Mott headshot.
One of the things that has had the greatest impact has been the consistency of the Foundation from its very beginning on through to today and its commitment to Flint.” Maryanne Mott
Mott Foundation Trustee
Dr. Bobby Mukkamala headshot.
There are things that need to be a forever goal. And if they can’t be, they’re not going to get fixed.” Dr. Bobby Mukkamala
Mott Foundation Trustee
Charlie Nelms headshot.
My 100th birthday wish for the Foundation would be to think about something the Foundation could do in the local, regional community...” Charlie Nelms
Mott Foundation Trustee
Jeremy Piper headshot.
I saw firsthand how these grants really were impacting the lives of the people in Brazil.” Jeremy Piper
Mott Foundation Trustee
William Piper headshot.
One of the things I’m deeply grateful for is the commitment that the Foundation has made to the city of Flint. My hometown, their hometown as well.” William H. Piper
Mott Foundation Trustee Emeritus
George Ross headshot.
The work that I was able to do at God’s speed was supported by not only my belief, but my reality of the help I got along the way. Much of that help came from an organization called the Mott Foundation.” George Ross
Mott Foundation Trustee
Marise M.M. Sheehan headshot.
My birthday wish for the Foundation is to think of yourself as young and consider this just the beginning.” Marise M.M. Sheehan
Mott Foundation Trustee
Helen Taylor headshot.
In the work in the Great Lakes — that’s a powerful space, and a powerful legacy for the Foundation. It’s really based on their continuity of purpose and sticking with its grantees.” Helen Taylor
Mott Foundation Trustee
No matter what the tools and trends might be in philanthropy over the coming decades, we must never forget that its essential function is to satisfy the charitable impulse — to help good people make good things happen in their communities. Philanthropy in its many forms — from giving while living to grantmaking in perpetuity — is valuable. It is something our society should nurture.”
William S. White
Then chairman and CEO of the Mott Foundation, writing in his annual message for the Foundation’s 90th anniversary