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  • 100 years of impact.
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Environment

Herman Mmanda headshot.
These renewable energy programs for water pumping in these areas are very impactful.” Herman Mmanda
Managing director and co-founder, Trinity Solar Energy
Sisty Basil headshot.
In terms of impact, we are not speaking of thousands, we are speaking of tens of thousands of impacts.” Sisty Basil
Executive director, E-LICO Foundation
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About 25 years ago, the Mott Foundation embraced a new emerging concept in water science, that rivers need enough water to support healthy ecosystems and communities, not just clean water.” Sally Bethea
Retired founding director, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
Michelle Chan headshot.
It was decades ago that Mott recognized that the decisions of big financial institutions can have a huge, huge impact on all kinds of critical issues from environmental degradation to climate change...” Michelle Chan
Vice president of programs, Friends of the Earth
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Grants from the C.S. Mott Foundation have helped the Conservancy protect significant lands that have direct and consequential benefits to water quality and the health of the Great Lakes.” Glen Chown
Executive director, Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy
Cameron Davis headshot.
The Mott Foundation’s investments in people and in programs like the Great Lakes Compact, the Legacy Act and the Restoration Initiative have made the upper Midwest an attraction, and they’re going to keep doing that for the next 100 years.” Cameron Davis
Former CEO, Alliance for the Great Lakes
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I don’t think it can be underestimated the positive role Mott had in making these institutions — which are really the key development institutions in the world.”
Chad Dobson
Founding director, Bank Information Center
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The Mott Foundation was way ahead on incorporating environment and social safeguards and incorporating people and communities, into the day and day operations of development finance institutions…” Kevin Gallagher
Director, Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center
Cesar Gamboa headshot.
El derecho ambiental no se puede crear en una sala de reuniones. Tiene que ser promovido por la ciudadanía y por las comunidades que defienden su derecho a un medio ambiente sano y equilibrado.”

“Environmental law cannot be created in a meeting room. Environmental law must be driven by citizens and by communities that defend their right to a healthy and balanced environment.”
César Gamboa
Executive director, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
Lester Graham headshot.
Mott encouraged us to do the very best work we could.” Lester Graham
Former environment reporter, Michigan Public
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Today, because of the work that we’ve done, every international development finance institution in the world has international environmental standards that they must follow...” David Hunter
Professor emeritus, American University of Washington College of Law
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I think we’ve got to be unapologetically committed to humanity, that we’ve got to be unwilling to capitulate to things that we know aren’t truthful, things that aren’t equitable or just...” Monica Lewis-Patrick
Co-founder, We the People of Detroit
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O que eu mais gostei em trabalhar com a WWF-Brasil e a Fundação Mott foi o projeto e a instalação, e o monitoramento da primeira comunidade 100% movida a energia solar no sul do Amazonas, que é Vila Limeira. Foi um projeto construído com os moradores, que participaram de todas as etapas.”

“What I enjoyed most about working with WWF-Brazil and the Mott Foundation was the project, the installation and the support of the first 100% solar community in southern Amazonas, which is Vila Limeira. It was a project built with the residents, and they participated from beginning to end.”
Alessandra Mathyas
Conservation analyst, WWF-Brazil
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We were able to achieve strong safeguards to protect people and the environment.” Traci Romine
Former program officer at the Mott Foundation
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The Mott Foundation has also always been a foundation that looks to the future, especially around water resources in the Great Lakes, and what they can be doing to help anticipate some of the threats and needs of the future.” Laura Rubin
Director, Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition
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Since our partnership with Mott, we've already helped catalyze over $800,000 in additional funding to tribally led conservation work in the Great Lakes region.” Erik Stegman
Executive director, Native Americans in Philanthropy
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We have also conducted — with the help of funding from the [Mott] Foundation — research on environmental grantmaking. We got very curious about: Where does the funding go? How are foundations funding environmental work? And we studied over 200 foundations and looked at more than 30,000 grants and found some very interesting results...” Dorceta Taylor
Professor of environmental sociology, Yale University
Water is one of those issues that connects everyone. It doesn’t matter where you live or what your politics are — everyone needs clean water.” Mark Van Putten
President and CEO, Wege Foundation

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