Our Flagship Issues

The Mott Foundation has a history of sticking with issues and funding grantees over the long term. Learn more about some of the key issues we’ve worked on over our first 100 years.

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A group of kids and adults in matching yellow T-shirts cheer and wave from a stage.

Afterschool

Children’s Health

A photo of a young man and woman smiling at their infant son. Behind them are colorful birthday banners and balloons.

Children’s Health

Community Education

A young boy runs excitedly toward a man, who waits for him with a smile. They are in a gymnasium, and others play in the background.

Community Education

Community Philanthropy

The staff of a shoe making cooperative pose in front of their workshop.

Community Philanthropy

Early Childhood Education

Seven kids smiling at the camera as they play on the grass.

Early Childhood Education

Flint Cultural Center

Three boys sit a table smiling and surrounded by LEGOs.

Flint Cultural Center

Flint Water Crisis

A young woman wearing an Americorps jacket delivers a water filter and water bottles from an American Red Cross disaster relief vehicle.

Flint Water Crisis

A lake shoreline fades into a cloudy blue sky on the horizon.

Great Lakes

Higher Education

C.S. Mott digs a shovel into the ground as others watch at a ceremonial groundbreaking.

Higher Education