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.

Access to Justice

A group of people, mostly women, work together outdoors in a field. They carry buckets, bottles, and farming tools, wearing aprons and head coverings, with hills and buildings in the background.

Access to Justice

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

Children’s Savings Accounts

A group of children seated on the floor raise their hands during an event.

Children’s Savings Accounts

Two people wearing matching pink shirts with breast cancer awareness messages, accessorized with pearl necklaces. A mannequin in the background displays a shirt with the text “In this family nobody fights alone.”

Civic Space

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

A shallow forest stream flowing over rocks beneath tall trees, with sunlight filtering through the green foliage.

Conservation

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

International Finance

Two people stand together on a vast, bright salt flat under a partly cloudy sky, each raising a fist in the air. One person wears a wide-brimmed hat, a colorful woven scarf, and a dark vest, while the other wears a maroon jacket and carries a shoulder bag with a circular multicolor emblem. Mountains are visible in the distance beneath the expansive sky.

International Finance

Microenterprise and Sectoral Employment

A photo of four workers — two males and two females — wearing blue lab coats and watching a male instructor show them how to operate a large, yellow articulated robot used in factories. Two of the workers are holding clipboards and the instructor is holding an electrical devise that controls the robot. Behind them is a series of offices or classrooms.

Microenterprise and Sectoral Employment

Youth Entrepreneurship and Service Learning

Young people stand presenting with a microphone.

Youth Entrepreneurship and Service Learning