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Ukraine’s community foundations transform to emergency responders during war
Community foundation representative holds a cardboard box while distributing humanitarian relief supplies from a van filled with packages for community support related to the war in Ukraine.

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Ukraine’s community foundations transform to emergency responders during war

Ukraine’s community foundations have turned into trusted emergency responders after Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country, using their deep local knowledge, relationships and community trust to deliver aid, mobilize resources and support long-term recovery.

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Ukraine’s community foundations transform to emergency responders during war
Community foundation representative holds a cardboard box while distributing humanitarian relief supplies from a van filled with packages for community support related to the war in Ukraine.

Civil Society

Ukraine’s community foundations transform to emergency responders during war

Ukraine’s community foundations have turned into trusted emergency responders after Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country, using their deep local knowledge, relationships and community trust to deliver aid, mobilize resources and support long-term recovery.

Inside Mott’s new Civil Society program plan:
A Q&A with Shannon Lawder
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Civil Society

Inside Mott’s new Civil Society program plan:
A Q&A with Shannon Lawder

The Mott Foundation’s Civil Society Program Director, Shannon Lawder, shares in a Q&A how her team’s new grantmaking strategy seeks to build common ground, expand access to justice and protect the nonprofit sector at a time of rising polarization and increasing threats to the sector.

Funders can do more to support people-centered justice in 2025
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Mott Perspectives | Civil Society

Funders can do more to support people-centered justice in 2025

To help close the global justice gap, the Mott Foundation worked with donors and grassroots justice practitioners to create and launch the Legal Empowerment Fund in 2021. As injustices are on the rise, this year is an important time for more funders to join the work.

Global goals, local solutions
A group of leaders that include Rachel Bowen Pittman, Executive Director of United Nations Association of the USA, Helen Bond, Ph.D, Howard University associate professor of education, Salah Goss, senior vice president for social impact at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and Ridgway White, president and chief executive officer of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation are sitting on stage as panelists as they discuss how each of their organizations are working toward the achievement of the SDGs. One woman is speaking into a microphone as the other three panelists listen. A screen behind the group has logos for American Leadership on the Sustainable Development Goals, Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings, and United Nations Foundation.

Mott Perspectives | Civil Society

Global goals, local solutions

How can we solve global issues like poverty and inequality? Mott President and CEO Ridgway White explains why solutions start with communities.