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Education, Flint Area
STEAM Camp piques interest in math and science for Flint’s youngest students
The Flint Community Schools’ STEAM Camp, a two-week experience blending academics and the arts, helps increase early exposure to science, technology, engineering, art and math.
Education, Flint Area
Remembering Mott Camp: An experience that helped shape the habits of a lifetime
Every summer for more than 40 years, Mott Camp hosted Flint school children for three-week visits to improve their health and social skills.
Education
Flint national service accelerator unleashes the energy of young people to heal a city in distress
Flint’s National Service Accelerator is drawing increasing interest as a potential model for other communities. Successfully leveraging more than $3 million in local and federal dollars, Flint’s Accelerator has helped local nonprofits increase the number of service members three-fold to about 100 now working throughout the city.
Education
Partnerships between police and afterschool programs build relationships, break down barriers
An “unusual pick” for a national policy fellowship, Officer Darren Grimshaw encourages police and fire departments to engage with their community’s kids and families by partnering with local afterschool programs.
Education
Inside Mott: Foundation announces staff promotions in Education program
The Mott Foundation is pleased to announce two promotions within its Education grantmaking program. Benita Melton has been named program director, and Gwynn Hughes has been promoted to senior program officer.
Education
Program name change emphasizes a central theme of the C.S. Mott Foundation’s grantmaking
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has reaffirmed its commitment to education as one of the most important pathways for children and young people to succeed in work and life.
Education
Mott Foundation to provide up to $1 million in grants to prevent absenteeism, keep kids in school
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation will provide up to $1 million in grants to support a new national initiative to prevent chronic absenteeism and keep kids in school.
Education, Flint Area
As kids head back to school, Flint moves forward with community education
A new model of community school, piloted at Flint, Michigan’s, Brownell-Holmes STEM Academy, is being expanded to three more public elementary schools with the support of $1.3 million from Mott.
At the Mott Foundation, A Persistent Evangelist for Children’s Savings Accounts
This article originally appeared on the Inside Philanthropy website.
Education, Flint Area
Mott-funded summer programming helps keep Flint and Genesee County kids safe, busy and productive
The Mott Foundation’s commitment to children and young people in its home community is carried out through the school year and the summer months, supporting a wide variety of enrichment and learning activities designed to entertain and educate.