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As part of its yearlong centennial celebration, the Mott Foundation will host Family Fun Days, a free, three-day community event on the Flint Cultural Center campus, from June 5-7.
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While hydropower dams create energy for communities, they can also put aquatic ecosystems at risk. For two decades, Mott grantees helped nurture a collaborative approach to preventing and repairing the negative effects of these dams, and the impacts of that work offer insights for addressing the challenges facing the world’s freshwater resources.
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For two decades, Mott funded efforts in the Great Lakes and Southeast regions of the U.S. to prevent and repair the negative effects of hydropower dams. Sam B. Passmore, director of Mott’s Environment Program, discusses the impacts of that grantmaking and its implications for the world’s “freshwater challenge.”
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Staff from the CASA Socio-Environment Fund, a Mott grantee, attended the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Brazil.
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Sustainable development in Brazil is the focus of Mario Osava’s reporting for the Inter Press Service, a Mott Foundation grantee.
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Leaders of three organizations, speakers at the 2010 fall conference of the Environmental Grantmakers Association and supported by Mott International Finance for Sustainability focus area of its Environment program, were interviewed for this feature.
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The Michigan Nature Conservancy, Midland’s Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation and the Mott Foundation celebrate the permanent protection of more than 271,000 acres of forests, lakes, rivers and streams in the state’s Upper Peninsula, known as the “big U.P. deal.”
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The current global economic crisis is pushing international financial institutions (IFIs) — such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund — back into the public spotlight and increasing their importance in developing countries.
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In this Q&A, Michael Kelly, director of the Great Lakes Revolving Loan Fund, talks about how short-term bridge financing fulfills a critical role in protecting ecologically valuable properties.
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Increasingly lower water levels in the Great Lakes demand better management by surrounding states, according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation.
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The “Coastal Campaign,” a successful fundraising effort spearheaded by the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, has a goal to protect more than 6,000 acres of land in the northwest section of Michigan.
