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Noting that public schools are the heart of a well-functioning community, the Mott Foundation commits $100 million for a new high school in Flint.
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One of seven land banks profiled in the Center for Community Progress (CCP) new report, “Take it to the Bank: How Land Banks Are Strengthening America's Neighborhoods,” the Genesee County Land Bank in the Mott Foundation’s home community of Flint celebrated a decade of work in 2014.
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Take it to the Bank: How Land Banks Are Strengthening America's Neighborhoods, a new downloadable report from the Center for Community Progress, examines the state of land banking in the U.S.
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Michigan State University (MSU) College of Human Medicine unveiled its new medical education and public health research space in downtown Flint, Michigan. The new medical school anchors a new “Health and Wellness” district in the city’s downtown. The expansion of the program was made possible by more than $11 million in grants from the Mott Foundation.
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The C.S. Mott Foundation marks the passing and celebrates the life of Claire Mott White. A Foundation trustee and granddaughter of our founder, Claire also was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother; an accomplished artist; and quiet leader in our home community of Flint.
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Dan Berezny, a Flint, Michigan, elementary school principal who has spent 23 years nurturing community within his building and the neighborhoods that surround it, reflects on the value of community schools in this era of educational challenges.
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While Mott’s grantmaking over the years has come to include both national and international strategies, the Foundation has remained committed to our hometown of Flint, Michigan. Neal Hegarty, vice president of programs at Mott, shared his thoughts about the importance and impacts of that local partnership in a recent guest article published by the European Foundation Centre.
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Economic development and sustainability are key goals of several Mott-funded initiatives coordinated by the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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Economic development, job training, and children and youth are among the key target issues of Mott’s grantmaking in its hometown of Flint, Michigan.
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This article, originally published in the September 1986 edition of the “Mott Exchange” and updated to include a few recent events, takes a brief look at one small part of the ongoing legacy left by our founder, Charles Stewart Mott, and his family.
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Rethinking and reusing existing urban assets, rather than “carving up yet another farm field for development” are definitive steps to creating strong, vibrant and sustainable cities and regions, says Dan Kildee, co-founder of the Center for Community Progress.
