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Young entrepreneurs set sights on Flint as Mott Million Dollar Challenge enters final phase
Mott Foundation commits up to $100 million for new Flint Community Schools high school
K‑12 youth from across the country to pitch bold ideas in Flint at the Mott Million Dollar Challenge finals
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Mott interns build skills while exploring nonprofit career options
Eight students from a variety of academic backgrounds completed the Mott Foundation's internship program designed to introduce young people to philanthropy.
Youth Engagement
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Mott Foundation explore ways to jazz up afterschool programs across the United States
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs a free community concert in Flint, Michigan to highlight the afterschool enrichment effort.
Flint Area, Youth Engagement
Flint kids to benefit from $3 million grant for afterschool programs
As afterschool programs face threat of federal funding cuts, Mott Foundation renews support for YouthQuest program at 15 local sites.
Flint Area
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation surpasses $1 billion in grants for Flint
Milestone grant of $3.2 million to the Crim Fitness Foundation will support community education, one of the Foundation’s longest-standing interests.
Flint Area, Youth Engagement
AmeriCorps, universities and residents rally to revitalize Flint neighborhoods
Flint’s Urban Safety Corps — made up of 10 AmeriCorps members — and community partners are reducing crime and blight along the University Avenue corridor.
Civil Society
Mott Foundation mourns the passing of Nomboniso Nangu
The world lost a champion for justice with the sudden death of Nomboniso Nangu, director of the National Alliance for the Development of Community Advice Offices.
Youth Engagement
Afterschool works for America
Mott Foundation President Ridgway White explains how afterschool programs support children, working parents and companies.
Civil Society
Building bridges — not walls
Environment
Video features solar power project that is lighting villages in the Amazon forest
The Socio-Environmental Institute has produced a short video of a project that is giving dozens of remote communities in the Amazon rainforest clean energy.
Environment
Harnessing the sun
Solar power is giving remote villages in the Amazon rainforest access to clean, reliable energy. The Mott Foundation supported the initiative.