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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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The Flint Community Schools' new K-6 STEM Academy is making space in its curriculum for hands-on learning experiences that help children build confidence and better understanding of science, technology, engineering and math.
Environment
While large-scale infrastructure projects in developing countries can bring energy and other resources to people in need, they also can present significant environmental, social and economic risks. Mott grantees engage the institutions that finance such projects, encouraging them to adopt standards that minimize risks and protect people, communities and the environment.
Youth Engagement
As a teacher, school administrator, community organizer and policymaker, Terry Peterson has spent his career working to increase children’s access to high-quality public education. As chair of the Afterschool Alliance, Peterson’s efforts promote expanded learning as a strategy for school reform — particularly for students from low-income schools and neighborhoods.
Flint Area
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.
A statement to the people of Detroit and Michigan was issued by a foundation working group whose members have contributed to a plan that helps put the city of Detroit back in the starting blocks.
Environment
More than one million people live or work within Wisconsin’s Root-Pike watershed, where 80% of their drinking water either comes from Lake Michigan or groundwater. Hence, protecting both water sources from contamination is critical – and the major focus of Root-Pike WIN, a Racine-based nonprofit organization.
Civil Society
On the eve of the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, Christa Kuljian reminisced about the interview she conducted with him 13 years earlier, when she was the South Africa office director for the Mott Foundation. “He was quite warm and welcoming and open. He was very gracious,” she recalled.
Civil Society
As we mourn the death of Nelson Mandela, the Mott Foundation is remembering his life and legacy by recounting a recent visit to Flint by Albie Sachs, a fellow attorney and anti-apartheid activist whom Mandela appointed as a founding justice on the South African Constitutional Court.
Environment
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.
Environment
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.”
