Statement regarding shooting and fire at church in Grand Blanc, Michigan
The Mott Foundation condemns heinous acts of violence in Grand Blanc, calls for community members to stand up to hate and seeks to support victims.
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Foundations launch Grand Blanc Relief Fund after church shooting and fire
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Education, Flint Area
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.
Education
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.
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Statement on the history of Mott’s community education program
The following is a statement by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in response to Dr. Andrew Highsmith’s allegations about the history of our community education program.
Environment
Flint water crisis spurs Mott’s effort to transform water management programs
The Mott Foundation will provide over $4 million to advance new approaches to managing drinking water, storm water and waste water in Great Lakes cities.
Environment
Republican group proposes carbon tax as ‘conservative solution’ to climate change
A conservative group supported by the Mott Foundation wants to fight climate change by placing a tax on carbon dioxide emissions.
Flint Area
Construction begins on new early childhood education center in Flint
The Mott Foundation granted $9 million to build a state-of-the-art early childhood education center at Flint’s Durant-Tuuri-Mott Community School.