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Flint Area Foundation Centennial
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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Flint Area, Youth Engagement
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.
Flint Area
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.
Youth Engagement
Nurtured through service to community, leadership is one of the After-School All-Stars’ (ASAS) four national programming priorities, which also include academic and homework support; visual and performing arts activities; and health, nutrition and physical fitness instruction.
Youth Engagement
Mott Program Officer Jennifer Liversedge makes a reading recommendation for educators interested in increasing the quality and impact of afterschool programs. “Expanding Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of Afterschool and Summer Learning for Student Success,” a compendium of studies, reports and commentaries on the value of afterschool and summer programs, is available online or in hard copy.
Youth Engagement
LA’s BEST — a long-running afterschool program serving 28,000 students in grades K-6 at 186 sites in Los Angeles — depends upon a network of partnerships to keep its curriculum quality high and engaging for children and families living in neighborhoods most vulnerable to gangs, drugs and crime.
Environment
Staff from the CASA Socio-Environment Fund, a Mott grantee, attended the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Brazil.
Flint Area
Economic development and sustainability are key goals of several Mott-funded initiatives coordinated by the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Flint Area
Economic development, job training, and children and youth are among the key target issues of Mott’s grantmaking in its hometown of Flint, Michigan.
Youth Engagement
Jobs, economic development and environmental sustainability are the goals of Michigan community colleges participating in the Greenforce Initiative.
Youth Engagement
Job training and development have been central to the grantmaking of Jack A. Litzenberg, retiring senior program officer at Mott.
