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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Young entrepreneurs learn critical skills at state-funded afterschool program
Foundations launch Grand Blanc Relief Fund after church shooting and fire
For nonprofits in Flint, federal funding cuts pose dire threat
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Initiatives support entrepreneurship in Michigan
Prima Civitas launched in 2007 — with Mott Foundation support — the Moving Ideas to Market initiative. Its goals are to create a statewide environment that nurtures entrepreneurship and small-business development, and to brand the state as a place where entrepreneurs of all ages can thrive.
Education
Mott grant helps keep kids learning after school
YouthQuest afterschool program, with the help of a one-year, $3.1 million grant from Mott, is gearing up to offer afterschool activities during the coming academic year at 15 elementary and middle schools throughout the greater Flint, Michigan, community.
Education
Reflections from Jack Litzenberg: Job training does matter
Jack Litzenberg, senior program officer in Mott’s Pathways Out of Poverty program, shares findings from a new Mott-funded report about job training programs. Litzenberg has helped lead the Foundation’s funding of workforce development strategies – including sector or industry-focused models – since 1984.
Flint Area
Center for Community Progress helps cities put vacant, abandoned property back in use
The Center for Community Progress is designed to serve as a resource for federal, state and local officials and nonprofit agencies that are working to help cities eliminate the blight associated with vacant, abandoned and underutilized properties.
Flint Area
Involved citizens are key to success of neighborhood foot patrol programs
Neighborhood foot patrol officers can make a critical difference – especially in communities facing tough budget cuts – if residents are willing to “step up” and work with their officer and each other.
Civil Society
Mott Foundation president awarded first-ever European Foundation Centre Philanthropy Compass Prize
Mott Foundation President William S. White received the first-ever Philanthropy Compass Prize awarded by the European Foundation Centre (EFC) on Nov. 9, 2009, for “outstanding contributions to the development of the EFC and the European philanthropic sector."
Flint Area
Mott’s legacy shapes hometown grantmaking
Neal Hegarty, director of the Mott Foundation’s Flint Area grantmaking program, talks about the factors that drive hometown philanthropy and the lessons learned over the past 80 years.
Environment
Global economic woes, climate change increase importance of NGO oversight
The current global economic crisis is pushing international financial institutions (IFIs) — such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund — back into the public spotlight and increasing their importance in developing countries.
Environment
Revolving Loan Fund strengthens Great Lakes land conservation
In this Q&A, Michael Kelly, director of the Great Lakes Revolving Loan Fund, talks about how short-term bridge financing fulfills a critical role in protecting ecologically valuable properties.
Environment
Climate change and water use patterns demand better management of Great Lakes
Increasingly lower water levels in the Great Lakes demand better management by surrounding states, according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation.