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Foundation Centennial Youth Engagement
Thousands of students across the country unleashed their creativity in the nationwide pitch competition. Now the kids and teens behind the top 60 ideas will head to Flint for the final event.
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Environment
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
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
Increasingly lower water levels in the Great Lakes demand better management by surrounding states, according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation.
Civil Society
One of South Africa's most important activists of the apartheid era is memorialized 30 years after his death.
Flint Area
Since 1971, when Mott Foundation President Harding Mott was part of a delegation of civic leaders who met with federal officials in Washington, D.C., to propose that Flint become home to a regional airport, the Foundation has supported the expansion of Bishop International Airport.
Flint Area
To counter a decline in downtown Flint, a downtown master plan, created by Sasaki Associates, Inc. in 2002, was developed by the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation with Mott funding. The master plan is being used as the basis for a number of redevelopment strategies, including new housing initiatives that will feed demand for complementary shops and services.
Neal Hegarty, a program officer with Mott’s Pathways Out of Poverty Program, shares in a Q&A his thoughts about understanding and addressing barriers to finding and maintaining living-wage employment.
Youth Engagement
Promoting living wages, building household assets and encouraging supportive public policies as strategies for reducing poverty are key focuses of the field of income security. Program staff with Mott’s Pathways Out of Poverty Program discuss issues and strategies behind the Foundation’s grantmaking in this area.
Environment
The “Coastal Campaign,” a successful fundraising effort spearheaded by the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, has a goal to protect more than 6,000 acres of land in the northwest section of Michigan.
Environment
Michelle Chan-Fishel, coordinator of the Green Investments Program at Friends of the Earth-USA (FoE) in San Francisco discusses in an interview with the Foundation issues related to the Equator Principles and FoE’s interest in the field of private finance reform.
