Summer is underway, but plenty of free and low-cost activities to keep children busy and entertained are still available for Flint-area families.

Microsoft was in Flint recently, making technology fun by leading local middle-school students through the process of constructing sensor gloves – and sneaking in a lot of learning about human anatomy, data testing and mechanical and software engineering.

Flint’s Urban Safety Corps — made up of 10 AmeriCorps members — and community partners are reducing crime and blight along the University Avenue corridor.

The proposed 2018 federal budget would slash funding for programs that safeguard the Great Lakes and protect public health.

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.

Mott Foundation President Ridgway White explains how afterschool programs support children, working parents and companies.

In an era of increasingly tense relations between the U.S. and Mexico, two community foundations on opposite sides of the border are working together to address poverty, violence and other pressing …

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.

Solar power is giving remote villages in the Amazon rainforest access to clean, reliable energy. The Mott Foundation supported the initiative.