AmeriCorps alumni Jeff Giddings looks back on his year of service and the many positive benefits he received from the community-based experience.

Mott Foundation President Ridgway White explains why the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program should be expanded — not eliminated.

The World Bank will end financing of oil and gas projects after 2019. The decision could free up $1 billion annually for clean, renewable energy projects.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation announces staff promotions and new hires in its Flint office.

Cummings early childhood center strives to provide the highest quality care for infants and children potentially exposed to lead in Flint’s drinking water.

The Mott Foundation alters its Environment Program to provide more funding for work on the Great Lakes, energy access in Africa.

An afterschool program for juvenile offenders, Spartan Explorers, also holds promise for truants and students who are missing credits to graduate.

New federal tax reform plan would reduce charitable giving and cut funding for essential social programs.

Conservation groups and philanthropists in Canada and the U.S. teamed up to acquire 13 miles of pristine Lake Superior shoreline.

A loan fund that Mott helped launch has preserved 125,000 acres of natural habitat and water resources in the Great Lakes basin.