Two recent reports, funded by the Mott Foundation, offer insights into vast, yet almost invisible financial sector: the “informal” economy.

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, along with representatives of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, CMS Energy and the Mott Foundation, announced today a major effort to permanently protect more than 6,000 scenic acres along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Charities Aid Foundation-Southern Africa (CAF Southern Africa) was recently awarded $225,000 from Mott to support a three-year effort to promote workplace giving in South Africa.

The Balkan Trust for Democracy, a new project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), was recently developed by a public/private partnership between GMF, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Mott. The three partners have earmarked $25 million to launch the new grantmaking program that will be based in Belgrade and begin operations in summer 2003.

The importance of educating government officials of European Union member and candidate countries about European racial and ethnic anti-discrimination law is the focus of a $200,000 grant made to the Migration Policy Group.

Rosewood Park, offering 120 new units of affordable, quality housing for area middle- and low-income residents, opened in Mt. Morris with the support of a $280,000 grant from the Mott Foundation to Shelter of Flint, Inc.

A new report published by the Heinz Center, partially funded by the Mott Foundation, presents groundbreaking research and a clear picture of the state of ecosystems in the United States.

The Mott Foundation has made a $2 million grant to the Great Lakes Revolving Loan Fund, an environmental protection fund administered by The Conservation Fund.

Mott Foundation’s 1976 statement to the Flint Board of Education regarding school desegregation.