C.S. Mott Foundation

C.S. Mott Foundation Activity on LinkedIn

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  C.S. Mott Foundation "Our festivals and events as a whole draw people from every corner of the world. They come to our community, they see positive things going on, and they go home and tell our story, so the story of Flint gets told all over the world," says Greg Fiedler, Executive Director of the Greater Flint Arts Council, in this video on Mott's grantmaking related to festivals and events in its home community of Genesee County.

  

  Hometown Grantmaking in Flint - Festivals and Events youtube.com

  When Charles Stewart Mott created his foundation in Flint, Michigan, in 1926, it was with a keen interest in the well-being of his adopted hometown. That commitment to Flint continues today, as highlighted in this video on the...

  12 days ago
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  C.S. Mott Foundation Impact can be difficult to track, but sometimes modest grants produce exciting finds. Watch this video about Flint River GREEN and how this out-of-school time, service learning program supports education and effective teaching and protects the Great Lakes watershed: http://bit.ly/K1YDJa .

  Students protect local watersheds through Project GREEN mott.org

  Developed in 1984 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, GREEN engages more than 100,000 middle- and high-school students in 20 states each year to monitor the streams, creeks and rivers in watersheds across the United states.

  18 days ago
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  C.S. Mott Foundation "Good afterschool programs make a teacher’s day easier. Not only can they extend classroom learning — without the pressure of tests — but they help the school make positive connections with students," says Joe Davis, national spokesperson for the new Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project, a Mott-funded initiative designed to help school districts across the country achieve the highest-quality afterschool programming. In this new Q & A, Davis talks about how afterschool can boost academic achievement: http://bit.ly/DavisELAP .

  

  Joe Davis: Building better learning through afterschool mott.org

  Florida community educator Joe Davis steps in as spokesperson for a new national initiative that advocates for high quality afterschool programs.

  19 days ago
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  C.S. Mott Foundation Mott is among a handful of large, international foundations in the U.S. that also make grants to help their home communities meet local challenges and opportunities. Mott’s approach to such grantmaking in our hometown of Flint, Michigan, is explored in a new article and series of videos on the Foundation’s Web site: http://bit.ly/FlintGrants .

  

  Kimberly Roberson: Mott’s approach to hometown grantmaking mott.org

  Economic development, job training, and children and youth are among the key target issues of Mott’s grantmaking in its hometown of Flint, Michigan.

  1 month ago
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  C.S. Mott Foundation Access to jobs and economic equity in metro areas is often shaped by local mass transit systems, says Robert Puentes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Puentes is in Mott's hometown of Flint today to discuss to discuss the economic implications, including for low-income families, of Michigan’s metropolitan mass transportation systems. Read more: http://bit.ly/Puentes .

  

  Rails and roads: the impacts of mass transit on economic equity mott.org

  1 month ago
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  C.S. Mott Foundation YouthQuest, the Summer Youth Initiative and the Summer Tot Lot programs are among the programs that provide educational experiences to give children the resources they need to be successful students and adults. Learn more about Mott's grantmaking related to children and youth in its home community of Genesee County by watching this video.

  

  Hometown Grantmaking in Flint - Children and Youth youtube.com

  When Charles Stewart Mott created his foundation in Flint, Michigan, in 1926, it was with a keen interest in the well-being of his adopted hometown. That commitment to Flint continues today, as highlighted in this video on the...

  1 month ago