“This is How We're Supposed to Care for Each Other.” Direct Giving Initiative Tackles Poverty in Flint

“This is How We're Supposed to Care for Each Other.” Direct Giving Initiative Tackles Poverty in Flint

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is supporting a plan to provide direct cash payments to expectant mothers and their newborns in Flint, Michigan. Organizers are asking other funders to step up and back the program.

Read More

We Don’t Give Up: Mott Plays the Long Game on Clean Water in Flint and Beyond

We Don’t Give Up: Mott Plays the Long Game on Clean Water in Flint and Beyond

Access to clean water is an urgent challenge in more parts of the U.S. The Mott Foundation has been a stalwart funder on this issue in its home city and beyond. What has it accomplished, and how is it staying engaged with Flint’s water crisis?

Read More

Behind the $35 Million Gift to Launch a Charter School in a Struggling City

Behind the $35 Million Gift to Launch a Charter School in a Struggling City

The CS Mott Foundation put up $35 million to start a new charter school in Flint, Michigan. What’s the story with this big gift from a funder that doesn’t consider itself a supporter of the charter movement?

Read More

A Foundation Bets on an Eco-Industrial Park to Help Revive a Battered City

A Foundation Bets on an Eco-Industrial Park to Help Revive a Battered City

In the face of powerful structural forces arrayed against Flint, Michigan, the Mott Foundation has kept trying new ways to spur prosperity. We look at its latest initiative, focused on a former auto complex. 

Read More