Features Index
Mott Conversations: Nadya Shmavonian discusses the art and science of evaluation
03/31/2010 -
In this installment of Mott Conversations, Nadya Shmavonian, president of Public/Private Ventures in Philadelphia, explores the importance and challenges of high quality evaluation strategies.
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Global Fund for Community Foundations: Doing things in different ways
03/17/2010 -
Started in 2006 as a three-year pilot project by the World Bank Group, WINGS (Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support), and the Ford and Mott foundations, the Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) was created to support community foundation development in transitioning and developing countries.
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Alternative Staffing: Adding new sizzle to workforce development
04/07/2010 -
Alternative staffing programs help low-income, low-skilled people connect to temporary and temporary-to-permanent job opportunities.
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Mott Conversations: Hometown grantmaking
02/25/2010 -
Neal Hegarty, director of the C.S. Mott Foundation’s Flint Area grantmaking, talks about the factors that drive hometown philanthropy and the lessons learned during the past 80 years.
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Great Lakes invaluable, irreplaceable
10/07/2009 -
Efforts to protect and restore the five Great Lakes have increased after their value as a national treasure has been recognized by high-profile people, including President Barak Obama.
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U.S.–Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership: addressing challenges, embracing opportunities
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Center for Community Progress: Helping cities redevelop vacant, abandoned property
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CIVICUS
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City of Flint, MSU partnership collaborates to reinstitute neighborhood foot patrol programs
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Great Lakes can be engine to drive region’s economy
10/07/2009 -
Increasingly, business leaders, legislators, environmentalists, and property owners are seeing that the economic viability of the Great Lakes region is tied to it water-rich resources.
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Mott Conversations: Hometown grantmaking
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Economic Adjustment Initiative: NELP links Midwest workers with opportunities to retrain
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Beyond the games: Reflections from the homeland
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Q&A with John Austin, director of the Great Lakes Economic Initiative at the Brookings Institution
10/07/2009 -
John Austin discusses the natural beauty and economic importance of the Great Lakes to the region, the nation and the world.
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C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Agriculture encourages self-reliant communities
09/30/2009 -
This interview with Mike Hamm, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at Michigan State University, takes a look at the various activities being undertaken to support environmental, systems and policy changes that promote healthy communities and access to local foods.
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Blog: On the road in South Africa
07/22/2009 -
C.S. Mott Foundation Communications Officer Maggie Jaruzel-Potter has been visiting Mott grantees in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, South Africa. Throughout her travels, Maggie has been blogging about the people, places and programs she sees with a special focus on Foundation-funded projects.
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