Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Each spring, the Flint River GREEN Program brings together more than 1,200 area students to help monitor the health of the Flint River watershed as...

Freeman Elementary School is one of several schools in Genesee County, Michigan, that participate in the local YouthQuest afterschool program. Yout...

Barry Knight shares his thoughts about a "revolution" taking place in community philanthropy. Knight is executive director of the Centre for Resear...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This video highlights "Empty Bowls," held September 29, 2011, at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan, located in Mott's hometown of Flint. The annual...

Niamani Mutima is executive director of the Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group, a membership network of foundations that are currently funding -- o...

Art walks -- an increasingly popular strategy for attracting patrons to galleries and retail establishments -- contribute to a sense of vitality an...

EkoMozaik -- one of the fastest-growing organic honey producers in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- is not your typical start-up company. It was created b...

The aim of the Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation (USSF), a C.S. Mott Foundation grantee, is to lead and guide educational development and innovatio...

The National Alliance for the Development of Community Advice Offices (NADCAO), hosted by the Black Sash Trust, is a network of South African organ...

Vital Signs® is an annual community check up conducted by community foundations across Canada that measures the vitality of cities, identifies sign...

Thanks to the Youth Bank program, young people in some of the most at-risk communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina have addressed many important issues w...

This short video clip was part of an hour-long interview with Charles Stewart Mott in 1972, when he was 97 years of age. It was filmed at Applewoo...

Sibongile (Bongi) Mkhabela served as CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund from 2001 to 2010. In this Mott Conversation, Mkhabela discusses the...

This video combines photos from South Africa and audio clips of several writers featured in the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation's 2009 Annual Repor...

This video is one of seven in a series in which grassroots organizers from the U.S. and abroad share their inspirational ideas on how community org...

This video is one of seven in a series in which grassroots organizers from the U.S. and abroad share inspirational perspectives on community organi...

This video is one of seven in a series in which grassroots organizers from the U.S. and abroad share inspirational perspectives on community organi...

This video is one of seven in a series in which grassroots organizers from the U.S. and abroad share inspirational perspectives on community organi...

This video is one of seven in a series in which grassroots organizers from the U.S. and abroad share inspirational perspectives on community organi...

How does community organizing help to build democracy? In this video -- one of seven in a series -- grassroots organizers from the U.S. and abroad ...

So, what is community organizing? In this video -- one of seven in a series -- grassroots organizers from the U.S. and abroad share inspirational p...

In this installment of "Mott Conversations," Robert Greenstein, founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, discu...

In this installment of "Mott Conversations," Lou Glazer, president of Michigan Future, Inc., explores -- and challenges -- the factors shaping the ...

Ingrid Srinath has been the secretary general of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation since May 2008. In this Mott Conversation, Srina...

In this installment of "Mott Conversations," Harry J. Holzer, professor of public policy at Georgetown University, discusses the role of sectoral e...