Over 200 Southwestern students will have the opportunity to receive free school supplies and other essentials that include bookbags, flash drives, masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, unperishable food for families, and more.
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is asking the community for help in deciding how to spend $1 million on neighborhood-based projects ranging from cleaning up parks and playgrounds to the demolition of vacant, blighted homes.
For the past six years, The Hagerman Foundation has given more than $17 million through 110-plus grants. The foundation will be transitioning its grantmaking through a donor-advised fund held at the Community Foundation of Greater Flint under The Hagerman Foundation Fund.
With Flint at “an intersection of crisis” amid a pandemic and social unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Mayor Sheldon Neeley addresses recent gun violence across the city, including 12 shootings across the city last weekend, six of which occurred at a pop-up party at Hallwood Plaza.
The City of Flint has received the second largest Department of Justice grant of any municipality within the state.
A virtual performance and panel discussion featuring Semaj Brown, Flint’s first poet laureate, will explore the power of words.
Despite the mounting challenges, in Flint, some local Black-owned small businesses have found a way to survive and soar above the struggles.
Applications for grants up to $20,000 are now open for local small businesses and nonprofits seeking assistance to reopen amid COVID-19.
For the past year, the Genesee County Continuum of Care (CoC) and several of its member agencies have been planning the 67th District Court Eviction Diversion Program and are ready to launch it.
Recognizing that African Americans have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Ruth Mott Foundation each designated the use of their funds to assist Black-owned businesses in Flint.
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