“It seems to me that every person, always, is in a “It kind of informal partnership with his success is dependent to a own His community. and the on that community, large degree after all, is the sum total of community, The institutions of individuals who make it up. which the means by in turn, are a community, their faith, ideals those individuals express men... and their concern for fellow of the the objectives and so deep are “So broad that they touch almost every Foundation Mott the capacity for aspect of living, increasing and of values, accomplishment, the appreciation that make up the the understanding of forces this sense, it may truly be in. In live we world — with the for Living called a Foundation greater ultimate aim of developing understanding among men. that our obligation to fellow recognize “We men does not stop at the boundaries larger sense, an even In of the community. every of man is in partnership with the rest in the eternal conquest which the human race call civilization.” we Charles Stewart Mott 1875-1973 EPORT R NNUAL 1999 A Charles Stewart FOUNDATION MOTT C HARLES S TEWART M OTT F OUNDATION 1999 ANNUAL R EPORT CHARLES STEWART MOTT FOUNDATION MOTT 1200 Mott Foundation Building, Flint, MI 48502-1851 T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

2 Annual Message

9 Programs & Grants

9 Program Structure at a Glance

10 Civil Society

15 Civil Society Grants

26 Environment

31 Environment Grants

36 Flint Area

41 Flint Area Grants

44 Pathways Out of Poverty

49 Pathways Out of Poverty Grants

58 Exploratory and Special Projects

59 Exploratory and Special Projects Grants

60 Employee and Trustee Grants

61 Finance

73 Other Information A NNUAL M ESSAGE Investing in Leadership “Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find their strength in eloquence, some in judgment and some in courage.” — John Gardner

ver the past three decades, I’ve the passion to give it life. From his earliest witnessed a striking number of days as a businessman through the end of his Ochanges within philanthropy, life as a philanthropist, Mr. Mott was willing including increased collaboration among to put his financial resources behind talented grantmakers, the development of an leaders of all stripes. infrastructure of supporting organizations for William Crapo Durant, then owner of the field, and greater diversity among staff and the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, trustees. More recently, there’s been convinced Mr. Mott to move his axle factory tremendous growth in both assets and the to Flint, Michigan, in the early 1900s. Billy number of foundations, fueled in part by the Durant was the quintessential entrepreneur rapid expansion of the economy, development and ultimate visionary, the man who laid the of new styles of grantmaking and increased groundwork and provided the leadership for public awareness of the field. the creation of General Motors. The Mott Foundation also has changed Frank Manley, the father of community during this period, both in size and education, was an eloquent, inspirational, grantmaking complexity. We have been motivational leader. Mr. Manley convinced fortunate that Charles Stewart Mott’s vision Mr. Mott to underwrite the community for the Foundation and the core values he education concept of using the public school established — partnership with one’s building to provide educational and community and belief in the individual — recreational opportunities for the whole have served us well. Those core values have community during afterschool hours. Mr. kept us grounded as we expanded our Manley’s vision has stood the test of time, grantmaking from Flint, Michigan, and flowing through nearly 60 years of the throughout the United States, to South Africa, Foundation’s grantmaking and being reborn Russia and Central/Eastern Europe. through our partnership with the U.S. But for any organization or institution to Department of Education in the 21st Century fulfill its mission, especially in a period of Community Learning Centers initiative. transition, it takes more than vision and values. Another early leader Mr. Mott supported It needs committed, compassionate leadership was a young physician, Dr. Arthur Tuuri, whose with a view to the future and an passion was improving the health of children. understanding of the past, not to mention Because Mr. Mott believed that a child with competent management. one or more health problems did not have an During his lifetime as a businessman and equal opportunity, the Foundation added a community leader — and certainly in his health component to the community education philanthropy — Mr. Mott invested in the model in the mid-1930s. By the end of that individual — the leader — with an idea and decade it had established a children’s health

2 center at Hurley Hospital in Flint. Mr. Mott also because the Foundation is experiencing recruited this young physician from the Upper significant changes in its own leadership. Peninsula to Flint in 1948, convincing him that Since we last reported to you a year ago, he could make an important contribution to the Mott Foundation lost three passionate the children of this community. And Dr. Tuuri’s and devoted leaders — a Trustee, a Trustee contributions through his nearly 50-year career Emeritus and a member of our Investment changed the face of child health care in the Committee. Prior to that, in January 1999, Flint community, turning the Mott Children’s Trustee Emerita Ruth Rawlings Mott, the Health Center into what has been described as widow of C.S. Mott, died and we dedicated a global model for treating children’s physical the 1998 Annual Report to her memory. Each and social needs. Art Tuuri was the quiet leader, brought unique skills to the table, each who throughout his life shunned publicity and shared a strong commitment to Mr. Mott’s recognition, choosing instead to focus public vision, and each left an enduring imprint on attention on the needs of his patients. the Foundation. Developing and strengthening leaders — But at the same time we experienced this betting on the individual — still characterizes loss, we have been looking to the future and, our grantmaking. When we drafted mission at the end of 1999, three new Trustees joined statements in 1976, we identified two our Board. components — leadership development for In May of this year, Alonzo A. Crim, a strengthening the community and leadership distinguished civic leader, nationally known practice for strengthening the community — educator and a Trustee since 1988, died in an that filtered through the individual program automobile accident in Atlanta, Georgia. areas, or missions as we called them at the time. Lon’s leadership exemplified a passion and In the late 1980s, we undertook an commitment for education and helping at- organization-wide planning process to identify risk youth. future directions for the Foundation. The end Lon had a long and distinguished product of that process was an internal career in education, beginning as an document, An Agenda for the 21st Century, elementary school teacher and principal in which surfaced half a dozen key issues that Chicago and Compton, California, and then could be addressed with Foundation resources. becoming the first African-American Not surprisingly, leadership appeared on that superintendent of schools in Atlanta. Some list. One of our now-retired staff members, Mike Radock, wrote in 1987: “The crucial element in the success of Mott ventures has During his lifetime as a businessman and been personal leadership. When the Mott community leader — and certainly in his Foundation bet on talented individuals, programs succeeded. Conversely, when a philanthropy — Charles Stewart Mott funded program has had only disappointing invested in the individual — the leader — with results, the absence of individual leadership has been apparent.” an idea and the passion to give it life. Mr. Mott Our experience has reaffirmed our intuitive understanding that supporting was willing to put his financial resources visionary and skilled leaders is at the heart of behind talented leaders of all stripes. all our grantmaking. All this is on my mind these days not just because we are still investing in the vision and leadership potential of our grantees, but

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observers said the weight of racial history sat growth and change. During the 1970s, he was a on his shoulders when Lon came to Atlanta major force in the expansion of the in 1973 to lead a district that was in disarray, Foundation’s grantmaking from Flint to the rest suffering from poor student performance and of the nation, and he played a key role in embroiled in major desegregation issues. shaping what became our current investment Through conviction, courage and principles, policies and procedures. He was an active he built, over the next 15 years, a school community leader, and played a major role in district where — in his own words — the relocation of the University of Michigan- “students would know that people cared Flint to its current downtown campus. about them and would help them achieve.” If one had to characterize George’s When he retired in 1988, the district leadership forte, it was his capacity for named a high school in his honor. He didn’t diplomacy. Through the years, he achieved a slow down in retirement, but went on to well-earned reputation as a peacemaker and a hold the Benjamin E. Mays chair in urban consensus-builder in numerous professional educational leadership at Georgia State and civic undertakings. University, and was a professor of education John Sagan, a member of the Investment and director of Ford scholars at Spelman Committee since 1991, died in December. College. In addition to the three degrees he With his passing, we lost a knowledgeable and earned, he was awarded honorary degrees sage counselor with a keen perspective on the from nine institutions of higher education. global markets and currency issues. His insight But we will best remember Lon for his and advice were invaluable to the Investment gifts as a mentor; for his wit, wisdom and Committee and the Trustees during a time warmth; and for his special kindness toward, when the Foundation’s assets grew from $930 concern for, and interest in people. We will miss million to over $3 billion. John’s experience as his knowledge of, and passion for, community a treasurer and vice president of Ford Motor education, at-risk youth, race relations, and the Company, as chairman of the Federal Reserve historically black colleges and universities. Bank of Chicago, and as a member of Throughout his 15-year tenure as numerous corporate boards positioned him superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Lon well for what was to become one of his most always made the time to be an active mentor important roles — as a superb sounding board to children in the district; he also required his for Investment Office staff. administrative staff to do the same. He took The first sentence in the Detroit News his passion for mentoring beyond the school article announcing John’s death accurately building and in 1986 helped the 100 Black described his character: “John Sagan’s mission Men of Atlanta start Project Success, a on the last full day of his life was, as usual, to mentoring program that began with 35 at-risk help someone in need.” In addition to his 8th-graders in Atlanta. wide-ranging financial expertise, John will be In August 1999 George L. Whyel passed well-remembered for his civic leadership in the away after a long illness. George served as a Detroit area and for his friendliness, empathy, Trustee of the Foundation from 1971 through compassion and concern for his fellow man 1990, when he was named a Trustee Emeritus. and for his community. He was a tireless George’s contributions to the Flint volunteer on behalf of his church and community, of which he was a resident for community organizations in Southeast nearly half a century, and to the Foundation, Michigan, and a devoted husband, father have been enduring. He served on the and grandfather. Foundation’s audit and investment committees At year’s end, the Board of Trustees was and helped to guide us through two decades of expanded to 13 members to add three Trustees

4 — two descendants of Charles Stewart Mott “The crucial element in the success of and a well-known New York community leader Mott ventures has been personal leadership. and graphic designer. Elected to the Board in December were Tiffany White Lovett, a great- When the Mott Foundation bet on talented granddaughter of Mr. Mott and an elementary individuals, programs succeeded. Conversely, school teacher in California; John Morning, a New York City graphic designer who serves as a when a funded program has had only director or trustee of 13 institutions; and Marise disappointing results, the absence of Mott Meynet Stewart, a granddaughter of C.S. Mott and full-time mother and homemaker in individual leadership has been apparent.” Massachusetts. Interestingly, all three were active in the field of philanthropy as trustees for other — Mike Radock foundations before their appointments to our Board, and they bring passionate and deeply coordinated operation of all parts of our held convictions about philanthropy. operation is critical. The dual challenge we While the addition of new trustees is face on a daily basis, as do all organizations, is always an important event in the life of an how to manage that growth responsibly and institution, this election was especially not sacrifice quality in our grantmaking and significant because it places younger members of other parts of our operation at the same time. the Mott family on the Board while at the same time reaffirming the essential contributions and Grantmaking value of non-family members. We experienced a significant 29 percent Thirty-two trustees have served the increase in grant actions in 1999 — $113.9 Foundation during its lifetime; of those, 13 million, compared with $88.2 million the have been Mott family members. We have previous year — the result of the performance benefited from governance by individuals with of our investment portfolio. close personal and family ties to Mr. Mott; this Private foundations are required to has contributed to a strong sense of continuity make qualifying distributions (grant throughout the Foundation’s lifetime. payments and reasonable administrative Our non-family board members have expenses) equal to roughly 5 percent of their brought diversity of experience, perspective, average assets each year. The basis of that expertise and wisdom gained from years of service calculation is a rolling, 12-month average of in other disciplines and on other boards. Since its the foundation’s investment assets. In 1999, establishment in 1926, the Foundation’s governing the Mott Foundation’s 12-month rolling board has included non-family members, and they average was $2.648 billion at year’s end, have provided invaluable service. compared with $2.104 billion at the end of 1998. Because of the performance of our ADMINISTRATION portfolio, we recalculated our grants budget Throughout this message we have focused on on a quarterly basis during 1999 and leadership and governance. But I’d be remiss if increased that budget three times — from I didn’t comment on the administrative side of the original projection of $89 million to the the Foundation’s operations. While the $113.9 million year-end figure. functions of leadership and management differ People often ask me how a foundation in some regards, an organization needs both to like ours deals with the need to award more achieve its mission. Because of the explosive and more grant dollars in order to keep pace asset and staff growth that the Mott with rising assets. For the Mott Foundation, Foundation has experienced in recent years, the answer has been to go deeper into areas

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where we were already active. In recent years, I grants and grants made in prior years with had become concerned that we were stretched balances payable. This compares with $84.7 a bit thin and may not have had the financial million in grant payments the previous year. resources to achieve our sometimes-ambitious Our total expenditures for the year — including program objectives. Today, because of these grant payments, foundation-administered additional resources, I believe we are better projects, administrative expenses, investment positioned to further flesh out and deepen our expenses, and excise tax — were $137 million, grantmaking. At the same time, we face the compared with $102.5 million the previous year. very real challenge of maintaining a consistent level of quality in our grantmaking, while Investments managing the workload for all involved in that Despite our expectations over the past few process. Strategies we have used to achieve this years for a cooling of the equity markets, balance include increasing the size of the 1999 was another year where our investment grants in the regular programs; making a returns remained strong, supporting the number of large, one-time grants ranging in grantmaking previously described. As detailed size from $1 million to $5 million; and acting in the financial data and explanatory charts on opportunities to collaborate with other throughout this annual report, our assets were funders when appropriate. valued at $3.227 billion on December 31, In all, the Foundation made grant 1999, compared with $2.347 billion for the payments of $116.1 million on both 1999 year ended December 31, 1998. Total Assets at Market Value and Total Assets in 1999 Dollars (IN BILLIONS)

3.5

$3,227,653,816 3.0

2.5 $1,989,305,582

2.0

1.5

1.0

$365,382,658 0.5

0.0 1963 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 1999

Total Assets Total Assets in 1999 Dollars

6 Cumulative Grant Payments and Contributions (IN MILLIONS)

1200 $1,144,119,353

1000

800

600

400 $293,452,732

200

0 1926 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1999

Contributions Grant Payments

Over the past 10 years, the Foundation’s payments of $1.144 billion; during this same portfolio — which is highly diversified and, for period contributions to the Foundation by the most part, managed internally — has Mr. Mott and other family members totaled experienced an average annual compounded $293.5 million. (See Cumulative Grant rate of return of 18.8 percent. Not only have Payments and Contributions above.) In these returns benefited our current grantees, but addition, the Foundation paid $35.7 million also they have allowed the Foundation to grow in excise taxes and nearly $30 million in an asset base with greater depth and resiliency investment expenses during this period. to support our grantees well into the future. 1999 was also a year that saw the While the size of the portfolio has release of a number of studies examining the increased dramatically over the past 10 years, impact of changes in the foundation payout we are very cognizant of the 15-year period requirement. We were one of 33 Michigan beginning in the mid-1960s when it lost more foundations that provided real historical than half its value in real terms. data on grantmaking and investment returns It was only in 1997 that we recovered for a study by Cambridge Associates, the real grantmaking value of the assets Mr. Inc., which was commissioned by the Mott gave us in 1963, as noted in the Council of Michigan Foundations and accompanying chart. (See Total Assets at released in the spring of 2000. Market Value and Total Assets in 1999 The Cambridge Associates study, Dollars on Page 6.) From 1926 through titled Sustainable Payout for Foundations, 1999, the Foundation made cumulative grant makes a clear case that a payout rate higher

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than the current 5 percent will erode to meet the demands generated by an foundations’ ability to sustain the grantmaking expanding grant budget. At the same time capacity of their endowments over the long we’ve been adding new talent, we’ve lost term. The analysis concluded that a payout experienced staff to retirement or other rate in excess of 5 percent almost guarantees professional opportunities. Jon Blyth, who the depletion of a foundation’s grantmaking finished a 24-year career at the Foundation as capacity in constant dollars, unless a Program Director of our Civil Society foundation chooses to liquidate its assets. program, retired at the end of August 2000. When Mr. Mott established this Throughout the course of a distinguished foundation, his intent was to have his fortune career, Jon used his leadership and serve many future generations. Therefore, our organizational skills in every program of the Trustees have provided leadership that has helped Foundation, beginning with community to balance grantmaking opportunities and education. Ray Murphy, former senior program sustain the portfolio’s real grantmaking power in officer for the Dublin, Ireland-based TARA order to see that his wishes are honored. Consultants, stepped into the Civil Society Program Director’s post in August. Staffing I would like to close by posing a Transitions in leadership over the past 12 legitimate question for the leaders of any months occurred not just in the Board, but also foundation, including the Mott Foundation. within the administrative and program staff. How do you keep an organization fresh? The Earlier in 2000, the Foundation’s first part of our answer is to select intelligent administrative services operations were and thoughtful trustees who bring a reorganized to support our expanded combination of youthful enthusiasm and grantmaking. Phillip H. Peters, former vice seasoned experience to the governance process. president-finance and treasurer and controller A corollary is to hire bright, creative staff with of St. Louis, Missouri-based National an ardor for their individual areas of expertise. Enterprises, Inc., was named Vice President- Then we give them resources and running Administrative Group, and Secretary/ room. Through these practices, we believe we Treasurer. Phil joined the staff in June of this are continuing Mr. Mott’s practice of year and is responsible for accounting, supporting the bright individual with a compliance, grants administration, human passion for his or her work. resources and information services. Although we are in a period of Phil succeeded Richard K. Rappleye, now transition and expansion, we remain blessed Vice President-Field Services, who is developing with two most valuable resources — our a new initiative to provide management and dedicated and thoughtful Trustees and our administrative technical assistance for new and committed and talented staff. It is through emerging, as well as established, foundations. their vision, wisdom, creativity and effort that In September 1999, the Foundation’s four we enter the 21st century prepared for the program team coordinators — Jon Blyth, Lois challenges ahead. DeBacker, Karen Aldridge Eason, and Kevin Walker — were named program directors in recognition of their increased management and administrative responsibilities. Through the course of the year, we consistently have been adding new personnel William S. White, Chairman

8 Our Founder Our Philosophy

harles Stewart Mott, who established this Foundation in 1926, harles Stewart Mott’s central belief in the partnership of humanity C was deeply concerned from his earliest years in Flint with the C was the basis upon which the Foundation was established. While welfare of his adopted community. this remains the guiding principle of its grantmaking, the Foundation has refined and broadened its grantmaking over time to reflect changing Soon after he had become one of the city’s leading national and world environment conditions. industrialists, this General Motors pioneer found a practical and successful way to express his interest. Through its programs of Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and He served three terms as mayor (in 1912-13 and Pathways Out of Poverty, and their more specific program areas, the again in 1918) during a period when the swiftly Foundation seeks to fulfill its mission of supporting efforts that promote growing city was beset with problems, with 40,000 a just, equitable and sustainable society. people sharing facilities adequate for only 10,000. Inherent in all grantmaking is the desire to enhance the capacity of As a private citizen, he started a medical and dental individuals, families or institutions at the local level and beyond. The Our FounderPhilosophy clinic for children and helped establish the YMCA Foundation hopes that its collective work in any program area could and the Boy Scouts in Flint, along with the Whaley lead toward systemic change. Children’s Center. Fundamental to all Mott grantmaking are certain values:

Nine years after the Foundation was incorporated for philanthropic, • Learning how people can live together to create a sense of charitable and educational purposes, it became a major factor in the community, whether at the neighborhood level or as a life of Flint through organized schoolground recreational global society; activities, which developed into the nationwide community education program. • Building strong communities through collaboration to provide a basis for positive change; From this start, the Foundation’s major concern has been the well-being of the community, including the individual, the family, • Nurturing strong, self-reliant individuals to ensure a well- the neighborhood and the systems of government. This interest has functioning society; continued to find expression in Flint and also has taken the • Promoting the social, economic and political empowerment of all Foundation far beyond its home city. individuals to preserve fundamental democratic principles and rights;

• Encouraging responsible citizen participation to help foster social cohesion;

• Developing leadership to build upon the needs and values of people and to inspire the aspirations and potential of others; and

• Respecting the diversity of life to maintain a sustainable human and physical environment. P ROGRAMS & GRANTS

Civil Society Central/Eastern Europe and Russia Nonprofit Sector Citizen Rights and Responsibilities Race and Ethnic Relations Special Initiatives South Africa Nonprofit Sector Citizen Rights and Responsibilities Race and Ethnic Relations United States Nonprofit Sector Race and Ethnic Relations Global Nonprofit Sector Race and Ethnic Relations Special Initiatives Environment Reform of International Finance and Trade Policy Reform and Implementation Strengthening International Constituencies for Reform Developing New Approaches Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems in North America Site-Specific Conservation Efforts Strengthening the Environmental Community Policy Work Special Initiatives Flint Area Developing Public Capital Creating National/Regional Models Building Upon Legacy Affecting Public Policy Pathways Out of Poverty Improving Community Education School Readiness Success in School Learning Beyond the Classroom Expanding Economic Opportunity Income Security Workforce Development Building Organized Communities Building Infrastructure Issue Organizing Special Initiatives Transitions Exploratory and Special Projects Comprehensive Revitalization Exploratory and Special Projects Historically and Predominantly Black Colleges and Universities Special Projects Employee/Trustee Matching & Trustee Initiated Grants

9 Civil Society

he challenges of building civil society Europe, the Trustees authorized up to at the community, national or $2 million in support of projects to provide Tinternational level remain as great as at humanitarian relief, build civil society, and any time in the recent past, fueled by ethnic- strengthen peace-building and justice in Kosovo, related violence in parts of Central/Eastern Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania. Europe, economic and political uncertainty in One example of the importance of this Russia, the transfer of political leadership and commitment concerns the preparation of a the growing shadow of HIV/AIDS in South United Nations regulation that created the Africa, and the continuing undercurrents of basic framework for non-governmental sporadic violence and racial tensions that organizations (NGOs) operating in Kosovo. periodically emerge in the United States. NGOs had existed in a legal vacuum, which Programming within the Civil Society was a significant obstacle to the development program during 1999 continued to tighten of civil society there. With the help of a focus, to work cross-programmatically within Mott grant of $54,144, the International the Foundation, to increase resources to Center for Not-for-Profit Law worked with promote citizen rights and responsibilities in the U.N. command and the NGO Central/Eastern Europe, and to support community in developing and implementing programs to improve racial and ethnic this regulation. relations. We continue to believe that the Mott was at the table during the launch nonprofit community is an integral partner in of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and strengthening communities at all levels. Eastern Europe, a collaboration of six funders The Civil Society program’s five-year committing a total of $58 million. Our plan, originally adopted in 1998, underwent $5-million commitment — payable over five further fine-tuning by our Board of Trustees years — will help sustain the nonprofit sector during 1999. These refinements included and key NGOs in seven countries of Central exploring options for development of a Europe at a time when Western financial separate grantmaking strategy in South Africa assistance for this purpose is declining. to improve race and ethnic relations, expanding funding for the strife-ridden Balkan countries SOUTH AFRICA in Central/Eastern Europe, and tightening the The Foundation’s grantmaking in South Africa funding strategies for global interests. in 1999 was characterized by a continuation of its five-year effort to build a participatory CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE democracy at the local level to overcome AND RUSSIA decades of apartheid, and to strengthen the Although grantmaking interests covered 19 nonprofit sector. countries with 330 million residents, our We continued our focused support of the principal geographic focus has been in Bulgaria, nonprofit sector with a $200,000 grant to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Legal Resources Centre to help fund an Russia, Slovak Republic and Ukraine, with initiative that provides legal support to NGOs, increasing attention to the countries of the and to promote principles and practices of former Yugoslavia. One continuing aim of our good governance. effort was focused on helping this part of the We also made a $50,000 grant to the world become more integrated with European Non-Profit Partnership for its nonprofit tax institutions in strengthening the nonprofit sector campaign. This Braamfontein-based organiza- and philanthropy. tion — a partnership of the Southern African Responding to the 1999 political and Grantmakers Association, the South African humanitarian crisis in Kosovo and Southeast National NGO Coalition and the United

10 An ethnic Albanian refugee from Kosovo makes his way through the crowds at a food distribution center in a camp in Durres, Albania.

Kingdom-based Charities Aid Foundation — (WHEAT) Trust, a new women’s fund in is working to revive interest in improving the Cape Town. nonprofit tax environment in South Africa. These efforts are beginning to pay off. UNITED STATES Recent policy statements from South African Both philanthropy and individual foundations government officials suggest that future tax were catapulted into the public limelight in regulations will expand the types of nonprofit 1999 because of a significant growth in the organizations that qualify for tax-exempt assets of established foundations, as well as the status. In the past, only charitable donations establishment of new — and highly visible — to high schools and universities fit the tax- foundations. At the same time, the nonprofit exempt classification. Indications are that sector continued to grapple with issues such as donations to elementary schools, children’s the blurring of the line between for-profit and homes, organizations for senior citizens and nonprofit activities, the need to build groups working on HIV/AIDS soon will management and administrative capacity, and become tax deductible. the impact of term limits in many state In addition, we continued to support the legislatures, resulting in lawmakers’ lessening development of new forms of local charitable familiarity with the nonprofit community. giving by helping to fund the development of The Foundation responded to these several indigenous grantmaking organizations, challenges with grants designed to increase including $70,000 for the Nelson Mandela public understanding of philanthropy, Children’s Fund, $300,000 for the Equal strengthen the governance and leadership of the Opportunity Foundation, and $100,000 for nonprofit community, and address the impact the Women’s Hope Education And Training of term limits on the Michigan Legislature.

11 C IVIL S OCIETY

Mott was a major supporter of the first One of the Foundation’s largest Civil White House conference on philanthropy, Society grants, for $1 million, went to the “Gifts to the Future: A White House National Center for Nonprofit Boards in Conference on Philanthropy,” which brought Washington, D.C., for a four-year project to together more than 200 practitioners, develop and disseminate new information researchers and observers in the field. We about nonprofit governance and establish provided two grants, the first of $276,800 to capacity-building partnerships. ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc. to Closer to home, we continued our long- underwrite satellite transmission and standing support of the Michigan nonprofit cybercasting of the event and to produce a sector. A one-year grant of $100,000 to the videotape of the proceedings designed to Michigan Nonprofit Association is supporting extend the impact of the October conference the second phase of the Michigan Public to local communities beyond the Beltway. Policy Initiative, designed to provide new Funding of $25,000 went to the Forum of members of the Michigan Legislature with a Regional Associations of Grantmakers in better understanding of the nonprofit sector. Washington, D.C., to help underwrite the The second component of our Civil costs incurred by 13 regional associations of Society work in the United States is focused grantmakers for local town meetings built on improving race and ethnic relations, using around the White House conference, and for dialogue-to-action strategies to address the follow-up activities. basic causes of institutional and societal racism 1999 Grant Activity by Program Area & Objective (In Millions)

Global - $3.802 / 23 Grants Central/Eastern Europe J. Nonprofit Sector - $2.267 / 20 Grants and Russia - $12.381 / 128 Grants K. Race and Ethnic Relations - $.035 / 1 Grant L. Special Initiatives - $1.5 / 2 Grants A. Nonprofit Sector - $6.564 / 66 Grants B. Citizen Rights and Responsibilities - $2.206 / 25 Grants C. Race and Ethnic Relations - $2.068 / 21 Grants J K D. Special Initiatives - $1.542 / 16 Grants L

I TOTAL: $26,355,252 A 232 Grants

H

G

F B E D C United States - $6.47 / 48 Grants H. Nonprofit Sector - $3.159 / 30 Grants I. Race and Ethnic Relations - $3.31 / 18 Grants South Africa - $3.702 / 33 Grants E. Nonprofit Sector - $1.601 / 19 Grants F. Citizen Rights and Responsibilities - $2.0 / 13 Grants G. Race and Ethnic Relations - $.01 / 1 Grant

12 and increase awareness and appreciation of racial and ethnic diversity. In the fifth year of this effort, the Foundation funded projects across the United States to support dialogue, education and multiracial organizing, and to increase the impact of media on individual racial prejudice and institutional racism. A $500,000, two-year grant to Harvard University is underwriting research and dissemination to assess the prospects for justice and equal opportunities for racial and ethnic communities in the United States. A $200,000 grant to Women Make Movies Inc. in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., will help underwrite the filming of, and outreach costs for, the one-woman play Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, based on Los Angeles riots following the Citizen Participation Inc. in Washington, beating of Rodney King. This supplements D.C. In addition to providing general The White House previous Mott support of $1 million. support for the organization, the grants Conference on provided funding for a project to strengthen Philanthropy was GLOBAL and expand the nonprofit sector in Africa The worldwide development of community and for an effort to reconnect Australian held in October. foundations, community philanthropy and citizens and their communities by developing international networks of community social capital. foundations was a key focus of the We also provided funding of $362,500 Foundation’s Global activities. These were to Bertelsmann Stiftung (Foundation) in augmented by grantmaking that supported Gutersloh, Germany, for its Transatlantic the development of global nonprofit Community Foundations Network. This networks, addressed the emerging issues of network is designed to stimulate the growing access to information technology and the interest in the community foundation concept Internet (the “digital divide”), and reacted to in Europe by improving communications and several special initiatives. interaction with community foundation Mott continued its support of the professionals from both sides of the Atlantic. European Foundation Center, providing Complementing the Bertelsmann three grants totaling $465,515 for general funding was a $100,000 grant to the German support, for the Community Philanthropy Marshall Fund of the United States in Initiative that supports the capacity-building Washington, D.C., to establish a three-week of community philanthropy organizations community foundation fellowship program. and the national support centers that serve The project, developed jointly by the them, and for the Orpheus Program European Foundation Center, the German Coordinator project that maintains a data Marshall Fund and the King Baudouin base on active European foundations and Foundation, provides for exchanges for five funding. Three grants totaling $324,850 European and five American community went to CIVICUS: World Alliance for foundation executives.

13 Civil Society SNAPSHOT

MISSION: To strengthen citizen and nonprofit sector engagement in support of free and pluralistic democratic societies, with primary geographic focus on the United States, Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, South Africa, and at the global level.

CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA SOUTH AFRICA

GOAL: Contribute to the development of democratic, GOAL: Contribute to a healthy civil society in South pluralistic societies in Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, Africa by strengthening the nonprofit sector and principally through support of the nonprofit sector, citizen building a participatory democracy, especially at the engagement and improved ethnic relations. local level, with an emphasis on women's participation.

OBJECTIVES: OBJECTIVES: Strengthen the nonprofit sector by improving Strengthen the nonprofit sector by building local sector visibility, infrastructure and leadership, by resources for the sector, encouraging a supportive increasing indigenous resources for the sector, and legal environment, raising awareness of the sector, by building the capacity of grassroots non- building organizational effectiveness and governmental organizations to address environment supporting women's leadership within the sector. and other key transformation issues. Promote citizen rights and responsibilities by Develop strategies to promote citizen rights and assisting citizens to engage local governments responsibilities with priority given to information around key development priorities, increasing access, community-based initiatives and economic literacy with priority given to partnerships, and citizen participation in government budgeting, supporting organizations democratic processes. that strengthen advice offices as a source of Develop strategies to improve ethnic relations, information for isolated communities and principally in Southeast Europe, with priority given supporting initiatives that strengthen women's to support for access to accurate information, voices in policy development. conflict prevention/resolution and multiethnic Explore initiatives to improve race and dialogue leading to constructive action. ethnic relations. Support special initiatives that contribute to political and economic development, regional micro-finance, and other compelling needs.

UNITED STATES GLOBAL

GOAL: Strengthen civil society in the United States GOAL: Contribute to a healthy civil society at the during a time of increasing social needs and tensions by global level by strengthening the nonprofit sector and building on a tradition of democracy and citizen action. supporting emerging civil society issues outside the Foundation's priority geographic areas. OBJECTIVES: OBJECTIVES: Strengthen the nonprofit sector by improving accountability and governance, increasing and Increase and diversify resources for nonprofit diversifying resources, and strengthening organizations, principally the development and membership groups. support of community foundations. Combat root causes of institutional and societal Strengthen global- and regional-level nonprofit racism and build understanding and appreciation sector and philanthropy membership organizations, of racial diversity, primarily through support of with the goal of enhancing citizen participation dialogue leading to constructive action at the local, and engagement. regional and national levels. Advance nonprofit sector information sharing and skills transfer among the Foundation's priority geographic regions and at the global level.

14 CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA CEE Bankwatch Network $35,000 Prague, Czech Republic NONPROFIT SECTOR To support a network of non-governmental Albanian Civil Society Foundation $25,000 organizations in 10 Central and Eastern Tirana, Albania European countries. To build the capacity of non-governmental Center for Civil Initiatives $80,000 organizations outside the Albanian capital. Zagreb, Croatia Assistance Center for $90,000 To support an organization that works to Nongovernmental Organizations stimulate citizen participation and strengthen Bucharest, Romania grassroots organizations in multiethnic To support a resource center that provides communities in Croatia. information, training and technical assistance to Center for Development of $45,000 non-governmental organizations throughout Nonprofit Organizations Romania. Zagreb, Croatia Association for the Defense of Human $50,000 To support an organization that provides Rights in Romania-Helsinki Committee technical assistance and information services to Bucharest, Romania non-governmental organizations in Croatia. To support the development of a legal Center for Russian Environmental Policy $120,000 framework for the nonprofit sector in Romania. Moscow, Russia Association of Nonprofit $40,000 To identify and elaborate priorities in Russia’s Human Services of Hungary environmental policy. Budapest, Hungary Charities Aid Foundation $50,000 To support a membership organization of Kent, England nonprofit human service organizations in To provide networking opportunities, legal Hungary. advice and other support services to emerging Association of Support for $46,345 community foundations in Russia. Civil Initiatives (ARK) Civil Society Development Foundation $70,000 Odessa, Ukraine (NROS) To support local resource development to Prague, Czech Republic sustain the Ukrainian nonprofit sector. To develop new information on philanthropy Balkan Forum Civil Association $50,000 and volunteerism for the Czech Republic. Kardjali, Bulgaria Civil Society Development Foundation - $5,000 To support a non-governmental organization Poland established to develop civil society in southern Warsaw, Poland Bulgaria. To provide professional development training BBC Marshall Plan of the Mind Trust $99,708 and support services for the nonprofit sector in London, England Poland and Central/Eastern Europe. To raise awareness about the nonprofit sector in Compass Club, Public Children $50,000 Russia. and Youth Organisation Belarusian Non-Governmental $40,000 Kyiv, Ukraine Organization “United Way” To build the capacity of a group of Ukrainian Minsk, Belarus non-govermental organizations addressing To support a national resource center children and youth issues. established to strengthen the nonprofit sector Donors Forum $16,400 in Belarus. Prague, Czech Republic CARE USA $150,000 To support a national donors forum created to Atlanta, Georgia strengthen the nonprofit sector in the Czech To strengthen the nonprofit sector in Bosnia- Republic. Herzegovina and Croatia by stimulating citizen Ecologists Linked for Organizing $80,000 participation in community life. Grassroots Initiatives and Action Carpathian Foundation $1,000,000 Harford, Pennsylvania Kosice, Slovak Republic To establish, test and refine a new fundraising To support a regional philanthropic and mechanism for non-governmental organizations development organization that works to using the networking potential of the Internet. promote economic development, cross-border Environmental Law Service $30,000 cooperation and interethnic initiatives in the Brno, Czech Republic Carpathian Euroregion. To support a public interest law organization created to improve civil society in the fields of environmental protection and human rights. 15 Eroforras Foundation $75,000 Innovation and Development Centre $50,000 (United Way Hungary) Kyiv, Ukraine Budapest, Hungary To support the development of philanthropy in To support the development and strengthening Ukraine. of an established network of United Way Institute for EastWest Studies, Inc. $200,000 affiliates in Hungary. New York, New York Eurasia Foundation $400,000 To support a regional organization working to Washington, DC strengthen the capacity of nonprofit To strengthen the nonprofit sector in Ukraine. organizations and local governments in the To build the capacity of non-governmental $499,974 Carpathian region. organization resource centers outside major To identify issues critical to the creation and $76,619 Russian cities. investment of endowment funds for nonprofit European Foundation Centre $150,000 organizations in the Czech and Slovak Brussels, Belgium republics. To subsidize special guest memberships for To support policy discussions on issues affecting $20,000 selected Central/Eastern Europe and Russian the development of civil society in the Czech foundations. Republic. Foundation for a Civil Society, Ltd. $100,000 Institute for Sustainable Development $100,000 New York, New York Warsaw, Poland To support efforts to advance an open and To promote informed environmental policy democratic society and free-market economy in development in Poland. the Czech Republic. Inter-Regional Public Organization of $49,926 Foundation-Administered Project $17,222 Trainers and Consultants To develop a primer on community-based Moscow, Russia philanthropy for grantees and practitioners in To support network development of non- Central/Eastern Europe. governmental organization trainers in the German Marshall Fund of the United States $207,500 former Soviet Union. Washington, DC International Center for Not-for-Profit Law $54,144 To support groups working to ensure that Washington, DC environmental problems in Central Europe are To support the development of a regulatory and addressed. legal framework for non-governmental To strengthen civil society by providing $210,000 organizations in Kosovo. assistance to grassroots organizations International Rescue Committee, Inc. $207,032 committed to environmental and resource New York, New York stewardship. To build the capacity and sustainability of the Good Will Charitable Foundation $50,000 nonprofit sector in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ekaterinburg, Russia IPF Siberian Civic Initiatives $60,000 To support efforts to build nonprofit-sector Support Center capacity outside the major cities in the Urals Novosibirsk, Russia region of Russia. To support the development of corporate Greenpeace Russia $100,000 philanthropy in Siberia. Moscow, Russia ISAR - Moscow $71,246 To encourage the development of philanthropy Moscow, Russia in Russia. To build the capacity of Russian non- Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights $80,000 governmental organizations. Warsaw, Poland London School of Economics $25,000 To build the capacity of Russian, Ukrainian and and Political Science Belarusian non-governmental organizations London, England active in the human rights field. To assess the development and health of the Hestia $100,000 nonprofit sector in a cross-section of transi- Prague, Czech Republic tioning countries in Central/Eastern Europe. To support an organization established to Nadace VIA $50,000 promote volunteerism throughout the Czech Prague, Czech Republic Republic. To promote effective interaction between Czech non-governmental organizations and the media.

16 Nadacia Pre Obciansku Spolocnost $20,000 Pacific Environment and Resources Center $25,000 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Oakland, California To support an organization created to build the To build the capacity of non-governmental capacity of nonprofit organizations, stimulate organizations and local communities in Siberia philanthropy and cross-sector partnerships, and and the Russian Far East to influence promote citizen participation in democratic development bank policies and practices processes in Slovakia. affecting the environment. Netherlands Organization for International $150,000 Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation $100,000 Development Cooperation New York, New York The Hague, Netherlands To provide support to Romanian non- To support the rebuilding and strengthening of governmental organizations whose activities civil society in Albania in the wake of the focus on children and at-risk youth. Kosovo refugee crisis. Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy $50,000 NGO Trainers’ Association - STOP $41,684 Kyiv, Ukraine Warsaw, Poland To create a supportive legal framework for the To enhance the ability of trainers for non- nonprofit sector in Ukraine. governmental organizations and citizen Regardless of Bad Weather Foundation - $70,300 initiatives in Poland. Data Base KLON Non-Governmental Organizations $25,000 Warsaw, Poland Information and Support Centre To increase communication and networking Vilnius, Lithuania within the Polish nonprofit sector and between To support a resource center for non- Polish non-governmental organizations and governmental organizations in Lithuania. citizens. Nonprofit Enterprise $50,000 Sluzhenye Association of Non- $60,000 Self-Sustaining Team,Inc. Governmental Not-for-Profit Organizations Budapest, Hungary Nizhni Novgorod, Russia To assist non-governmental organizations in To support the development of a regional non- Central/Eastern Europe to develop diversified governmental organization resource center in funding sources. Russia. Open Society Club - Bourgas $39,300 Southern Russia Resource Center $46,316 Bourgas, Bulgaria Krasnodar, Russia To support sustainable, community-based To support a non-governmental organization philanthropy in Bulgaria. network in southern Russia. Open Society Club - Rousse $57,000 Tereza - Association for $80,000 Rousse, Bulgaria Environmental Education To support sustainable, community-based Prague, Czech Republic philanthropy in Bulgaria. To support a civic association in the Czech Open Society Club - Sliven $55,000 Republic involved in community, Sliven, Bulgaria environmental and cross-sector partnership To support sustainable, community-based programs. philanthropy in Bulgaria. Union of Bulgarian Foundations $9,960 Open Society Club - Varna $95,000 and Associations Varna, Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria To support sustainable, community-based To support information services for Bulgarian philanthropy in Bulgaria. non-governmental organizations. Open Society Fund - Prague $23,500 VOKA - Rural Organization of $90,000 Prague, Czech Republic Community Activities To support the growth of community Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic partnerships and community philanthropy in To strengthen leadership and build capacity of the Czech Republic. informal citizen groups and non-governmental organizations in rural areas of Slovakia. Open Society Institute $350,000 New York, New York SUBTOTAL: Nonprofit Sector $6,564,176 To support citizen initiatives and local non- governmental organizations addressing the critical needs of people and communities in the Balkans.

17 CITIZEN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES European Movement of Serbia $43,155 Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux $60,000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia Prague, Czech Republic To increase citizen participation in Serbia and To support a network of information offices Southeastern Europe. created to improve the ability of Czech citizens European Roma Rights Center $150,000 to exercise their rights. Budapest, Hungary Center for Community Organizing $44,500 To advance self-organizing and community Plzen, Czech Republic development in Roma communities. To strengthen citizen engagement in FOCUS Non-Profit Partnership for the $74,879 community organizing and development in the Support of Civil Initiatives Czech Republic. Moscow, Russia Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and $80,000 To promote citizen involvement in local Human Rights Osijek problem solving in Russian communities. Osijek, Croatia Freedom House, Inc. $250,000 To support an organization in Croatia dedicated Washington, DC to promoting community-based peace building To support non-governmental organizations in and improved ethnic relations. their efforts to promote free and fair elections in Citizens Action - Community $75,000 Croatia during 1999. Development Center German Marshall Fund of $200,000 Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic the United States To support the development of an organization Washington, DC created to strengthen Slovak citizen To promote free and fair elections in Romania. participation through the training of community organizers. Human Rights Watch $150,000 New York, New York Committee of Voters of Ukraine $88,837 To promote accountability and justice for Kyiv, Ukraine human rights violations committed in Kosovo To promote free and fair elections in Ukraine. by Yugoslavian and Serbian forces. Community Partnership Foundation $70,000 Hungarian Association for $50,000 Miercurea Cuic, Romania Community Development To support a membership organization created Budapest, Hungary to stimulate citizen participation and the To support an association of community development of Romanian communities. development workers in Hungary. Creating Effective Grassroots Alternatives $120,000 Media Development Loan Fund $100,000 Sofia, Bulgaria New York, New York To stimulate citizen participation in local self- To support regeneration of credible governance and support sustainable independent broadcasting in the Federal development in communities in Bulgaria. Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Democratic Initiatives Foundation $80,000 Montenegro). Kyiv, Ukraine New Forms of Civil Society Technologies $99,953 To promote free and fair elections in Ukraine. Moscow, Russia Dr. Zhelyu Zhelev Foundation $10,000 To engage Russian citizens in their local Sofia, Bulgaria communities. To support improving relations in Bulgaria New Perspectives Foundation $50,000 between citizens and their elected officials, with Moscow, Russia particular emphasis on youth. To support a non-governmental organization Educational Resources and $49,900 dedicated to engaging Russian youth in the Technological Training democratic process. Moscow, Russia Pro Democracy Association $85,837 To encourage businesses, government Bucharest, Romania representatives and non-governmental To support a voter education program prior to organizations to collaborate on local problem general elections in Romania. solving in Russian communities. Romanian Association for $60,000 Eurasia Foundation $114,712 Community Development Washington, DC Bucharest, Romania To raise awareness among Russian citizens To support an organization that empowers about their rights and responsibilities. citizens from poor and disadvantaged communities to become informed and take actions to improve local development.

18 Russian Center for Citizenship Education $100,000 Liga Pro Europa $60,000 St. Petersburg, Russia Tirgu-Mures, Romania To engage Russian citizens in their society and To support a non-governmental organization in improve local government through increased Romania established to prevent conflicts and dialogue between office holders and the public. reduce tension between the majority population and ethnic communities. SUBTOTAL: Citizen Rights and $2,206,773 Responsibilities Minority Rights Group International $100,000 London, England To promote minority rights and inter- RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS community cooperation in Southeast Europe. Center for Strategic and Political Studies $98,796 National Press Institute $75,000 Moscow, Russia Moscow, Russia To improve interethnic relations in Russia. To improve race and ethnic relations in Russia. Charities Aid Foundation $75,000 Open Society Foundation - Romania $50,000 Kent, England Bucharest, Romania To support efforts to end the conflict between To support non-govermental organizations to Moldova and Transdniestria. improve ethnic relations and minority rights in Foundation-Administered Project $18,901 Southeast Europe. To promote lessons learned through conflict Partners for Democratic Change $100,000 resolution grantmaking in Central/Eastern San Francisco, California Europe and Russia. To support an organization that assists in the Institute of World Affairs $150,000 development and strengthening of conflict Washington, DC management centers in Central/Eastern Europe To rebuild civil society and promote ethnic and other regions. reconciliation in Bosnia and Croatia. Partners for Democratic Change - Slovakia $65,000 Inter Ethnic Initiative for $75,000 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Human Rights Foundation To create community mechanisms for the Sofia, Bulgaria development of long-term, positive To support an organization that encourages civil relationships among Slovakia’s majority and participation by members of ethnically diverse ethnic minority inhabitants. communities to protect their rights. Project on Ethnic Relations $200,000 To support capacity building to improve ethnic $100,000 Princeton, New Jersey relations in Bulgarian communities. To support an organization that encourages International Alert $50,000 peaceful solutions to ethnic conflicts in new London, England democracies of Central/Eastern Europe. To support a conflict resolution program that Search for Common Ground $118,575 addresses regional disputes in the Caucasus Washington, DC region of Russia. To promote interethnic dialogue and International Crisis Group $100,000 cooperation between Crimea’s ethnic groups. Washington, DC World Conference on Religion and Peace $100,000 To support efforts to investigate, access and New York, New York report on critical issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina To support peace building through cooperative and the south Balkan region. initiatives of diverse religious groups in Bosnia- To inform policymakers and the media about $100,000 Herzegovina. key issues and trends related to Kosovo. New York, New York $100,000 International Human Rights Law Group $100,000 To build the capacity of the Islamic, Orthodox Washington, DC and Catholic religious communities serving the To support a program that focuses on human people of Kosovo. rights education, training and legal Youth Communication Center - Banja Luka $129,400 representation of individuals seeking redress for Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina human rights violations in Bosnia. To support an organization created to promote King Baudouin Foundation $102,500 conflict resolution and community organizing United States, Inc. techniques in Bosnia. Atlanta, Georgia SUBTOTAL: Race and Ethnic Relations $2,068,172 To improve interethnic relations in Southeast Europe.

19 SPECIAL INITIATIVES Memorial Human Rights Center $400,000 American Foreign Policy Council $200,000 Moscow, Russia Washington, DC To improve the status of refugees and forced To promote cooperation and understanding migrants in the Russian Federation. between Russia and the United States. People in Need Public Benefit Organization $75,000 American Friends of the Czech Republic $20,000 Prague, Czech Republic Washington, DC To support the needs of Kosovo refugees. To support an organization that works on Perm City Public Charitable $50,000 improving Czech-United States relations. Organization Memorial Museum City of Dzerzhinsky $28,000 Perm, Russia Dzerzhinsky, Russia To support an organization created to raise To encourage citizen engagement and awareness about the importance of human community education in a Russian city. rights and democracy in Russia today. Educated Choices Heighten $128,000 Woodrow Wilson International $14,640 Opportunities, Inc. Center for Scholars Yarmouth, Maine Washington, DC To support a nonprofit organization dedicated To support a report on the democratic to the development of civil society in Siberia. transition of Ukraine, and how the political and civil reforms are succeeding under difficult Foundation for the Development $250,000 economic conditions. of Polish Agriculture Warsaw, Poland SUBTOTAL: Special Initiatives $ 1,542,131 To support an organization created to facilitate PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Central/Eastern $12,381,252 a sustainable transition of the Polish food and Europe & Russia agriculture sectors and promote the development of civil society in rural areas. Freedom House, Inc. $25,000 SOUTH AFRICA Washington, DC To strengthen the effectiveness and influence of NONPROFIT SECTOR the think tank community in Central/Eastern Europe and Russia. Community Development $111,705 Resource Association Friends of Hungarian Higher $48,000 Cape Town, South Africa Education Foundation To strengthen the organizational development Budapest, Hungary sector. To stimulate the growth of philanthropy in Hungary. Development Resources Trust $6,000 Johannesburg, South Africa Harvard University $105,676 To report on the current status of the nonprofit Cambridge, Massachusetts sector in southern Africa. To promote the development of a multiparty system in Russia. Equal Opportunity $300,000 Development Foundation Institute for EastWest Studies, Inc. $24,815 Athlone, South Africa New York, New York To support a grantmaking organization that To promote cross-border initiatives between assists rural and urban community-based Russia’s Kaliningrad region and its neighbors organizations. — Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation $25,000 To provide a venue and framework for dialogue $80,000 Menlo Park, California and joint work of representatives of civil society To support a workshop that promotes dialogue in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and concerning the role of U.S. grantmakers in a members of the international community. changing southern Africa. Institute for Political and $60,000 Institute for Democracy in South Africa $100,000 Economic Research Cape Town, South Africa Bucharest, Romania To strengthen non-governmental organizations To support a Romanian independent political working on policy advocacy. and economic public policy organization. Isandla Institute $150,000 Inter-Regional Association - $33,000 Cape Town, South Africa The Carpathian Euroregion To support the development of a policy research Krosno, Poland organization. To address the need for dialogue among Polish, Ukrainian and European Union interests.

20 Johannesburg Community Chest $50,000 Women’s Hope, Education And Training $100,000 Braamfontein, South Africa (WHEAT) Trust To encourage consolidation of 11 community Cape Town, South Africa chests in the Johannesburg area. To support the development of a fund dedicated Joint Enrichment Project $75,833 to strengthening women’s commitment to Johannesburg, South Africa community development. To support effective programs for the SUBTOTAL: Nonprofit Sector $1,601,538 development of young people.

Legal Resources Trust $200,000 CITIZEN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Johannesburg, South Africa To provide institutional and legal support to Black Sash Trust $200,000 nonprofit organizations. Cape Town, South Africa To support a human rights organization that Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund $70,000 provides paralegal services and legal Johannesburg, South Africa information. To support a fund created to improve conditions for children and youth. Centre for the Study of $150,000 Violence and Reconciliation Non-Profit Partnership $50,000 Braamfontein, South Africa Braamfontein, South Africa To ensure that the process of transition and To support efforts to strengthen the tax reconciliation continues. environment as it relates to nonprofit organizations and donors. Commission on Gender Equality $200,000 Braamfontein, South Africa Reconstruct Trust $33,000 To support project costs for a series of Braamfontein, South Africa workshops, research and a public awareness To support the publication of a weekly campaign. newspaper insert that addresses issues concerning the nonprofit sector. Community Agency for Social Enquiry $8,000 Braamfontein, South Africa Sedibeng Centre for $10,000 To analyze the role of paralegal and advice Organizational Effectiveness offices in getting information to rural and Braamfontein, South Africa isolated communities about their rights and To support an organization created to how to access them. strengthen the institutional capacity of non- governmental organizations and support the Gender Advocacy Programme $240,000 growth of nonprofit leaders. Cape Town, South Africa To raise awareness among women about their Southern African NGO Network $75,000 rights and educate them about the legislative Johannesburg, South Africa process, policy formation and decisionmaking. To provide current information on issues affecting women and developments regarding Hlomelikusasa - Skills for the Future $40,000 gender. Durban, South Africa To support an organization that empowers To help the organization strengthen its training $60,000 women with skills and confidence to particpate capacity. fully in their families, society and government. Tlhavhama Training Initiative $100,000 Independent Projects Trust $150,000 Pietersburg, South Africa Durban, South Africa To support an organization that provides To support a research project to explore the training to nonprofit organizations in the relationship between traditional leadership and Northern Province. local or regional councils. University of the North $75,000 Institute for Democracy in South Africa $40,000 Sovenga, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa To support a training institute created to To support efforts to analyze the impact of the strengthen the nonprofit and development governmental budget on women. sector. Khulumani Support Group $50,000 University of the Witwatersrand $10,000 Braamfontein, South Africa Braamfontein, South Africa To support an organization that brings together To support a comprehensive study of the survivors and families of victims of human nonprofit sector. rights abuses during the apartheid era.

21 National Community Based $110,000 Council on Foundations, Inc. $45,000 Paralegal Association Washington, DC Braamfontein, South Africa To support a national membership organization To support the education of communities about dedicated to promoting and enhancing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. responsible and effective philanthropy. South African Broadcasting Corporation $500,000 Dartmouth College $5,000 Johannesburg, South Africa Hanover, New Hampshire To support the development of television To support a marketing plan for a book on programming centered around democracy, strengthening and preserving democracy. citizen engagement and local government. ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc. $276,800 University of Cape Town $200,000 Spartanburg, South Carolina Cape Town, South Africa To broadcast the first White House conference To increase economic and budget literacy. on philanthropy to American citizens. University of the Western Cape $150,000 Executive Service Corps of Chicago $70,000 Bellville, South Africa Chicago, Illinois To bring local community representatives To support technical assistance consultations for together to address the needs of the community small nonprofit organizations in economically versus budget constraints. disadvantaged neighborhoods. SUBTOTAL: Citizen Rights and $2,000,500 Formative Evaluation Research Associates $99,280 Responsibilities Ann Arbor, Michigan To identify issues and challenges for the workplace-giving field and support evaluation RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS research to inform such issues. Centre for the Study of Violence and $100,000 Forum of Regional Associations $125,000 Reconciliation of Grantmakers Braamfontein, South Africa Washington, DC To support an organization that addresses To support a network of city, state and multi- racism in integrated schools. state grantmaker associations. SUBTOTAL: Race and Ethnic Relations $ 100,000 Foundation-Administered Project $30,425 PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: South Africa $3,702,038 To disseminate to the community foundation field and other funders lessons learned from the Neighborhoods Small Grants Program. Georgetown University $180,000 UNITED STATES Washington, DC To support a fellowship involving research and NONPROFIT SECTOR writing initiatives on the nonprofit sector and philanthropy. Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. $25,000 Washington, DC Independent Sector $243,833 To support better understanding of the impact Washington, DC of African American philanthropy, and to To support a national membership organization promote future giving among African dedicated to promoting philanthropy, Americans. volunteering and nonprofit sector development. Council of Michigan Foundations $25,000 Johns Hopkins University $40,000 Grand Haven, Michigan Baltimore, Maryland To support a study of payout requirements on To support an economic profile of the nonprofit the endowments and giving power of private sector in three states. foundations. Michigan Nonprofit Association $100,000 To support a statewide membership $40,000 East Lansing, Michigan organization of Michigan grantmakers. To increase understanding in the Michigan Legislature of the nonprofit sector and the To support an endowment fund established to $225,000 issues facing the sector in the state. strengthen the nonprofit sector and philanthropy in Michigan. National Alliance for $100,000 Nonprofit Management To support planning activities for a high school $24,500 Washington, DC level text on U.S. philanthropy. To support an organization established to raise the quality of management support services provided to nonprofit organizations.

22 National Black United Fund, Inc. $50,000 Women’s Funding Network $60,000 Newark, New Jersey St. Paul, Minnesota To support an organization dedicated to To support an organization that promotes the expanding philanthropy in African American development and growth of women’s funds. communities. World Resources Institute $47,372 National Center for Nonprofit Boards $1,000,000 Washington, DC Washington, DC To enable the nonprofit sector to prepare for the To support an organization created to develop future. new knowledge on nonprofit governance and SUBTOTAL: Nonprofit Sector $3,159,727 increase delivery channels for governance resources, training and information. National Committee for $15,000 RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS Responsive Philanthropy Applied Research Center $21,865 Washington, DC Oakland, California To support an advocacy organization dedicated To support a project to examine organizations to increasing the responsiveness and that explicitly claim to be involved in anti- accessibility of philanthropic organizations to racist work in low-income communities. minorities and the disadvantaged. To foster collaborative strategic approaches to $250,000 To develop and strengthen the alternative $150,000 challenge racism in public schools and promote workplace giving movement. academic excellence and equity for all students. National Council of Nonprofit Associations $25,000 Asian Pacific American Legal Center $75,000 Washington, DC of Southern California To support a membership organization of state, Los Angeles, California regional and metropolitan area nonprofit To support replication of a program to develop associations. dispute resolution skills and multicultural Nonprofit Risk Management Center $35,000 dialogue in California and other states. Washington, DC Children Now $158,135 To support the creation of an information Oakland, California clearinghouse as a permanent part of the To examine the influence of entertainment and center’s core services to nonprofit organizations. news media on children’s racial perceptions. Philanthropic Initiative, Inc. $15,000 Harvard University $500,000 Boston, Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts To support an organization created to address To assess the prospects for justice and equal the needs of new and emerging donors in the opportunity of racial and ethnic minorities in philanthropic community. the United States. Philanthropy Roundtable $7,500 Interfaith Action for Racial Justice, Inc. $100,000 Washington, DC Baltimore, Maryland To support a national association that provides To support an organization working to address services and activities for grantmakers. racial inequities in metropolitan Baltimore. Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc. $20,000 Metropolitan Area Research Corporation $150,000 New York, New York Minneapolis, Minnesota To support meetings of computer systems To support an organization that addresses issues experts who serve a network or cluster of of racial and socioeconomic disparities in major nonprofit agencies with a common geographic metropolitan regions across the United States. or programmatic dimension. MultiCultural Collaborative $100,000 Tides Center $50,000 Los Angeles, California San Francisco, California To support a multiethnic cross-section of To help foundations and other nonprofit community-based service and advocacy organizations respond to possible societal organizations seeking solutions to interethnic problems occurring as a result of Y2K. conflict in the Los Angeles area. Urban Institute $30,017 National League of Cities Institute, Inc. $150,000 Washington, DC Washington, DC To support the implementation of a nationwide, To strengthen the effectiveness of local officials decentralized information system on nonprofit on racial and ethnic issues. organizations.

23 National Puerto Rican Coalition, Inc. $300,000 Association of Community Trusts $192,500 Washington, DC and Foundations To address institutional racism and prejudice London, England against Puerto Ricans and other Latinos To support the consolidation and strengthening through participation in the community of the community foundation network in the renewal process. United Kingdom. Rainbow Research, Inc. $200,000 Bertelsmann Stiftung $362,500 Minneapolis, Minnesota Gutersloh, Germany To promote communitywide efforts to counter To support the increasing number of institutional racism. community foundations in Europe. Topsfield Foundation $125,000 Center for Community Service Fund $15,000 Pomfret, Connecticut Seattle, Washington To support promising study circle projects at To support efforts to decrease the “digital the community and state levels. divide” and use the Internet to combat poverty University of Houston $150,000 at a global level. Houston, Texas Charities Aid Foundation $17,720 To educate the general public about the Kent, England American identity of Latinos and broaden the To support the publication of a magazine that national discourse on race and ethnicity. focuses on global civil society issues. University of Massachusetts - Boston $160,000 CIVICUS: World Alliance for $265,000 Boston, Massachusetts Citizen Participation, Inc. To increase multiracial citizen participation and Washington, DC develop action strategies related to economics, To support an international alliance dedicated health, political representation and education to strengthening citizen action and civil society for women. throughout the world. University of Minnesota Foundation $200,000 To strengthen and expand the nonprofit sector $35,000 Minneapolis, Minnesota in Africa. To support a project that addresses regionalism To reconnect Australian citizens and their $24,850 as it applies to low-income communities of communities by enhancing the development of color. social capital. Western States Center $170,000 Community Foundations of Canada $19,000 Portland, Oregon Ottawa, Ontario To address racial issues in the Northwest. To promote networking among global Wisdom Works Corporation $300,000 community foundation support organizations. Washington, DC Esquel Group Foundation, Inc. $100,000 To support the educational outreach component Washington, DC of a documentary film on race and To support a membership organization of reconciliation in South Africa and the United nonprofits in Latin America dedicated to States. improving social and economic conditions in Women Make Movies, Inc. $200,000 the region. New York, New York European Foundation Centre $27,000 To support the filming of a play, based on the Brussels, Belgium upheaval in Los Angeles following the beating To support a membership organization of of Rodney King, and to support ongoing private funders in Europe. community dialogues. To support a program that provides information $287,700 SUBTOTAL: Race and Ethnic Relations $3,310,000 on foundations and corporate funders active in PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: United StateS $6,469,727 and with Europe. To provide technical assistance enabling the $138,515 center to strengthen the development of GLOBAL community philanthropy in Europe. To support capacity building of community $150,000 NONPROFIT SECTOR philanthropy organizations and the established Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations $55,000 or emerging national support centers that serve Development Organizations them. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Foundation-Administered Project $72,290 To provide management training for members To provide worldwide technical assistance to of non-governmental development the community foundation field. organizations.

24 German Marshall Fund of the United States $100,000 RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS Washington, DC Harvard University $35,000 To support the development of a pilot peer Cambridge, Massachusetts exchange program for community foundation To support analyses of the role of women in professionals in the United States and Europe. conflict resolution. Graduate School & University Center of $50,000 SUBTOTAL: Race and Ethnic Relations $35,000 the City University of New York New York, New York To support the study and increased SPECIAL INITIATIVES understanding of community foundations. Carter Center $750,000 International Association for $120,000 Atlanta, Georgia Volunteer Effort To support multi-faceted efforts to monitor Washington, DC elections, promote democracy building, and To support an organization created to build prevent and resolve conflicts in selected areas of alliances and promote voluntary citizen action the world. worldwide. International Crisis Group $750,000 Johns Hopkins University $50,000 Washington, DC Baltimore, Maryland To support an organization that seeks to To support the second phase of an international influence and improve the way the international study to document and compare the role of the community responds to complex crises. nonprofit sector in a cross-section of countries SUBTOTAL: Special Initiatives $ 1,500,000 throughout the world. PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Global $ 3,802,235 Union Institute $110,160 $26,355,252 Cincinnati, Ohio PROGRAM TOTAL: Civil Society To support the compilation and sharing of best practices and lessons learned from the nonprofit-sector retiree base. United Way International $75,000 Alexandria, Virginia To support an organization that promotes philanthropy and volunteerism throughout the world. SUBTOTAL: Nonprofit Sector $2,267,235

25 Environment

n 1999, the Environment program staff globally significant environmental concern began making grants under revised funding — the loss of biological diversity — Ipriorities that had been approved by our while maintaining a strong domestic Board of Trustees the preceding fall. grantmaking presence. We continue to support organizations working to reform international financial REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL and trade institutions and policies, in FINANCE AND TRADE recognition of the fact that international We have supported efforts to improve the economic decisions drive global patterns of environmental policies and impacts of development as well as many critical social multilateral development banks since the late and environmental trends. 1980s and, since 1993, to reform As an outgrowth and expansion of our international trade policies. During 1999, past funding on protection of the Great those streams of work were complemented Lakes ecosystem, staff initiated grantmaking by initiating support for efforts to influence Citizens must keep aimed at conservation of freshwater environmentally significant private the pressure on ecosystems in North America, with emphasis international investment. The work also was on the binational Great Lakes basin and reorganized to better integrate grantmaking public financial four ecoregions in the southeastern United related to international financial institutions institutions to make States. The Southeast was added as a with that focused on trade policy — a good on promises of geographic region of interest because of its convergence that is already under way in extraordinary richness in aquatic species national and intergovernmental sustainable diversity and the relative lack of policymaking arenas. development. philanthropic funding in the region. At the end of 1999, the environmental This program area allows us to address a and social consequences of unchecked trade

26 deregulation and the broader phenomenon vulnerable. A wide variety of land use and of economic globalization garnered resource management practices compromises worldwide attention during the World Trade the quality of aquatic habitat and jeopardizes Organization’s Ministerial Conference in the benefits that freshwater resources provide Seattle. Despite media fixation with the to people. small number of protesters who committed While opinion polls show strong public acts of vandalism and with the aggressive support for environmental protection, that police response to nonviolent civil support will not be translated into tangible disobedience, advocates of substantive trade conservation gains unless effective NGOs are policy reform succeeded in conveying their at work. Accordingly, our 1999 grants in this recommendations to policymakers and the program area emphasized building the capacity general public. of organizations working to conserve Among the reform advocates freshwater ecosystems in the Great Lakes basin represented at the conference were 27 Mott- and two ecoregions in the Southeast — the funded non-governmental organizations watersheds of the Tennessee and Cumberland (NGOs) from Latin America, Europe, rivers (mostly in Tennessee), and the watershed Canada and the United States. The activities that drains through the Mobile Bay (mostly in of those NGOs were diverse. Some Alabama) into the Gulf of Mexico. advocated alternative policy frameworks to For example, we made a two-year, government delegates inside the conference $400,000 grant to River Network, a center and conducted public seminars nationally recognized technical assistance outside. Others organized collaborative provider, to offer organizational development international strategy development processes training and mentoring services to river and and executed complex media outreach plans. watershed groups active in the Great Lakes Their messages, however, reflected shared and Southeast. The project includes a concerns — foremost that trade regranting component, through which River liberalization and economic integration must Network will award small grants to promote sustainable patterns of development nonprofits for capacity-building purposes. and meet the needs of marginalized We also made general purpose grants to communities in all countries of the world. promising statewide organizations active on We will continue to support the river and wetland protection issues and development of broad-based coalitions that supported several other regional and national can raise these concerns to policymakers who organizations that bring critical scientific and will establish the “rules of the game” for global policy expertise to the community of economic integration in the century ahead. nonprofits interested in freshwater ecosystem conservation. CONSERVATION OF FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS SPECIAL INITIATIVES IN NORTH AMERICA This program area allows staff the flexibility Scientists consider the global loss of to respond to unanticipated opportunities, biodiversity to be one of the most serious support unique endeavors, and fund projects environmental problems in the world. Plant that strengthen environmental protection and animal species are becoming extinct at an efforts in the United States and unprecedented rate, and most extinctions are internationally. It also serves as a home for the result of human activity. Species that cross-cutting projects that complement the depend upon rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes work supported through the other two and other freshwater ecosystems are especially program areas.

27 E NVIRONMENT

Rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands and springs compose the freshwater ecosystems in which rich and diverse communities of plants and animals flourish.

28 1999 Grant Activity by Program Area & Objective (In Millions) Reform of International Finance and Trade - $6.822 / 63 Grants Special Initiatives - $2.425 / 21 Grants A. Policy Reform and Implementation - $2.64 / 22 Grants B. Strengthening International Constituencies for Reform - $3.672 / 35 Grants C. Developing New Approaches - $.51 / 6 Grants

TOTAL: F $14,151,767 A 110 Grants

E

D B C

Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems in North America - $4.903 / 26 Grants D. Site-specific Conservation Efforts - $.647 / 3 Grants E. Strengthening the Environmental Community - $2.405 / 16 Grants F. Policy Work - $1.851 / 7 Grants

In 1999, we made a five-year, $500,000 for God’s creation across all areas of religious general purpose grant to the National life” — a reminder that protection of the Religious Partnership for the Environment, a environment is not a trend, not merely formal coalition of four major U.S. faith another cause, but a core value that emerges groups — the U.S. Catholic Conference, from the teachings of diverse religious National Council of Churches in Christ, traditions. The partnership’s work helps to Coalition on the Environment in Jewish Life broaden the base of the environmental and Evangelical Environmental Network. The movement while deepening the meaning partnership seeks “to weave programs of care of its work.

29 Environment SNAPSHOT

MISSION: To support the efforts of an engaged citizenry working to create accountable and responsive institutions, sound public policies, and appropriate models of development that protect the diversity and integrity of selected ecosystems in North America and around the world.

REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND TRADE CONSERVATION OF FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS IN NORTH AMERICA GOAL: Promote environmentally sustainable development and greater public participation in economic decisionmaking GOAL: Advance the conservation and restoration processes through reform of the core policies and of freshwater ecosystems in North America, with practices of international financial and trade institutions. emphasis on the Great Lakes and other globally significant ecosystems. OBJECTIVES: OBJECTIVES: Promote the adoption and effective implementation of environmental and public Protect and restore selected freshwater ecosystems accountability policies within selected international through site-based conservation activities. financial and trade institutions. Establish a strong, effective and sustainable NGO Increase non-governmental organization community dedicated to the long-term effectiveness, public awareness and policymaker conservation of freshwater ecosystems. engagement in key countries on environmental Influence the design and implementation of reform of international finance and trade. selected public policies to advance the Develop new approaches to reorient international conservation of freshwater ecosystems. finance and trade toward sustainable development.

SPECIAL INITIATIVES

GOAL: Respond to unique opportunities to advance environmental protection in the United States and internationally.

30 REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy $240,000 FINANCE AND TRADE Minneapolis, Minnesota To help non-governmental organizations POLICY REFORM AND IMPLEMENTATION throughout the world participate more effectively in international trade debates. Berne Declaration (Erklarung von Bern) $20,000 Zurich, Switzerland Institute for Policy Studies $185,000 To support efforts to effect significant policy Washington, DC changes in the major multilateral development To assess the impacts of public and private banks. capital flows on the global environment. Both Ends Foundation $140,000 International Institute for $197,504 Amsterdam, Netherlands Energy Conservation, Inc. To examine the role of the international Washington, DC financial institutions and the private sector in To promote more sustainable patterns of energy financing international development projects. development through multilateral development bank reform. Center for International $180,000 Environmental Law International Institute for $10,000 Washington, DC Sustainable Development To support organizational/management capacity Winnipeg, Manitoba building initiatives. To support examination of key legal issues related to the application of international To promote environmental reforms within trade $275,000 investor protection rules. policies and institutions and international financial institutions. International Union for Conservation of $179,353 Nature & Natural Resources-US Conservation International Foundation $126,000 Washington, DC Washington, DC To promote the integration of environment and To reform the environmental policies of economics in systems of national accounting multilateral development banks. and lending strategies of multilateral Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund $50,000 development banks. San Francisco, California International Union for Conservation of $25,000 To ensure environmental protection in the Nature and Natural Resources context of global commerce. Gland, Switzerland Ecological Foundation $103,000 To provide advice on various issues related to Cornwall, England hydropower development, resettlement issues To examine environmental impacts of export and the environmental impacts of large dams. credit agencies in Great Britain and promote National Wildlife Federation $98,120 the adoption of common environmental Vienna, Virginia standards. To ensure that future trade policies actively Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. $300,000 promote sustainable development. New York, New York World Resources Institute $300,000 To continue multilateral development bank Washington, DC policy advocacy and support adoption of To mainstream environmental priorities into common environmental standards for the decisions made by the international financing publicly supported bilateral finance agencies. community. Friends of the Earth $22,660 World Wildlife Fund, Inc. $28,780 Washington, DC Washington, DC To promote environmental reforms at To support a vehicle for international environ- international financial institutions, such as the mental governance that addresses the linkages World Bank and the International Monetary between trade and environmental concerns. Fund. SUBTOTAL: Policy Reform and $2,640,417 Indian Law Resource Center $160,000 Implementation Helena, Montana To support efforts to reform international financial institutions’ policies and projects STRENGTHENING INTERNATIONAL affecting indigenous peoples and the CONSTITUENCIES FOR REFORM environment. Agir ICI $212,000 Paris, France To support efforts to encourage French leadership on reform of the international financial institutions.

31 Amazon Watch, Inc. $150,000 Development Group for Alternative $40,000 Malibu, California Policies, Inc. To support an organization that works with Washington, DC indigenous groups in Amazon River basin To integrate environmental and social countries to protect the environment and objectives into Western Hemisphere trade and advance human rights. economic integration policies. American Council for Voluntary $200,000 Environmental Health Coalition $105,000 International Action (InterAction) San Diego, California Washington, DC To protect public health and the environment To improve the Inter-American Development in Tijuana and northern Baja California by Bank’s performance on environmental and social reducing pollution caused by transnational and issues. Mexican industries. American Lands Alliance $85,000 Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide $200,000 Washington, DC Eugene, Oregon To raise public awareness about the To build the capacity of public interest environmental impacts of global economic environmental law in Mexico. integration. European Natural Heritage Fund $80,000 Aspen Institute, Inc. $111,000 Rheinbach, Germany Washington, DC To promote reform of German private financial To promote better understanding of the major institutions. needs, issues and trends relevant to sustainable Foundation for Science, Art and Culture $46,000 development along the Mexico-U.S. border. of the National University Bank Information Center $112,000 Heredia, Costa Rica Washington, DC To build the capacities of non-governmental To provide assistance to Japanese organizations organizations working on trade and working to reform multilateral development environment issues and promote coordinated banks. policy research and advocacy throughout To enable non-governmental organizations to $67,000 Central America. participate in the annual meeting of the Inter- Friends of the Earth $140,000 American Development Bank. Washington, DC Border Ecology Project $40,000 To promote awareness of the environmental Bisbee, Arizona significance of current international investment To create opportunities for non-governmental agreements. organizations to participate in the negotiation Friends of the Earth - Amazon Program $40,480 process to create a Free Trade Area of the Sao Paulo, Brazil Americas. To promote efforts to ensure that private-sector Canadian Environmental Law Association $29,000 investment in Brazil fosters sustainable Toronto, Ontario development and minimizes negative impacts To explore links between international trade on natural resources. and environmental protection. Friends of the Earth - Japan $200,000 Centro Internazionale Crocevia $10,000 Tokyo, Japan Rome, Italy To promote reform of Japanese export credit To support an information clearinghouse on agencies and advocate for support of common multilateral development bank reform issues in environmental standards. Italy. Friends of the Earth International $50,000 Centro Mexicano de Derecho $160,000 Amsterdam, Netherlands Ambiental, A.C. To develop coordinated strategies to reform the Mexico City, Mexico international financial institutions. To support the involvement of a Mexican Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano $66,135 public interest environmental law organization Quito, Ecuador in international trade policymaking. To develop a constructive, regional agenda on Consumer’s Choice Council $40,000 South American trade and environment issues. Washington, DC Interhemispheric Resource Center $130,000 To support an organization created to build and Silver City, New Mexico maintain effective ecolabeling systems and To provide U.S. and Mexican non-governmental policies. organizations with information about environmental challenges and opportunities in the border region.

32 International Centre for Trade and $125,000 DEVELOPING NEW APPROACHES Sustainable Development Center of Concern $100,000 Geneva, Switzerland Washington, DC To support an organization created to meet the To encourage civil society participation in information and communication needs of non- redesigning the global financial architecture. governmental organizations regarding the Congressional Institute for the Future $80,000 World Trade Organization. Washington, DC Rainforest Foundation UK $170,808 To educate U.S. legislators about the London, England environmental impacts of international To minimize environmental and social impacts economic policy decisions. of projects funded by the European Conservation Strategy Fund $50,000 Commission. Philo, California Sierra Club Foundation $260,000 To train environmental leaders in Latin San Francisco, California America to be more effective in influencing To educate the public about the need for internationally financed development projects. environmentally responsible trade policies. Millennium Institute $80,000 Sierra Club of Canada Foundation $33,000 Arlington, Virginia Ottawa, Ontario To promote reform of the World Bank’s To support a coalition of Canadian non- economic modeling program. governmental organizations interested in issues New America Foundation $100,000 that may be impacted by the World Trade Washington, DC Organization. To support environmental efforts to redesign Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition $40,000 the global economic architecture. San Jose, California University of Maryland Foundation, Inc. $100,000 To support preparation for the World Trade Adelphi, Maryland Organization ministerial meeting. To enable two students to study with a leader Stichting Forest Peoples Programme $240,000 in the field of ecological economics. Moreton-in-Marsh, England SUBTOTAL: Developing New Approaches $510,000 To promote reform of multilateral development bank policies and programs that impact forests PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Reform of $6,822,840 and forest-dwelling peoples in developing International countries. Finance and Trade Tides Center $45,000 San Francisco, California CONSERVATION OF FRESHWATER To support a program that focuses on multilateral development bank reform, trade ECOSYSTEMS IN NORTH AMERICA policy, toxics and related international environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region. SITE-SPECIFIC CONSERVATION EFFORTS To strengthen efforts on a media campaign $240,000 Nature Conservancy $86,400 related to multilateral development bank Arlington, Virginia reform. To support the development of a comprehensive conservation plan for the Great Lakes region. To educate domestic and international civil $80,000 society organizations about the environmental To identify conservation priorities in the $313,500 and social challenges of globalization. southeastern United States. Trasparencia, Sociedad Civil $75,000 Nature Conservancy of Canada $247,158 Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico Toronto, Ontario To strengthen the capacity of Mexican To identify freshwater ecosystem conservation grassroots groups and citizens’ organizations to priorities in the Ontario portion of the Great participate in national and international Lakes basin. decisionmaking processes. SUBTOTAL: Site-Specific $647,058 University of Arizona $50,000 Conservation Efforts Tucson, Arizona To improve environmental and public health conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border. STRENGTHENING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY $180,000 SUBTOTAL: Strengthening International $3,672,423 Alabama Rivers Alliance Constituencies for Reform Birmingham, Alabama To support an organization dedicated to freshwater ecosystem conservation in Alabama.

33 Alabama Water Watch Association $75,000 University of Michigan $100,000 Hoover, Alabama Ann Arbor, Michigan To support an organization that encourages the To provide public radio listeners with efforts of citizen volunteers who monitor water information about the Great Lakes ecosystem. quality in Alabama and neighboring states. Wisconsin Wetlands Association $90,000 Cahaba River Society $75,000 Madison, Wisconsin Birmingham, Alabama To support an organization created to promote To build the organizational capacity of citizen involvement in the protection and Alabama’s largest watershed conservation restoration of wetland resources. organization. SUBTOTAL: Strengthening the $2,405,101 Conservation Trust for North Carolina $390,000 Environmental Community Raleigh, North Carolina To support the development of riparian corridor protection and restoration plans. POLICY WORK Environmental Support Center, Inc. $162,000 American Rivers, Inc. $350,000 Washington, DC Washington, DC To design and test a computer and electronic To restore ecological and recreational value communications capacity-building service provided by free-flowing rivers. delivery model. Federation of Ontario Naturalists $320,000 Fund for the Environment $15,000 Don Mills, Ontario East Lansing, Michigan To support the implementation of an agreement To support a federation of environmental to protect Ontario forests. organizations formed to provide its members Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation $255,000 access to workplace-giving programs in Tallahassee, Florida Michigan. To monitor implementation of state and federal Great Lakes United $92,920 water quality policies important to Alabama’s Buffalo, New York freshwater ecosystems. To engage citizen environmental leaders in National Parks and $49,000 communicating priority Great Lakes Conservation Association environmental concerns to key federal agency Washington, DC staff and policymakers. To support efforts to protect in-stream flows of Lake Michigan Federation $67,000 Eastern rivers and streams. Chicago, Illinois Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. $300,000 To support an organization whose mission is to New York, New York protect Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes. To coordinate national and grassroots activities Nature Conservancy $450,000 on water policy issues. Arlington, Virginia Southern Environmental Law Center $375,000 To increase protection of the biological Charlottesville, Virginia diversity of aquatic systems. To provide regional leadership on water quality Northeast-Midwest Institute $200,000 and quantity policy issues of critical importance Washington, DC to the health of freshwater ecosystems. To support a program that serves as a voice for Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Fund $202,000 the Great Lakes region in Washington, D.C. Atlanta, Georgia River Alliance of Wisconsin $120,000 To protect the ecological integrity of river Madison, Wisconsin systems in Alabama and Georgia. To support an organization created to protect SUBTOTAL: Policy Work $1,851,000 and restore rivers in Wisconsin. PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Conservation of $4,903,159 River Network $400,000 Freshwater Portland, Oregon Ecosystems in To promote river and watershed protection in North America the Great Lakes basin and southeastern United States. Sierra Club Foundation $13,181 San Francisco, California To protect and restore the biodiversity of Michigan’s forests.

34 SPECIAL INITIATIVES National Religious Partnership $500,000 for the Environment Center for a New American Dream $80,000 New York, New York To support a partnership dedicated to Takoma Park, Maryland integrating issues of environmental To support an organization whose mission is to sustainability and justice into all aspects of reduce natural resource consumption and organized religious life. improve the quality of life in North America. Planning and Zoning Center, Inc. $27,500 Center for Health, Environment and Justice $30,000 Lansing, Michigan Falls Church, Virginia To document the extent to which existing state To support organizational evaluation and and local policies promote, subsidize, encourage strategic planning for a nonprofit that works to or discourage urban sprawl. eliminate exposure of hazardous chemicals to people and their communities. Portland State University $306,425 Clark Atlanta University $20,086 Portland, Oregon To support the convening of educational and Atlanta, Georgia information-sharing forums in the Columbia To update an index of people of color River basin region. environmental organizations in the United States. Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc. $15,000 Coalition for Environmentally Responsible $75,000 New York, New York Economies, Inc. To support a philanthropic affinity group whose members include staff and trustees of Boston, Massachusetts environmental grantmaking foundations and To build global consensus on the standards for corporate giving programs. measuring and reporting corporate environmental performance. Third Millennium Foundation $50,000 Consultative Group on Biological $30,000 Henderson, North Carolina Diversity, Inc. To support a global environmental organization. San Francisco, California To provide public opinion research on Thoreau Institute $25,000 biodiversity issues and identify strategic Bandon, Oregon opportunities for biodiversity protection. To find agreement between ranchers and Copper River Watershed Project $80,000 environmentalists on principles for rangeland management reform. Cordova, Alaska To support an organization created to diversify Tides Center $300,000 the economy of the Copper River region in San Francisco, California Alaska, while sustaining its natural resources To support an organization that provides and cultural heritage. leadership training for emerging environmental Environmental Support Center, Inc. $300,000 practitioners. Washington, DC Traverse City Area Chamber Foundation $20,000 To support an organization serving the interests Traverse City, Michigan and needs of groups working on environmental To examine the role of the business sector in issues. growth management. Kalamazoo College $47,547 University of Michigan $100,000 Kalamazoo, Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan To support dialogue around growth To focus public attention on critical issues management issues. surrounding land use in Michigan. Land Information Access Association $24,210 World Resources Institute $30,000 Traverse City, Michigan Washington, DC To support efforts to improve land-use To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and decisionmaking in Michigan. promote climatic stability while maintaining Michigan Environmental Council $5,000 sustainable economic activity. Lansing, Michigan To support efforts to finance a sustainable $360,000 To support improved land-use decisionmaking energy system for the 21st century. in Michigan. PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Special Initiatives $2,425,768 PROGRAM TOTAL: Environment $14,151,767

35 Flint Area

n our 1997 Annual Report, we wrote that to work with individuals, groups and “good results require long-term focus, organizations that are beginning to act in new Ibalance and partnerships.” Over the ways to rejuvenate a connected community. course of 1999, this observation has been Through direct grants to these particularly applicable to work in our home organizations, as well as through grants to the community of Flint, Michigan, and Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, we surrounding Genesee County. supported a variety of civic engagement As anticipated, the Flint Area program activities as well as a community leadership was a work in progress during 1999. The development initiative known locally as the grantmaking plan, approved by our Board of Place for Public Ideas. That six-session Trustees in March 1998, used a variety of training curriculum was developed by tools in addition to grants — research, Harwood to help participants develop ideas advocacy, convening and capacity-building — for public action and receive technical to nurture the vision for a healthier, assistance to strengthen their organizations connected community. and programs to build the community. During 1999, we continued to identify and build upon the efforts of groups and DEVELOPING PUBLIC CAPITAL individuals who want to get involved in Several themes or issues emerged as grant- making the Flint area a better place to live. making played out over 1999, the strongest This strategy has been purposefully slow and being race. To build upon the interest and cautious, because the work of helping a energy in Genesee County for pursuing anti- community rebuild connections must enable racism work, and to strengthen organizational people to feel more in control of their lives capacity to undertake such work, a formal and trust one another. Request for Proposals was sent out in early According to the Harwood Group, a 1999. Seven grants, totaling $243,749, were Bethesda, Maryland-based public issues made during the year. research and innovations firm that has been In addition, Formative Evaluation monitoring the health of Flint’s civic Research Associates was engaged to perform a infrastructure for several years, city residents “process” evaluation, rather than an “outcome” are beginning to experience a growing sense evaluation, of the seven grant projects to that “we are starting to feel some document how the programs affect their target movement.” When first engaged to gather audience and whether programs and strategies baseline data about how citizens really felt worked or failed. about Flint — what their fears, hopes and concerns were about their lives and their CREATING NATIONAL/ community — the Harwood Group found REGIONAL MODELS that while many people felt isolated and The welfare of Genesee County’s children and divided, other residents remained passionate young people always has been a major focus of about their community and its ability to our grantmaking. rebound from a litany of economic and Partnering with local schools, libraries social woes. and community groups under a $200,000 While Flint continues to experience grant, KidsPeace Corporation will enlist the challenging economic times, the Harwood participation of Flint children and Group believes that the area has inched from a organizations in creating TeenCentral, a community at “impasse” to a more “catalytic” prevention and outreach program for stage of development. As citizens begin to preteens and teenagers. It uses an interactive re-engage in community life, staff continued Web site that enables users to address a wide

36 range of problems, including substance abuse, Planetarium, the Flint Institute of Arts and peer and family violence, loss and grieving, the Flint Public Library. teen pregnancy, and depression and suicide. The two grants went to the Flint Because KidsPeace is committed to Cultural Center Corporation. The first grant, ensuring that all children, including for $3,096,040, was made to build and disadvantaged youth, can benefit from improve the infrastructure of the various Participants in the TeenCentral, special effort is directed to Cultural Center institutions, providing Place for Public Ideas making the site available wherever children support for a variety of marketing, capital develop ideas for use computers. improvement and programming activities that should help attract more broad and diverse public action and BUILDING UPON LEGACY audiences to the center. receive technical As part of our efforts to support and build The second grant, for $2,650,000, was assistance to targeted organizations as centers of strength, made to construct a multipurpose classroom two grants were made to strengthen the Flint wing connecting the Flint Youth Theatre, strengthen their own Cultural Center, a campuslike setting for the based at Bower Theater, with Longway organizations and Flint Institute of Music, Sloan Museum, Sarvis Planetarium. The classroom wing will enable programs. Center, Whiting Auditorium, Bower Theater, all Cultural Center institutions to program the Flint Youth Theatre, Longway more effectively for children and adolescents.

37 F LINT A REA

1999 Grant Activity by Program Area (In Millions)

Affecting Public Policy - $.622 / 2 Grants Developing Public Capital - $2.184 / 24 Grants

Creating National/Regional Models - $.686 / 4 Grants

TOTAL: $21,258,538 44 Grants

Building Upon Legacy - $17.764 / 14 Grants

In addition, we made a multiyear grant neighborhood organizations, governmental of $4,925,300 to Mott Community College to units or private developers for planning support preparations for the construction of a purposes or for construction or rehabilitation Regional Technology Center on the MCC of homes or commercial structures. campus. The center will house manufacturing Consequently, we made a $493,030 technology, information technology, grant to the University of Michigan-Flint’s construction trades, work-force development Projects for Urban and Regional Affairs to and a state-of-the-art teleconferencing space to conduct a citywide, parcel-based serve the college and the community. environmental block assessment. This can become the basis of tracking, for example, AFFECTING PUBLIC POLICY demolition of dilapidated structures, code As in many aging, industrialized cities, Flint’s enforcement compliance, changes in housing housing stock has deteriorated as residents valuation, drug enforcement and police have left the city to live in suburban complaints, and street lighting patterns. communities or seek employment elsewhere. In the latter part of 1999, we began However, no up-to-date information on putting an evaluation in place to examine: property values, housing conditions or efforts to impact the growth of the environmental deficiencies is available to community’s public capital and its civic

38 engagement; changes in the program staff’s Institute, ultimately will help move the Flint approach to its grantmaking strategies as well area toward a community that has a sense of as the creation of new ways of working with place, is inclusive and willing to examine itself, the community; and work that will help the is safe, takes individual and collective responsi- community generate a new, more accurate bility for itself, and gets things done. These “public story” about itself. values constitute a lens through which staff Our hope is that strategic grantmaking, will continue to organize and interrelate its coupled with the work of the Harwood grantmaking activities.

A classroom wing will connect Bower Theater with Longway Planetarium.

39 *Flint Area SNAPSHOT

MISSION: To foster a well-functioning, connected community that is capable of meeting the economic, social and racial challenges ahead.

CREATING PUBLIC CAPITAL RESPONDING TO CRITICAL COMMUNITY NEEDS

PURPOSE: Encourage the community’s members – its PURPOSE: Build solid physical structures in the form citizens and leaders – to partner in a process of dialogue of bricks and mortar, build solid operational bases in and change aimed at meeting economic, social and racial the form of endowments, and nurture local centers challenges. of strength.

STRATEGIES: STRATEGIES: Support and expand targeted organizations as Support and expand targeted organizations as centers of strength to increase Flint’s capacity to act centers of strength to increase Flint’s capacity to act on its challenges and concerns. on its challenges and concerns. Support community engagement, particularly Develop and support economic efforts to increase citizen dialogue, to define and act on the the number of jobs in the city, and access by Flint community’s challenges and concerns. residents to jobs that provide livable wages within the region. Support efforts to build and sustain networks that link people and organizations to talk and work Strengthen educational institutions as forces for together. positive change. Identify and support indigenous leadership and provide ways to connect these leaders to institutional leadership.

CREATING NATIONAL/REGIONAL MODELS

PURPOSE: Test new programs that hold the potential to be replicated elsewhere.

AFFECTING PUBLIC POLICY

PURPOSE: Identify public policies that are barriers to change and focus on improving those policies.

NOTE: Creating National/Regional Models and Affecting Public Policy are secondary areas of grantmaking under this program. We expect that projects funded in these two areas will utilize one or more of the strategies listed above.

*This chart represents refinements to the Flint Area program approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees at its March 2000 meeting.

40 DEVELOPING PUBLIC CAPITAL Greater Flint Arts Council $110,000 Flint, Michigan Beecher Community School District $11,657 To improve the image of downtown Flint through increased participation in existing and Flint, Michigan newly developed festivals. To support community-based efforts to address racism and promote interracial dialogue in the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation $68,000 Flint area. Bethesda, Maryland Community Coalition $6,154 To create the conditions necessary for people to see their connection to public life and one Flint, Michigan another in Flint/Genesee County. To support training costs for a group of area residents who will assist the community in To create linkages and networks among existing $19,000 building its capacity to deal with issues of and emerging community groups in Genesee racism and race relations. County and provide a gathering space for people to exchange ideas. To support community-based efforts to address $34,750 racism and promote interracial dialogue in the To provide expertise in addressing the various $10,245 Flint area. challenges and opportunities of engaging the Flint community. Community Foundation of Greater Flint $579,948 Flint, Michigan Jewish Family & Children’s Services $15,000 To support summer youth employment, Flint, Michigan recreation and community service programs for To support efforts to resettle Soviet refugees in young people. the area. To support a coalition committed to reducing $255,000 Metro Housing Partnership, Inc. $100,000 violence in the Flint area. Flint, Michigan Connexion, Inc. $40,910 To provide technical assistance to community development corporations and neighborhood Flint, Michigan organizations in Genesee County. To support community-based efforts to address racism and promote interracial dialogue in the Michigan State University $120,000 Flint area. East Lansing, Michigan Davison Community School District $15,703 To bolster public affairs education and outreach for at-risk students in Flint schools. Davison, Michigan To support community-based efforts to address Mott Children’s Health Center $125,000 racism and promote interracial dialogue in the Flint, Michigan Flint area. To maximize school readiness for all children Flint City Human Relations Commission $41,529 ages 6 and under in the county. Flint, Michigan United Way of Genesee and $200,000 To support community-based efforts to address Lapeer Counties racism and promote interracial dialogue in the Flint, Michigan Flint area. To support an organization that provides Flint Community Schools $49,200 funding to human service agencies throughout Genesee and Lapeer counties. Flint, Michigan To support community-based efforts to address University of Michigan - Flint $50,000 racism and promote interracial dialogue in the Flint, Michigan Flint area. To support community-based efforts to address Flint Cultural Center Corporation, Inc. $197,070 racism and promote interracial dialogue in the Flint area. Flint, Michigan To support a series of events to examine issues PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Developing $2,184,166 of racism and race relations. Public Capital Flint/Genesee Organizing Project $35,000 Flint, Michigan To encourage religious organizations in the area CREATING NATIONAL/REGIONAL MODELS to become more active and involved in local issues. Food Bank of Eastern Michigan $75,213 Genesee Area Focus Council, Inc. $100,000 Flint, Michigan Flint, Michigan To enable the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan To support an organization whose primary focus to connect its inventory system with other food is improving the economic competitiveness and banks nationally. quality of life in Genesee County.

41 KidsPeace Corporation $200,000 Flint Cultural Center Corporation, Inc. $3,096,040 Allentown, Pennsylvania Flint, Michigan To support an interactive prevention and To support a complex of performing and visual resource site for 12- to 15-year-olds in the Flint arts, educational, recreational, and cultural community. facilities. National Economic Development and Law $236,759 Foundation-Administered Projects $34,786 Center To provide technical assistance to the Flint Oakland, California Community Schools to develop a community To develop effective and appropriate economic school plan. development and employment strategies for the To develop a revitalization strategy for $21,237 community. downtown Flint. Shelter of Flint, Inc. $175,000 To support efforts to develop a single library $100,163 Flint, Michigan system to serve all Genesee County residents. To support an organization dedicated to helping homeless families work toward permanent To build organizational capacity to sustain anti- $5,222 stability. racist efforts in Flint. PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Creating National/ $686,972 International Institute of Flint $253,500 Regional Models Flint, Michigan To improve the property surrounding the institute. BUILDING UPON LEGACY Mott Community College $4,925,300 Flint, Michigan To support the creation of a work force Boy Scouts of America - Tall Pine Council $250,000 development center to serve the community. Flint, Michigan To support renovations to Camp Holaka to Nature Conservancy $110,500 increase outreach to youth not traditionally Arlington, Virginia involved in scouting. To support maintenance and management of properties in the Flint Cultural Center area. Community Coalition $8,000 Flint, Michigan University of Michigan - Flint $1,900,000 To support an organization that provides Flint, Michigan resources and information to help individuals To assist the university in the long-term and groups address individual, community and development of its downtown riverfront campus social change. and expanding its academic programs. Community Foundation of Greater Flint $2,000,000 PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Building Upon $17,764,748 Legacy Flint, Michigan To support an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Flint community. AFFECTING PUBLIC POLICY To support an endowment fund established in $300,000 memory of Ruth R. Mott. University of Michigan $129,622 To provide support to the Flint Institute $60,000 Ann Arbor, Michigan of Arts. To assist in promoting critical dialogue and enhance knowledge about the community. Fair Winds Girl Scout Council $250,000 Swartz Creek, Michigan University of Michigan - Flint $493,030 To support renovations to Camp O’Fair Winds Flint, Michigan to better serve Flint area youth and adults. To support a citywide assessment of housing conditions in Flint. Flint Community Schools $1,800,000 Flint, Michigan PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Effecting Public $622,652 To support library operations while alternative Policy methods of financing are investigated. PROGRAM TOTAL: Flint Area $21,258,538 Flint Cultural Center Corporation, Inc. $2,650,000 Flint, Michigan To support construction to meet increasing demands for classes, performance opportunities and workshops for children and young people at the cultural center.

42 43 Pathways Out of Poverty

new six-year plan aimed at poverty also to empower people to escape poverty alleviation was adopted in September entirely. To that end, the program is divided A1999 by our Board of Trustees into four areas, the first three of which (see following a two-year planning effort. The new snapshot, page 48) are entwined, yet distinct. plan focuses on three areas considered The fourth area — Special Initiatives — “pathways out of poverty”: education, allows us both to transition responsibly out of economic opportunity and community action. fields where we have worked for many years, Although some of the poverty grant- and to respond to special grantmaking making strategies employed in the past will opportunities. remain in place, several new approaches will Overall, the goal of the program is be pursued and others will be gradually phased to help people mobilize around local out. For instance, we plan to end grantmaking concerns, grow through participation in around violence prevention, private capital educational opportunities and attain development and comprehensive revitalization. economic self-sufficiency by engaging more Plus, over time, support for teenage pregnancy fully in the economy. prevention and micro-enterprise will be discontinued. Additionally, we reshaped our IMPROVING COMMUNITY work around family and parenting support EDUCATION and early childhood development, and This program area is based on the beliefs that: incorporated those interests into the new 1) education can be a fundamental pathway program structure. out of poverty and 2) children who benefit The new program is designed not only from a community-driven education system to relieve the distress of living in poverty, but that provides a continuum of quality preschool,

Mastery of academic skills is a common goal of afterschool programs.

44 in-school and out-of-school learning Our involvement in the initiative is in opportunities have a much better chance of keeping with our interest in addressing long- increasing academic achievement and term development and sustainability of the completing higher education, and of being community education field. That interest led prepared adequately for adult responsibilities. us to support the DC Agenda Support In this context, community education is Corporation and the Washington Interfaith defined as the capacity of individuals to work Network (WIN), two organizations working together to mobilize the community’s assets to help the District of Columbia rebuild the and resources around the educational needs of infrastructure needed to support afterschool children, youth and families such that the programs and revitalize community education traditionally underserved receive adequate programming. support to thrive in schools, the community In 1998 and 1999, Mott made grants and the workplace. totaling $699,749 to DC Agenda to plan, Pairing neatly with this overall philosophy and then launch, the Children and Youth is our support for the 21st Century Community Investment Partnership, an initiative aimed at Learning Centers (CCLCs) initiative, a fortifying the community’s infrastructure by multimillion-dollar public/private partnership bringing together municipal policymakers, with the U.S. Department of Education to educational leaders, federal officials and strengthen and expand the number of representatives from neighborhoods and youth afterschool programs across the country. organizations to increase the coordination and Since the initiative was launched in quality of programs available to children and 1998, we have made a seven-year, $95.2- young people. million commitment to enable the 21st This work, which will continue CCLCs and other major community throughout 2000 and 2001, has played education initiatives to promote sustainable, an instrumental role in helping secure a community-driven, expanded learning 21st CCLC grant from the federal opportunities that support both academic government to support programming in achievement and positive youth development. 10 Washington schools. The federal government appropriated Recognizing that it is equally important $454 million for this program for fiscal year for parents and residents to take an active role 2000, up from $200 million in 1999 and $40 in rebuilding the community education million in 1998. Through May 2000, it has infrastructure, we provided $300,000 awarded 903 grants covering 3,600 schools beginning in 1999 to WIN to support a across every state, the District of Columbia, campaign aimed at increasing the number of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the parents taking leadership roles in Washington Federated States of Micronesia. schools; establishing seven new afterschool Our funding supports research and programs; and creating a multimillion-dollar evaluation of 21st CCLCs and other expanded fund dedicated to afterschool and youth learning opportunities; identification and enrichment programs. dissemination of promising practices, programs and policies; training and technical EXPANDING ECONOMIC assistance supporting application and OPPORTUNITY replication; development of public will and Driving grantmaking in this area is a vision policies to support learning beyond the of a society in which every person has classroom well into the future; and an overall opportunity and is productive, and where effort to ensure access and equity that are hard work pays a living wage, all members of provided for all low-income children. society have access to such work, and public

45 P OVERTY

policies support people as they try to move which we fund nine. In addition, we make out of poverty permanently. grants to the Center on Budget and Policy In keeping with that underlying vision Priorities to provide technical assistance and and complementing the poverty program’s networking opportunities to SFAI participants fundamental interest in helping low-income and other interested organizations. populations participate more fully in the Since 1993, we have invested democratic process, we continued support in approximately $5 million in this initiative, 1999 for the State Fiscal Analysis which includes support for the center’s SFAI Initiative (SFAI). activities. SFAI is also funded by the Annie E. This project seeks to build the capacity Casey and Ford foundations and the Open of state-level organizations to analyze state Society Institute. budget and tax policies, particularly as they relate to the poor, and to work with grassroots BUILDING ORGANIZED organizers, advocacy groups, service providers, COMMUNITIES state officials and the media to ensure that We have a long history of support for findings are distributed widely. One goal is to community organizing, which is premised broaden citizen participation in decision- on the belief that those affected by social making about public policies. problems should be involved in generating Over time, participation in the SFAI has appropriate solutions; that all sectors of the grown, until today 22 states are involved, of community, especially those typically 1999 Grant Activity by Program Area & Objective (In Millions)

Special Initiatives - $5.759 / 30 Grants I. Transitions - $3.736 / 23 Grants J. Exploratory and Special Projects - $1.523 / 6 Grants K. Comprehensive Revitalization - $.5 / 1 Grant Improving Community Education - $23.957 / 71 Grants I H J A. School Readiness - $3.14 / 18 Grants G K B. Success in School - $2.006 / 8 Grants A C. Learning Beyond the Classroom - $18.811 / 45 Grants F B TOTAL: $48,817,268 177 Grants E

D C

Building Organized Communities - $6.418 / 30 Grants F. Building Infrastructure - $2.939 / 13 Grants G. Issue Organizing - $3.462 / 16 Grants H. Community Leadership Development - $.017 / 1 Grant Expanding Economic Opportunity - $12.68 / 46 Grants

D. Income Security - $5.342 / 22 Grants E. Workforce Development - $7.337 / 24 Grants 46 These children in excluded from participation, should be address an array of education, economic and involved; and that, at its best, organizing civic concerns. Tempe, Arizona, addresses multiple issues. In recent years, work by the two learn creativity and In recent years, we also have come to organizations has led to billions of dollars in teamwork in a believe that only organized communities can infrastructure investments in rural and urban make significant, sustained progress. Thus, it centers, a major revision of Texas education pottery class. is appropriate and synergistic for our grant- and education finance policies, state support making in this area to reinforce our work in for indigent health care in Texas, and other education and economic opportunity. activities aimed at improving the quality of life One of the best illustrations of how such for families in economically stressed synergy can be achieved is our recent support communities. for the Interfaith Education Fund Inc. (IEF) IEF received grants in 1998 and in Austin, Texas, a research, training and 1999 totaling $2 million to continue and technical assistance organization that works in expand its organizing, leadership tandem with the Industrial Areas Foundation development, research and evaluation to help community groups in the Southwest activities in the Southwest.

47 Pathways Out of Poverty SNAPSHOT

MISSION: To identify, test and help sustain pathways out of poverty for low-income people and communities.

IMPROVING COMMUNITY EDUCATION EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

GOAL: Ensure that community education serves as a GOAL: Expand opportunity for those in or at risk of pathway out of poverty for children in low-income persistent poverty by promoting policies and programs communities by building a continuum of quality learning that increase income security, help people connect to opportunities that stretches from the preschool years the labor market and enable them to advance into through preparation for higher education and the work force. better-quality, higher-paying jobs.

OBJECTIVES: OBJECTIVES: Promote the creation of community-driven policies Increase the economic self-reliance of low-income and other system supports that contribute to quality Americans by advancing policies and programs preschooling and an effective transition to public designed to increase income and assets, promote schools for young children and families in low- more equitable fiscal policies affecting low-income income communities. families, and build public will for a work-based safety net to assist low-income working families. Nurture the development of community-driven school reform strategies that result in sustainable Increase living-wage employment among low- increases in academic achievement for students, income people, especially parents, by supporting especially those traditionally underserved by the efforts that help them gain marketable skills, retain public school system. employment and advance to better-paying, high- quality jobs. Enable the 21st Century Community Learning Centers and other major initiatives to promote sustainable, community-driven expanded learning opportunities that support both academic achievement and positive youth development, especially for traditionally underserved children and youth.

BUILDING ORGANIZED COMMUNITIES SPECIAL INITIATIVES

GOAL: Enhance the variety, geographic spread, power GOAL: Sustain promising practices and promote and effectiveness of the community-organizing field in innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to reduce order to strengthen and sustain the involvement of persistent poverty. low-income communities in democratic processes of OBJECTIVES: social engagement. Maintain a critical presence in the fields of micro- OBJECTIVES: enterprise and teen pregnancy prevention. Improve the quality of community organizing in Identify critical issues, seize special opportunities, low-income communities by increasing resources research issues to determine future program to institutions, organizations, technical assistance directions and promote cross-cutting projects. providers and networks that serve to produce, nurture or expand community-based organizations or increase awareness of their effectiveness as an anti-poverty strategy nationally. Strengthen the organizing infrastructure of state and regional issue collaborations that focus on improving education or increasing economic opportunity in low-income communities.

48 IMPROVING COMMUNITY EDUCATION Michigan Community Coordinated $200,000 Child Care Association SCHOOL READINESS East Lansing, Michigan Center for Assessment and $30,000 To support a mentor training system for child- Policy Development care providers. Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania New York University $200,000 To advance school-based programs for New York, New York adolescent parents and their children. To examine support services available to young Child Care Action Campaign $300,000 children and their families. New York, New York Pueblo of Sandia $100,000 To complete an inventory of successful Bernalillo, New Mexico partnerships between early childhood programs To create opportunities to serve the children of and public schools. Sandia Pueblo in a comprehensive, Children’s Defense Fund $450,000 developmentally appropriate pre-school Washington, DC program. To address the increased need among low- Sacred Heart Southern Missions $100,000 income families for quality child care. Housing Corporation Committee for Economic Development $300,000 Walls, Mississippi New York, New York To support young children and families To support a project that emphasizes the through a community education program in importance of increasing investment in early rural Mississippi. childhood care and education. State Communities Aid Association $450,000 Detroit Educational Television Foundation $200,000 Albany, New York Detroit, Michigan To promote full and effective implementation To reach out to individuals and groups involved of universal prekindergarten in New York. in the process of the young child’s successful University of Missouri - Kansas City $200,000 transition to public elementary school. Kansas City, Missouri Early Childhood Initiative, Inc. $50,000 To support a program to build the leadership Miami, Florida and management capacity of early childhood To support efforts to improve the school education leaders in the Midwest. readiness of all children. Voices for Illinois Children $200,000 Grantmakers for Children, $60,000 Chicago, Illinois Youth and Families To build general awareness of the importance of Washington, DC supporting early childhood development To support an organization that assembles through broad public education efforts. foundation representatives to discuss issues of Washoe County School District $100,000 concern to the field of family support, youth Reno, Nevada and child development. To support a mobile, preschool education Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania $75,000 program in Nevada. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania SUBTOTAL: School Readiness $3,140,000 To support an association of national, regional and local foundation representatives involved in early child care and education. SUCCESS IN SCHOOL High/Scope Educational Research $100,000 Arkansas Institute for Social Justice $300,000 Foundation Little Rock, Arkansas Ypsilanti, Michigan To support community-driven school reform in To provide a unified training approach to early high poverty communities. childhood educators in Native American Eastern Philadelphia Organizing Project $300,000 communities. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Michigan Association for the $25,000 To support community-driven school reform in Education of Young Children middle and high schools. East Lansing, Michigan Las Palomas de Taos $105,840 To support the development of an early Santa Fe, New Mexico learning system in Michigan. To support school reform in New Mexico.

49 Pacific Institute for Community $300,000 Children’s Defense Fund $25,000 Organization Washington, DC Sacramento, California To support the expansion of a youth program to To identify promising practices in community- low-income communities. driven school reform and support continuing Community Network for $246,552 innovation. Youth Development Parents for Public Schools $300,000 San Francisco, California Jackson, Mississippi To determine whether activities and programs To identify innovative parent involvement implemented at Beacon Centers lead to strategies that result in districtwide school improved youth outcomes. reform. Corporation for Business,Work, $33,000 ROCA, Inc. $150,000 and Learning Chelsea, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts To support community and youth organizing To support a program that reconnects young for educational reform at the middle and high people who have dropped out of school to the school levels in Massachusetts. economy and higher education. Social Policy Research Associates $325,279 Council of Chief State School Officers $203,520 Oakland, California Washington, DC To support the assessment of successful school To support a conference and resulting and school-to-career program grantmaking. document on continual learning. Youth United for Change $225,000 Cross City Campaign for $220,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Urban School Reform To support student organizing to improve the Chicago, Illinois quality of high school education offered in low- To identify promising practices in education income communities. organizing. SUBTOTAL: Success in School $2,006,119 DC Agenda Support Corporation $620,000 Washington, DC To support efforts to increase services available LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM to children and youth. Academy for Educational Development, Inc. $700,000 Developmental Studies Center $94,500 Washington, DC Oakland, California To increase the sustainability of afterschool To support the development of high-quality programs. afterschool educational programs. To examine the concept of community-based $300,000 Florida Atlantic University $23,390 organizations taking on the responsibility of Boca Raton, Florida educating at-risk and out-of-school youth. To support the preparation, publication and To identify and promote practices of high $755,000 dissemination of a monograph on Frank J. quality afterschool programs. Manley. Advertising Council, Inc. $508,000 Foundation for Excellent Schools $300,000 New York, New York Cornwall, Vermont To encourage public involvement in the To improve academic achievement in low- development of afterschool programs. performing schools in low-income American Enterprise Institute for $35,230 communities. Public Policy Research Foundation-Administered Projects $50,000 Washington, DC To conduct introductory communications To research, evaluate and disseminate infor- training to 21st Century Community Learning mation on how career-oriented education can Center grantees. improve the quality of life for disadvantaged To produce and disseminate a brochure to be $49,228 young people. used in conjunction with the national media American Youth Policy Forum $500,000 campaign promoting the benefits of afterschool Washington, DC programs. To promote innovative community education To produce and disseminate a publication about $61,919 programs. the field of afterschool programs and California Tomorrow $100,000 community schools. Oakland, California To design a research project that focuses attention on access and equity in afterschool programming.

50 Foundation-Administered Projects $120,000 National Association of Service $300,000 To develop a data base for grantees of the 21st and Conservation Corps Century Community Learning Centers Washington, DC initiative, including demographic patterns and To support efforts to enhance opportunities for special issues patterns. young people to access family-wage jobs. To develop a national awareness strategy for the $399,988 National Center for Community Education $725,614 support of afterschool programming. Flint, Michigan To support the development and coordination $141,596 To support an organization working to enhance of communication activities designed to build community and educational change through public will for afterschool programming. community education training opportunities. To disseminate polling reports on public $26,160 To provide technical assistance to help $137,356 attitudes toward afterschool programs and a strengthen the community school field. Spanish version of an Afterschool Action Kit. To provide support for training and technical $3,225,260 Friends of Island Academy $100,000 assistance to grantees of the 21st Century New York, New York Community Learning Centers federal project. To support the development of youth leadership National Coalition of Community $782,080 programming for juveniles attending an Foundations for Youth educational program at Rikers Island Excelsior Springs, Missouri Correctional Facility. To encourage community foundations to Harvard University $200,000 increase their leadership role in supporting out- Cambridge, Massachusetts of-school-time opportunities. To support the development of an National Community Education Association $426,587 implementation agenda for a learning system Fairfax, Virginia for the afterschool field. To provide technical assistance and training to Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc. $150,000 public schools applying for federal grants to Washington, DC operate afterschool programs. To advance the national community schools National Governors’ Association Center $150,000 movement. for Best Practices Institute for Responsive Education $191,021 Washington, DC Boston, Massachusetts To support governors and other state leaders in To support a research and advocacy organization sharing and creating effective practices to that promotes family and community expand and enhance extra learning involvement in education. opportunities for all children. International Community $50,000 National Youth Employment Coalition, Inc. $200,000 Education Association Washington, DC Cheshire, England To build the capacity of small, community- To support a world conference for community based organizations serving out-of-school youth. educators. Partnership for After School Education $100,164 International Youth Foundation $196,180 New York, New York Baltimore, Maryland To evaluate training needs for afterschool To create a policy development framework to program practitioners. assess current afterschool programming Public/Private Ventures $200,000 resources. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania National Academy Foundation $201,850 To promote opportunities for poor urban and New York, New York rural communities to improve services for To identify achievements, lessons learned and disadvantaged youth. areas that still need attention in the school-to- San Francisco Foundation Community $50,000 career movement. Initiative Funds National Assembly of Health and Human $302,300 San Francisco, California Service Organizations To support training workshops for new Washington, DC afterschool programs in California. To identify and disseminate effective examples School District of Philadelphia $300,000 of school-community collaborations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania afterschool programs. To provide alternative educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged young adults in Philadelphia who have dropped out of high school.

51 Tides Center $7,000 Arkansas Enterprise Group $200,000 San Francisco, California Arkadelphia, Arkansas To support an affinity group for foundations To raise public consciousness about basic family working to improve education. needs of the working poor and public policy University of Minnesota Foundation $10,000 solutions to address them. Minneapolis, Minnesota Center for Law and Social Policy $500,000 To support a conference to examine policy as it Washington, DC affects children and their families within To provide a range of policy analysis assistance communities. to state and local nonprofit organizations, and University of Pennsylvania $583,264 state and local public officials related to welfare Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reform. To enable universities to address the needs of Center for Public Policy Priorities $200,000 children, youth and families from low-income Austin, Texas communities to achieve school and community To improve state policies and practices that revitalization. serve welfare recipients seeking to enter Washington Interfaith Network $300,000 employment and other low-wage workers. Washington, DC Center for Third World Organizing $50,000 To enable communities in the District of Oakland, California Columbia to strengthen their capacity to To support a study of the intersection between respond to the needs of their children. state fiscal policy analysis and organizing WAVE, Inc. $250,000 efforts. Washington, DC Center on Budget and Policy Priorities $1,100,000 To support an organization dedicated to Washington, DC training workers on how to support To build state-based capacity to analyze state opportunities, build relationships and create a budget priorities, fiscal policies and programs culture of achievement with at-risk youth. that affect low-income populations. YouthBuild USA, Inc. $109,863 Children Now $200,000 Somerville, Massachusetts Oakland, California To support programming for alternative To increase public understanding of the education programs working with at-risk challenges faced by low-income working youth. families in California. To support an innovative program for $500,000 Colorado Center on Law and Policy $100,000 at-risk youth. Denver, Colorado To support activities to honor an organization $50,000 To build organizational capacity for tax and created to engage young people in the budget analysis on behalf of low-income improvement of their communities. populations. To support a youth development program $3,500,000 Corporation for Enterprise Development $450,000 based on the belief that young people are a Washington, DC resource for revitalizing the nation’s poorest To establish Individual Development Accounts communities. in low-income communities across the country. SUBTOTAL: Learning Beyond $18,811,655 Economic Policy Institute $300,000 the Classroom Washington, DC To raise national awareness of the issues facing PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Improving $23,957,774 Community low-wage workers. Education Finance Project $200,000 Washington, DC To facilitate reforms that promote the well- EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY being of children and families, and lasting economic changes for individuals and communities. INCOME SECURITY Abt Associates, Inc. $200,000 Fiscal Policy Institute $100,000 Cambridge, Massachusetts Latham, New York To analyze the merits of matched savings To continue building capacity for tax and accounts as a widely applicable policy strategy. budget analysis on behalf of low-income populations.

52 Foundation-Administered Project $52,000 Arkansas Enterprise Group $100,000 To prepare a report on an initiative designed to Arkadelphia, Arkansas build organizational capacity for state-level tax To identify programs that explore new ways to and budget analyses on behalf of low-income link low-income people to better-paying jobs populations. through sectoral approaches. Fremont Public Association $75,000 Aspen Institute, Inc. $396,592 Seattle, Washington Washington, DC To support work on a range of policy initiatives To evaluate the effectiveness of sectoral that help augment low-income working employment development projects. families’ economic security. Center for Community Change $730,000 Institute for Women’s Policy Research $200,000 Washington, DC Washington, DC To create livable wage employment To support connection of state-level opportunities for low-income people. policymakers, advocates and researchers to Center for Fathers, Families and $87,500 stimulate and improve public policy debates Work Force Development affecting women. Baltimore, Maryland National Conference of State Legislatures $150,000 To support an organization that works to Denver, Colorado improve the employment opportunities and To evaluate the effects of welfare reform. involvement of low-income fathers in the lives New York Immigration Coalition $100,000 of their children. New York, New York Community Ownership Solutions, Inc. $25,000 To address issues involving immigrant Winnipeg, Manitoba eligibility for social service programs within the To support a nonprofit development context of welfare reform at the state level. corporation in Manitoba. United Vision for Idaho $100,000 East Harlem Employment Service, Inc. $300,000 Boise, Idaho New York, New York To build organizational capacity for tax and To link low-income people to decent jobs in the budget analysis on behalf of low-income private sector. populations. Enterprise Foundation $450,000 University of Michigan $440,834 Columbia, Maryland Ann Arbor, Michigan To support increasing wage mobility and job To support a study of potential obstacles to retention among the unemployed and working employment for welfare recipients. poor populations. University of Wisconsin-Parkside $200,033 Families and Work Institute $125,000 Kenosha, Wisconsin New York, New York To support the creation, design and promotion To raise public awareness of the needs of low- of a comprehensive social policies package to wage workers. support low-income working families. Focus: HOPE $250,000 Welfare Law Center, Inc. $300,000 Detroit, Michigan New York, New York To support a poverty and civil rights To support a collaborative to address workforce organization in Detroit. issues. Independence Care System $600,000 Women’s Educational and Industrial Union $125,000 New York, New York Boston, Massachusetts To support an organization dedicated to To advocate for innovative strategies that enable providing health care services to the disabled low-income families to earn enough to meet and better paying jobs for low-income their basic needs and successfully transition individuals. from welfare to work. Jane Addams Resource Corporation $219,620 SUBTOTAL: Income Security $5,342,867 Chicago, Illinois To increase access to good paying jobs in metalworking trades for low-income individuals WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT in Chicago. A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund $265,000 National Center for Strategic $475,000 Washington, DC Nonprofit Planning To support business ownership by minority Washington, DC workers. To strengthen the center’s communications capacity and improve wage growth for fathers involved in the initiative.

53 National Coalition of Community $100,000 BUILDING ORGANIZED COMMUNITIES Foundations for Youth Excelsior Springs, Missouri BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE To stimulate local policy changes and Applied Research Center $226,000 workplace innovations that support father Oakland, California engagement. To document and assess the performance of the National Economic Development $250,000 Intermediary Support for Organizing and Law Center Communities program. Oakland, California Center for Community Change $900,000 To develop a vehicle to coordinate sectoral Washington, DC employment initiatives and advance a national To support an organization that provides strategy. technical assistance to low-income community To support a vehicle to provide technical $300,000 groups. assistance and training to the workforce and To provide seed grants and technical assistance $300,000 sectoral development fields. to emerging, community-based organizations Northeast Workforce Center, Inc. $225,642 serving low-income neighborhoods. Portland, Oregon Center for Third World Organizing $50,000 To support diversity in the construction trade Oakland, California workforce. To support an organization based on the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute $635,000 premise that race impacts every community Bronx, New York revitalization technique. To support a nonprofit training organization Community Training and $300,000 that works to improve policies to ensure better Assistance Center, Inc. wages and better quality service in the home Boston, Massachusetts health care field. To provide seed grants and technical assistance Public/Private Ventures $325,000 to emerging, community-based organizations Philadelphia, Pennsylvania serving low-income neighborhoods. To improve workforce development Mississippi Action for $100,000 interventions practiced by the nonprofit, public Community Education and private sectors. Greenville, Mississippi To support an evaluation of, and provide $867,000 To strengthen the infrastructure of community- technical assistance to, grantees in the Sectoral based organizations working to improve living Employment Initiatives request for proposal conditions in the Mississippi Delta. process. National Council of La Raza $240,000 To support longer-term workforce development $153,428 Washington, DC programs. To provide seed grants and technical assistance To examine the history and future of $108,000 to emerging, community-based organizations employment training and placement programs serving low-income neighborhoods. for ex-offenders. National Organizers Alliance $25,000 Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. $300,000 Washington, DC Oak Park, Michigan To support a national network of individuals To support the replication of a sectoral involved in community organizing across the employment development model in Detroit. country. Women’s Housing and Economic $50,000 National Training and Information Center $300,000 Development Corporation Chicago, Illinois New York, New York To provide seed grants and technical assistance To provide opportunities for low-income people to emerging, community-based organizations to find decent wage jobs. serving low-income neighborhoods. SUBTOTAL: Workforce Development $7,337,782 Northern Plains Resource Council $100,000 Billings, Montana PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Expanding $12,680,649 To sustain the public will to protect family- Economic Opportunity scale agriculture and Montana’s natural resources. Southern Echo, Inc. $300,000 Jackson, Mississippi To provide seed grants and technical assistance to emerging, community-based organizations serving low-income neighborhoods.

54 Western Organization of Resource Councils $100,000 Michigan Organizing Project $110,000 Education Project Muskegon Heights, Michigan Billings, Montana To support an organization that helps the To build and sustain community organizations unemployed, underemployed and hard-to- throughout the Northwest. employ enter the job market. SUBTOTAL: Building Infrastructure $2,939,903 National Employment Law Project, Inc. $101,000 New York, New York To address the problem of low-wage and ISSUE ORGANIZING women workers being disproportionately Arkansas Institute for Social Justice $150,000 excluded from the unemployment Little Rock, Arkansas compensation system. To establish a center to support living-wage New Orleans Interfaith $200,000 campaigns throughout the United States. Sponsoring Committee Arkansas Public Policy Panel, Inc. $50,000 New Orleans, Louisiana Little Rock, Arkansas To support a statewide network dedicated to To support the development of a citizen group encouraging the civic participation of low- in Arkansas to participate in shaping public income communities and improving the policy at the state and local levels. educational outcomes of children. Baltimoreans United In $300,000 Northwest Federation of $156,000 Leadership Development Community Organizations Baltimore, Maryland Seattle, Washington To support a regional collaboration of To support an organization working to impact community organizing affiliates. issues affecting low- and moderate-income Federation of Southern Cooperatives $300,000 families in the rural Northwest. Land Assistance Fund Pacific Institute for $200,000 East Point, Georgia Community Organization To support the development of organizations to Sacramento, California help people build their own prosperity and gain To support efforts to secure state funds for equal access to economic opportunity. afterschool programs and seek out economic Interfaith Education Fund, Inc. $1,000,000 issues of importance to low-income families. Austin, Texas Peace and Justice Center $120,000 To support the expansion of activities that Burlington, Vermont improve the quality of life for families in the To support efforts to increase economic and Southwest. racial justice in Vermont. Just Economics $150,000 SOC Education Fund, Inc. $75,000 Berkeley, California Louisville, Kentucky To support an organization created to educate To promote democratic participation in the communities about the national economy and economic renewal of small communities in the help community leaders organize effective South. campaigns to end poverty. SUBTOTAL: Issue Organizing $3,462,000 Liberty Hill Foundation $100,000 Santa Monica, California To support projects aimed at serving the needs COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT of low-wage workers and families receiving Academy for Educational Development, Inc. $17,000 state assistance. Washington, DC Massachusetts Association of Community $150,000 To develop and integrate knowledge and Development Corporations understanding of exemplary programs for Boston, Massachusetts young minority males. To support empowerment and leadership SUBTOTAL: Community Leadership $17,000 strengthening among low-income residents and Development people of color. PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Building $6,418,903 Merrimack Valley Project, Inc. $300,000 Organized Lawrence, Massachusetts Communities To support expanded economic opportunities and development strategies for the working poor and others in need.

55 SPECIAL INITIATIVES International Youth Foundation $484,680 Baltimore, Maryland TRANSITIONS To advance the need for integration between ACCION International $75,000 those who promote youth development and Somerville, Massachusetts those who promote youth-related problem To respond to the needs of micro-entrepreneurs prevention. devastated by Hurricane Mitch in Honduras Lakota Fund $100,000 and Nicaragua. Kyle, South Dakota Alan Guttmacher Institute $28,324 To support a community-based fund that seeks New York, New York to improve economic conditions on the Pine To examine the relationship between religion Ridge Reservation. and adolescent sexual behavior. Los Angeles Women’s Foundation $40,000 Aspen Institute, Inc. $243,781 Los Angeles, California Washington, DC To support an initiative to develop economic To analyze projects that assist low-income empowerment for high-risk girls and young people to engage in self-employment as part of women. a strategy to move from welfare to self-reliance. Minnesota Medical Foundation $149,841 To analyze projects designed to assist low- $191,684 Minneapolis, Minnesota income micro-entrepreneurs in increasing access To examine the relationship between adolescent to broader markets. sexual behavior and the religious community. Center for Law and Social Policy $300,000 National Conference of State Legislatures $100,000 Washington, DC Denver, Colorado To identify promising approaches to adolescent To support the development of programs aimed pregnancy prevention. at increasing the financial and emotional contribution of low-income, non-custodial Center on Fathers, Families, $300,000 parents to their children. and Public Policy Madison, Wisconsin National Economic Development $129,800 To promote knowledge of, and engagement in, and Law Center the child support enforcement system in order Oakland, California to achieve changes in policy and practice. To engage more African Americans as employees and leaders within the micro- Child Trends, Inc. $149,986 enterprise industry. Washington, DC To support the publication and distribution of National Parenting Association $50,000 statistics on teenage pregnancy. New York, New York To support efforts to restructure school and Cornerstone Consulting Group, Inc. $117,346 work to support parents. Houston, Texas To test the feasibility of linking the Teen Native American Community Board $50,000 Outreach Program to the national effort to Lake Andes, South Dakota expand and improve afterschool activities. To address the concerns of youth within the Yankton Sioux Reservation and the broader Corporation for Enterprise Development $350,000 Native American community. Washington, DC To provide information and feedback that can RESULTS Educational Fund, Inc. $450,000 improve federal and state policy initiatives. Washington, DC To provide credit and other services for self- Georgia Campaign for Adolescent $150,000 employment to the world’s poorest families by Pregnancy Prevention, Inc. the year 2005. Atlanta, Georgia To support an organization devoted to teen Stairstep Foundation $50,000 pregnancy prevention and the promotion of Minneapolis, Minnesota youth development strategies. To support an organization dedicated to community building in the African American Grameen Foundation USA $100,000 community of north Minneapolis. Washington, DC To address the need for peer lending micro- University of Texas at Austin $25,800 credit technical assistance in the United States. Austin, Texas To increase the capacity of community-based International Labor Organization $100,000 organizations that provide services to young, Washington, DC low-income, never-married fathers and families. To examine key factors that contribute to the effectiveness of micro-enterprise programs in SUBTOTAL: Transitions $3,736,242 industrialized countries.

56 EXPLORATORY AND SPECIAL PROJECTS University of Pennsylvania $300,000 Family and Corrections Foundation $48,700 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Palmyra, Virginia To examine the impact of criminal justice To explore a range of issues that impact the policies on father engagement. lives of low-income fathers and families. SUBTOTAL: Exploratory and $1,523,700 Focus: HOPE $1,000,000 Special Projects Detroit, Michigan To support an organization that unites a COMPREHENSIVE REVITALIZATION multicultural community in efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony. Glades Community $500,000 Development Corporation Hudson Institute $100,000 Belle Glade, Florida Indianapolis, Indiana To support a community development To support the research and design of a new organization dedicated to reducing the chronic urban strategy for Michigan. poverty in the Glades region of Florida. National Congress for Community $50,000 SUBTOTAL: Comprehensive Revitalization $500,000 Economic Development, Inc. Washington, DC PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Special Initiatives $5,759,942 To support an organization that works to assist PROGRAM TOTAL: Pathways $48,817,268 statewide community development associations. Out of Poverty Neighborhood Funders Group $25,000 McLean, Virginia To allow members of two grantmakers’ affinity groups to examine how their funding strategies intersect and interrelate.

57 Exploratory & Special Projects

MISSION: To support exploratory initiatives and unexpected opportunities that offer opportunities for resolution of significant international and/or national problems or that may or may not lead to a formal program area over time.

he Foundation recognizes that as a to have substantial impact or lead to major private philanthropy, we enjoy continued grantmaking interests in a Tsubstantial freedom and flexibility in particular field. In the latter event, the new the application of our resources as well as a interest eventually may be adopted as a new special responsibility to seek new ways to program area or be incorporated into an meet human needs. This program was existing program. established as a home for innovative and In addition, strategic planning for our experimental grantmaking. future efforts to support the field of We occasionally make grants outside historically black colleges and universities our regular programs if the funds are likely continued under this program in 1999.

1999 Grant Activity by Program Area (In Millions)

Special Projects - $1.466 / 15 Grants Historically and Predominantly Black Colleges and Universities - $.62 / 2 Grants

TOTAL: $2,085,577 17 Grants

58 HISTORICALLY AND PREDOMINANTLY BLACK Doctors Without Borders USA, Inc. $100,000 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES New York, New York To assist victims of the Turkish earthquake. International Foundation for $150,000 Clemson University Research Foundation $500,000 Education and Self-Help Clemson, South Carolina Phoenix, Arizona To increase the number of black male To provide opportunity for African American elementary school teachers in South Carolina. graduate students to work in South Africa. Morehouse College $120,000 Michigan AIDS Fund $200,000 Atlanta, Georgia Grand Rapids, Michigan To support the promotion and advancement of To support an organization that provides a the African American community in the South. coordinated and comprehensive response to the PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Historically and $ 620,000 AIDS epidemic in Michigan. Predominantly National Public Radio $100,000 Black Colleges and Washington, DC Universities To provide Americans with an engaging and reliable nonprofit news source. Principia Corporation $10,000 SPECIAL PROJECTS St. Louis, Missouri To support a conference that brings students and notable speakers together and promotes American Association of People $25,000 dialogue on active citizenship and participation with Disabilities in public affairs. Washington, DC To support a national membership organization Public Radio International $150,000 that advances economic independence, social Minneapolis, Minnesota inclusion and a stronger legislative voice for To support a daily radio program that seeks to Americans with disabilities. highlight meaningful connections between American life and the world. American Battle Monuments Commission $50,000 Arlington, Virginia Puerto Rico Community Foundation $50,000 To support the creation of a national monument San Juan, Puerto Rico to honor Americans who directly or indirectly To support efforts to assist victims of Hurricane contributed to the war effort during World Georges. War II. United States - Mexico Cultural and $35,000 American National Red Cross $100,000 Educational Foundation Washington, DC Washington, DC To provide assistance to Central American To educate the United States and Mexican victims of Hurricane Mitch. publics of the positive role that NAFTA has played in both economies. Aspen Institute, Inc. $150,000 Washington, DC University of North Carolina - Greensboro $173,609 To support a series of meetings on U.S. Greensboro, North Carolina domestic social issues. To support the collection and publication of legislative and county court petitions from CARE USA $100,000 throughout the South relating to race and Atlanta, Georgia slavery. To support a resettlement project for Honduran victims of Hurricane Mitch. PROGRAM AREA TOTAL: Special Projects $1,465,577 Catholic Relief Services $71,968 PROGRAM TOTAL: Exploratory and $2,085,577 Baltimore, Maryland Special Projects To support emergency relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras.

59 In addition to its regular grantmaking, the Foundation also encourages charitable giving by its Trustees and staff. The Foundation’s contribution to these activities is included as part of its total grant budget.

EMPLOYEE AND TRUSTEE MATCHING GRANTS AND TRUSTEE INITIATED

Employee and Trustee Matching Grants $857,499 To match Trustees’ and employees’ contributions to charity on a three-to-one basis. Trustee Initiated Grants $376,000 To provide limited support to charities selected by Trustees. PROGRAM TOTAL: Employee and $1,233,499 Trustee Matching Grants and Trustee Initiated

TOTALS: All Grants $113,901,901

60 F INANCE

61 P ROFILE OF 1999 GRANTMAKING ACTIVITIES

1999 Grant Dollars by Program Number of 1999 Grants by Program (IN M ILLIONS)

Flint Area - 44 Grants Environment - $14.152 / 12.4% Exploratory - 17 Grants Exploratory - $2.085 / 1.8% Civil Society - 232 Grants Employee / Trusteerustee - $1.233 / 1.1%

OTAL: Pathways Out of Poverty - $48.817 / 42.9% T 580 GRANTS*

* not including employee/trustee matching TOTAL: and trustee initiated $113,901,901

Pathways Out of Poverty - 177 Grants Civil Society - $26.355 / 23.1% Environment - 110 Grants

Flint Area - $21.258 / 18.7%

TOTAL A SSET A LLOCATION (12/31/99) ( IN MILLIONS)

International Equities - $81.4 / 2.5%

Real Estate Equities - $33.7 / 1.0%

Fixed Income - $360.7 / 11.2%

U.S. Equities - $2,198.0 / 68.1%

Cash & Equivalents - $204.1 / 6.3% Limited Partnerships - $330.4 / 10.2% Other Assets - $19.4 / 0.7%

62 10 - YEAR S TATISTICAL P ROFILE

1990-99 Selected Financial Information (IN M ILLIONS)

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Total Assets - Market Value $929.5 $1,093.7 $1,162.1 $1,273.3 $1,201.6 $1,496.0 $1,673.4 $1,962.4 $2,346.5 $3,227.7 Total Assets - 1999 Dollars 1,169.1 1,334.8 1,378.2 1,469.8 1,350.9 1,640.3 1,775.8 2,047.6 2,409.4 3,227.7 12-Month Rolling Average Assets 927.9 1,012.6 1,105.0 1,222.2 1,228.3 1,362.9 1,567.7 1,823.3 2,104.5 2,648.4 Total Dividends and Interest 47.7 45.1 44.9 42.7 43.2 46.9 54.2 54.2 56.1 63.7 Total Grants Awarded 39.4 43.9 44.0 49.0 56.9 59.9 64.0 72.0 88.2 113.9 Total Expenditures 40.8 46.2 51.2 56.3 62.5 59.2 82.4 91.2 102.5 137.0

NOTE: Private foundations are required to make qualifying distributions (grant payments and administrative expenses) equal to roughly 5 percent of their average assets each year. The basis of the 5 percent calculation is a rolling, or 12-month, average of the foundation’s investment assets. Total expenditures include grant payments, foundation-administered projects, administrative expenses, investment expenses and excise tax payments.

1990-99 Grants Awarded by Program (IN M ILLIONS)

$120

Employee/ Trustee $100 Matching

Exploratory $80

Pathways $60 Out of Poverty

Flint Area $40

Environment $20

Civil Society $0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

63 R EPORT OF I NDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS

To the Board of Trustees of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation:

In our opinion, the accompanying statements of financial position and the related statements of activity and changes in net assets and cash flows present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (the “Foundation”) at December 31, 1999 and 1998, and the results of its operations and changes in net assets and its cash flows for the years ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. These financial statements are the responsibility of Foundation’s management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these statements in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States, which require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for the opinion expressed above.

Detroit, Michigan

April 13, 2000

64 S TATEMENTS OF F INANCIAL P OSITION

December 31, 1999 and 1998 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

1999000 1998000 ASSETS

Investments, at market value: Equities $2,313,039,346 $1,716,427,616 U.S. Government obligations 322,276,600 327,546,150 Corporate bonds 82,221,683 74,063,986 Cash equivalents 155,763,810 85,786,333

2,873,301,439 2,203,824,085

Limited partnerships 330,422,629 120,110,796

Cash and interest bearing deposits 4,559,698 6,300,937

Land, building and improvements, net 5,440,320 2,818,408

Other assets 13,929,730 13,453,156

$3,227,653,816 $2,346,507,382 LIABILITIES AND UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS

Grants payable, net $ 40,994,274 $ 41,381,060 Deferred excise tax 36,700,000 21,900,000 Accounts payable and other liabilities 6,891,192 5,919,334

84,585,466 69,200,394

UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS 3,143,068,350 2,277,306,988

$3,227,653,816 $2,346,507,382

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

65 S TATEMENTS OF ACTIVITY

For the years ended December 31, 1999 and 1998 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

199900 199800 Income: Dividends $ 23,268,505 $ 23,146,352 Interest 40,465,768 32,986,023 63,734,273 56,132,375 Less: Investment expenses 3,977,566 2,612,733 Provision for excise tax 382,404 535,263 4,359,970 3,147,996 Other income (expenses), net 2,314,227 (532,800) Net investment income 61,688,530 52,451,579 Grants and expenses: Grants, net 114,210,813 87,037,189 Foundation-Administered Projects 1,258,508 1,852,218 Administration expenses 12,805,387 12,881,857 128,274,708 101,771,264

Grants and expenses in excess of income (66,586,178) (49,319,685) Realized gain on sale of assets, net of excise tax of $2,992,596 in 1999 and $1,308,575 in 1998 296,267,029 129,408,061 Change in market value of investments, net of change in deferred excise tax of $9,600,000 in 1999 and $4,270,000 in 1998 469,991,976 207,809,291 Change in market value of limited partnerships, net of excise taxes of $5,200,000 in 1999 and $894,999 in 1998 166,088,535 86,645,892 Change in net assets 865,761,362 374,543,559 Unrestricted net assets: Beginning of year 2,277,306,988 1,902,763,429

End of year $3,143,068,350 $2,277,306,988

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

66 S TATEMENTS OF C ASH F LOWS

For the years ended December 31, 1999 and 1998 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

1999 1998 Cash flows from operating activities: Grants and expenses in excess of income $(66,586,178) $(49,319,685) Adjustments to reconcile grants and expenses in excess of income to net cash used by operating activities: (Earnings) loss on limited partnerships (3,145,983) 197,311 Depreciation expense 471,786 281,426 Increase in other assets (3,282,992) (748,553) (Decrease) increase in grants payable (386,786) 4,610,040 Increase in accounts payable and other liabilities 971,858 693,620 Gain on disposition of property —–— 94,302 Total adjustments (5,372,117) 5,128,146 Net cash used in operating activities (71,958,295) (44,191,539) Cash flows from investing activities: Proceeds from sales or redemptions of investments: Equities 430,429,084 261,376,554 U.S. Government obligations 29,000,000 23,076,406 Corporate bonds 8,512,100 7,347,450 Cash equivalents 927,625,331 521,316,789 Limited partnerships 3,808,899 1,543,973 Purchases of investments: Equities (215,749,709) (139,182,553) U.S. Government obligations (51,677,420) (15,908,398) Cash equivalents (997,602,808) (571,348,189) Corporate bonds (21,162,331) (24,329,373) Limited partnerships (39,686,214) (11,602,997) Acquisition of building improvements (287,280) (655,340) Excise taxes (2,992,596) (2,203,574)

Net cash provided by investing activities 70,217,056 49,430,748

Net (decrease) increase in cash (1,741,239) 5,239,209 Cash, beginning of year 6,300,937 1,061,728 Cash, end of year $ 4,559,698 $ 6,300,937

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The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

67 S TATEMENTS OF C ASH F LOWS (continued)

For the years ended December 31, 1999 and 1998 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

1999 1998 Supplemental schedule of investing activities: Realized gain (loss) on sale of assets: Equities $300,102,172 $130,170,800 U.S. Government obligations (610,468) 623,231 Corporate bonds (232,079) (171,697) Other —–— 94,302 $299,259,625 $130,716,636

Supplemental schedule of noncash investing activities: Increase (decrease) in market value of securities: Equities $511,188,933 $206,286,965 U.S. Government obligations (27,336,501) 4,863,097 Corporate bonds (4,260,456) 929,229 $479,591,976 $212,079,291 Increase in capital account value of limited partnerships $171,288,535 $ 87,540,891

Transfer of donated building placed in service from Other assets to Land, building and improvements, net $ 2,806,418 —–—

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

68 N OTES TO F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation A. Mission & Grant Programs: The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation established in 1926 in Flint, Michigan. The Foundation’s mission is “to support efforts that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society.” The Foundation’s grantmaking activity is organized into four major programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty. Other grantmaking opportunities, which do not match the major programs, are investigated through the Foundation’s Exploratory and Special Projects program. B. Accounting Policies: The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed in the preparation of these financial statements. Estimates The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Method of Accounting The financial statements have been prepared on the accrual basis of accounting, which includes recognition of dividends, interest, investment real estate income and expenses as earned or incurred. Trustee and Executive Committee grant actions are recognized on the date of the action. Grants by the President or Executive Committee by specific authority conferred by the Trustees are recognized on the date the authority is exercised. In addition, the Foundation has a Matching Gift Program, whereby amounts gifted by eligible employees and Trustees are matched by the Foundation at a rate of $3 for each $1 gift. Investments Investments are recorded on the trade date and are stated at market value based primarily on December 31 published quotations. Gains and losses from sales of securities are determined on an average cost basis. Investments in limited partnerships are generally recorded at capital account value. The capital account is adjusted for the Foundation’s proportionate share of undistributed earnings/losses as reported on Schedule K-1 received from the partnership at year end and adjusted based on the fair value of the underlying securities held by the partnership. The Foundation believes the capital account fairly reflects the fair value of the partnerships. Other Assets Included in other assets is land that was purchased by the Foundation and is recorded at cost. The remaining assets included in other assets are recorded at cost. Land, Building and Improvements Land, building and improvements are recorded at cost. Upon sale or retirement of land, building and improvements, the cost and related accumulated depreciation are eliminated from the respective accounts, and the resulting gain or loss is included in current income. Depreciation of building and improvements is provided over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets on a straight line basis. Assets and the related accumulated depreciation of $40,522 and $318,896 were retired during 1999 and 1998, respectively. 1999 1998 Land $ 397,852 $ 397,852 Building and improvements 7,416,192 4,363,015 Less accumulated depreciation (2,373,724) (1,942,459) $5,440,320 $2,818,408 continued 69 N OTES TO F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS ( CONTINUED)

Costs of office furnishings and equipment are consistently charged to expense, because the Foundation does not deem such amounts to be sufficiently material to warrant capitalization and depreciation. Pension Costs The Foundation maintains a defined benefit pension plan covering substantially all of its employees. Pension expense includes amortization of prior service costs over a period of 40 years. The Foundation’s policy is to fund pension costs accrued in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Cash Equivalents Cash equivalents with original maturities of three months or less are reflected at market value and include short-term notes and commercial paper. C. Investments: Investments held at December 31, 1999 and 1998, were as follows (in thousands): 1999 1998 Market Cost Market Cost Value Basis Value Basis Equities $2,313,039 $ 715,172 $1,716,428 $ 629,749 U.S. Government obligations 322,277 333,384 327,546 311,317 Corporate bonds 82,222 85,230 74,064 72,812 Cash equivalents 155,764 155,764 85,786 85,786 $2,873,302 $1,289,550 $2,203,824 $1,099,664

The market value of these securities as of March 31, 2000, was approximately $3,387,500,000. D. Excise Tax & Distribution Requirements: The Foundation is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. In accordance with the provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, the Foundation is subject to an excise tax on net investment income, including realized gains as defined in the Act. The liability for excise tax is composed of the following (in thousands): 1999 1998 Currently (refundable) payable $ (741) $ 410 Deferred 36,700 21,900

$35,959 $22,310 The deferred excise tax represents the tax on unrealized marketable security gains. Excise tax payments of $4,116,025 and $2,325,000 in 1999 and 1998, respectively, were made. The Foundation will be required to make qualifying distributions of approximately $59,726,000 during 2000 to meet distribution regulations of the Internal Revenue Code for private foundations.

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70 N OTES TO F INANCIAL S TATEMENTS ( CONTINUED)

E. Grants Payable: Grants payable at December 31, 1999, are expected to be paid as follows: Payable in Year Ending December 31 Programs 2000 2001 2002 2003 Total

Civil Society $10,174,027 $2,085,168 $ 120,000 —00 $12,379,195 Environment 3,983,312 1,560,175 330,000 $100,000 5,973,487 Flint Area 2,047,772 957,057 —00 —00 3,004,829 Pathways Out of Poverty 13,744,440 4,758,031 1,162,214 259,379 19,924,064 Other* 392,839 275,154 115,000 40,000 822,993

Grants payable 30,342,390 9,635,585 1,727,214 399,379 42,104,568

Less: Unamortized Discount —00 754,861 260,023 95,410 1,110,294

Grants payable, net $30,342,390 $8,880,724 $1,467,191 $303,969 $40,994,274

In addition, the Foundation has also approved grants that require certain conditions to be met by the grantee. Conditional grants excluded from the Foundation’s financial statements totaled $2,543,843 and $4,357,143 as of December 31, 1999 and 1998, respectively.

*Includes Exploratory and Special Projects.

Grant activity, including the Matching Gift Program, for the years ended December 31, 1999 and 1998, was as follows: 1999 1998 Grants payable, January 1 $ 42,526,477 $ 37,895,196 Grants approved 115,715,201 89,356,666

158,241,678 127,251,862 Less grants paid by program Civil Society 25,808,782 19,419,429 Environment 13,953,526 13,481,545 Flint Area 23,766,613 8,485,937 Pathways Out of Poverty 49,812,106 40,598,162 Other† 2,796,083 2,740,312

116,137,110 84,725,385 Grants payable, December 31 $ 42,104,568 $ 42,526,477

†Includes Exploratory and Special Projects, and Matching Gifts Program.

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F. Postretirement Benefits: The Foundation has a defined benefit pension plan covering substantially all of its employees. The benefits are based on years of service and the employee’s compensation during the last five years of employment. At December 31, 1999, pension plan assets were $9.1 million, while the projected benefit obligation was approximately $8.6 million of which $6 million was vested. The assumed rate of return was 8.5 percent in 1999 and 1998. Pension expense was $610,091 and $462,848 in 1999 and 1998, respectively. In addition, the Foundation maintains a defined contribution retirement plan for all eligible employees, which was approved under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Foundation contributes an amount based upon eligible compensation as defined in the plan, and participants are allowed to make voluntary contributions to the plan. For the years ended December 31, 1999 and 1998, the Foundation contributed $234,635 and $193,263 to the plan, respectively. The Mott Foundation sponsors a postretirement medical plan for its salaried employees. The Foundation charges to expense the expected cost of the postretirement benefits during the years that the employee renders service. Under this plan, the Foundation incurred expenses of $168,498 and $158,172 for 1999 and 1998, respectively. The accumulated postretirement benefit obligation was valued as of December 31, 1999 and 1998, at $1,180,608 and $1,258,343, respectively. The Foundation’s net cash outlays under the plan were $64,263 during 1999 and $54,811 during 1998. The assumed discount rate used in calculating the obligation as of December 31, 1999 and 1998, was 7.75 percent and 6.75 percent, respectively. The accrued benefit cost was $874,140 and $769,905 at the end of 1999 and 1998, respectively. Measurements of the postretirement benefit obligation reflect an assumption that future health care costs will increase at an initial annual rate of 8.5 percent, declining over a period of six years.

A DMINISTRATION AND I NVESTMENT E XPENSES

For the year ended December 31, 1999 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Administration Investment Total Office

Salaries $ 5,360,470 $2,667,419 Other personnel costs 1,900,929 320,908 Operations 1,828,555 316,738 Professional fees 1,892,661 637,728 Travel and business expense 1,195,645 34,773 Publications 627,127 —000

$12,805,387 $3,977,566

72 O THER I NFORMATION

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OUR INTERESTS broad a segment of the population as the program The Mott Foundation makes grants in the of a comparable non-religious organization, we will United States and, on a limited geographic basis, consider the proposal on the same basis as internationally. About 25 percent of our grants proposals from other agencies. have an international purpose, although many of • Outside the Flint area, grants are not made the grantees are located in the United States. for local projects unless the projects are part of a In all our grantmaking, we are particularly national demonstration or Foundation-planned interested in: network of grants and have clear and significant • fresh approaches to solving community implications for replication in other communities. problems in our defined program areas; • approaches that, if proven successful, can SUBMITTING PROPOSALS generate long-term support from other sources Although proposals may be submitted at any and/or that can be replicated in other communities time, we strongly encourage applicants to submit when appropriate; their proposals during the first quarter of the year • public policy development as well as research for which funding is requested. Applicants should and development activities to further existing be aware that grant expenditures for any given year programs and to explore new fields of interest; and are committed by September 1 of that year. Both • approaches and activities that lead to multi- and single-year proposals are acceptable, as systemic change. are those for shorter periods. Beyond our specific program goals and Applicants should understand that funds are objectives, we also may consider activities of a non- spent according to the Foundation’s areas of grant nature that help to achieve program interest and the level of maturity of a given objectives. Thus, funds may be made available for program area. Therefore, available grant funds vary direct technical, fundraising or consulting among programs and program areas within the assistance, or for assisting with the dissemination Foundation. of findings. In addition, we make program-related We observe strict conflict of interest rules for investments when they further our program goals both staff and Trustees. Therefore, all applications and objectives. must follow the Foundation’s standard processing procedures. LIMITATIONS Proposals are reviewed by program staff for While we endeavor to maintain a high degree initial recommendation of denial or approval. The of flexibility in our programming, we observe the Proposal Review Committee, composed of senior following limitations: management, makes the final recommendation. • No grants or loans are made to individuals. The proposal may then be approved by the • Outside the Flint area, support for capital President under delegated authority or referred to development and endowment is made only when it the Board of Trustees, which meets quarterly, for is considered necessary to carry out or advance further action. other Foundation objectives. The entire review process takes up to four • Support for research is provided only when it months from the time the proposal is received. is instrumental for planning, implementing or Therefore, proposals should be submitted at evaluating grantmaking activities in a particular least four months prior to the start of the program area or for strengthening relevant public proposed grant period. policy. • No support is extended for religious GRANT OVERSIGHT activities or programs that serve, or appear to Program staff monitors all grants and grant serve, specific religious groups or denominations. reports and makes site visits as appropriate. Upon However, if a proposal submitted by a church- completion of projects, program staff completes a based or similar organization falls clearly within final assessment as part of the Foundation’s close- program guidelines and is intended to serve as out procedure.

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APPLICATION PROCEDURES ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR The Foundation has no formal application FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS form. Letters of inquiry, including a brief Foreign applicants are urged to submit either a description of the project and the range of needed letter of inquiry or a brief proposal and not prepare funding, are acceptable for initial contact. a lengthy, detailed proposal exclusively for the Videotapes are discouraged. They should be Mott Foundation unless advised to do so by attempted as a method of application only if the Foundation staff. All letters and proposals must be Foundation requests them. Tapes will not be in English, and must be submitted by a bona fide returned. charitable, educational or governmental Formal proposals should contain the following: organization. Two copies of the letter and/or 1. A cover letter detailing the amount of proposal are required for projects in Central/Eastern money requested and the grant period and signed Europe and Russia, and South Africa. by the person ultimately responsible for signing U.S. government regulations require the grant contracts on behalf of the grant applicant. Foundation to collect from all applicants except 2. The project description, including an governmental units or organizations an affidavit explanation of why the project is needed, who will and public support schedule to determine be served and what will be accomplished during a equivalence as a tax-exempt institution under U.S. specific period of time. law before a grant can be made. The Foundation’s 3. Information on the feasibility and program staff will provide the forms as well as sustainability of the proposed grant activity. assistance in completing them. All submitted 4. Information on lasting benefits to the materials, such as articles and bylaws, must be organization, program participants, the community in English. or other organizations working in the field. Proposals or letters of inquiry relating to 5. An appropriate plan for evaluation, Central/Eastern Europe and Russia should be sent reporting and dissemination. either to our Flint office at the address above or to 6. A documented line-item budget and our regional office in Prague, Czech Republic: projected sources of funds for the proposed grant Charles Stewart Mott Foundation ˘ period. Zitná 8 7. Information about the organization seeking 120 00 Prague 2 funds, including its staff, board of directors, legal CZECH REPUBLIC classification, and history and accomplishments. Because we believe in the importance of Proposals or letters of inquiry relating to South accountability for the nonprofit community, an Africa should be sent to our regional office in applicant will be required to submit copies of its Johannesburg: annual report and its audited financial statements Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (if available) before any grant is made. If these are P.O. Box 32088 not available, a domestic organization will be asked Braamfontein 2017 to submit a copy of its latest IRS Form 990 return. SOUTH AFRICA Proposals or letters of inquiry should be clearly For more information about our programs, marked GRANT PROPOSAL and addressed: we offer specific guidelines and grant summary Office of Proposal Entry booklets for each. These are available without C.S. Mott Foundation charge by writing us, sending an E-mail message 1200 Mott Foundation Building to [email protected] or calling the Flint, MI 48502-1851 Foundation’s Publication Request Line. In the U.S.A. United States and Canada, the number is (800) 645-1766; elsewhere it is (414) 273-6943. Information is also available on our Web site at www.mott.org.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES† AUDIT COMMITTEE William S. White John W. Porter Chairman Chairman William H. Piper ‡Alonzo A. Crim Vice Chairman Rushworth M. Kidder ‡ Alonzo A. Crim Maryanne Mott Katherine W. Fanning Douglas X. Patiño Rushworth M. Kidder Tiffany W. Lovett EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Webb F. Martin William S. White John Morning Chairman Maryanne Mott Katherine W. Fanning Douglas X. Patiño Webb F. Martin John W. Porter William H. Piper Marise M.M. Stewart John W. Porter Claire M. White *Willa B. Player INVESTMENT COMMITTEE ‡*George Whyel William S. White Chairman Webb F. Martin †The Members of the corporation are: Tiffany W. Lovett, Maryanne Mott Maryanne Mott, William H. Piper, John W. Porter, Marise William H. Piper M.M. Stewart, Claire M. White and William S. White. ‡ John Sagan ‡Dr. Crim passed away in 2000. Mr. Whyel and Mr. Sagan passed Claire M. White away in 1999. *Trustee Emeritus Board list as of August 1, 2000

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP GRANTS ADMINISTRATION William S. White Phillip H. Peters Jimmy L. Krause President and Vice President - Administrative Group and Director of Grants Administration Chief Executive Officer Secretary/Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer Kathy J. Becker Jean Simi ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES Executive Assistant and Lesle Berent Manager of Grants Administration Corporate Assistant Secretary Senior Accountant Fran Bell George A. Trone Marcie Adams Proposal Review Committee Assistant to President Administrative Assistant Rebecca Burns Cindy S. Compeau Stephanie A. Duncan Renee Jackson Accountants Grants Accountants *Patricia C. Ballantyne Chris Keskes Accounting Assistant Grants Secretary Debbie Bullen Jean Bamberg Building Manager Administrative Assistant Billy M. Powell Roseanne Thomas Building Operations Supervisor Clerk Gilbert Medrano Larry Stein Building Operations Assistants

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HUMAN RESOURCES FIELD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT Robert B. Inskeep Richard K. Rappleye Lois R. DeBacker Director of Human Resources Vice President - Field Services Program Director Julie Flynn Ron Kroese Human Resources Analyst INVESTMENTS Edmund J. Miller Teri Chambry Robert E. Swaney Jr. *Mark Rentschler Ona Kay Goza Vice President and Sandra Smithey Pam Larkin Chief Investment Officer Program Officers Barbara Mince Michael J. Smith Rebecca S. Fedewa Judy Wright Assistant Vice President Gale A. Ray Administrative Secretaries *Daniel T. Goodnow *Cynthia Swinehart Wynette Adamson Stephen A. McGratty Program Assistants Paul H. McVey Crystal Bright FLINT Sandy Downer Stephen W. Vessells Karen B. Aldridge Eason Investment Managers Teresa Littlejohn Program Director Annette Markwood Laura R. Bechard *Debra Taylor Investment Administrator/ Program Officer Jeannette G. McArthur MIS Coordinator Diane McComb Jonathan E. Hohn Neal R. Hegarty Mary Beth Smith Assistant Investment Administrator Sue Peters Sandra Smith Marge Hubble Ann Richards Susan K. Tippen Senior Administrative Secretary Kimberly Roberson Mary Utsey Monica Smartt Associate Program Officers Secretaries Karen Yorke PATHWAYS OUT OF POVERTY Alice Ottaway Administrative Secretaries Kevin Walker Word Processing Supervisor Program Director Delia Cappel PROGRAMS Jack A. Litzenberg Word Processor Maureen H. Smyth Senior Program Officer Shirley Wallace Vice President - Programs An-Me Chung Receptionist CIVIL SOCIETY Christine A.W. Doby Ray Murphy INFORMATION SERVICES +Pat K. Edwards Program Director Marianne R. Kugler Gavin Clabaugh +Suzanne L. Feurt Vice President - Information Services Christine Sturgis John Brown Elan Garonzik Ronald M. White IS Manager Lori Villarosa Program Officers Linda Davidson Program Officers Zoe Gillett IS Coordinator E. Gabriel Works Lorin Harris *Jason Klanseck Associate Program Officer Benita D. Melton IS Network and Systems Engineer Alejandro Amezcua *Marisha Wignaraja Program Assistant Michael Wright Associate Program Officers Telecommunications and Systems CIVIL SOCIETY – Engineer PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC CONTRACT EMPLOYEES/ Shannon Lawder Joumana Klanseck CONSULTANTS Database Administrator Director, Central/Eastern Europe *Jon R. Blyth Martha Howlett Eve C. Brown Maggie Jaruzel Librarian Program Director Glen Birdsall Nicholas Deychakiwsky Fred Kump Associate Librarian J. Walter Veirs Jeanette Mansour Program Officers Richard Montmorency COMMUNICATIONS Tamás Scsaruszki Michelle Pemberton Marilyn Stein LeFeber Lenka SetkovᡠJennifer L. Phillips Vice President - Communications Associate Program Officers Dorothy Reynolds +Carol D. Rugg Gabriela Hejmová Senior Communications Officer Office Administrator Judy Y. Samelson Donald F. Dahlstrom CIVIL SOCIETY – Svitlana Suprun *Sandra D. Davis JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Clark Tibbits *William W. Hanson Christa L. Kuljian Willard Walker Valerie A. Osowski Director, South Africa Office Sue Wood Communications Officers Moira Mbelu # Associate Program Officer Peggy A. Braham *No longer with the Foundation Technical Writer/Assistant to Webmaster Lydia Molapo +On loan to other organizations Administrative Secretary #Shared with Information Services Staff list as of August 1, 2000

77 P UBLICATIONS AVAILABLE

MOTT FOUNDATION Community Philanthropy in Central/Eastern Europe. A 1999 “primer” designed to help citizens Charles Stewart Mott Foundation 1999 Annual of Central/Eastern Europe understand the benefits of Report. community philanthropy. Facts on Grants 1999. A companion to the Annual Community Foundations: Building a New South Report, containing summaries of each of the 580 Africa Through Community Philanthropy and grants made last year. Separate booklets also are Community Development. A “primer,” updated in printed for the Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area 2000, designed to help citizens of South Africa and Pathways Out of Poverty programs. understand the benefits of increasing philanthropy in the community. Philosophy, Programs & Procedures. A general guide to the Foundation’s philosophy and Reaching for Peace: Lessons Learned from Mott grantmaking. Separate booklets also are printed for Foundation’s Conflict Resolution Grantmaking. A the Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and 1999 evaluation, by CDR Associates and the Berghof Pathways Out of Poverty programs. Center for Constructive Conflict Management, of the lessons learned from projects supported from 1989 InFocus. A periodic magazine of the Foundation, through 1998. focusing on specific program topics of interest. A Sector of the People … by the People … for @mott.now. A periodic newsletter of the the People. A reprint of Foundation Chairman Foundation, focusing on general interest items. William S. White’s Annual Message from the 1996 Annual Report, stressing the importance of the GENERAL nonprofit sector in the United States and abroad.

Cultivating Good Grantmaking:Taking the Long ENVIRONMENT View. A reprint of Chairman William S. White’s Annual Message from the 1997 Annual Report, Great Lakes, Great Stakes:The Environmental stressing the importance of long-term grantmaking. Movement in Reflection. A 1996 report of the Great Lakes Environmental Community Project, In Memoriam. A booklet about the life of Charles looking at the state of the environmental movement Stewart Mott. in the region.

PROGRAM MATERIALS People of Color Environmental Groups: 2000 Directory. The third edition of the Environmental CIVIL SOCIETY Justice Resource Center’s directory of grassroots environmental, civil rights and legal groups working Community Education: A Center for the on environmental and economic justice issues in the Community. A 1999 “primer” designed to help United States, Canada and Mexico. citizens in Central/Eastern Europe understand the benefits of community education.

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FLINT AREA Welfare to Wages: Strategies to Assist the Private Sector to Employ Welfare Recipients. A 1998 The Future of Our Libraries: An In-Depth Look at exploration of how private-sector employers are the Flint and Genesee District Libraries. A 2000 reacting to, responding to and participating in report, prepared by Library Development Solutions, welfare-to-wages efforts. that recommends three phases of action to create effective, collaborative library service throughout Welfare to Wages: Strategies to Assist the Private the county. Sector to Employ Welfare Recipients.Volume 2: Companion Case Studies, Data Groups & Data PATHWAYS OUT OF POVERTY Analysis. Jobs and the Urban Poor: Privately Initiated Sectoral Strategies. A 1996 report that assesses ANNUAL REPORT REPRINTS the potential of emerging economic interventions — The Foundation also reprints the special sections of or sectoral strategies — as a tool for alleviating selected Annual Reports. Currently available are: urban poverty. America’s Tattered Tapestry: Can We Reclaim Our Learning Together:The Developing Field of School- Civility Through Connectedness? (1995) Community Initiatives. An in-depth look at key characteristics of school-community initiatives, Joining Forces: Communities and Schools Working focusing on 20 such programs nationally in 1998. A Together for a Change. (1993) separate executive summary is also available. Copies of these publications are available without Making Afterschool Count! A periodic newsletter charge by writing us, sending an E-mail message to looking at school/community partnerships and related [email protected] or calling the Foundation’s topics that are part of the 21st Century Community Publication Request Line. In the United States and Learning Centers initiative. Canada, the number is (800) 645-1766; elsewhere it is (414) 273-9643. Piece by Piece: Government, Banking and Community Collaboration Is the Key to Community Reinvestment. The text of a speech WEB SITE delivered in 1995 by Mott Foundation Chairman All current and many recent publications are available William S. White at a meeting of the Federal Reserve on our Web site at www.mott.org. Bank in Dallas and reflecting the Foundation’s current thinking about partnerships. The State Fiscal Analysis Initiative. A 1999 report about a network of 22 state-based research and public education organizations that seek to broaden public participation in decisionmaking about public policies and to provide reliable budget and tax analysis. The Vital Link/Intermediary Support Organizations: Connecting Communities with Resources for Improvement. A 1999 review of the Mott Foundation’s nearly 20-year involvement in funding intermediary support organizations as vehicles to provide community-based groups with resources and support to bring about community change. Widening the Window of Opportunity: Strategies for the Evolution of Microenterprise Loan Funds. A report intended to provide practical tools and a framework for self-assessment for micro-enterprise loan fund practitioners.

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A Both Ends Foundation...... 31 A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund ...... 53 Boy Scouts of America - Tall Pine Council ...... 42 Abt Associates, Inc...... 52 Academy for Educational Development, Inc.. . . 50, 55 C ACCION International ...... 56 Cahaba River Society...... 34 Advertising Council, Inc...... 50 California Tomorrow ...... 50 Agir ICI ...... 31 Canadian Environmental Law Association...... 32 Alabama Rivers Alliance ...... 33 CARE USA...... 15, 59 Alabama Water Watch Association...... 34 Carpathian Foundation ...... 15 Alan Guttmacher Institute ...... 56 Carter Center ...... 25 Albanian Civil Society Foundation ...... 15 Catholic Relief Services ...... 59 Amazon Watch, Inc...... 32 CEE Bankwatch Network ...... 15 American Association of People with Disabilities . . 59 Center for a New American Dream ...... 35 American Battle Monuments Commission ...... 59 Center for Assessment and Policy Development . . . 49 American Council for Voluntary International Center for Civil Initiatives ...... 15 Action (InterAction) ...... 32 Center for Community Change...... 53, 54 American Enterprise Institute for Public Center for Community Organizing...... 18 Policy Research ...... 50 Center for Community Service Fund...... 24 American Foreign Policy Council...... 20 Center for Development of Nonprofit Organizations 15 American Friends of the Czech Republic ...... 20 Center for Fathers, Families and Work Force American Lands Alliance ...... 32 Development ...... 53 American National Red Cross ...... 59 Center for Health, Environment and Justice ...... 35 American Rivers, Inc...... 34 Center for International Environmental Law ...... 31 American Youth Policy Forum...... 50 Center for Law and Social Policy ...... 52, 56 Applied Research Center ...... 23, 54 Center for Public Policy Priorities ...... 52 Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Center for Russian Environmental Policy ...... 15 Development Organizations ...... 24 Center for Strategic and Political Studies ...... 19 Arkansas Enterprise Group ...... 52, 53 Center for Third World Organizing ...... 52, 54 Arkansas Institute for Social Justice ...... 49, 55 Center of Concern ...... 33 Arkansas Public Policy Panel, Inc...... 55 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...... 52 Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy . . . . 56 Southern California...... 23 Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Aspen Institute, Inc...... 32, 53, 56, 59 Human Rights Osijek...... 18 Assistance Center for Nongovernmental Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation 21, 22 Organizations ...... 15 Centro Internazionale Crocevia...... 32 Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, A.C. . . . . 32 Romania-Helsinki Committee...... 15 Charities Aid Foundation...... 15, 19, 24 Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux ...... 18 Child Care Action Campaign ...... 49 Association of Community Trusts and Foundations . 24 Child Trends, Inc...... 56 Association of Nonprofit Human Services Children Now ...... 23, 52 of Hungary...... 15 Children’s Defense Fund ...... 49, 50 Association of Support for Civil Initiatives (ARK). . 15 Citizens Action - Community Development Center. 18 City of Dzerzhinsky...... 20 B CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Balkan Forum Civil Association ...... 15 Participation, Inc...... 24 Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development . . 55 Civil Society ...... 10 Bank Information Center ...... 32 Civil Society: Central/Eastern Europe and Russia . . 15 BBC Marshall Plan of the Mind Trust ...... 15 Civil Society: Central/Eastern Europe and Russia - Beecher Community School District...... 41 Citizen Rights and Responsibilities ...... 18 Belarusian Non-Governmental Organization Civil Society: Central/Eastern Europe and Russia - “United Way” ...... 15 Nonprofit Sector...... 15 Berne Declaration (Erklarung von Bern) ...... 31 Civil Society: Central/Eastern Europe and Russia - Bertelsmann Stiftung...... 24 Race and Ethnic Relations...... 19 Black Sash Trust ...... 21 Civil Society: Central/Eastern Europe and Russia - Border Ecology Project ...... 32 Special Initiatives ...... 20

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Civil Society Development Foundation (NROS) . . . 15 Davison Community School District ...... 41 Civil Society Development Foundation - Poland . . . 15 DC Agenda Support Corporation ...... 50 Civil Society: Global ...... 24 Democratic Initiatives Foundation ...... 18 Civil Society: Global - Nonprofit Sector ...... 24 Detroit Educational Television Foundation ...... 49 Civil Society: Global - Race and Ethnic Relations . . 25 Development Group for Alternative Policies, Inc. . . 32 Civil Society: Global - Special Initiatives ...... 25 Development Resources Trust ...... 20 Civil Society: South Africa ...... 20 Developmental Studies Center ...... 50 Civil Society: South Africa - Citizen Rights and Doctors Without Borders USA, Inc...... 59 Responsibilities ...... 21 Donors Forum...... 15 Civil Society: South Africa - Nonprofit Sector. . . . . 20 Dr. Zhelyu Zhelev Foundation ...... 18 Civil Society: South Africa - Race and Ethnic Relations...... 22 E Civil Society: United States ...... 22 Civil Society: United States - Nonprofit Sector . . . . 22 Early Childhood Initiative, Inc...... 49 Civil Society: United States - Race and Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund ...... 31 Ethnic Relations...... 23 East Harlem Employment Service, Inc...... 53 Clark Atlanta University ...... 35 Eastern Philadelphia Organizing Project...... 49 Clemson University Research Foundation ...... 59 Ecological Foundation ...... 31 Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Ecologists Linked for Organizing Grassroots Economies, Inc...... 35 Initiatives and Action ...... 15 Colorado Center on Law and Policy ...... 52 Economic Policy Institute ...... 52 Commission on Gender Equality ...... 21 Educated Choices Heighten Opportunities, Inc. . . . 20 Committee for Economic Development ...... 49 Educational Resources and Technological Training . 18 Committee of Voters of Ukraine...... 18 Employee and Trustee Matching Grants ...... 60 Community Agency for Social Enquiry...... 21 Employee and Trustee Matching Grants and Community Coalition ...... 41, 42 Trustee Initiated ...... 60 Community Development Resource Association . . . 20 Enterprise Foundation ...... 53 Community Foundation of Greater Flint...... 41, 42 Environment...... 26 Community Foundations of Canada ...... 24 Environment: Conservation of Freshwater Community Network for Youth Development . . . . 50 Ecosystems in North America ...... 33 Community Ownership Solutions, Inc...... 53 Environment: Conservation of Freshwater Community Partnership Foundation...... 18 Ecosystems in North America - Policy Work . . . 34 Community Training and Assistance Center, Inc. . . 54 Environment: Conservation of Freshwater Compass Club, Public Children and Ecosystems in North America - Site-Specific Youth Organisation ...... 15 Conservation Efforts ...... 33 Congress of National Black Churches, Inc...... 22 Environment: Conservation of Freshwater Congressional Institute for the Future ...... 33 Ecosystems in North America - Strengthening Connexion, Inc...... 41 the Environmental Community ...... 33 Conservation International Foundation ...... 31 Environment: Reform of International Finance Conservation Strategy Fund ...... 33 and Trade...... 31 Conservation Trust for North Carolina ...... 34 Environment: Reform of International Finance Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, Inc.. . . 35 and Trade - Developing New Approaches...... 33 Consumer’s Choice Council ...... 32 Environment: Reform of International Finance and Copper River Watershed Project ...... 35 Trade - Policy Reform and Implementation . . . . 31 Cornerstone Consulting Group, Inc...... 56 Environment: Reform of International Finance Corporation for Business, Work, and Learning . . . . 50 and Trade - Strengthening International Corporation for Enterprise Development...... 52, 56 Constituencies for Reform...... 31 Council of Chief State School Officers...... 50 Environment: Special Initiatives...... 35 Council of Michigan Foundations...... 22 Environmental Defense Fund, Inc...... 31 Council on Foundations, Inc...... 22 Environmental Health Coalition ...... 32 Creating Effective Grassroots Alternatives...... 18 Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide...... 32 Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform. . . . 50 Environmental Law Service ...... 15 Environmental Support Center, Inc...... 34, 35 Equal Opportunity Development Foundation . . . . . 20 D Eroforras Foundation (United Way Hungary) . . . . . 16 Dartmouth College ...... 22 Esquel Group Foundation, Inc...... 24

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ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc...... 22 G Eurasia Foundation ...... 16, 18 Gender Advocacy Programme ...... 21 European Foundation Centre ...... 16, 24 Genesee Area Focus Council, Inc...... 41 European Movement of Serbia ...... 18 Georgetown University ...... 22 European Natural Heritage Fund ...... 32 Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy European Roma Rights Center...... 18 Prevention, Inc...... 56 Executive Service Corps of Chicago ...... 22 German Marshall Fund of the United States 16, 18, 25 Exploratory and Special Projects...... 58 Glades Community Development Corporation . . . . 57 Exploratory and Special Projects: Historically and Good Will Charitable Foundation ...... 16 Predominantly Black Colleges and Universities . 59 Graduate School & University Center of the City Exploratory and Special Projects: Special Projects . . 59 University of New York ...... 25 Grameen Foundation USA...... 56 F Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families . . . . 49 Fair Winds Girl Scout Council...... 42 Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania ...... 49 Families and Work Institute ...... 53 Great Lakes United ...... 34 Family and Corrections Foundation ...... 57 Greater Flint Arts Council...... 41 Federation of Ontario Naturalists...... 34 Greenpeace Russia...... 16 Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund ...... 55 H Finance Project ...... 52 Harvard University ...... 20, 23, 25, 51 Fiscal Policy Institute ...... 52 Harwood Institute for Public Innovation ...... 41 Flint Area ...... 36 Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights ...... 16 Flint Area: Affecting Public Policy...... 42 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation ...... 20 Flint Area: Building Upon Legacy ...... 42 Hestia...... 16 Flint Area: Creating National/Regional Models. . . . 41 High/Scope Educational Research Foundation. . . . . 49 Flint Area: Developing Public Capital ...... 41 Hlomelikusasa - Skills for the Future ...... 21 Flint City Human Relations Commission ...... 41 Hudson Institute...... 57 Flint Community Schools ...... 41, 42 Human Rights Watch ...... 18 Flint Cultural Center Corporation, Inc...... 41, 42 Hungarian Association for Community Flint/Genesee Organizing Project...... 41 Development ...... 18 Florida Atlantic University ...... 50 Focus: HOPE ...... 53, 57 FOCUS Non-Profit Partnership for the Support I of Civil Initiatives...... 18 Independence Care System...... 53 Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ...... 41 Independent Projects Trust ...... 21 Formative Evaluation Research Associates...... 22 Independent Sector ...... 22 Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers . . . 22 Indian Law Resource Center...... 31 Foundation-Administered Projects . 16, 19, 22, 24, 42, 50, 51, 53 Innovation and Development Centre ...... 16 Foundation for a Civil Society, Ltd...... 16 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy ...... 31 Foundation for Excellent Schools ...... 50 Institute for Democracy in South Africa ...... 20, 21 Foundation for Science, Art and Culture of the Institute for EastWest Studies, Inc...... 16, 20 National University ...... 32 Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc...... 51 Foundation for the Development of Institute for Policy Studies...... 31 Polish Agriculture ...... 20 Institute for Political and Economic Research . . . . . 20 Freedom House, Inc...... 18, 20 Institute for Responsive Education ...... 51 Fremont Public Association ...... 53 Institute for Sustainable Development ...... 16 Friends of Hungarian Higher Education Institute for Women’s Policy Research ...... 53 Foundation...... 20 Institute of World Affairs ...... 19 Friends of Island Academy...... 51 Inter Ethnic Initiative for Human Rights Friends of the Earth...... 31, 32 Foundation...... 19 Friends of the Earth - Amazon Program ...... 32 Inter-Regional Association - The Carpathian Friends of the Earth - Japan ...... 32 Euroregion ...... 20 Friends of the Earth International...... 32 Inter-Regional Public Organization of Trainers Fund for the Environment ...... 34 and Consultants ...... 16 Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano...... 32 Interfaith Action for Racial Justice, Inc...... 23 Interfaith Education Fund, Inc...... 55

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Interhemispheric Resource Center ...... 32 Media Development Loan Fund ...... 18 International Alert ...... 19 Memorial Human Rights Center ...... 20 International Association for Volunteer Effort . . . . . 25 Merrimack Valley Project, Inc...... 55 International Center for Not-for-Profit Law ...... 16 Metro Housing Partnership, Inc...... 41 International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Metropolitan Area Research Corporation ...... 23 Development ...... 33 Michigan AIDS Fund ...... 59 International Community Education Association. . . 51 Michigan Association for the Education of International Crisis Group ...... 19, 25 Young Children ...... 49 International Foundation for Education Michigan Community Coordinated Child Care and Self-Help ...... 59 Association...... 49 International Human Rights Law Group ...... 19 Michigan Environmental Council...... 35 International Institute for Energy Conservation, Inc. 31 Michigan Nonprofit Association ...... 22 International Institute for Sustainable Development 31 Michigan Organizing Project...... 55 International Institute of Flint ...... 42 Michigan State University ...... 41 International Labor Organization ...... 56 Millennium Institute...... 33 International Rescue Committee, Inc...... 16 Minnesota Medical Foundation ...... 56 International Union for Conservation of Nature & Minority Rights Group International ...... 19 Natural Resources-US...... 31 Mississippi Action for Community Education . . . . . 54 International Union for Conservation of Nature and Morehouse College ...... 59 Natural Resources...... 31 Mott Children’s Health Center...... 41 International Youth Foundation ...... 51, 56 Mott Community College ...... 42 IPF Siberian Civic Initiatives Support Center . . . . . 16 MultiCultural Collaborative...... 23 Isandla Institute ...... 20 ISAR - Moscow...... 16 N Nadace VIA ...... 16 J Nadacia Pre Obciansku Spolocnost...... 17 Jane Addams Resource Corporation ...... 53 National Academy Foundation...... 51 Jewish Family & Children’s Services ...... 41 National Alliance for Nonprofit Management . . . . . 22 Johannesburg Community Chest ...... 21 National Assembly of Health and Human Service Johns Hopkins University ...... 22, 25 Organizations ...... 51 Joint Enrichment Project...... 21 National Association of Service and Just Economics ...... 55 Conservation Corps...... 51 National Black United Fund, Inc...... 23 K National Center for Community Education...... 51 National Center for Nonprofit Boards ...... 23 Kalamazoo College ...... 35 National Center for Strategic Nonprofit Planning . . 53 Khulumani Support Group ...... 21 National Coalition of Community Foundations KidsPeace Corporation ...... 42 for Youth ...... 51, 54 King Baudouin Foundation United States, Inc.. . . . 19 National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. . 23 National Community Based Paralegal Association. . 22 L National Community Education Association...... 51 Lake Michigan Federation ...... 34 National Conference of State Legislatures . . . . . 53, 56 Lakota Fund ...... 56 National Congress for Community Economic Land Information Access Association ...... 35 Development, Inc...... 57 Las Palomas de Taos ...... 49 National Council of La Raza ...... 54 Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation ...... 34 National Council of Nonprofit Associations ...... 23 Legal Resources Trust ...... 21 National Economic Development and Law Center . 42, 54, 56 Liberty Hill Foundation...... 55 National Employment Law Project, Inc...... 55 Liga Pro Europa ...... 19 National Governors’ Association Center for Best London School of Economics and Political Science. . 16 Practices...... 51 Los Angeles Women’s Foundation ...... 56 National League of Cities Institute, Inc...... 23 National Organizers Alliance ...... 54 M National Parenting Association ...... 56 National Parks and Conservation Association . . . . . 34 Massachusetts Association of Community National Press Institute...... 19 Development Corporations ...... 55

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National Public Radio...... 59 Pathways Out of Poverty: National Puerto Rican Coalition, Inc...... 24 Building Organized Communities - National Religious Partnership for the Environment 35 Community Leadership Development ...... 55 National Training and Information Center ...... 54 Pathways Out of Poverty: Building Organized National Wildlife Federation ...... 31 Communities - Issue Organizing ...... 55 National Youth Employment Coalition, Inc...... 51 Pathways Out of Poverty: Special Initiatives ...... 56 Native American Community Board ...... 56 Pathways Out of Poverty: Special Initiatives - Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc...... 34 Comprehensive Revitalization ...... 57 Nature Conservancy...... 33, 34, 42 Pathways Out of Poverty: Special Initiatives - Nature Conservancy of Canada ...... 33 Exploratory and Special Projects ...... 57 Neighborhood Funders Group ...... 57 Pathways Out of Poverty: Special Initiatives - Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund ...... 21 Transitions ...... 56 Netherlands Organization for International Pathways Out of Poverty: Expanding Economic Development Cooperation...... 17 Opportunity...... 52 New America Foundation ...... 33 Pathways Out of Poverty: Expanding Economic New Forms of Civil Society Technologies ...... 18 Opportunity - Income Security ...... 52 New Orleans Interfaith Sponsoring Committee. . . . 55 Pathways Out of Poverty: Expanding Economic New Perspectives Foundation ...... 18 Opportunity - Workforce Development ...... 53 New York Immigration Coalition ...... 53 Pathways Out of Poverty: Improving Community New York University ...... 49 Education...... 49 NGO Trainers’ Association - STOP ...... 17 Pathways Out of Poverty: Improving Community Non-Governmental Organizations Information and Education - Learning Beyond the Classroom. . . . 50 Support Centre ...... 17 Pathways Out of Poverty: Improving Community Non-Profit Partnership ...... 21 Education - School Readiness ...... 49 Nonprofit Enterprise Self-Sustaining Team, Inc. . . . 17 Pathways Out of Poverty: Improving Community Nonprofit Risk Management Center...... 23 Education - Success in School ...... 49 Northeast Workforce Center, Inc...... 54 Peace and Justice Center ...... 55 Northeast-Midwest Institute ...... 34 People in Need Public Benefit Organization...... 20 Northern Plains Resource Council ...... 54 Perm City Public Charitable Organization Memorial Northwest Federation of Community Organizations 55 Museum...... 20 Philanthropic Initiative, Inc...... 23 O Philanthropy Roundtable...... 23 Planning and Zoning Center, Inc...... 35 Open Society Club - Bourgas ...... 17 Portland State University...... 35 Open Society Club - Rousse...... 17 Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation ...... 17 Open Society Club - Sliven ...... 17 Principia Corporation ...... 59 Open Society Club - Varna...... 17 Pro Democracy Association ...... 18 Open Society Foundation - Romania ...... 19 Project on Ethnic Relations ...... 19 Open Society Fund - Prague ...... 17 Public Radio International...... 59 Open Society Institute...... 17 Public/Private Ventures ...... 51, 54 Pueblo of Sandia ...... 49 P Puerto Rico Community Foundation ...... 59 Pacific Environment and Resources Center ...... 17 Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy ...... 17 Pacific Institute for Community Organization. . 50, 55 Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute ...... 54 R Parents for Public Schools ...... 50 Rainbow Research, Inc...... 24 Partners for Democratic Change...... 19 Rainforest Foundation UK...... 33 Partners for Democratic Change - Slovakia ...... 19 Reconstruct Trust ...... 21 Partnership for After School Education...... 51 Regardless of Bad Weather Foundation - Data Base Pathways Out of Poverty ...... 49 KLON ...... 17 Pathways Out of Poverty: RESULTS Educational Fund, Inc...... 56 Building Organized Communities ...... 54 River Alliance of Wisconsin...... 34 Pathways Out of Poverty: River Network ...... 34 Building Organized Communities - ROCA, Inc...... 50 Building Infrastructure ...... 54 Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc...... 23, 35

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Romanian Association for Community Development . 18 University of Maryland Foundation, Inc...... 33 Russian Center for Citizenship Education ...... 19 University of Massachusetts - Boston ...... 24 University of Michigan ...... 34, 35, 42, 53 S University of Michigan - Flint ...... 41, 42 University of Minnesota Foundation...... 24, 52 Sacred Heart Southern Missions Housing Corporation . 49 University of Missouri - Kansas City ...... 49 San Francisco Foundation Community University of North Carolina - Greensboro ...... 59 Initiative Funds ...... 51 University of Pennsylvania...... 52, 57 School District of Philadelphia...... 51 University of Texas at Austin...... 56 Search for Common Ground...... 19 University of the North...... 21 Sedibeng Centre for Organizational Effectiveness . . 21 University of the Western Cape ...... 22 Shelter of Flint, Inc...... 42 University of the Witwatersrand ...... 21 Sierra Club Foundation ...... 33, 34 University of Wisconsin-Parkside...... 53 Sierra Club of Canada Foundation ...... 33 Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Fund ...... 34 Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition ...... 33 Urban Institute...... 23 Sluzhenye Association of Non-Governmental Not-for-Profit Organizations ...... 17 SOC Education Fund, Inc...... 55 V Social Policy Research Associates ...... 50 Visiting Nurse Association, Inc...... 54 South African Broadcasting Corporation ...... 22 Voices for Illinois Children ...... 49 Southern African NGO Network ...... 21 VOKA - Rural Organization of Community Southern Echo, Inc...... 54 Activities ...... 17 Southern Environmental Law Center ...... 34 Southern Russia Resource Center ...... 17 W Stairstep Foundation ...... 56 State Communities Aid Association ...... 49 Washington Interfaith Network...... 52 Stichting Forest Peoples Programme ...... 33 Washoe County School District ...... 49 WAVE, Inc...... 52 Welfare Law Center, Inc...... 53 T Western Organization of Resource Councils Tereza - Association for Environmental Education. . 17 Education Project ...... 55 Third Millennium Foundation ...... 35 Western States Center ...... 24 Thoreau Institute ...... 35 Wisconsin Wetlands Association ...... 34 Tides Center ...... 23, 33, 35, 52 Wisdom Works Corporation ...... 24 Tlhavhama Training Initiative ...... 21 Women Make Movies, Inc...... 24 Topsfield Foundation...... 24 Women’s Educational and Industrial Union ...... 53 Trasparencia, Sociedad Civil...... 33 Women’s Funding Network...... 23 Traverse City Area Chamber Foundation...... 35 Women’s Hope, Education And Training Trustee - Initiated Grants ...... 60 (WHEAT) Trust ...... 21 Women’s Housing and Economic Development U Corporation ...... 54 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars . 20 Union Institute...... 25 World Conference on Religion and Peace ...... 19 Union of Bulgarian Foundations and Associations . . 17 World Resources Institute ...... 23, 31, 35 United States - Mexico Cultural and Educational World Wildlife Fund, Inc...... 31 Foundation...... 59 United Vision for Idaho...... 53 United Way International ...... 25 Y United Way of Genesee and Lapeer Counties . . . . . 41 Youth Communication Center - Banja Luka ...... 19 University of Arizona ...... 33 Youth United for Change...... 50 University of Cape Town ...... 22 YouthBuild USA, Inc...... 52 University of Houston ...... 24

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