Post by Logan on Jun 28, 2016 0:43:15 GMT -6
A Flint-based foundation's plan to spend $100 million to help the city recover from its ongoing drinking water crisis is already off to a fast start, with plans to spend $50 million in related grants by the end of the year.
The latest program was announced Monday by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to expand a community school model now in place at five elementary schools to all 11 public schools in the Flint Community Schools starting this fall. It's designed to allow schools to connect students and families with health-related and other resources and services they may need in the wake of the citywide lead contamination of the water supply that started in 2014.
The Mott foundation said Monday it will award a $2.9-million grant to the Crim Fitness Foundation to support the school model expansion. Crim serves as the lead agency coordinating community school efforts.
A group of local and national foundations including Mott announced last month a plan to spend nearly $125 million to help Flint as state and federal officials continue to debate additional funding for the city's years-long drinking water crisis.
Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/06/27/flint-foundation-pledge-water-crisis/86431446/
The latest program was announced Monday by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to expand a community school model now in place at five elementary schools to all 11 public schools in the Flint Community Schools starting this fall. It's designed to allow schools to connect students and families with health-related and other resources and services they may need in the wake of the citywide lead contamination of the water supply that started in 2014.
The Mott foundation said Monday it will award a $2.9-million grant to the Crim Fitness Foundation to support the school model expansion. Crim serves as the lead agency coordinating community school efforts.
A group of local and national foundations including Mott announced last month a plan to spend nearly $125 million to help Flint as state and federal officials continue to debate additional funding for the city's years-long drinking water crisis.
Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/06/27/flint-foundation-pledge-water-crisis/86431446/