Philanthropy
In 1926, Mott established the C.S. Mott Foundation. Charles Stewart Mott, High School, Warren, Michigan. Named in his honor.
Waterford Mott High School, Waterford, Michigan. Named in his honor.
The Charles S. Mott Prize for the cause of cancer is one of a trio of prestigious research prizes annually awarded by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.
A building on the University of Chicago's campus is named after him, as well as a building at Kettering University.
In 1965, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation donated $6.5 million dollars as a grant to improve the existing pediatric division within the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, opened in 1969, is part of the University of Michigan Health System and is consistently ranked amongst the nations leading pediatric hospitals. In 2005, the Foundation gave an additional $25 million dollars toward the construction of a new facility. The new hospital, opening in December 2011, will provide over 1.1 million square feet of space, 348 beds, 50 private maternity rooms and 46 private NICU rooms.
Mott Lake, a man-made lake on the Flint River that serves as the centerpiece of the Genesee Recreation Area just northeast of Flint, is named after him.
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility,—requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)