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General Motors Foundation, Inc. was a 501(c)(3) organization [2] and the philanthropic vehicle of General Motors from its establishment in 1976 until its termination in 2017. [ 1 ] Charities funded by the foundation included Safe Kids Worldwide , [ 3 ] College for Creative Studies , [ 4 ] and the Belle Isle Conservancy .
Mott was a leading industrialist in Flint through his association with General Motors. The foundation administers funds through four programs: Civil society, Environment, Flint Area, and Pathways out of Poverty, and it also funds special exploratory projects. It supports nonprofit programs throughout the United States and, on a limited basis ...
The Charles S. Mott Prize was awarded annually by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation as one of a trio of scientific prizes entirely devoted to cancer research, the other two being the Charles F. Kettering Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize. The prizes, worth US$250,000, were awarded annually between 1979 and 2005.
On April 24, 2007, Moran died at his home in Hillsboro Beach, Florida, at the age of 88 [38] on the very day it was announced that Toyota had surpassed General Motors as the best-selling automaker in the world. [39] His wife Jan has continued his philanthropic endeavors through the Jim Moran Foundation. [40]
Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 – April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist.
General Motors had grounded its fleet at the end of last year after an incident in which one of its robotaxis ran over a pedestrian, then dragged the woman for 20 feet. Regulators had accused the ...
The Charles F. Kettering Prize was a US$250,000 award given by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for the most outstanding recent contribution to the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. [1] [2]
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