The Everglade Trust’s attempts to publicly shame the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation during a prominent environmental grant-making conference don’t appear to have elicited any immediate response from the foundation, but that doesn’t mean the effort was a failure, one philanthropy expert says.
The $2.8 billion Mott Foundation lists the environment, including “addressing the freshwater challenge,” as one of its grant-making priorities. But the foundation’s chairman, William S. White, also serves as board chairman for U.S. Sugar, a Florida company that Everglades advocates say has contributed to the degradation of the area.
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