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Fiscal Sponsor
Initiated by former Mott Community College President, Richard Shaink, a work -group of community
organizations was formed to bring awareness to the basic skills crisis in
the Flint area. Dr. Richard Shaink, President of Mott Community College, had become in creasingly concerned that many high school graduates were beginning postsecondary education
not fully literate. As part of the
Achieving the Dream initiative, a
national program designed to help community college students pursue
their dreams, Dr. Shaink, a nd his team
disaggregated local data and convened community leaders to discuss
literacy work in Genesee County, including the libraries, the school system, a local literacy coalition and the foundation. A Literacy summit was convened, which raised the prof ile of literacy efforts in Flint, and began conversations in earnest with the United Way of Genesee County, the C.S. Mott Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Greater Flint.
The Flint & Genesee Literacy Network is proud of our ongoing partnership wi th our Fiscal Sponsor, Mott Community College.
Fiscal sponsorship refers to the practice of non-profit organizations (Such as MCC) offering their
legal and tax-exempt status to groups—typically projects (Such as FGLN)—engaged in activities
related to the sponsoring organization's mission. However, it also means that staff are MCC
employees, and fall under the compliance and employment practices of MCC. Additionally, it allows
FGLN to use all the services and functions of MCC (IT, Human Resources, Accounting, Training,
etc.).