Interfaith Worker Justice Receives Support from Mott Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Gives $70,000 to Interfaith Committee

The Interfaith Worker Justice has received a one-year, $70,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in support of the Interfaith Religion-Worker Network Project. The project is dedicated to the education, organization, and mobilization of the religious community on issues and campaigns to improve wages, benefits and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage earners.

The grant will also support a total of 60 local interfaith religion-worker coalitions throughout the U.S. and reflect growing interest in unity between the religious community and workers.

“We are extremely grateful to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation for having enough confidence in us and appreciation for the work we do to bless us with their support,” said Kim Bobo, founder and executive director of the Interfaith Committee. “We thank the Mott Foundation for its commitment to helping low wage workers throughout the country.”

The Chicago-based Interfaith Committee, which began in 1996, is dedicated to supporting the large number of workers who are denied health benefits, receive poverty-level wages, and toil in dangerous conditions, particularly in a prospering economy. The Interfaith Committee supports workers in U.S. sweatshops, poultry plants, nursing homes, restaurants, hotels, and other low-wage industries.

The Mott Foundation, established in 1926 by an automotive pioneer, is a private philanthropy committed to supporting projects that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society. It supports nonprofit programs throughout the United States and, on a limited geographic basis, internationally. Grant making is focused in four programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty. The Foundation, with year-end assets of $3.23 billion, made 580 grants totaling $113.9 million in 1999.