Resources

Arts Links

Flint Cultural Center: The Flint Cultural Center campus provides area residents with an array of cultural, scientific, and artistic experiences and promotes understanding of the diverse cultures reflected in the Greater Flint community. The Center is a major educational resource, and a welcoming and inclusive community center.
Flint Institute of Arts: The Flint Institute of Arts celebrates diverse artistic expressions of the human experience and creative spirit through exhibitions and educational programs designed to enhance the quality of life for local residents and visitors. The Flint Institute of Arts was founded in 1928 by a group of citizens who felt that the community needed a community art center where students could pursue studio courses and the public could enjoy art exhibitions.
Flint Institute of Music: The Flint Institute of Music brings you the Flint Symphony Orchestra and Flint School of Performing Arts—together comprising one of Flint’s most important cultural assets.
Flint Public Library: The mission of the Flint Public Library is to support the development of an informed citizenry by collecting, transmitting and ensuring open access to the world's ideas and information, and by providing programs and services that enhance accessibility to these ideas and information.
Greater Flint Arts Council: The Greater Flint Arts Council (GFAC) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is "to be a catalyst of, and advocate for, increased artstic and cultural enrichment in our ethnically diverse community." The Council strives to promote and celebrate the arts-building new partnerships and to lay foundations of cultural growth for all the arts in our community. Our primary service area is Genesee County. We also serve communities adjacent to Genesee County that are part of the greater Flint region.

Beautification Links

Michigan State University Extension Genesee County: The Community & Economic Development Program in Flint fosters understanding and assists in the development of healthy neighborhoods and communities through outreach, research, technical assistance and training for residents and community leaders.

Flint Michigan Links

City of Flint: This site is just one of the many signs that new and exciting things are happening in the Flint community. The variety of special events and activities highlight the diverse aspects that make Flint special. From the founding of General Motors in 1908 to the beginnings of the UAW, the Flint legacy is not the result of a few individuals, but of hundreds of residents committed to creating an environment that enhances the quality of life of all families, friends, neighbors and visitors, making Flint a great place to do business and raise a family.
Downtown Flint Consolidated Plan: There are many developmental projects going on right now with the City of Flint. Use this site to view a map that depicts these project locations.
Resource Center: The Resource Center is an organization dedicated to promoting volunteerism and nonprofit excellence in Genesee County. The Center provides management consulting and technical assistance services to nonprofit agencies, volunteer referrals to community programs, volunteer leadership training, and information (in the form of publications and a telephone help-line) regarding the availability of various human services in Genesee County.
University Park Estates: University Park Estates is a new 83.6 acre subdivision in the City of Flint, located just north of the city's major downtown commercial district. This new subdivision, which consists of 155 spacious lots, has become a major focus for the City. This is the first platted subdivision in the City of Flint in over 30 years and symbolizes the positive community resurgence that Flint is currently going through.
Whats Up Downtown Flint: The Uptown Reinvestment Corporation creates and facilitates downtown development, promotions, preservation activities and serves as a clearing house of downtown information.

Foundation Resource Links

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation: The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation affirms its founder's vision that each of us "is in a partnership with the rest of the human race" - that each individual's quality of life is connected to the well-being of the community, both locally and globally. We pursue this vision through creative grantmaking, thoughtful communication and other activities that enhance community in its many forms. The same vision of shared learning shapes our internal culture as we strive to maintain an ethic of caring, integrity and service. The Foundation seeks to strengthen, in people and their organizations, what Mr. Mott called "the capacity for accomplishment."
Council of Michigan Foundations: Our mission to enhance, to improve, and to increase philanthropy in Michigan is accomplished through our primary focus of assisting Michigan grantmakers in their work.

Government Resource Links

State of Michigan: The official State of Michigan web site addresses Michigan public policy issues, describes local government organization and the three branches of state government, explains the state budget process, contains useful appendices, including economic forecasts, census information and other data.
U. S. Census Bureau: The Census Bureau conducts many important censuses and surveys. The most well-known is the official population census of the United States, called the Decennial Census. It is conducted every ten years, most recently in April 2000. During each Decennial census, the Census Bureau collects data from every household in the U.S. and its territories.

Health Promotion Links

Active Living by Design: Acitive Living by Design's mission is to provide leadership in promoting environments that offer choices for Active Living, a lifestyle that easily integrates physical activity into daily routines. Their vision is Active Americans in healthy communities.
Flint's Youth Violence Prevention Center: The mission of the Flint's Youth Violence Prevention Center is to develop, implement, and monitor comprehensive strategies that help prevent youth violence and promote healthy development through collaboration among community, university and health department partners in ways that focus on interdisciplinary, ecologically and culturally relevant, and community-based approaches.
Getting Michigan Moving: The Michigan Governor's Council on physical fitness, health and sports/Michigan Fitness Foundation is working to get Michigan moving by promoting the health benefits of physical activity and creating behavior changing programs that equip Michigan citizens to lead physically active lifestyles.
Salem Housing Community Development Corporation: The Mission of Salem Housing is to improve family living conditions by providing safe, decent, and affordable housing for families of limited income and to act as a catalyst to restore the neighborhoods within the target area. Salem Housing will provide the support and encouragement necessary to increase, through self sufficiency and independence, the stability of families as they move toward the goal of homeownership
Smart Growth Network: The Network was formed in response to increasing community concerns about the need for new ways to grow that boost the economy, protect the environment, and enhance community vitality.