About the Foundation
Introduction

Few communities in the United States have more fully embraced the promise of the American Dream than that of Italian Americans. Their beginnings were humble: many first-generation Italian Americans left Italy with little more than the clothes on their back and a few possessions. Yet once they arrived, they worked long and hard, and made great sacrifices to improve their own lives and those of their children.

Today, only a few generations removed from the first struggling arrivals, the Italian American community has grown and prospered far beyond what its forebears could have dreamed possible.

Now the John R. Mott Scholarship Foundation (The Foundation) is working to give back to the region in Italy where its namesake was born, and from which he and his parents emigrated. The Foundation provides much-needed scholarships to deserving young people in the region of Calabria, the ancestral home of so many Italian Americans.



Introduction

An introduction to the John R. Mott Scholarship Foundation

Purpose and Mission

The Purpose and Mission of the John R. Mott Scholarship Foundation

A Wave of Hope, A Century of Achievement

Why focus the benefits of this Foundation on Calabria?

Board of Directors

A list of the men and women who have dedicated themselves to keeping the Mott vision alive

Homepage

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