NEW YORK, NY, June 2018 –  Bridge Partners is excited to share the appointment of two executives to the Education team at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (www.mott.org) is a private philanthropy committed to supporting projects that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society. Its grantmaking is focused on four programs: Civil Society, Education, Environment and Flint Area. With year-end assets of approximately $2.7bn in 2016, the Foundation made 405 grants totaling more than $120m.

Angela Garner joins as Program Officer – Education (Advancing Afterschool)

Arielle Milton joins as Associate Program Officer – Education (Advancing Afterschool)

Angelina Garner comes to the Mott Foundation from The David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality, where she was the Senior Manager of National Advancement Initiatives with responsibility for designing and supporting the implementation of quality improvement systems and research contracts for statewide education agencies and national youth-serving organizations.

She has been a member of the National Afterschool Association (NAA) since 2007 and Michigan Afterschool Association (MAA) since 2009 and has served as a Quality Committee member of the Michigan Afterschool Partnership. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas, where she majored in Theatre and minored in African American Women’s Studies.

Arielle Milton joins the Mott Foundation from the Council of Michigan Foundations and the GHR Foundation. Earlier, she was with The Kresge Foundation, where she was a member of the Human Services and American Cities Practice programs, and spent over four years at The Skillman Foundation in Detroit, providing technical assistance to the program department’s four strategy areas of safety, youth development, community leadership and education.

She is an active member of several professional affiliations, including the Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (Michigan Steering Committee Co-Chair), Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (Detroit Chapter Board Chair), The Council of Michigan Foundations, Michigan Forum for African Americans in Philanthropy, National Council for Responsive Philanthropy, The National Council for Negro Women and the University of Michigan Alumni Association. She is a graduate of The University of Michigan with a Bachelor’s degree in sociology and a minor in political science, and earned a Master’s degree in public administration from Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School.

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