Andrew Mott
Executive Director
Center for Community Change

Andrew Mott was born in Washington, D.C. in 1941. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1962 and obtained his JD in 1965 at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a member of the Michigan Bar. In 1967, Mr. Mott began working with the Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty, the predecessor of the Center for Community Change (CCC).

After several years, Mr. Mott became the Center's Director of Field Operations, a position he held for twenty years. In that capacity, he was responsible for directing the Center's field staff as it provided technical assistance to several hundred grassroots low-income and minority community organizations and community development corporations throughout the U.S. In addition, Mr. Mott provided on-site advice and assistance to grassroots groups with regard to organizational development, housing, community reinvestment, and community development. As the Center's Deputy Executive Director for several years, Mr. Mott had primary responsibility for planning and program development for CCC. He was responsible for launching new initiatives on jobs, economic development, leadership development, and action research and overseeing a number of CCC special projects, studies, training initiatives, and pilot programs. Over the years, Mr. Mott has launched and directed several special initiatives, created and led national coalitions, conducted studies and helped lead joint efforts to develop new public policies regarding poverty and community development. Mr. Mott became Executive Director of the Center in 1998.

Over the last two decades, Mr. Mott has directed, edited, and contributed to numerous CCC studies related to housing and community development; studies involving grassroots groups in monitoring policy issues as background for concerted action to bring about policy change; and reports on various community development and capacity-building issues. Mr. Mott coauthored Housing and Public Policy, a book published by the American Enterprise Institute.

Among his board and committee responsibilities, Mr. Mott has served as Chairman of the Coalition on Human Needs, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Working Group for Community Development Reform, and the Coalition for Low Income Community Development. He has also served on several other boards and committees, including the Presbyterian Economic Development Corporation, Community Catalyst, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and the National Neighborhood Coalition.

Prior to his work with CCC, Mr. Mott served two years in the Peace Corps in Shiraz, Iran as a university instructor in the Departments of National Development and Political Science at Pahlavi University. This followed his service as a management intern in the Community Action Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity, where he assisted with the early planning for the "war on poverty's" health and legal services programs. During his law studies, he was a fellow of the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland. In this capacity, he helped prepare working papers for the Bangkok conference on civil liberties and constitutional government in Asia.

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