Minnesota's Bottom Line Learning Paper
Published: March 2009
Our state and local governments are facing unprecedented challenges. The gap between revenues and spending has never been greater. The Governor and the leaders of the legislature from all parties have called on Minnesotans to offer our best ideas. Five foundations came together believing that a search should be launched for ideas that could offer hope that out of this fiscal challenge could come better ways to meet the needs of our state; ways that would better prepare us to succeed in an uncertain future.
We contracted with the Public Strategies Group to lead this search. PSG is a Minnesota company with a long history of finding and developing creative solutions to public problems. We gave PSG a tough challenge: Find practical ways to improve public services and that cost less. Then we made the challenge unreasonable: do it in six weeks. PSG has come back from that search with a collection of ideas.