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Learning Note from Jen
June 17, 2021
We have engaged community partners in our grantmaking for many years – from asking community leaders to select Bush Fellows to funding local institutions to operate state-level versions of our Community Innovation grant programs. We want to build on this experience and do more. We are excited to announce two specific changes in this direction. Published 2021
Learning Grantee Learning Log
May 12, 2021
What has been most instrumental to your progress? In 2021, one of the ways in which the Moorhead Community Resilience Task Force sought to make…
Learning
May 11, 2021
We believe that making these changes will help us operate the way that we want and make a bigger impact in our region.
Learning
May 11, 2021
We need leaders working creatively to solve problems while addressing equity and justice. The inequities exposed by COVID-19, the reckoning around racial justice sparked by the murder of George Floyd and threats to Native sovereignty all underscore this fact.
Learning Note from Jen
March 2, 2021
We went into 2020 with a plan for strategy change. We emerged far more changed than we imagined.
Learning
January 26, 2021
Leadership matters. Leaders shape our communities, institutions, nation and the world. They define culture, take action and make decisions that have long-standing and wide-ranging impact on people and communities.
Learning
December 15, 2020
Philanthropy should be asking itself big questions this year. Between COVID-19 and further grappling with white supremacy and racism, there is an incredible amount of struggle, pain, lives lost and deep reckoning happening all across our region. Private foundations must especially ask how they can use their power, privilege and networks to be better and do better.
Learning Fellow Learning Log
December 1, 2020
I have been thinking so much about leadership and pace and how that has popped up so much for me throughout my fellowship. The pace…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
November 29, 2020
What has been most instrumental to your progress? While working with varied task force members we gained insight into the trends within our respective fields…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
November 29, 2020
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? Deliberate actions have been taken to build collaborative connections and relationships with survivor leaders and other professionals…
