Oyate Hotanin CI Report - Interim
Learning Grantee Learning Log
March 9, 2020
What has been most instrumental to your progress? from last year, is the cornerstone of our progress this year. Motivated by the sea change caused…
Learnings
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Oyate Hotanin CI Report - Interim
Learning Grantee Learning Log
March 9, 2020
What has been most instrumental to your progress? Our leadership role at the JDAI collaborative table continues to be pivotal in our efforts to expand…
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Oyate Hotanin CI Report - Final
Learning Grantee Learning Log
March 9, 2020
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? Collective Leadership: Over past year, we have ridden a huge wave of change in our work with…
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Note from Jen: Investing in community problem-solving
Learning Note from Jen
March 3, 2020
The Community Innovation grant program evolved from one of our three “Goals for a Decade,” announced back in 2008. Now the decade has passed. We now are considering the continued evolution of our organizational strategy. For Community Innovation grants, one thing we are thinking about is whether we can make the program both higher impact and easier to understand if we focus less on the particulars of the problem solving process and more on the potential of the idea being developed and tested. Published 2020
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Kallie O'Hara: Are you a Bush Prize winner?
Learning
March 3, 2020
The Bush Prize is about inspiration. We tell the stories of Bush Prize winners to inspire problem solvers across the region — and we do it to inspire others to apply for the Bush Prize. If you work with an organization with a track record of solving tough problems in your community, we want to hear from you.
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Naaima Khan: Understanding Bush Prize winners’ cultures of innovation
Learning
February 13, 2020
The Bush Prize recognizes organizations that have a culture of innovation and a track record of creating innovative solutions to challenges in their communities. The first key to a culture of innovation is to think bigger about what’s possible. Bush Prize winners often pursue solutions that haven’t been tried before, because they think about root causes and the levers that are critical to shifting how things operate.
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Note from Jen: Investing in you
Learning Note from Jen
February 11, 2020
Our tagline is also our strategy: Investing in great ideas and the people who power them. This focus on people has been part of our work from the very beginning. It is not a typical foundation approach. In fact, programs like our Bush Fellowship require special approval from the IRS. (With good reason; the IRS wants to be very careful about how foundation dollars flow to individuals.) While we’ve been known for our Bush Fellowship program for decades, in the past several years we have dramatically expanded the number of additional opportunities we offer to individuals. Published 2020
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South Dakota State University CI Report - Interim
Learning Grantee Learning Log
February 10, 2020
What has been most instrumental to your progress? Relationships and connections in the community were vital to recruitment for both the first phase of focus…
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South Dakota State University CI Report - Final
Learning Grantee Learning Log
February 10, 2020
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? Community networking and involvement: these aspects were instrumental but also included significant challenges, which we share more…
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Elli Haerter: How relationships further our impact
Learning
January 24, 2020
Relationships move at the speed of trust. Some of us have heard this phrase before; for those of us who live this phrase in our daily work, it’s a powerful truth. Since 2014, the Bush Foundation has partnered with Headwaters Foundation for Justice, South Dakota Community Foundation and The Consensus Council as intermediaries for our Community Innovation grant program, helping us reach further and have far more impact than we could alone.
