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Learning Note from Jen
November 13, 2018
The Bush Foundation is nonpartisan. We do our work, however, in a partisan world. We recognize this in our focus on community problem solving. We recognize that solving problems in our communities requires working across political difference. And like working across any kind of difference, this requires truly understanding what we believe and why. Published 2018
Learning Grantee Learning Log
November 9, 2018
What has been most instrumental to your progress? The year kicked off with some great momentum within the community. We set up a structure to…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
November 9, 2018
What has been most instrumental to your progress? Hiring of a Coordinating Team. The first year of the Finland Food Chain project, we used minimal…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
November 9, 2018
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? A key factor informing the early work of this project involved increasing capacity for farmers and foragers…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
October 30, 2018
What has been most instrumental to your progress? The buy-in and support from our school partners in Rochester and Faribault has been incredible and key…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
October 30, 2018
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? The buy-in and support from our school partners in Rochester and Faribault was incredible and key to…
Learning Note from Jen
October 25, 2018
This year at bushCONNECT, I shared some thoughts on how change happens. I’ve done a lot of research the past couple of years on successful examples of social change. There are examples all around us all the time. We often don’t even notice them, much less learn from them. Published 2018
Learning Grantee Learning Log
October 5, 2018
What has been most instrumental to your progress? Insights gained from extensive discussions with over 30 local stakeholders were instrumental to (a) identifying DSY as…
Learning Note from Jen
September 18, 2018
One of the challenges of making institutions and systems work better for everyone, is that the people who rise to leadership tend to be people who thrive in those environments. When an institution worked well for you, it is harder to see the ways it may not work for others. It is harder to see what needs to change to make it work well for everyone. Published 2018
Learning Grantee Learning Log
September 4, 2018
What has been most instrumental to your progress? Throughout the past year, two specific components of our work became essential. First and foremost, we had…