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2002 Bush Fellow Karen Diver sets environmental stardards with a lasting impact.

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2015 bushCONNECT may only have lasted a day, but the conversations and connections continue throughout the year. Connect with our resources.

Bush Foundation staff visited North Dakota to host a reception for Fellows and grantees. While there, staff sat down with leaders and project participants who are reshaping the state in a positive way.

Community Innovation intermediary organizations award more than $380,000 to 40 organizations in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

We note with sadness the recent death of 1979 Bush Fellow Sharon Rice Vaughan in a car accident while in Cuba.

Visual, virtual reality start-up, connects with Juxtaposition Arts, and visited the Foundation to share their vision for the future of virtual reality.

Anita Patel, vice president of Racial Justice and Public Policy Programs at the YWCA of Minneapolis, will join the Bush Foundation as Leadership programs director. Patel will oversee both the Bush Fellowship and Leadership Network grant programs.

Cohort participants will each receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000 and work with Foundation to articulate the challenges and opportunities associated with their efforts to meaningfully engage people in the arts and integrate the arts into public life. The insights will help inform the Foundation’s future work in the arts.

Archie Bush understood that great ideas need people to power them. The newest Bush Fellows are 23 leaders with records of achievement and extraordinary potential to make significant contributions in their communities.