Other work opportunities
We work with many service providers, contractors, creatives and other types of vendors to help us in our work and contribute to making the region better for everyone.
We want to have impact through our spending, just as we do through our grantmaking. We recognize that who we choose to provide us with services also can affect individuals and communities. Data tells us that some segments of business owners encounter additional barriers that challenge their start-up and sustainability, such as access to capital and networking opportunities.
We want to be thoughtful about how our own spending can help address these barriers and make the region better for everyone.k
We make vendor opportunities available through our open process and share them here.
Current opportunities
We regularly do open calls for proposals (RFP) or qualifications (RFQ) to find partners who will help us do our work.
Request for proposals: Custom tile work or mosaics for new offices
We are seeking a Bush Fellow artist to develop custom tile work or mosaics for our new offices in The 428 Building in downtown St. Paul, MN. This opportunity is open to current or past Bush Fellows.
We expect to work closely with the artist on concepts and revisions to get to the final design. This includes a small core group of Bush staff leading artwork decisions for the new space.
Download the RFP (PDF) for more information and how to submit a proposal. Submissions will be accepted through Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
Please send questions or your proposal to Kari Ruth at kruth@bushfoundation.org.
Request for information: Custom artwork for new offices
We are seeking Bush Fellow artists to develop custom artwork for our new offices in The 428 Building in downtown St. Paul, MN. This opportunity is open to current or past Bush Fellows.
We expect to work with the artist on concepts and revisions to get to the final designed artwork.
Download the RFI (PDF) for more information and how to submit your information. Submissions will be accepted through Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
Please send questions or your information to Kari Ruth at kruth@bushfoundation.org.
Request for information: Custom logos for new offices
We are seeking youth artists to develop custom logo graphics for our new offices in The 428 Building in downtown St. Paul, MN. This opportunity is open to past or current Bush grantees who work with youth in our grantmaking region.
The project involves developing creative interpretations of our logos, past and present. To do this work, we would like to partner with one or two nonprofit organizations that work with young artists. The organization(s) would promote this opportunity to young artists, gather high-resolution digital images of the artists’ designs and submit them to us. We will accept as many images as the young artists want to submit. We then will purchase the right to use the selected designs in creative ways throughout our space and in future Bush visual communications.
Download the RFI (PDF) for more information and how to submit your information. Submissions will be accepted through Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
Please send questions or your information to Kari Ruth at kruth@bushfoundation.org.
Request for proposals: Develop a disability and inclusion plan and practice
The Bush Foundation seeks a partner to help us continue to integrate accessibility, particularly for disability and inclusion, as a fundamental practice across our foundation’s operations, physical spaces and interactions.
We are seeking proposals to support a two-year initiative to develop and implement a disability and inclusion plan and practice that informs our core decision-making processes, operational workflows and grantmaking program designs.
This project builds on previous work and is an organizational priority for 2025 and 2026. The first year will emphasize discovery and learning and reviewing current practices. The second year will focus on training and implementation to establish disability and inclusion practices across the organization.
Download the RFP (PDF) for more information and how to submit a proposal. Submissions are due by noon Central on Thursday April 24, 2025.
Email your proposal to Farhiya Abdulkarim, at fabdulkarim@bushfoundation.org please include “RFP for disability and inclusion partner” in the email subject line and a completed vendor demographic form.
If you have any questions, please contact Farhiya at the email address above.
Request for qualifications: Publication project partner
The Bush Foundation is seeking a partner to help produce and publish an annual mailer which serves as a type of annual report, bringing awareness about our grantmaking and opportunities in the region.
We are seeking a partner with experience in creative and graphic design and strong project management skills. Work will include designing, editing, proofing, printing and mailing the annual mailer. It may also include consultation on photography and other art direction. We expect to keep the current specs but there is room to update the design and layout, as well as distribution. If you do not have in-house print and mail distribution, you may work with an external vendor. This contract will be for the 2025 mailer with the potential for work on future mailers.
Download the RFQ (PDF) for more information and how to submit your qualifications. Submissions are due by noon CST on Thursday, April 10, 2025.
Email your submission to Amy Anderson at aanderson@bushfoundation.org. Please include “Mailer RFQ” in the subject line and a completed vendor demographic form.
Questions about this RFQ can be sent to Tammy Nolen at tnolen@bushfoundation.org.
Request for proposals: Strengthening organizational culture
Bush is deeply committed to “doing more good every year,” which is one of our operating values. This value drives our work and our ongoing efforts to place equity at the core of our work. Since 2013, our organization has been deeply focused on intentional equity work, integrating equity into our policies, practices and culture with the goal of becoming a more inclusive, equitable, and anti-racist workplace.
Building upon our previous work, we want to engage a consultant who will co-create a plan for the next phase in our equity and organizational culture work. We’re seeking an experienced partner to collaborate with us on building our understanding and practices, to center psychological safety in our work culture building upon the equity foundation already present in our work.
Download the RFP (PDF) for more information and how to submit your proposal. Submissions are due by noon Central on Thursday, April 10.
Email your proposal to Joni Chacich, Talent & HR manager, at jchacich@bushfoundation.org. Please include “Org culture RFP” in the email subject. If you have questions, please contact Joni.
Request for qualifications: Bush Fellowship retreat facilitator
The Bush Fellowship program is a self-designed leadership program that gives individuals the flexibility they need to develop their own capacity to lead effectively. Each year, we host a retreat for new Fellows and for Fellows that are at the halfway point in their journey.
We’re creating a pool of speakers and presenters to help with future Bush Fellowship workshop retreat needs. We would expect these consultants to work with our staff to curate presentation content and supporting materials that would complement the goal of the retreat and the Fellows. Our goal is to create a pool of consultants who may be able to present on a variety of topics.
This opportunity is open to Bush Fellowship alumni only.
Download the RFP (PDF) for more information and how to submit your qualifications. We are collecting submissions through April 2026 and considering them on a rolling basis.
If you have questions, please contact Adora Land, grantmaking director, at aland@bushfoundation.org.
Request for qualifications: Communications vendors
We maintain a list of qualified, potential communications vendors to provide communications expertise and support for a variety of discrete projects and needs with specific timelines. We refer to this list when work arises and use it to identify partners that are well-suited to a project so that we can have more specific conversations about capacity, timing and contract terms.
Download the RFQ (PDF) for more information and instructions if you wish to be added to our list.
We will add potential vendors to the list as they are submitted.
Request for information: Search and recruitment partner
We maintain a list of potential search and recruitment partners.
Our goal is to expand our network and offer potential partners the chance to understand our priorities and goals ahead of a specific request for a proposal. Because the need for a specific search usually occurs unexpectedly and with some urgency, we hope that doing some pre-work will help us build a broader network of search partners with diverse expertise and interests.
We plan to go to this list when a vacancy occurs and identify partners who are well suited to the specific search so that we can have more specific conversations about capacity, timing and contract terms.
Download the RFI (PDF) for instructions and if you wish to be added to our list.
Responses can be sent to talent@bushfoundation.org or to Attn: Talent Development, Bush Foundation, 101 Fifth Street East, Suite 2400, Saint Paul, MN 55101.
We will add partners to this list as they come in.
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To help us understand our impact, we encourage anyone interested in a specific opportunity with us to complete our vendor demographic form. We use that information as one of many considerations in our vendor decisions.