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Community Innovation Grants: Foundation Awards Nearly $5 Million
The Bush Foundation, through its Community Innovation Grant program, will award nearly $5 million to 34 organizations pursuing breakthrough solutions to community problems – from poverty to human trafficking to economic development.
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August 12, 2014
34 Organizations Receive Community Innovation Grants
The Bush Foundation, through its Community Innovation Grant program, will award nearly $5 million to 34 organizations pursuing breakthrough solutions to community problems – from poverty to human trafficking to economic development.
“Community Innovation Grant recipients are tackling community problems in a way we believe most likely to result in real breakthrough solutions. They are engaging the community, collaborating with other organizations, and making the most of existing assets; in short, all of the things it takes to create a true community innovation,” said Molly Matheson Gruen, Bush Foundation community innovation manager.
Established in 2013, the Community Innovation Grant program is designed to inspire and support communities to use problem-solving processes that lead to more effective, equitable, and sustainable solutions. Projects receiving Community Innovation Grants can be at any stage in the problem-solving process, which includes: identifying the need, increasing collective understanding of the issue, generating ideas, and testing and implementing solutions.
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