Our staff and partners highlight acts of courageous leadership, and opportunities for you and your community to engage in creating a vital shared future.
The Worthington Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a community conversation in partnership with the Bush Foundation and Twin Cities Public Television’s Redesigning MN documentary series to begin exploring our community’s ongoing battle with “generational shift.” That is, Worthington is seeing a boom in retirements among bus... more
In 2010, the Bush Foundation challenged 14 teacher preparation programs in Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota to join the Network for Excellence in Teaching (NExT). The first three years of this partnership have been filled with planning, trial and error and much success, and it is exciting to be coming to a point in the project where we are able to see results. Our preparation programs have been changed—we approach the recruiting of ... more
Six years ago, the Impact Foundation and Dakota Medical Foundation, which serve North Dakota and western Minnesota, were testing uncharted waters. We had a newly minted website to process online donations for charities of the region.... more
When we set our “Goals for the Decade” back in 2008, one of our three primary goals was to increase the percentage of people in our region who believe their community is effective at problem solving.
Since then, we have tried a number of strategies with this goal in mind. Some of our efforts have been under the name of the Bush Foundation and some have been under the name “InCommons.” ... more
For much of the Foundation’s existence it has been involved in supporting individuals in improving themselves and, by extension, their communities. In 1965, the Bush Leadership Fellows Program (BLF) grew out of founder Archibald Bush’s observation that if he’d had a mid-career opportunity to strengthen his skills and refocus, he could have been a more effective leader in the later part of his career. Since then, the Foundation's leadership development programs have evolved to include medical and artist Fellows. ... more
