Our staff and partners highlight acts of courageous leadership, and opportunities for you and your community to engage in creating a vital shared future.
A group of Bush staff and friends paddled in the second annual Great River Race on September 15 to raise funds and awareness for the Urban Wilderness Canoe Adventures program that works to reduce the academic achievement gap in the Twin Cities. While the team was far from placing first in the race, they did win the Team Spirit Award. They also raised way more than their stretch goal to support the program.... more
AGE to age: bringing the generations together is an initiative of the Northland Foundation that invites elders, adults and youth to explore generational differences and similarities. The program is designed to strengthen relationships among all ages and offer older adults and young people a chance to work together to benefit their communities. Working together, older and younger community members identify a local need and devise their own grassroots solution.... more
“You will know you’re successful in life when other people ask you for your advice.” – Wisdom passed on by a Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal member to his son
In August, a group from the Bush Foundation, including three Native Nation Rebuilders, traveled to visit with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes near Polson, Montana, on the beautiful and vast Flathead Reservation. ... more
On a late-summer afternoon, while returning from a gathering in Rochester, MN, my colleague Mandy and I stopped to have coffee with Chris Johnson and Laura Kinkead from the Center for Courage and Renewal. We sat under a gazebo in the yard next to the historic Smith Douglas House, which now houses a Dunn Brothers. It was, to say the least, a picture-perfect cup of coffee. ... more
Sixteen Bush Foundation staff volunteered at Open Farms in Belle Plaine, Minnesota, on August 29, 2012. Open Farms is an organic farm that grows much of the produce used at Open Arms of Minnesota, a Twin Cities-based nonprofit that prepares and delivers nutritious food to people with chronic and progressive illness. Staff worked hard harvesting green beans and kale, weeding arugula plantings, planting more kale, and preparing beds for more crops. ... more
