Over the course of its history the Foundation has undertaken itself and funded research in the following areas:
Arts
- Thriving Arts: Thriving Small Communities (Metropolitan Regional Arts Council) 2007
- Lessons Learned: Regional Arts Development Program—Understanding the power of strategic operating support for mid-size arts organizations 2006
Community Innovation
Cross-Sector Collaboration
Ecological Health
- Opportunities for Leadership, Learning and Impact in Ecological Health and Sustainable Communities (The Headwaters Group) 2007
Education
- Regional Scan of Individualized Learning (Social Policy Research Associates) 2018
Fellowships
- Creating Broader Impact: The Bush Fellowships 2007
- Pathways to Transformation: Three Decades of the Bush Artist Program 2007
Past Programs
- Citizen Solutions: Public Conversations & Public Solutions: Making Health and Health Care Better in Minnesota 2012
- Center for Rural Entrepreneurship: Policy Education White Paper - Western North Dakota Energy Project 2012
- Citizen Solutions: Citizen Perspectives on Minnesota's Long-Term Budget 2011
- Prospects and Possibilities for South Dakota 2011
- Prospects and Possibilities for North Dakota 2011
- Common Cents for Minnesota 2011
- Beyond the Bottom Line 2011
- Wilder Research Surveys for Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota 2010
- Minnesota's Bottom Line 2009
- Building Stronger Organizations: The Impact of Capital Projects—Lessons for Human Services Agencies and Their Funders (Susan Showalter and Vicki Itzkowitz) 2002
To see non-research-based Foundation publications, visit our Publications Archive.