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Leadership matters. Leaders shape our communities, institutions, nation and the world. They define culture, take action and make decisions that have long-standing and wide-ranging impact on people and communities.

Mary Grove and Matt Kilian will begin their service at our next board of directors meeting in February.

We're seeking a consulting partner to support and build our skills for engaging in courageous conversations and constructive conflict, advancing our goals to be an equitable and anti-racist organization.

Philanthropy should be asking itself big questions this year. Between COVID-19 and further grappling with white supremacy and racism, there is an incredible amount of struggle, pain, lives lost and deep reckoning happening all across our region. Private foundations must especially ask how they can use their power, privilege and networks to be better and do better.

The Community Innovation program is your open door to the Bush Foundation. And, we recently made changes to the program to make it even more simple and open! The expanded program also supports ideas that inspire, equip and connect people to more effectively drive change.

We’ve been working to put more of our assets toward our mission and are excited to share our new impact investing objectives. Impact investing gives us another way to do good, beyond making grants.

We have decided to cancel the Bush Prize again for 2021 and think carefully about its future.

We're seeking a partner to plan and execute our annual education convening, Student Centered Learning for Equity, in 2021 and 2022.

We are pleased to share that we are in the process of issuing $100 million in social bonds. This is another way we are thinking bigger and differently about how we can have more impact.

The Bush Foundation has selected 36 organizations to receive Ecosystem grants, which provide operating support to the programs and organizations that do the most to support the people in our region working to creatively solve problems.