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Education is Everything! |
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In the next 10 years, the Foundation will recruit, prepare, place and support 25,000 new teachers for Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota as part of its Goals for a Decade. In his June/July column, Peter writes about why the Foundation chose to pursue teacher preparation as its strategy for increasing educational achievement and the important lesson he learned about education from a seventh-grade boy named Robert.
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| $1 Million Granted to Individual Artists |
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The Bush Artist Program celebrated artists on Monday, June 15 at a public event where it introduced 15 Bush Artist Fellows for 2009 (recipients of $50,000 fellowships) and announced three recipients of the $100,000 Enduring Vision Awards for 2009—storyteller Mary Louise Defender Wilson (Shields, ND), hoop dancer Kevin Locke (Wakapala, SD) and multidisciplinary performance artist Michael Sommers (Minneapolis, MN).
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| Foundation Releases 2008 Annual Report |
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The Bush Foundation began 2008 making traditional grants and ended it focused on creating partnerships to achieve its Goals for a Decade. Ready, Set Goals for a Decade tells the story of how we got from one point to the other and gives the details of our grantmaking, fellowships and investments in 2008. This annual report also includes a month-by-month timeline of the many changes that our transition required. We hope you'll enjoy this look back at 2008, a transformational year for the Foundation.
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| Meet the 2009 Medical Fellows |
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Thirteen 2009 Bush Medical Fellows will study in a wide range of fields including chronic pain, health care management, integrative medicine, neuro-development disorders, psychiatry, community engagement, acupuncture, epidemiology, diabetes management, critical-care medicine for rural communities and early childhood literacy. Read the release.
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| John Archabal Retires |
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When John Archabal came to the Bush Foundation 35 years ago as a program associate, he had no idea the job would stretch into a decades-long opportunity to witness hundreds of grantees and fellows do tremendous work using Foundation grants and fellowships. But it did. See our suggestions for saying farewell to John or read the press release.
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| Bush Leadership Program Names 2009 Fellows |
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For the 44th year the Bush Foundation announces recipients of its Bush Leadership Fellowships. These 18 leaders from Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota will pursue academic or self-directed study aimed at further developing their leadership skills so they can make even bigger contributions to their communities. Read the complete release.
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| Meet the Goals for a Decade Team Leaders |
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Now that Pamela Wheelock, Jaime Pinkham and Susan Heegaard have agreed to lead the three Goals for a Decade teams, they and their teams can begin the ambitious work ahead of us. To learn more about these team leaders, click here. |
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| Learn More About Why We Chose our Goals |
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Supporting the Self-Determination of Native Nations. Learn more about the twenty-three federally recognized sovereign Native nations in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. We have included a list of these nations on our website, along with interactive maps that show where these Native nations are. Use the list and maps to navigate to websites to learn more about them. |
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