Our staff and partners highlight acts of courageous leadership, and opportunities for you and your community to engage in creating a vital shared future.
It's National Teacher Appreciation Week and today is National Teacher Appreciation Day. I'd need a whole bushel of apples to thank all the teachers who had a positive impact in my life. How about you? ... more
When Archibald and Edyth Bush established the Bush Foundation in 1953, they did it with a strong belief that providing opportunities for people with energy and ideas would have great impact on the community. ... 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
