As a parent, and the product of a pretty traditional education experience, I tend to think of schools as something I support, that I give to. Whether as a volunteer,…
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Do you have Frank Sinatra’s (or perhaps Liza Minelli’s) voice running through your brain? For me, it’s Ol’ Blue Eye’s iconic rendition of “Theme from New York, New York” that…
by Joel Luedtke, Program Director From 2011 to 2016, the Phillips Sectoral Employment Initiative (PSEI) provided multifaceted building support to a cohort of organizations that offer industry-focused job training services…
by Joel Luedtke, Senior Program Officer Reports. Articles. Briefs. White Papers. These and their ilk accumulate in the email in-boxes and on the desks of Foundation staff. When we find…
By Joel Luedtke, Senior Program Officer Some of you know that the Foundation is in the process of substantially shifting its funding priorities. On one level, this is not particularly…
Setting the Scene The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota recently awarded a grant to the Northside Funders Group (NFG), chiefly to support its new North@Work Initiative. Joel…
By Patrick Troska and Joel Luedtke Nearly five years ago, The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota established its current set of funding priorities. These priorities were based…
WRITTEN BY JOEL LUEDTKE, SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER Here’s a timely multiple choice question: We know a new school year has begun because: A) Our Facebook News Feeds are filled up…
For the past three years, the Foundation’s education grantmaking largely targeted two longstanding interests: supporting the post-secondary success of “middle quartile” high school students and, expanding access to high quality…
