Designing a Foundation for Both Place-Based and Systems Change

In 2024, the Best Buy Foundation took an audacious leap. Building on its history of place-based work in its hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul, it launched a national systems change effort around economic mobility for young people. This created a tension between its local and national strategies that it began managing through an integrative organization design. Best Buy Foundation leaders will share their design story and the specific tools they used to enact their multi-pronged approach. Attendees will learn how to apply these tools to their own organizations and how integrative organization design can power equitable impact.

This is a session in our Leading Locally All Year Long series, featuring content designed for place-based funders.