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The Flinn Foundation Educational Conference Center features two meeting rooms available to nonprofit member organizations closely aligned with the Foundation’s specific areas of interest in the biosciences, health care, education, civic leadership, and the arts. More about the Conference Center

NEWS AND UPDATES

Bioscience

Flinn Foundation opens entrepreneurship program application

Each year, the Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program offers funding, professional support, connections, and networking opportunities to Arizona early-stage bioscience companies.  This year, the program is piloting a new format as we await an update of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap that will extend beyond 2025.   Ten finalist companies will be selected for interviews, of which two […]

Flinn Scholars

NEH Chair and Flinn Scholar Shelly Lowe recounts her journey

By Brian PowellFlinn Foundation Shelly Lowe laughed when she was asked to define the humanities. As chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Lowe said that’s one of the difficulties of her job. “Humanities are our creation stories,” Lowe said. “And there are so many creation stories out there from different groups and different […]

Civic Language Perceptions Project An Arizona Snapshot

Civic Leadership

Arizonans appear to have stronger connection to civic language than peers nationally 

A new study finds that Arizonans react strongly to different civic language terms—more so than the rest of the country—and that the perceptions can enhance or hinder collaborative community conversations.  The Arizona Civic Life Partnership, a strategic statewide initiative led by Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA) and the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership […]

Arts and Culture

Flinn and SAACA partner on bioscience-themed art exhibition

Have you ever wondered what the retinal images of your eyes would look like printed on cotton? Perhaps a watercolor version of a breast cancer cell? Or DNA on fused glass? These are three of the 29 works of art on display through January 2025 at the Flinn Foundation in Phoenix through a partnership with […]