Publications and Multimedia

Thank you for your interest in the Flinn Foundation. The publications and multimedia content below tell the story of the Foundation and its program areas. The information and resources can be searched by content area.

Also available are reports and brochures from the First Decade of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap (2002-2012).

To request hard copies of publications, please contact Jessica Vaile at the Flinn Foundation.

2021 Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program Brochure

August 2020

The 2021 Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program will award $30,000 through a nonprofit partner to up to six early-stage Arizona bioscience firms. This brochure describes the application process for the program, which features a personalized yearlong plan specific to the needs of individual firms to help them navigate the challenges facing young companies and empower them to become investor-ready.
Flinn-Brown Fellowship 2019 Annual Report

June 2020

The Flinn-Brown Fellowship 2019 annual report provides a summary of the 2019 seminar series and its 30-person cohort, the 2019 Flinn-Brown Convention including its five honorees, the Flinn-Brown Fellows projects, the Flinn-Brown Network and its members’ achievements, and continuing learning opportunities from the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership such as the Skill Set Series and Legislative Preview.

Advancing Arizona: 2018 Foundation Report

March 2018

In “Advancing Arizona,” the Flinn Foundation’s new report, President and CEO Tammy McLeod looks ahead at how the Foundation’s programs can make a difference across Arizona. “Broad improvement in quality of life depends on committing to collaboration within our institutions, across institutions, within sectors and across them, in every corner of our state,” writes McLeod.

And Board Chair David J. Gullen, M.D., looks back at the Flinn tenure of Jack Jewett, who enhanced existing programs in the biosciences, education, and the arts, and introduced a new civic-leadership initiative in partnership with the Thomas R. Brown Foundations of Tucson.

Examining Arizona’s Technology and Research Initiative Fund

April 2020

The Milken Institute study of the Technology and Research Initiative Fund shows the more than $1.1 billion in TRIF funding to the state universities since 2001 led to a growth in startups, patents, and license income, the creation of new bioscience institutes, the retention and recruitment of faculty, as well as a growing return on investment. 

2020 Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program Brochure

August 2019

This brochure provides details of the application process for the 2020 Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program, which awards $30,000 through a nonprofit partner to up to six early-stage Arizona bioscience firms each year. The program features a personalized yearlong plan specific to the needs of individual firms, helping them to navigate the challenges facing young companies and empowering them to become investor-ready.