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Director of Grants, Blandin Foundation
As director of the Blandin Foundation’s grants program area, Wade is responsible for the organization’s grantmaking activities, including the Educational Awards scholarship program available to graduates of Itasca County area high schools, as well as grants made in the Foundation’s local giving areas and to communities and organizations whose work focuses on rural Minnesota.
Previously, Wade was a manager for Land O'Lakes, Inc., agricultural cooperative, implementing economic restructuring programs in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and Latin America. He also served as the Legislative Assistant for Agriculture to U.S. Senator Thomas Daschle. He is a former Peace Corps volunteer, graduate of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., the American University Law School in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Colorado Bar Association. He joined the Blandin Foundation in 2001 as senior program officer for grants.
