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                October 16, 2025
            
        
    To fulfil its promise, the region needs more people, funders, policymakers, institutions and neighbors to show up and support it
    
    
            
                
            
            
                September 8, 2025
            
        
    Through the Catalyze Challenge, local innovators are expanding career-connected learning and helping young people build brighter futures
    
    
            
                
            
            
                September 5, 2025
            
        
    The Community Development Institute is helping local leaders navigate a rapidly changing Northwest Arkansas
    
    
            
                
            
            
                August 28, 2025
            
        
    At a time when oceans face mounting threats, new commitments and momentum offer hope—and a path forward 
    
    
            
                
            
            
                August 21, 2025
            
        
    After an incredible journey with the Walton Family Foundation, I have made the decision to step down as executive director at the end of 2025. Serving in this role has been a great honor, and I did not arrive at this decision lightly.
    
    
It's not what you gather in life, but what you scatter in life, that tells the kind of life you have lived.
Helen Walton's favorite saying
    
    
    
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                    February 8, 2021The foundation will support innovation, new ideas and — above all — community-led change
 
                         
                         
                         
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                            