To support Shifting Rhythms, a mobile technology, arts and entrepreneurship after-school and summer enrichment program in Coahoma County, Mississippi
2020
Home Region
$167,613
Downtown Springdale Alliance
To engage a qualified recruiting agency in the hiring of an executive director through a national search and to supplement the selected candidate's salary over the subsequent three years
To implement targeted education campaigns and support landowner efforts to implement best management practices that improve water quality in the Upper Illinois River Watershed in Benton and Washington Counties
To develop a collaborative mechanism with the University of Arkansas to help strengthen its university-industry engagement. This industry liaison pilot will help the University of Arkansas and the region's industry engage each other and explore ways of collaboration which is mutually beneficial, spurring regional and statewide economic growth
To develop an entrepreneurial program, JumpStart Northwest Arkansas (JumpStart NWA), that will enable formerly incarcerated individuals to leverage entrepreneurship to create sustainable and livable incomes
2020
Home Region
$74,521
Artists Laboratory Theatre
Support for the Northwest Arkansas Civic Lab program
To partner with the Clarksdale Municipal School District to provide The Mississippi Reading Roadmap program, a comprehensive out-of-school approach to improve early literacy achievement with 300 students attending the district's four elementary schools
2020
Home Region
$200,000
City Sessions, Inc.
Support for music programming and increased organizational capacity, and specifically, for the second iteration of the Home Sweet Home house concert festival in Bentonville
To construct at least 4.5 miles of beginner, intermediate and advanced-skill level natural-surface trails that will connect Kessler Mountain Park to Centennial Park in Fayetteville
Educational programming and professional development opportunities for local designers and creative professionals, as well as operating support to hire a part-time development staff position
