Support for piloting of an intensive College Access Initiative designed to increase and improve access to post-secondary opportunities to 450 tenth through twelfth grade first-generation, low-income students in the following Home Region school districts: Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers, Springdale, Siloam Springs, and Gravette.
Support for grantee to produce a pilot Northwest Arkansas Shakespeare Festival in 2018
2018
Home Region
$25,500
City of Fayetteville
To design a series of urban spaces creating the Cultural Arts Corridor (CAC) in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas as part of the Design Excellence program.
To support grantee's initiative to implement Reading Roadmap, a comprehensive learning model designed by the Kansas Department of Education that has shown to improve academic outcomes in schools throughout Kansas, focusing primarily on rural-based schools.
2018
Home Region
$100,500
University of Arkansas
Support for grantee's cohort of Northwest Arkansas educators (Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Siloam Springs, and Bentonville) through a professional development experience designed to expose and support participants in the study of innovative, high performing, domestic, and international school districts.
To assist 1,200 freshmen through senior high school students in the Delta Region of Arkansas (East Poinsett, Marked Tree, Earle, Forrest City, Palestine-Wheatley, Lee, and Brinkley) with college preparation and matriculation.
To promote a series of convenings of live music community stakeholders from Northwest Arkansas to develop recommendations for growing and sustaining the live music ecosystem in the region.
