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
Illinois River Watershed Partnership
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
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
To provide technical assistance and hyper-accessible microfinancing to Northwest Arkansas based entrepreneurs who have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis
Southern Bancorp Capital Partners d/b/a Southern Bancorp Community Partners
To leverage grantee's existing loan capital to provide loans at zero percent interest to small businesses in Coahoma and Phillips Counties in the Delta
