Bentonville Child Care and Development Center, Inc. d/b/a Helen R. Walton Children's Center
To support families from a wide range of economic backgrounds through the Sliding Scale Tuition Program and to invest in educators through an adjusted pay scale to assist with employee retention and recruitment
To pilot a model for training teachers in neuro-developmentally appropriate approaches supporting student engagement and addressing challenging behavior
Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
To pilot 'Cartwheel: Next Generation Business Accelerator,' a startup studio program focused on validating and identifying the most promising business concepts and developing these concepts into actual businesses in NWA
To renew the pilot of Right to Start Northwest Arkansas, an initiative to advance equitable entrepreneurship as a community priority in the region
2022
Home Region
$425,000
Center for Sustainable Agricultural Excellence & Conservation Inc.
To support a workforce program designed to assist small farmers in gaining skills and knowledge to fight the impacts of climate change, and programming to support women recently released from prison with skills to become gainfully employed
2022
Home Region
$356,200
Northwest Arkansas Council Foundation
To support a grant application for the National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines program
To organize and host a national convening to highlight and share promising practices and common pain points with implementing new competency-based and student-centered assessment systems
