To build capacity and support programming that allows for educating diverse stakeholder groups and advancing best practices in real estate development for land-use management, with an emphasis on mobility and housing affordability
To incubate an upskilling initiative that focuses on lifting working adults out of poverty and into living-wage careers through training and education
2022
Home Region
$365,750
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 provide a consortium of nine rural school districts serving 3,668 students in grade 8-12 with career awareness, career exploration, career preparation and career experiences for postsecondary success
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 support a new network of politically moderate advocates and influencers who will coalesce around a policy agenda that prioritizes a student-centered approach to economic mobility