Support for grantee to engage sportsmen in key upper Mississippi River states in support of agricultural policies with potential to improve water quality
To support grantee's initiative to create jobs and to launch an arts-driven, community-inclusive revitalization project in downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi.
2018
Home Region
$43,000
RAND Corporation
To research and understand how the foundation can use philanthropy to engage with local institutions to positively impact public safety in Phillips County, Arkansas and Coahoma County, Mississippi.
To build on work in the Wabash River in Indiana to demonstrate how Wetland Reserve Easements (WRE) can be used in the Upper Mississippi River to complement cover crops and other practices to improve water quality.
Sponsorship for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition to advance the implementation of an agricultural policy that improves water quality in the Mississippi River Basin and to assist the Foundation in tracking federal agricultural policy and funding
To redesign and launch a pre-service institute called Regional Delta Institute (RDI) for new corps members (CM) in five TFA regions, as well as implementation of ongoing professional development for various cohorts (TFA alumni and non-TFA CM) in the Home Region of the Arkansas/Mississippi Delta.