To pilot a digital internship management program with district and charter schools in NWA to increase the number of K-12 students with work-based learning experiences and to build interest in startups and small businesses
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 support a program that will provide entrepreneurial training, technical assistance and social capital for current and aspiring underrepresented entrepreneurs in NWA
2022
Home Region
$350,000
Ozark Adaptive Sports Association
To support the activation of Adaptive Sports Day
2022
Home Region
$3,000
Northwest Arkansas Community Creative Center
To support capacity building efforts in areas of operations and fundraising with the goal of growing their income and supporter base
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation dba Neighborworks America
To support nonprofit leaders from NWA to participate in NeighborWorks' Achieving Excellence Program national cohort and to pilot the Communities of Excellence leadership program for 15 mid-level nonprofit leaders in the region
2022
Home Region
$474,030
Bentonville Public School District
To support expansion of Ignite Professional Studies to add two new pathway programs (Industrial Design and Maintenance and Aviation- Air Mobility), additional students to the Health Sciences pathway, new classroom space, and career coaching
To support capacity-building in three areas: fundraising to diversify revenue, diverse-reaching programming to meet community priorities and enhanced marketing and communications
To conduct a research study of how Afghan evacuees are faring across multiple dimensions of their life one year after their arrival to the United States
To provide college access services to Mississippi Delta students, with an emphasis on Coahoma County
2022
Home Region
$125,000
Thrive, Inc.
To support its Creative Leadership Youth Program (CLYP) to increase the local capacity and leadership of 100 students in the 7th through 12th grades in Phillips County, AR