To support grantee's initiative to partner with the House of Songs to create a pilot international song-writer residency and exchange program in Northwest Arkansas. NWAC will serve as the fiscal sponsor for this project.
Support for grantee's initiative to partner with The House of Songs to launch The House of Songs Ozarks, a songwriter's residency program in Bentonville, Arkansas.
To support grantee's efforts to recruit, train and place Arkansas Teacher Corp fellows in the state of Arkansas, emphasizing on the Arkansas Delta region and open-enrollment charter schools
To conduct scientific analysis, provide technical support and advocate for strong management and recovery plans for two overfished fisheries in Chile - common hake and anchoveta/sardine
To support grantee's initiative towards the acquisition of property for the permanent preservation of green space and to secure the land for the future development of cycling-optimized natural surface trails in Washington County, Arkansas.
Support to develop recovery measures for the Chilean hake fishery and to begin implementing a strategy to improve management of the northern anchovy fishery in Chile over the next two years
To support grantee's initiative to put in place rights-based management (RBM) strategies for two fisheries – the bigeye tuna fishery under the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC); and the pomada shrimp fishery in national waters in Ecuador.
To incentivize the creation of new fisheries improvement projects (FIPs) within Chile, Peru and Mexico and also to support basic capacity building within the local NGO communities related to the design and implementation of FIPs
To support grantee's initiative to develop a strategy to address the cash-flow challenges of the 15-year payout period of the Deepwater Horizon settlement, in order to accelerate implementation of priority projects, especially diversions.
To support the WHIN Music Community Charter School
2017
Education
$325,000
Windward Fund
To support the Water Funder Initiative (WFI), for grantees project to direct and increase support for projects from a variety of funders and philanthropic organizations, and to improve water management in the Western United States.