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
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 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
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
City of Bentonville
To assist with two streambank issues on Little Sugar Creek
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
Excellerate Foundation
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
Fayetteville Public Education Foundation, Inc.
To launch a separate 501(c)(3) public education foundation cooperative and to administer a regranting fund for individual public schools
To pilot a model for training teachers in neuro-developmentally appropriate approaches supporting student engagement and addressing challenging behavior
2022
Home Region
$256,250
GFPB Inc.
To support the expansion of a successful pilot to increase the number of certified teachers in the Pine Bluff School District
To build staff capacity, resource programming and support renovations of an entrepreneurial hub to be made available to residents of Coahoma County that teaches them how to build personal, community and generational assets, in an area that is underserved and traditionally lacks access to capital
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
Northwest Arkansas Community College Foundation, Inc.
To provide support for Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food