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We are always learning. These reports and studies help inform our grantmaking.
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June 10, 2019New Metropolitan Rankings Show Knowledge-Based Industries and Entrepreneurship Drive Success -
February 19, 2019The Most Dynamic Micropolitan Index, which ranks the 531 micropolitan areas across the U.S., analyzes the economic performance and indicators that impact the social and economic fabric of America. -
August 7, 2018Trade and Tariffs with China Cause Economic Hardship on America’s Heartland Economy - Counties and Crops Across Heartland Affected Most -
January 9, 20195G, the fifth generation of wireless communications, has the potential to make the opportunity cost of rural living much larger, maybe insurmountably so. -
March 7, 2018The heartland could benefit the most by providing greater incentives for faculty and students to engage in commercial endeavors -
September 25, 2018Measuring research university contributions to regional economies -
July 31, 2018Heartland States Lag Behind Coastal States in the Innovation Economy -
June 25, 2018New research outlines key perspectives that could help shape the geographic makeup of the Heartland -
May 11, 2018How several smaller communities in the Heartland have outperformed the nation -
March 26, 2018Quantifying the economic, health, social and business benefits associated with bicycling -
October 18, 2017Highlighting greenway trail programs, policy, funding and design trends -
October 18, 2017Measuring the Vitality of Downtowns in Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers, Siloam Springs, and Springdale -
February 1, 2017The schools profiled in this report include traditional district schools as well as charter schools in five cities -
October 1, 2016Trends in school segregation over time -
January 2, 2015Juggling Flexibility, Reinvention, and Accountability in the Nation's Most Decentralized School System -
February 21, 2019How IDEA Public Schools is expanding to serve a million students -
January 30, 2018Colorado State University and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory -
June 1, 2017As a way to help start much-needed conversation, the Walton Family Foundation developed this Colorado River Critical Infrastructure Needs white paper.