Knowledge Center
We are always learning. These reports and studies help inform our grantmaking.
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January 24, 2024High-quality career and technical education (CTE) programs lead to regional advancement and economic mobility when they align with regional economic needs and provide K-12 students the knowledge, skills and credentials they need for postsecondary success.
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January 10, 2024When seeking out an evaluation partner, finding the right match is a challenge for both parties — the commissioner and the evaluator.
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December 13, 2023Successfully addressing vital social issues — like the movement for racial justice and addressing climate crises — requires large-scale initiatives that address equity, complexity and systems. This report offers ways of grouping systems change outcomes and helpful ways of thinking about complex social change work.
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November 21, 2023This report examine the foundation's current grantee capacity-building practices and provides recommendations for enhancing the foundation’s approach.
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February 3, 2023The Walton Family Foundation has been on a learning journey for several years now. We have had successes, setbacks and detours. Our central insight so far: becoming a learning organization requires taking a systems-change view and applying it to our own work.
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June 13, 2022The rapid distribution of $35 million in relief funding provided critical lessons in the opportunities and challenges of crisis grantmaking
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September 9, 2021Report offers recommendations on affordability so all residents can access safe and quality housing
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June 23, 2021Understanding what the region's future leaders envision for the community where they live
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October 26, 2020An analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the Northwest Arkansas program
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August 4, 2020Cycling and pedestrian activity has continued to grow in the region
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November 5, 2019The region's legacy of innovation needs to be intentionally nurtured and grown through an entrepreneurial ecosystem
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September 13, 2019A Call to Action for Northwest Arkansas
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September 12, 2019Measuring the impact of our efforts to improve the quality of life in our home region
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May 10, 2019How meaningful accountability systems can strengthen foundation learning and improve impact
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April 4, 2019With the growth of internationally recognized museums and other cultural amenities, the report found the region is becoming more competitive with American arts capitals
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March 1, 2019This report examines the supply and demand for quality early childhood education in a specific locale, namely Benton and Washington counties in Northwest Arkansas.
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July 9, 2018Research exploring how foundations approach funding public safety projects, focusing on two counties (Phillips County, Arkansas, and Coahoma County, Mississippi) in the Mississippi Delta
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May 31, 2018Quality of Life in Phillips County, Arkansas and Coahoma County, Mississippi