Our 2011 grantmaking
RESTRICTED GRANTS (**denotes multi-year grant)
$250,000
Arkansas Advanced Initiative for Math and Science, Inc.
**To support the development and provision of high-quality advanced placement Math and Science programs in high-need Arkansas high schools.
$250,000
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Inc.
To support AACF's capacity to carry out their mission of protecting families through research, education, communications, coalition-building, and advocacy.
$150,000
Arkansas Coalition for Excellence
To support ACE's mission of strengthening Arkansas nonprofits.
$258,500
Arkansas Department of Higher Education
To support the placement of three Career Coaches in high-need Pulaski County high schools.
$300,000
Arkansas Humanities Council
To support Raising Education Achievement and Competence in the Humanities (REACH) mini-grant program for professional development of humanities teachers in Arkansas.
$7,500
Arkansas Policy Foundation
To support a study that explores how the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) positively impacts Arkansas's income measures, and how increases in EITC participation could improve these measures.
$30,000
Arkansas Public Policy Panel - Arkansas United Communities Coalition
To support grassroots organizing and community building in immigrant communities through the AUCC.
$286,000
Arkansas Public Policy Panel
To support APPP's capacity to engage low wealth communities in community development and public policy advocacy.
$145,000
Arkansas State University Mountain Home
To support the expansion of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites in Baxter, Jefferson, Mississippi, Polk, and Pulaski Counties.
$150,000
Arkansas State University System
**To support the development of higher education and community-based programs focused on increasing retention and graduation rates for marginalized males in the state of Arkansas.
$75,000
Arkansas State University – Arkansas Out of School Network
**To provide matching funds to the AOSN in support of $75,000 grant received from the C.S. Mott Foundation.
$50,000
Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting
**To supportintegration and secondary educational supports for the growing Latino population in Northwest Arkansas.
$150,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Arkansas
**To support the development of higher education and community-based programs focused on increasing retention and graduation rates among marginalized males in the state of Arkansas.
$211,000
Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center
To support BGACDC's mission to build community competency in youth development, intergenerational community development, economic development, housing, and leadership development.
$75,000
Catholic Diocese of Little Rock
**To support integration and secondary educational supports for the growing Latino population in Northwest Arkansas.
$50,758
Central Arkansas Development Council
**To support strategies for developing the assets of low-income Arkansans.
$50,000
Clinton School District No. 1
**To support the expansion of the Arkansas School of the 21st Century Network (AR21C) with Clinton School District No. 1 acting as the fiscal agent.
$9,450
Desha County
To support MDACC's mission to provide educational programs and workforce training to residents of Desha County and neighboring counties.
$50,000
Economic Opportunity Agency of Washington County, Inc. – Northwest Arkansas Tax Center
**To support strategies for developing the assets of low-income Arkansans
$70,000
Foodbank of North Central Arkansas
To support the implementation of resident-focused community development processes in low-wealth communities across Arkansas.
$135,000
Henderson State University
**To support the development of higher education and community-based programs focused on increasing retention and graduation rates for marginalized males in the state of Arkansas.
$150,000
Kiwanis Activities, Inc.
**To support the development of higher education and community-based programs focused on increasing retention and graduation rates for marginalized males in the state of Arkansas.
$75,000
Main Street Dumas, Inc.
**To support the implementation of resident-focused community development processes in low-wealth communities across Arkansas.
$259,000
Migration Policy Institute
**To update A Profile of Immigrants in Arkansas, the WRF-funded study released in 2007 that provided the first comprehensive picture of the demographics and economic impact of immigrant families in the state.
$39,920
Mississippi County, Arkansas Economic Opportunity Commission
**To support DCDLC's mission to increase the scale, efficiency, and consistency of affordable housing production across the Delta areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
$30,000
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
To support research on foundation funding to nonprofits in Arkansas for advocacy, community organizing, and civic engagement that benefits vulnerable or marginalized populations.
$75,000
Rural Community Alliance
To support the implementation of resident-focused community development processes in low-wealth communities across Arkansas.
$400,000
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
To expand Reading Recovery, a research-based K-3 comprehensive literacy intervention as part of the Arkansas Campaign for Grade Level Reading.
$100,000
University of Arkansas Fayetteville
**To support, in partnership with the School of Social Work and School of Journalism, a pilot demonstration of independent qualitative and quantitative data gathering tools in support of the WRF Grantee Outcomes Assessment Learnig System (GOALS) a pilot demonstration of independent qualitative and quantitative data gathering tools
in support of the WRF Grantee Outcomes Assessment Learning System (GOALS)
$25,000
Winthrop Rockefeller Institute
To support educational and communications activities related to the Winthrop Rockefeller Centennial Celebration.
UNRESTRICTED GRANTS
$25,000
American Red Cross — Little Rock Region
$300
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, Inc.
$1,000
Arkansas Coalition for Excellence
$250
Arkansas Hospice Foundation, Inc.
$25,000
Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance
$25,000
Arkansas Rice Depot
$5,000
Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund
$1,500
Boys and Girls Club of Phillips County
$1,500
Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center
$1,500
KIPP Delta College Preparatory Middle School
$20,000
Market Matters, Inc.
$1,500
Mountain Home Christian Clinic
$1,500
South Conway County School District
$1,500
Stone County Community Resource Council
$1,500
University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton
$5,000
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
$1,300
Women's Foundation of Arkansas
WORKING with GRANTMAKERS
$7,000
Association of Black Foundation Executives
$695
Association of Small Foundations
$18,320
Council on Foundations Inc.
$1,000
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (Tide Center)
$5,000
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
$6,000
Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families
$3,000
Grantmakers for Education
$2,875
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
$2,000
Grants Managers Network Inc.
$2,000
Neighborhood Funders Group
$2,500
Philanthropy Northwest
$6,000
Southeastern Council of Foundations