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