When special program challenges and opportunities arise, Arkansas Community Foundation works with trusted partners and uses discretionary funds for targeted grantmaking and impact investments. These partnerships and grants are informed by data from the Foundation’s Aspire Arkansas site.
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EARLY LITERACY
FOOD SECURITY
Impact Investing
The Community Foundation invests in companies, organizations and funds that generate a beneficial social return alongside a financial return. We prioritize projects that support entrepreneurship and small businesses, workforce development and community infrastructure and placemaking that align with our core values.
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Statewide Partners
Excel by Eight
Arkansas Community Foundation partners with Excel by Eight to help Arkansas students read at grade level by the end of third grade. The Foundation is focusing attention on the need to reach grade-level proficiency through grants to chronic absence prevention, summer learning opportunities, kindergarten readiness, parent involvement and classroom instruction.
Arkansas Impact Philanthropy
We’re stronger when we work together. That’s the idea behind Arkansas Impact Philanthropy (AIP), a team of foundations and businesses who award grant dollars in Arkansas. The Community Foundation serves as the “home” of AIP as well as a member of its steering committee. Together, AIP members work toward a more inclusive Arkansas where everyone thrives, looking for key issues member organizations can support together to move Arkansas forward. Since its founding in 2017, AIP has focused on ensuring a fair and accurate count for the Arkansas 2020 census and providing health and educational support for children during the critical early childhood years.
