New Beginnings Residents’ Winter Wish Lists FayettevilleHomelessnessHousing Insecurity

New Beginnings Residents’ Winter Wish Lists

New Beginnings is collecting winter items and Christmas presents for the Residents at New Beginnings!

Aron SheltonNovember 29, 2022

Plans to Build Neurodivergent Residential Community in Fayetteville (Audio) DEIFayetteville

Plans to Build Neurodivergent Residential Community in Fayetteville (Audio)

Supporting Lifelong Success, or SLS, will be the first nonprofit residential community for neurodivergent adults in Arkansas.

Aron SheltonNovember 17, 2022

Meet a Local Changemaker: Nate Walls, Founder of Second Helping CommunityFayettevilleFood Insecurity

Meet a Local Changemaker: Nate Walls, Founder of Second Helping

Do South Magazine featured a story on Nate Walls, owner of Secondhand Smoke, a Fayetteville-based BBQ caterer with a mission…

Aron SheltonNovember 7, 2022

5 Ways to Give Back in NWA – Axios NW Arkansas AnimalsEducationHomelessnessNorthwest ArkansasPoverty

5 Ways to Give Back in NWA – Axios NW Arkansas

The season of giving is almost upon us, so we found a few volunteer opportunities with local organizations that need…

Aron SheltonNovember 7, 2022

Docuseries Highlights NWA Refugees and Welcomers CommunityDEIFayettevilleNorthwest Arkansas

Docuseries Highlights NWA Refugees and Welcomers

The series is hosted by former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, and highlights…

Aron SheltonNovember 2, 2022

Horsepower for Veterans: Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy Offers Unique Healing AnimalsBentonvilleCommunity

Horsepower for Veterans: Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy Offers Unique Healing

Copps is known for working primarily with veterans and started working with an organization called Sheep Dog Impact Assistance. Sheep…

Aron SheltonOctober 29, 2022

Jennifer Surprises NW Arkansas Single Mom Who Survived Breast Cancer Children and YouthFayettevilleHealth & WellbeingNorthwest Arkansas

Jennifer Surprises NW Arkansas Single Mom Who Survived Breast Cancer

The Jennifer Hudson Show recently surprised Northwest Arkansas' very own Stacy Harper in recognition of her resilience and unwavering dedication…

Aron SheltonOctober 28, 2022

Alice L. Walton Foundation Grants $3.5M to NW Arkansas Food Bank Food InsecurityNorthwest ArkansasRogersSpringdale

Alice L. Walton Foundation Grants $3.5M to NW Arkansas Food Bank

Of the total, $3 million was granted as a matching gift to support construction of the food bank's new distribution…

Aron SheltonOctober 13, 2022

Adopt-A-Classroom in Northwest Arkansas BentonvilleChildren and YouthEducationFayettevilleNorthwest ArkansasRogersSpringdale

Adopt-A-Classroom in Northwest Arkansas

Search by zip code to discover 30 local teachers in need of school supplies and resources. 100% of donations made…

Aron SheltonSeptember 13, 2022

Fassi’s Friends Brings Disabled and Full-bodied Kids Together to Learn Golf for Free Active LifestyleChildren and YouthDEIRogers

Fassi’s Friends Brings Disabled and Full-bodied Kids Together to Learn Golf for Free

Maria Fassi, a former golf star at the University of Arkansas and now an LPGA Tour professional launched a nonprofit…

Aron SheltonSeptember 7, 2022

Seeking Volunteers for Pick Up Where You Play Cleanup Events Across NWA EnvironmentFayettevilleNorthwest Arkansas

Seeking Volunteers for Pick Up Where You Play Cleanup Events Across NWA

More than 500 volunteers joined last year’s cleanups, collecting more than 5 tons of litter from dozens of locations and…

Aron SheltonSeptember 6, 2022

Yvonne Richardson Community Center Launches Adopt-A-Kid Fundraising Campaign Children and YouthCommunityFayetteville

Yvonne Richardson Community Center Launches Adopt-A-Kid Fundraising Campaign

The funds raised will be allocated towards YRCC's endowment to help pay for effective programming for ages K-5 and 6-12th…

Aron SheltonSeptember 5, 2022

UAMS Receives $350k to Support Double Your Dollars Food Assistance Program BentonvilleFayettevilleFood InsecurityNorthwest ArkansasRogersSpringdale

UAMS Receives $350k to Support Double Your Dollars Food Assistance Program

Created in 2012 to address food insecurity of low-income residents in Northwest Arkansas, the Double Your Dollars program provides recipients…

Aron SheltonSeptember 2, 2022

CACHE Awards $1.2M to Local, Music-focused Nonprofits Arts & CultureBentonvilleFayettevilleSpringdale

CACHE Awards $1.2M to Local, Music-focused Nonprofits

2022-23 MOAC recipients are the House of Songs, City Sessions, Black Fret, the Music Education Initiative, NWA Jazz Society, Music…

Aron SheltonAugust 26, 2022

Excellerate Foundation Uses Technology to Help Thousands of Locals in Need CommunityNorthwest ArkansasPovertySpringdaleTechnology

Excellerate Foundation Uses Technology to Help Thousands of Locals in Need

As of 2020, Excellerate served over 10,000 individuals in the community through the region’s most comprehensive and real-time updating resource…

Aron SheltonAugust 20, 2022

The Power of Friendship to Reduce Poverty CommunityDEIFayettevilleNorthwest ArkansasPoverty

The Power of Friendship to Reduce Poverty

Guest post by Christina Williams, Executive Director, Circles NWA Would you believe me if I told you that friendship can…

Aron SheltonAugust 4, 2022

NWA Community College Gifted $430K to Grow Hispanic Enrollment DEIEducationRogers

NWA Community College Gifted $430K to Grow Hispanic Enrollment

NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC) recently received a $432,883 grant from the Walton Family Foundation to grow its LIFE program,…

Aron SheltonJuly 30, 2022

Bentonville SOUP Seeks Ideas to Positively Impact Bentonville Arts & CultureBentonvilleCommunityNorthwest Arkansas

Bentonville SOUP Seeks Ideas to Positively Impact Bentonville

Applications for the micro granting dinner are open through August 20th for the September event! Past SOUP grantees have received…

Aron SheltonJuly 29, 2022

Hunt Family Creates Permanent Endowment of $750K for The Salvation Army of NWA Food InsecurityHomelessnessHousing InsecurityNorthwest Arkansas

Hunt Family Creates Permanent Endowment of $750K for The Salvation Army of NWA

The gift will support sheltering homeless individuals and families in Northwest Arkansas. Annual income generated by the endowment will be…

Aron SheltonJuly 29, 2022

EngageNWA Invites Community to Participate in Welcoming Week 2022 CommunityDEINorthwest Arkansas

EngageNWA Invites Community to Participate in Welcoming Week 2022

Welcoming Week NWA is an annual event that brings together the community to build strong connections and affirm the importance…

Aron SheltonJuly 28, 2022