Walton Family Foundation

Luis Gonzalez Communications Deputy Director, Walton Family Foundation   Luis Gonzalez is the communications deputy director of the Walton Family Foundation. Prior to his work with the foundation, he served as the communications and marketing manager for the City of…

The city of Fayetteville has been working diligently on various construction projects downtown, including the West Avenue Civic Plaza. As a key element of the City’s Cultural Arts Corridor, which is now known as “The Ramble,” Fayetteville’s cultural and natural…

Atento Capital, a venture capital firm based in Tulsa, has launched 412 Angels, a first-of-its-kind angel investing program that will help educate new investors and support early-stage start-ups in the corridor connecting Tulsa and Northwest Arkansas. Atento Capital will partner…

The Walton Family Foundation has launched a new collaborative effort to support people and communities in the Delta region of Arkansas and Mississippi, an initiative that will focus on three key areas: education and youth engagement, economic asset building for…

Mica Strother and Greg Hale are Arkansas to the core, and the Little Rock husband-and-wife team have the credentials to prove it. Strother, born in Little Rock and raised in Mountain Home, is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University and…

Northwest Arkansas Food Systems, with support from the Walton Family Foundation, is providing grants to the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, Community Clinic and the University of Arkansas. The funding will offer farmers new resources to access capital and soil health…

Twelve graduate startup teams from across North America competed in the third annual Heartland Challenge, a competition designed to simulate the process of raising venture capital for a high-growth enterprise, over the past weekend. The Challenge was hosted by the…

Walmart is fortifying its supply chain by offering to pay its private fleet drivers up to $110,000 annually, with veteran drivers being eligible to earn even more based on factors like tenure and location, the global retail chain announced on…

12 teams of college students have advanced to the final round of the 2022 annual Arkansas Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition, presented by Arkansas Capital Corporation. Six of the teams, three in the High-Growth / Technology Division and three…

A new food hub set to open in 2024 will offer resources to farmers, food entrepreneurs and Northwest Arkansas residents. The $31 million Market Center of the Ozarks will be a 45,000-square-foot facility in downtown Springdale that provides crop aggregation…