Walton Family Foundation

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…

The Walton Family Foundation announced Monday the addition of 31 firms to its Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. Renowned architect Toshiko Mori will also join the program’s selection committee. “The Design Excellence Program is unique not only in its focus on…

The University of Arkansas’ 28th annual Business Forecast Luncheon will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, at the Rogers Convention Center in the World Trade Center District in Rogers, and will feature a panel…

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has appointed five new members to its Community Development Advisory Council, three of which are from Arkansas. The council meets twice a year to inform St. Louis Fed President James Bullard and Community Development…