Fort Smith, Ark. —On Monday, The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith breaks ground on a brand new $15.5 million facility for the visual arts program. The new facility will house graphic design laboratories, space for photography, painting,...
... up of more than 200 member foundations in a seven-state area – Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, ... and Washington, and how philanthropy is leveraging crowd funding and social media to create...
Inasmuch Foundation (Oklahoma CIty, OK) recently awarded $5.79 million in grants to 28 organizations, all serving Oklahoma communities. The grants include more than $1 million to KIPP Reach to expand and grow a five-school model serving over 2,500 students per year. Another $500,000 was awarded to the Kiwanis Special Activities Fund to replace the old Carver Mark Twain Head Start building with a birth-to-school continuum campus next door to the newly renovated Mark Twain Elementary.
Through a more than $1.3 million donation, ORIX Foundation (Dallas) has given money to 82 North Texas nonprofits in an effort to help children at risk, families in poverty and veterans.