The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

Strengthening Arkansas nonprofits (22 organizations engaged):wrf has directly supported leadership development and stronger nonprofits through technical assistance for specific planning and coaching needs, leadership development, and nonprofit networks. Nonprofits received support for project evaluation, documentation, constituency building, strategic and business planning, communications, financial management and board development.

Capital access and asset development (28 organizations engaged):wrf created The abc's of equity (alice, business case for equity, and capital access report) to quantify existing equity challenges and to identify strategies to overcome them. We released The capital access report to drive action to increase The availability of lending resources to black and brown entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs. Wrf launched grow ar own and sparked a statewide conversation about inequity in private banking and federal small business support for businesses owned by women and people of color.

Reimagine Arkansas (10 organizations engaged):created by wrf in 2020, reimagine Arkansas is The only statewide initiative for narrative change that listens to those most impacted by inequity, our alice families and workers, and shares their stories via a widely accessible platform. By enabling stories to proliferate, we aim to undermine assumptions and preconceptions and change The narrative about alice families to influence policy and advocacy and encourage others to join ar equity 2025's movement building. Wrf launched reimagine Arkansas using listening technology to surface real, unbiased perspectives and stories of alice families.