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With Executive-in-Residence for a Day, Walton College takes the rich experience of an EIR program and packages it into a day of engaged learning.

The Walton Family Foundation, aiming to raise design quality in northwest Arkansas, has added 31 architecture and design firms to its Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program.

Robert Burns of the Walton Family Foundation aims to unlock opportunity for people in northwest Arkansas and the Delta.

Sonal Shah Tapped to Lead the Asian American Foundation TAAF Sonal Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. The Asian American Foundation Sonal Shah, a professor and founding executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, has been named president of this new foundation. Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innova...

Share this article Share this article BENTONVILLE, Ark., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The Walton Family Foundation today announced a new strategic plan for its next five-year grantmaking cycle. The plan reflects the foundations mission to tackle tough social and environmental problems with urgency and a long-term approach to expand access to opportunity for people and communities. Working across its three, longstanding programmatic areas – protecting rivers and oceans and the communities the...