The study in the journal Foundation Review looks at giving, civic engagement and leadership development in small communities in Arkansas. “I’m pleased that these national academic journals have recognized the importance of our research on community philanthropy in the rural South,” said Dr. Charlotte L. Williams, director of the Center on Community Philanthropy. “We will continue to study…
Read MoreWilliams Helps Land Diversity Grant
Clinton School faculty member Charlotte Williams, director of the Center on Community Philanthropy, authored a portion of a $250,000 grant that has been awarded to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Center for Diversity Affairs.
Read MoreCenter on Philanthropy Concludes Dialogue on Race
The Center on Community Philanthropy concluded its two-day conference featuring a dialogue on race and equity in the South on Friday with a lecture from Dr. David Williams of Harvard University.
Read MoreCenter on Community Philanthropy to Host Dialogue on Race
The Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy will host the first in a series of conversations on the issues of race and equity in the South on Thursday and Friday in Little Rock.
Read MoreCenter on Community Philanthropy Lands Grant
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (WRF) Board of Directors recently voted to award a $150,000 matching grant to the Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy at the in support of their W.K. Kellogg America Healing Initiative grant.
Read MoreCenter on Community Philanthropy Targets Pine Bluff
BY ERIN STOCK – Idonia Trotter and two of her classmates at the Clinton School worked for nearly a year in the southeastern Arkansas city of Pine Bluff, developing ways to reach children during critical after-school hours.
Read MoreCommunity Philanthropy: Strategies for Impacting Vulnerable Populations
Read Publication In 2010, the Center published a compendium of essays by its scholars titled, “Community Philanthropy: Strategies for Impacting Vulnerable Populations.” This compendium, Community Philanthropy: Strategies for Impacting Vulnerable Populations, is a relevant resource for the field of philanthropy and for communities of all kinds. It also serves as a key tool for the…
Read MoreUALR Chancellor Serving as Visiting Scholar
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Chancellor Joel Anderson will serve as a visiting scholar next week at the Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy.
Read MoreCenter on Community Philanthropy Awarded Grant
The Center on Community Philanthropy at the Clinton School has received a $750,000 grant to fund efforts to study and promote philanthropy that fosters healthy, equitable communities.
Read MoreFighting Poverty in the Delta
The effort, titled “Emerging Communities Initiative (ECI): Reducing levels of poverty in the Delta,” has targeted three Delta communities – Forrest City, Helena-West Helena and Blytheville – and is working to help find ways to reduce poverty among the most vulnerable residents of those areas.
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