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.
Read MoreCenter on Community Philanthropy Awarded Grant
The Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy has received a $225,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a project to promote racial healing and equity in the American South.
Read MoreGiving Circles
The Center on Community Philanthropy will join the Arkansas Women’s Foundation today to host, “Giving Circles: Using Our Collective Power for Strategic Impact.”
Read MorePositive Press
Charlotte Lewellen Williams, director of the Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy, is featured in an article in UAMS’ Housecall magazine about how her work at the center is fueled by her master’s and doctoral studies in public health at UAMS.
Read MorePhilanthropy Scholar Touts Collaboration
Ford Foundation Director of Philanthropy Suzanne Siskel spoke Thursday at the Clinton School about the role of philanthropy in transforming communities.
Read MoreCouncil on Foundations COO speaks
Kristin Lindsey, COO of the Council on Foundations, drew a large Clinton School crowd today for her talk on community philanthropy and nonprofit management. Lindsey is a visiting scholar this week at the Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy. Video of her talk will be posted soon at www.clintonschoolspeakers.com
Read MorePhilanthropy Scholars Announced
The Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy today announced its Fall 2009 “Scholars in Residence,” a group of researchers, practitioners and senior executives who have demonstrated exemplary contributions in the field of community philanthropy.
Read MorePhilanthropy Scholar to Study Nonprofit Funding
With the help of two Clinton School students, Besel will study the ability of nonprofit organizations in the center’s target areas of the Arkansas Delta region and New Orleans to leverage funding from the private sector.
Read MoreTalking Rural Philanthropy
Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford and Center on Community Philanthropy director Charlotte Williams are attending a conference on “Philanthropy and Rural America” this week at the Clinton Presidential Center and the Clinton School.
Read MoreTalking Philanthropy
Dr. Allen served as the Center on Community Philanthropy’s first “Scholar in Residence,” a new program that brings guest scholars to the Clinton School to research and discuss community-spawned philanthropy.
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