Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy Awarded Major Grant

The Center on Community Philanthropy at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service has received a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation titled, “Building Capacity for Community Philanthropy that Strengthens Sector Effectiveness for the Benefit of Vulnerable Children.”

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Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy Visiting Scholar Studies the Changing Misrepresentation of Race and Crime in the Media

Read Publication University of Illinois communication professor and visiting scholar at the Center on Community Philanthropy at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Fall of 2013, Travis Dixon, recently published a study of five years of network and cable crime news. The study, co-authored by the Center on Community Philanthropy director…

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Center on Community Philanthropy and Women’s Foundation of Arkansas Announce Externship Opportunity

The Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy is pleased to announce a new externship opportunity for a Clinton School student to work with our partner, the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas. This position will allow a Clinton School student to work on the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas Girls of Promise Conference, which will be held October 2-3 at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, AR.

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Pathways to Racial Healing and Equity in the American South

Read Publication In 2013, the Center published a compendium of essays by its scholars titled: Pathways to Racial Healing and Equity in the American South. This compendium, Pathways to Racial Healing and Equity in the American South: A Community Philanthropy Strategy, highlights the Center’s ability to bring together a diverse group of scholars, experienced public…

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Community Gathers for Conversation about Race and Media in Pine Bluff

Dixon encouraged discussion on the topic of whether these biases are present in Pine Bluff media outlets.

“Television news is important because we expect it to reflect reality,” Dixon said. “But often it creates its own version of reality. We have not looked directly at Pine Bluff in our research but these images come up everywhere we look.”

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