Social Entrepreneurship Leads to Business Plan for LINX Bistro

As part of adjunct professor Terry Mazany’s Social Entrepreneurship class, four University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service students recently created a business plan for a new concept for a full-service casual dining restaurant in Little Rock.

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Owyoung collaborates with The Venture Center to conduct economic impact analysis

A six-month economic impact analysis conducted in conjunction with the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service recently found that members of The Venture Center have created an additional 192 jobs within the previous year, an increase of 43 percent, resulting in 637 total jobs created by members since The Venture Center’s founding in 2014.

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Unique Approach Aims to Boost Academic Achievement at LRSD Middle Schools

The Little Rock School District (LRSD) joined the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and ForwARd Arkansas Practicum partners on Friday to announce recommendations for a best-practices approach, introducing a new toolkit to support academic success for LRSD middle school students.

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Haas Prepares for Work with VoteRunLead

This summer, first-year student Starre Haas will travel to New York for an International Public Service Project with VoteRunLead, one of the largest and most diverse campaign leadership programs in the country.

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Partner Profile: Delta Circles

Serving Phillips County communities since 2009, Delta Circles is a nonprofit organization with the mission to support families, end poverty in those families’ lives, and inspire communities to commit to long-term solutions addressing poverty.

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Zuccardi Looks to Advance Sustainability with Avani

Clinton School student Karen Zuccardi (Bogotá, Colombia), whose upcoming International Public Service Project with Avani is focused on sustainability, serves on Little Rock’s Sustainability Commission. She had the opportunity to speak to the more than 300 attendees of the summit, held Thursday, March 29 at Robinson Auditorium.

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Combating Opioid Crisis Personal for Treviño

University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service student Andrew S. Treviño of Greeley, Colo., has spent the past four months completing his final Capstone project with the Arkansas Department of Human Services Division of Behavioral Health Services (DBHS) working on the Arkansas State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis (Opioid STR), a grant totaling nearly $8 million over a two-year period, which Arkansas received from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in an effort to curb the nation’s opioid epidemic.

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