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.
Read MorePartner Profile: The Wallace Center at Winrock International
The Clinton School team is developing a strategy for the Wallace Center at Winrock International in local food and agriculture work in Arkansas. The work starts by analyzing the organization’s historical programming and role in food and agriculture in the state, cataloging current programming, and identifying core competencies to contribute to this work.
Read MorePartner Profile: ForwARd Arkansas
The Clinton School practicum team is working with ForwARd Arkansas to conduct best-practices research on successful school-community partnership models from around the United States to help craft a structure for each school to engage with partners, and to help create a long-term vision for such partnerships.
Read MorePartner Profile: Arkansas Historic Decisions Learning Exchange
As part of the ARHDLE initiative, Clinton School students are conducting useful research and working with officials from the aforementioned partner institutions to develop new programs based on historic issues.
Read MorePartner Profile: Hope Academy of Public Service
The Hope Academy of Public Service Practicum team will assess the impact of a middle school public service curriculum. The students will work to gather data to show the impact of the curriculum on community partners as well as students and the “whole child” aspects of middle school and career and college preparation.
Read MoreClinton School 2017 Year in Review
The Clinton School graduated its 11th class in May 2017. The school’s Master of Public Service degree program has now graduated over 300 students since its inaugural class in 2006.
Read MoreStudies in South Asia, Habitat for Humanity Shape Richardson’s Public Service Interests
Kirby Richardson graduated from the University of Central Arkansas as a double major in history and religious studies. Richardson has collected a variety of volunteer and public service experience. In addition to his work with Habitat for Humanity, he has volunteered as a history and social studies tutor and writing editor for the University College Program. As an undergraduate at UCA, he spent time studying South Asian history and Buddhist religious traditions in India and Nepal.
Read MoreAfter Years Spent Working with Soldiers and Veterans, Joy Returns to the Classroom
A first-year student at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Julie Joy earned an undergraduate degree in sociology from Clark University before earning her master’s degree in clinical social work from the Smith School for Social Work.
Read MorePartner Profile: Ronald McDonald House Charities
The team will explore opportunities for a nonprofit to expand services to area hospitals through program creation or expansion. It will identify each potential program’s goals and objectives, as well as potential for support from donors and the community. Deliverables include a community assessment, family needs survey, financial assessment, and medical feasibility study.
Read MorePartner Profile: Adult Learning Alliance of Arkansas
The team will conduct research to inform the development of a strategic plan that addresses the need for community-based adult literacy programs in Cleveland, Lincoln, Desha, Drew, Bradley, Ashley, and Chicot counties. The plan will be used by Arkansas Literacy Councils to establish and develop new literacy councils in the region.
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