Haylee Fletcher of Prescott Valley, Ariz., spent four months completing her University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service final Capstone project with the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit resettlement agency that works to serve refugee populations from around the world.
Read MoreClinton 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…
Read MoreClinton School Alum Launches Social Change Firm
Class 8 Alum launches Project Kinect, a social change firm that assists people and organizations in creating the positive social change they wish to see. Project Kinect will be officially launching in Madison, WI Monday, February 23rd.
Read MoreSocial Entrepreneurship Boot Camp Application Period Now Open
The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, the Clinton School of Public Service, the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and the University of Arkansas Office of Entrepreneurship are proud to announce a Social Entrepreneurship Boot Camp to be held July 17-19, 2015, at the Institute on Petit Jean Mountain.
Read MoreAlum J.D. Lowery Named Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas Manager of Community and Economic Development
The Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas have named J.D. Lowery as manager of community and economic development. He previously served as director of the Arkansas Energy Office for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.
Read MoreJanuary Speakers
January Speakers. The Clinton School and the Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy are hosting a panel discussion: “Young and African-American in 2015” on Monday, January 19th at 6 p.m. to commemorate the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Read MorePast Field Service Partner, The Arkansas Legal Services Partnership Nominated for American Bar Association Award
The Arkansas Legal Services Partnership (ALSP) is honored to have been nominated to receive the American Bar Association’s Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access for developing the “pro-bono-in-a-box” model that has been so successful in engaging new pro bono assets. There are some great justice programs among our fellow nominees. So even if you do not vote for…
Read MoreStudent Andrew Lovley Designs Comprehensive Evaluation System for Educational Nonprofit in Panama
Andrew Lovley of Wrentham, Mass. completed a three-month partnership with Give & Surf Inc., a nonprofit based in rural Panama that provides community development and educational access to an underserved indigenous population.
Read MoreClinton School Student Ashley Jones Conducts Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Arkansas Drug Court System
For her final individual capstone project, University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service student Ashley Jones of Piedmont, South Carolina, studied the Arkansas Drug Court System.
Read MoreMcLarty Global Fellows Program
Vital Voices Global Partnership is honored to collaborate with the McLarty Global Fellows Program, a philanthropic endeavor established by Mack and Donna McLarty, for a five-year partnership to provide fellowships to students at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Sam M. Walton College of Business, and J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
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