Student Earns Social Finance Fellowship

Clinton School student Burt Hicks (’13) has earned a graduate fellowship with RSF Social Finance, a non-profit financial firm that invests in social enterprises.

Hicks has been named a Regional Social Impact Graduate Fellow by RSF Social Finance, a leading nonprofit financial services organization dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money.

As a fellow, Hicks will work to identify and vet promising social impact businesses and organizations in Arkansas and the surrounding region. He will be responsible for scanning and understanding the local, state and regional landscape for high-impact innovations, trends and movements focused on the creation of social value and impact.

Since 1984, RSF Social Finance has provided over $200 million in loans and over $90 million in grants to enterprises in the areas of Food & Agriculture, Education & the Art, and Ecological Stewardship.

Hicks earned his undergraduate degree in finance and has worked as an investment banking analyst for Merrill Lynch in New York and as a corporate finance analyst for Simmons First Bank in Little Rock.

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