Throughout 2014, the Heartland Foundation of Little Rock, the charitable outlet of Heartland Bank, has donated nearly $100,000 to nine nonprofits.
The largest donation was $50,000 to Arkansas Children’s Hospital. The contribution is the second installment of a 10-year commitment to provide $500,000 to support the Arkansas Children’s House facility. In addition to the gift from Heartland, the bank’s majority shareholders — Terry and Walter Quinn of Little Rock — have pledged to match the yearly $50,000 donation for 10 years.
Other donations by the Heartland Foundation in 2014 are:
- Children’s Protection Center: $20,000 for Forensic Interview program and equipment costs
- Arkansas Rice Depot: $10,000 for Food for Kids program.
- Beyond Batten Disease Foundation: $5,000 to support partnership with New York Stem Cell Foundation to create iPS stem cells for Batten disease research.
- Junior League of Little Rock: $4,000 for Literacy Campaign program.
- Ronald McDonald House: $2,500 for campaign.
- Economics Arkansas: $2,500 for Teacher Grant program.
- Arkansas Tech University Foundation: $2,500 for Legacy Forward, the Robert Charles Brown & Jill Lestage Brown Endowment.
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock Suicide Prevention & Campus Health Foundation: $1,000 for Community Awareness campaign.