“This was an extremely hard decision to make, but the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge existential threat to not only Easterseals Arkansas, but to the over 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S.,” CEO Ron Ekstrand said.
The Baptist Health Foundation has received two donations totaling more than $130,000 to fund COVID-19 testing equipment for the western region of Arkansas.
PCA Technology Solutions President and CEO Ted Clouser will be the first featured guest on Insights, a new webinar series presented by Arkansas Business.
Arkansas Urology this week announced the launch of its nonprofit Arkansas Urology Foundation. read more >
Arkansas Business is regularly updating this page with links and contact information for businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Arkansas Business is proud to present the winners of its 2020 Health Care Heroes awards. read more >
The Razorback Foundation has appointed Meredith Pettigrew of Prairie Grove (Washington County) as its director of Strategic Communications and Stewardship. read more >
Delta Dental of Arkansas is providing financial help to dental clinics and nonprofits that are helping communities during the COVID-19 outbreak. read more >
Thousands of Arkansans who lost their jobs as the COVID-19 disease outbreak shut down businesses are seeking unemployment aid. read more >
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre suspends all programming activities, including productions, events and educational offerings, effective immediately. read more >
Baptist Health will begin furloughing workers this week in an attempt to slash costs as patients cancel procedures and testing, creating “a serious financial strain” on the state's largest health care system. read more >
Businesses can begin preparing now to apply for assistance under the federal rescue package signed last week by President Trump, but it will be about two weeks before they can turn in their paperwork. read more >
Employment in the United States is forecast to grow by 8.4 million jobs to 169.4 million jobs during the decade of 2018-28, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Or it was; the report was released months before the coronavirus pandemic caused widespread job losses. read more >
The newly rebranded Arkansas PBS, the state's public television network, is taking a new role in teaching pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade pupils remotely while schools are ordered closed in the coronavirus pandemic. read more >
Arkansas Business announces the 40 honorees in this year's 40 Under 40 class, which honors people in business, nonprofits and government making a significant impact. read more >
Last year, 32 luxury homes in Pulaski County sold for $1 million or more, up from 30 in 2018. read more >
The same Fayetteville house was the most expensive home sold in northwest Arkansas in 2019 and in 2018. read more >
An alliance is in the works between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Baptist Health of Little Rock involving oncology doctors. read more >
This week's group represents a varied roster with a multifamily property in Little Rock, eateries in North Little Rock and west Little Rock, Conway homes, a west Little Rock office building and duplexes in Benton. read more >
The Tulsa-based convenience store chain purchased the land near the southwest corner of Interstate 30 and Otter Creek Road from Fletcher Realty LLC, led by Frank Fletcher. read more >
The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute in Morrilton has added two new members to its executive team. Mandy Osburn is the new chief financial officer and James Hopper is the new director of programs. read more >
The Arkansas Community Foundation creates the COVID-19 Relief Fund to direct resources to Arkansas nonprofits disproportionately affected by the coronavirus and its economic fallout. read more >
The $812,500 sale of 16 Little Rock apartments topped the latest round of real estate transactions. read more >
Taylor Hasley has been named executive director of the Startup Junkie Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Startup Junkie Consulting, an entrepreneurial support organization in Fayetteville. read more >
Walmart Inc. and the Walmart Foundation of Bentonville says it will give $25 million to support organizations responding to the global COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
With questions flying about the coronavirus pandemic, its local effects and the latest in what Arkansans can do, Arkansas PBS plans to supply answers from health experts at 7 p.m. Thursday in a special live broadcast, "Arkansans Ask: COVID-19." read more >
Erik Dees has been appointed to program manager for Milestone Leadership in Siloam Springs. read more >
Is it time for a change in your business message? Depending on the research you follow and the experiences of other organizations, you could be led to different conclusions. read more >
Bill Sowell of Sowell Management and Larry Freeman of Synergy Saturday Inc. won executive of the year awards, and Wallace Fowler was honored for his lifetime of leadership at the 32nd annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >
About 41% of Arkansas households are trapped by low wages and rising costs and are unable to afford basic needs, according to a report released by Entergy Arkansas and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. read more >
Doug and Shelley McMillon have committed an additional $1 million gift to the McMillon Innovation Studio on the campus of the University of Arkansas so that it can serve more students. read more >
The $525,000 sale of a Little Rock apartment complex led the most recent round of real estate transactions. read more >
Walmart US CEO John Furner and J.B. Hunt Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Shelley Simpson are among the executives scheduled to speak as the Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy expands into northwest Arkansas this fall. read more >
