An anonymous benefactor gave a record $1.5 million to University of Arkansas at Little Rock Public Radio, home to central Arkansas' NPR station, KUAR-FM, 98.1, and the state's only classical music FM station, KLRE Classical 90.5.
Misner has been called the “Father of Modern Networking” by Forbes and CNN.
During 2021, Arkansas has seen business rebound and reset. Entrepreneurs have had to flex their creative muscle during the “creative destruction” phase — a phenomenon that usually results in economic progress.
Nabholz is managing partner for the Health Tech Arkansas accelerator, and Tappan is managing partner of the company that owns most of the Purple Cow Restaurants chain. read more >
The grant will be used to help five groups of nonprofits over the next two years. read more >
She'll oversee efforts to tutor, mentor and provide role models for more than 3,500 students. read more >
The group says the report shows that policies at the state level have to adjust to improve the entrepreneurship environments in heartland states. read more >
The nonprofit sold its former headquarters in Little Rock for $5.4 million after the COVID-19 pandemic brought a reassessment of its real estate needs. read more >
Steuart Walton and Startup Junkie founder Jeff Amerine will be keynote speakers read more >
The professional and business services sector grew the most, adding 10,000 jobs. read more >
Arkansas Business announces the 2021 CFO of the Year finalists and Lifetime Achievement Award winners. read more >
He takes over amid a campaign to engage millions of new and continuing riders. read more >
The upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic resulted in many changes to the nonprofit landscape. While some aspects may return to “business as usual,” other areas will require nonprofits to adjust to a permanent new normal. read more >
Almost 50 years after Winthrop Rockefeller died, the three nonprofits seeded by his fortune are evolving their missions for doing good in Arkansas, the nation and the world read more >
Boosters of the Delta Heritage Trail in east Arkansas hope to hear good news very soon that the second time was the charm to land a momentous check from Uncle Sam. read more >
For nonprofits, especially those that rely on fundraisers and events for their revenue, the pandemic caused anxiety and belt-tightening in 2020. read more >
Arkansas ranked higher than neighbors Mississippi and Louisiana, according to a November 2020 report by WalletHub. read more >
Robert Burns of the Walton Family Foundation aims to unlock opportunity for people in northwest Arkansas and the Delta. read more >
Thanks to a $750,000 grant awarded earlier this month, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will be one of the first institutions in the country to offer graduate certificates in cybersecurity education to high school teachers. read more >
A new 15,000-SF building will be named in the family's honor. read more >
When Arkansas Business looked last week into why a previously successful and generally well-liked hospital administrator could have been ousted in El Dorado, it didn't take long to find defenders of Scott Street. read more >
Carl Rosenbaum, co-founder of Safe Foods Corp. of North Little Rock, has been named to receive the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's 11th annual James H. Fribourgh Award, which honors individuals who have made contributions to the state of Arkansas through mathematics and science. read more >
Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, dean designate of the University of Arkansas' Clinton School of Public Service, calls public service “the raw material of our democracy.” read more >
The amount is 10 times what the broadcaster was seeking during its fall fund drive. read more >
Customers could donate at the register and through the retailers' website or app. read more >
The program will help kids build skills like functional literacy and critical thinking, and show them eventual career options in age-appropriate ways. read more >
Hospitals and medical centers in Arkansas benefited from government relief money last year to offset losses caused by COVID-19. read more >
The delta strain of the coronavirus has sickened more children and challenged Arkansas Children's in Little Rock and Children's Hospital Northwest. read more >
Arkansas Business reached out to several Arkansas hospital executives and asked them about their observations and lessons learned amid the pandemic. Here's what they said. read more >
After 12 months of grinding work on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a time this year when health care workers and executives thought they had put the worst behind them. read more >
An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's Quarterly Services Survey data on hospital visits shows the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital revenue in the United States, notably big declines in revenue during the pandemic's early days and then big jumps in revenue once Congress approved pandemic relief. read more >
For Arkansas hospitals, the new normal is coming quickly into view. read more >
Martine Downs Pollard of Rogers has been named Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield's vice president for the northwest Arkansas market. read more >
