Anna Beth Gorman

Arkansas' new Act 116 eliminates affirmative action, raising concerns that it could weaken support for women- and minority-owned businesses, particularly the state's MWOBE program. read more >

Gorman is CEO of the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas in Little Rock. read more >

Implementing parental leave policies is an investment in your business’ health and reputation. read more >

Fund support the nonprofit's mission of empowering the economic mobility of Arkansas women and girls. read more >

A bill to end affirmative action in education hiring and outlaw state goals for steering procurement contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses in Arkansas gained approval Monday night. read more >

A bill to end affirmative action in education hiring and outlaw state goals for steering procurement contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses in Arkansas narrowly passed in the Senate before stalling in the House. read more >

Sharon Tallach Vogelpohl doesn’t necessarily buy the notion of women’s intuition, but she may have a sixth sense when it comes to business. read more >

Arkansas is missing out on tax revenue, jobs, wealth building, new products and services that could improve lives, business diversity and community investment, all because women struggle to access business capital. read more >

The Women’s Foundation of Arkansas has been awarded a $100,000 Women’s Funding Network grant to design and launch a Regional Women’s Economic Mobility Hub in six months and operate it over the next 18 months. read more >

The Women's Foundation of Arkansas launches Women Owned, an assistance fund for women-owned small businesses experiencing economic hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >

Action must be taken now to ensure long-term economic security for women. That is why organizations such as the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, Southern Bancorp Community Partners, Southern Bancorp Bank and others are promoting Save10. read more >

The Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame announces its fifth annual group of inductees — seven women and one organization — who will be honored at a ceremony on Aug. 29 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >

The Women's Foundation of Arkansas will host its annual Girls of Promise Conference on Thursday and Friday at the Arkansas 4-H Center and the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel in Little Rock. read more >

If you missed last Wednesday’s Arkansas Business of the Year banquet, you missed the feel-good event of the year. And I needed it. read more >

Dan Williams of Garver and Lynn Blankenship of Cooperative Christian Ministries and Clinic won executive of the year awards, and former Simmons First National Corp. CEO J. Thomas "Tommy" May was honored for his lifetime of leadership at the 31st annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. read more >

Twelve companies whose executives volunteered to test their own corporate practices against a new “Gender Equity Scorecard” developed by the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and the Clinton School of Public Service will be recognized at next week’s Arkansas Business of the Year banquet. read more >

Debbie Reynolds has been hired as branch manager of FNBC Bank’s new office in Jonesboro. read more >

Four Clinton School of Public Service students, in partnership with the Women's Foundation of Arkansas, have created a "gender equity scorecard" — an internal assessment they hope Arkansas businesses will use to evaluate the state of gender equity in the workplace. read more >

Anna Beth Gorman was named executive director of the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas in April 2016. read more >

Anna Beth Gorman has joined the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas in Little Rock as executive director. She has five years of experience working for Girl Scouts-Diamonds of Arkansas, Oklahoma & Texas as membership director, vice president of membership services and chief of membership, volunteer and program officers. read more >