Video: Winners of the 2020 Health Care Heroes Awards
Arkansas Business is proud to present the winners of its 2020 Health Care Heroes awards. read more >
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Resource Guide: Financial Tools, Aid for Businesses Hurt by COVID-19
Arkansas Business is regularly updating this page with links and contact information for businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Razorback Foundation Names New Strategic Communications, Stewardship Director
The Razorback Foundation has appointed Meredith Pettigrew of Prairie Grove (Washington County) as its director of Strategic Communications and Stewardship. read more >
Delta Dental Offers $7M in COVID-19 Help
Delta Dental of Arkansas is providing financial help to dental clinics and nonprofits that are helping communities during the COVID-19 outbreak. read more >
Waking Up in a New Army of the Unemployed
Thousands of Arkansans who lost their jobs as the COVID-19 disease outbreak shut down businesses are seeking unemployment aid. read more >
The Rep Suspends Operations Due Amid COVID-19
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre suspends all programming activities, including productions, events and educational offerings, effective immediately. read more >
Update: Baptist Health to Begin Furloughing Workers
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 >
Arkansas Businesses Should Prepare Now to Apply for Federal Aid
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 >
Fed Projects Decade's Fastest-Growing Occupations
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 >
Baptist Health Foundation Receives $130K for COVID-19 Testing System
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. read more >
Easterseals Arkansas Furloughs 90-Plus Staff Members
“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. read more >
Arkansas PBS to Air Lessons For Pre-K Through 8th Grade
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 Presents 2020 40 Under 40 Honorees
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 >
Pulaski County's Most Expensive Home Sales of 2019
Last year, 32 luxury homes in Pulaski County sold for $1 million or more, up from 30 in 2018. read more >
Northwest Arkansas' Most Expensive Home Sales of 2019
The same Fayetteville house was the most expensive home sold in northwest Arkansas in 2019 and in 2018. read more >
UAMS, Baptist Health Could Partner Up on Oncologists
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 >
Bella Vista Apartments in SWLR Sold for $7.9M
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 >
Quiktrip Land Purchase Closes at $8.5M (Real Deals)
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 >
Rockefeller Institute Hires Osburn, Hopper (Movers & Shakers)
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 >
Update: Arkansas Community Foundation Creates COVID-19 Relief Fund
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 >
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