Walmart to Award $1.12M in Grants Wednesday
Walmart will host a “Day of Giving” in Little Rock at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to award Walmart Foundation Arkansas State Giving grants totaling $1.12 million to 11 nonprofits. read more >
Walmart will host a “Day of Giving” in Little Rock at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to award Walmart Foundation Arkansas State Giving grants totaling $1.12 million to 11 nonprofits. read more >
Pody Gay has joined the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock as director of the Discovery Network, a consortium of museums, library systems, schools, university STEM centers and a Head Start program in Arkansas. read more >
The Museum of Discovery said last week that its Girls in STEM program will serve more girls in 2017 and expand to Jonesboro and Pine Bluff thanks to grants from Walmart, Best Buy and the Women's Foundation of Arkansas. read more >
The Museum of Discovery and the Arkansas STEM Coalition are partnering with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville to introduce "Million Women Mentors" in central Arkansas. read more >
The Museum of Discovery in Little Rock is urging Arkansas students to end their holiday break with a winter blast. read more >
The Arkansas Nonprofit Alliance spearheaded a philanthropic event Tuesday to raise money and awareness for various causes around the state. read more >
Everyone's new favorite scientist is headed back to New York City for another appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." read more >
Kevin Delaney, the director of visitor experience at the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, had his big moment in the spotlight last night, appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." Delaney performed science demonstrations with host Fallon as his "laboratory assistant." read more >
Before becoming CEO at the Museum of Discovery in December 2012, Bass was assistant dean for external affairs for the Donaghey College of Engineering & Information Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He remains active in the central Arkansas nonprofit community, serving on the board of Riverfest, for which he chaired the 30th anniversary festival in 2007, and the Downtown Little Rock Partnership. read more >
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation awards $3.5 million grant to the Arkansas Discovery Network, a network of seven Arkansas museums that promotes interactive learning for children. read more >
Angela Sewall, dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Education, will be recognized with the 2013 Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. read more >
Mid-America Science Museum in Hot Springs has named Diane LaFollette its new executive director. LaFollette has been chief operations officer for the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, where she has worked in several capacities since since 1997. read more >
The Museum of Discovery of Little Rock named Kelley Bass its new CEO, replacing Nan Selz, who is retiring on Dec. 31 after about nine years as chief executive. read more >
Among Nikki Parnell’s achievements has been to pay for the Museum of Discovery’s events and staff without the nonprofit’s usual major funding sources of admission fees and facility rentals. The Reynolds grant is paying for renovations, not museum operations. read more >
