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Walton Family Foundation, Inc. (AR)
The Walton Family Foundation was established in 1962 by Sam and Helen Walton. One of their goals was to increase opportunity and improve the lives of others along the way.
Their guiding principle - to benefit the deserving people and inspiring projects around the world - derives the philanthropic mission of the Walton Family Foundation.
Today, the foundation is focused on sustaining the Walton's timeless small-town values and their deep commitment to making life better for individuals and communities.
Web Address
www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org
Social Media Links
Facebook - www.facebook.com/waltonfamilyfoundation
Twitter - @waltonfamilyfdn
Their guiding principle - to benefit the deserving people and inspiring projects around the world - derives the philanthropic mission of the Walton Family Foundation.
Today, the foundation is focused on sustaining the Walton's timeless small-town values and their deep commitment to making life better for individuals and communities.
Web Address
www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org
Social Media Links
Facebook - www.facebook.com/waltonfamilyfoundation
Twitter - @waltonfamilyfdn
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Recent News from Walton Family Foundation
Walton Family grant to plan Bentonville downtown parks connection
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
Editor's note: This is the second in a four-part series on plans made by the 2017 recipients grants from the Walton Family Foundation's Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. BENTONVILLE --...more
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
Editor's note: This is the second in a four-part series on plans made by the 2017 recipients grants from the Walton Family Foundation's Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. BENTONVILLE --...more
Society is Disintegrating. Can This Arts Grant Help Save Us?
Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
That's the provocative question raised by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's grant of $750,000 to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). The grant will establish a Center for Empathy and the Visual...more
Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
That's the provocative question raised by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's grant of $750,000 to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). The grant will establish a Center for Empathy and the Visual...more
"A Goal of Justice." Behind a Push for Racial Equity in Arts Funding
Foundation: Heinz Endowments, Joyce Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
If I had to predict the top arts philanthropy trend for 2018, it would be institutional funders' intensifying efforts to boost equitable funding and access to the arts. Dr. Dorian Burton, Assistant...more
Foundation: Heinz Endowments, Joyce Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
If I had to predict the top arts philanthropy trend for 2018, it would be institutional funders' intensifying efforts to boost equitable funding and access to the arts. Dr. Dorian Burton, Assistant...more
$3.1M in grants to help 2 cities update trail sections
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
Irma Holasek walks her dogs Friday on the Razorback Greenway by Town Branch Creek where debris and flooding in the creek has caused it to create a new channel near the trail Bentonville and Rogers...more
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
Irma Holasek walks her dogs Friday on the Razorback Greenway by Town Branch Creek where debris and flooding in the creek has caused it to create a new channel near the trail Bentonville and Rogers...more
Greenway projects in Bentonville, Rogers to increase safety, cohesion
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
Some older sections of the Razorback Greenway will be improved and brought into compliance with industry design standards thanks to two Walton Family Foundation grants. Bentonville received $2.1...more
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
Some older sections of the Razorback Greenway will be improved and brought into compliance with industry design standards thanks to two Walton Family Foundation grants. Bentonville received $2.1...more
With $750000 Grant, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Starts Up Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts
Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will use the money toward starting what it is calling the Center for Empathy and the Visual...more
Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will use the money toward starting what it is calling the Center for Empathy and the Visual...more
Minneapolis Institute of Art gets big grant to study empathy
Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
In theory, art can build empathy. The Minneapolis Institute of Art just nabbed a big grant to explore how and why. The museum announced Wednesday that it had received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew...more
Foundation: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
In theory, art can build empathy. The Minneapolis Institute of Art just nabbed a big grant to explore how and why. The museum announced Wednesday that it had received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew...more
Annual Meeting 2017 Session Recaps
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
That being said, Great Hearts would not have been possible without philanthropic support, specifically an early grant from the Walton Family Foundation as well ... During a breakout session on rural...more
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
That being said, Great Hearts would not have been possible without philanthropic support, specifically an early grant from the Walton Family Foundation as well ... During a breakout session on rural...more
Strange Bedfellows? Ford and Walton Join Forces on Arts Diversity
Foundation: Ford Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
Add it all up, and the Walton Family Foundation's unlikely partnership with the left-leaning Ford Foundation isn't a bizarre philanthropic outlier as much as brand "enhancement" wrought by...more
Foundation: Ford Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Walton Family Foundation
Add it all up, and the Walton Family Foundation's unlikely partnership with the left-leaning Ford Foundation isn't a bizarre philanthropic outlier as much as brand "enhancement" wrought by...more
Walton Family Foundation awards grants to NWA cities
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation awarded Fayetteville, Bentonville, Springdale, and Rogers grant money to be used to vitalize downtown areas and urban parks. Jeremy Pate is a program manager with The...more
Foundation: Walton Family Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation awarded Fayetteville, Bentonville, Springdale, and Rogers grant money to be used to vitalize downtown areas and urban parks. Jeremy Pate is a program manager with The...more
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Employers For Childcare Charitable Group (EFCG), a Lisburn-based charity, has been crowned top Social Enterprise at the Ulster Final of 2014’s Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards. EFCG seeks to “make it easier for parents with dependent children to get into work and to stay in work.”