Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

On this week's edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal report, host Roby Brock speaks with Sherece West-Scantlebury as she prepares to retire from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.

Sherece West-Scantlebury will retire as president and CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation in October. During her 18 years there, the foundation co-founded initiatives aimed at improving education, economic standing, and social and racial equity in the state.

Forward Arkansas is an initiative established by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Walton Family Foundation to help educators get the help they need to improve student outcomes. Last May, they launched the Learner Collective regarding literacy, parent involvement and school attendance. This year, Arkansas Forward's collective returned around the state.

The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation celebrates 50 years of work by honoring its past work by launching a new initiative to help Arkansas nonprofits work in the next half-century.

On today's show, we hear about grant funding that has been awarded to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to provide therapeutic care to incarcerated people diagnosed with PTSD. Also, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation celebrates 50 years of work by honoring its past work by launching a new initiative to help Arkansas nonprofits work in the next half-century. Plus, an athlete takes a cold swim.

The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute's goal is to empower women and people of color. The organization's CEO and Janet Harris speaks with Roby Brock, from KUAF's partner Talk Business and Politics, about the nonprofit and the former governor's legacy.

At a price tag of just over $200,000, more than $35 million in medical debt was forgiven and erased for 23,896 Arkansans in all 75 counties. Dr. Sherece West-Scantlebury of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Abby Hughes Holsclaw of Arkansas Asset Funders Network discuss the impact of this debt forgiveness and the future policy plans to prevent this from happening in the future.

In August, the Arkansas Board of Education voted to strike a novel partnership with Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation as well as the Walton Family…