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FACT Net News: Number 2 , June 1999
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“You can’t see the wood for the multi-purpose trees…” The following guest article is intended to stimulate discussion among FACT Net participants. The opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily those of FACT Net. We welcome your opinions on this topic in written form. Mark Powell, FACT Net Coordinator. Increasing emphasis has been placed […]
Winrock Legacy Society
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Thank you for your interest in the Winrock Legacy Society. There are many ways to create a lasting legacy and we are delighted that you are choosing to learn more about impacting the work we do to change lives at Winrock. Others have joined our Legacy Society by including Winrock in their estate plans or […]
Make a gift of stock to Winrock International
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Thank you for your interest in making a gift of stock to Winrock. Transferring securities held long term to Winrock enables you to make a gift and receive a charitable deduction equal to the full, fair market value of the securities. Typically you will pay no capital gains on your gift, nor will Winrock. To […]
Facing the Future Together
April 23, 2019|post
Kannitha, 20, was just a teenager when she and her mother, Sophea, 42, left Cambodia for Malaysia. A broker told them that they could make $330 a month there as domestic workers, so Sophea borrowed money to make the trip. Kannitha’s father, Rathana, stayed home to farm and look after her younger brothers. (His name […]
Counseling, Training Give Skills — and Hope — to Trafficking Survivor
November 26, 2014|post
Kiri (not his real name) is earning about the equivalent of $90 (USD) monthly as a barber and is planning to expand his efforts and profits by raising chickens. Just a few years ago, however, he was a poor farmer and his future was not nearly so promising. Like many farmers in central Cambodia’s Kampong […]
Enduring innovation: Health tech startup incubated by Winrock-led programs poised for growth
May 2, 2024|post
MappedOut Health is a client of Winrock International’s former Innovate Arkansas program, a state-funded initiative that assisted more than 750 startup companies in Arkansas, raised $473 million in capital and generated $939 million in revenue over a 15-year period. As with many innovations, the origin story of the promising new health technology firm, MappedOut Health, […]
The total eclipse is coming. Winrock’s Innovation Hub is ready. Are you?
November 27, 2023|post
The following story was originally published on thepathoftotality.org, an initiative of the Simons Foundation. For over 20 years, Errin Stanger, director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, has been driven by her love of community organizing and serving others. So when she learned that her town of North Little Rock, Arkansas, was in the path […]
The keys to inclusive small business success in the South: Affordable finance and pro advice
August 29, 2023|post
For small business owners in the U.S. South like Tandra Jordan, Darius Walker and Jerrell Simpson, failure was never an option. But it was always looming. Jordan is a single mom with two kids working full-time as a claims adjuster while trying to keep up with a fast-growing cleaning business in Little Rock, Ark. Walker […]
American Carbon Registry (ACR) incentivizes plugging orphaned oil and gas wells for climate action
July 17, 2023|post
They’re hiding in plain sight: a broken old pumpjack in the distance off the highway, an ancient rusty valve head in the middle of a barren field. Unplugged, inactive, ownerless and leaking, tens of thousands of orphaned oil and gas wells dot landscapes across the U.S. and Canada. They’re so common, it’s easy not to […]
Empowered Women Empower Women – Sharing the Wisdom I’ve Gained from Fourteen Volunteer Assignments
March 30, 2023|volunteer
When asked to write a piece for Women’s History Month, it caused me to quickly reflect over 28 years of working in women’s economic empowerment and perhaps some advances for women I have experienced while working in other countries and cultures. I have just returned from Senegal, where I have spent the last month completing […]