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The Winrock Q&A: Accelerating healthcare solutions and building partnerships in the Heartland
May 7, 2025|post
Jordyn Schneider, a program officer with the Human & Community Development team in Winrock’s U.S. Programs group, brings nearly a decade of experience in public health and community development to help communities thrive. Schneider helps lead the team’s program design and evaluation efforts, merging innovative and evidence-based practices in a community-driven approach to development. She […]
ACR presents annual Carbon Market Awards
March 26, 2025|post
Climate scientist Carlos Nobre, Arbor Day Foundation, Duke University, and Grupo Perú and the Ministry of Environment of Perú recognized for enduring and innovative commitment to climate action. [This news release originally appeared on ACRcarbon.org. Photo credit: ACR.] LOS ANGELES – March 26, 2025 – ACR recognized trailblazing individuals and organizations for their commitments to […]
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Strengthening networks and leadership for local food systems change
January 31, 2025|post
The Wallace Center launched the inaugural Arkansas Food Systems Fellowship in 2024. The fellowship is hosted through the Wallace Center’s Food Systems Leadership Network, which connects and accelerates sustainable food systems leaders across the U.S. Its design resulted from a multi-year participatory process to identify strategies to strengthen the food systems change ecosystem in Arkansas. […]
Community partnerships and action to reduce pollution from open burning in Vietnam
September 10, 2024|post
Open burning, both of household waste and agricultural straw, is a major source of air pollution in rural and urban Vietnam, contributing to deteriorating air quality and increasing public health risks. To tackle this pressing issue, the USAID Reducing Pollution project, implemented by Winrock International, is supporting community-driven solutions aimed at reducing open burning and […]
Vickie Woodard plants seeds of community growth
May 22, 2024|post
Vickie Woodard has always planted her own seeds to build community. Now, the seeds are sprouting ─ literally. A tireless entrepreneur and community activist from England, Arkansas ─ a city of just under 3,000 people in the state’s economically fragile Delta region ─ Woodard secured a $90,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to […]
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, […]
Startup Recruiting Fund at Winrock International invests in AI electromagnetic spectrum technology company
April 24, 2024|post
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ─ The Startup Recruiting Fund at Winrock International ─ the first not-for-profit, evergreen fund aimed at recruiting high-growth startups to Arkansas ─ has announced an investment in Xtremis, an AI electromagnetic spectrum technology company that was spun-out of Vanderbilt University in 2021 through the Civil Military Innovation Institute, Defense Innovation Incubator. Proceeds from […]
How the USAID Reducing Pollution project fosters collective action to tackle plastic waste in Vietnam
April 19, 2024|post
By: Hanh Nguyen, USAID Reducing Pollution project. The USAID Reducing Pollution project team is working on a five-year project to support locally-driven initiatives that substantially reduce environmental pollution in Vietnam through a collective impact approach. The project is helping to build the capacity of government, local nongovernmental organizations and private sector partners to prevent, mitigate […]
Coordination of pluralistic agriculture extension and advisory services in Senegal
April 5, 2024|post
This post was written by Winrock International’s Soniia David, project director of the USAID Enabling Farmers for Agricultural Transition project with Alphousseyni Diallo, EFAT Senegal country director; Nar Gade Alé Diang, EFAT extension and advisory services specialist; and Assane Sow, EFAT monitoring, evaluation and learning specialist. Agricultural extension and advisory services (EAS) provided by multiple […]