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Winrock International to support city of West Memphis in transformational change tied to Google data center project
December 4, 2025|post
Little Rock, Arkansas — Dec. 4, 2025 — Winrock International is partnering with the city of West Memphis, Arkansas, to help the city translate Google’s recent $4 billion data center investments into long-term, community transformation, job creation and economic growth. The West Memphis data center — the largest private investment in Arkansas history — is expected to employ 750 people annually during construction […]
Community Resilience
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Community Resilience is Winrock International’s engine for rural development, innovation and resilience in the U.S. Rooted in Arkansas and the Mississippi Delta, we carry forward Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller’s passion and legacy of fairness, opportunity and open government through a deeply place-based approach that invests in local leadership and collaboration. We strengthen communities by building coalitions […]
Impact-Ready Solutions
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Impact-Ready Solutions are Winrock’s portfolio of adaptable, funder-ready service offerings designed to address today’s most pressing development challenges. Each solution distills our proven approaches, global expertise and on-the-ground experience into practical models that can be tailored to the needs of any country, sector or partner. From clean energy and water security to human rights, climate […]
Celebrating mangroves — and the community action and science-based research helping to protect them
July 25, 2025|post
On World Mangrove Day, we honor one of the planet’s most powerful — and often overlooked — climate allies. Mangroves are more than just trees that thrive where land meets sea. They are carbon-storing powerhouses, biodiversity havens and natural shields for vulnerable coastlines. At Winrock, we’re proud to work alongside communities, scientists and with diverse funders […]
From risk to resilience: How Winrock’s Climate Resilience Accelerator helps communities adapt — and thrive
June 20, 2025|post
That’s why Winrock is launching the Climate Resilience Accelerator: a bold, practical framework for ensuring that development isn’t just about growth — it’s about endurance, equity and transformation. Winrock sees building climate resilience not as a burden, but as a competitive advantage for businesses, farmers and communities most impacted by climate change. What is climate […]
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 […]
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 […]