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Guest Speaker Educates and Inspires Winrock Staff
March 1, 2021|post
On Thursday, February 25, Janis F. Kearney, author, lecturer and diarist of former President Bill Clinton, addressed Winrock staff as a featured speaker for Black History Month. Kearney, a native of Gould, Arkansas, grew up poor in a family of 19 children, the daughter of sharecroppers Thomas James (“T.J.”) and Ethel Kearney. From these humble […]
How Winrock and Microsoft Worked Together to Manage Data in Vietnam
December 14, 2020|post
In 2018, under the USAID-funded Vietnam Forests and Deltas Project, Microsoft and Winrock began an exciting partnership. The goal: to harness data across environmental and social indicators to help the Government of Vietnam better understand the impact of its innovative Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) system. PFES pays upstream forest owners to maintain healthy […]
Winrock Introduces Early-Stage Fund to Close Financing Access Gap in Arkansas
December 10, 2020|post
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS – DECEMBER 10, 2020 – Winrock International is pleased to announce the Validation Fund, Arkansas’ first evergreen, not-for-profit fund dedicated to deploying early-stage awards to validation-stage Arkansas startup companies. Powered by an initial $1.1 million contribution from the Walton Family Foundation (WFF), the Validation Fund aids in the creation of jobs and […]
Making Forest Conservation Pay
December 4, 2020|post
By Chris Warren As a boy growing up on the outskirts of Vietnam’s Cat Tien National Park, Koren Gren spent his days surrounded by the natural world. Today, he still does. Gren is the leader of a group responsible for ensuring that a 30-hectare swath of trees remains healthy and intact. From Friday through Sunday […]
Protecting Nature and Preserving Livelihoods in Vietnam
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PROJECT NAME: Vietnam Forests and Deltas SYNOPSIS: The payment for forest environmental services (PFES) system is an important initiative of the USAID Vietnam Forests and Deltas Program, which supports Vietnam’s transition to resilient, sustainable development YEARS ACTIVE: 2012-2021 FUNDER: USAID Vietnam’s Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) system, implemented by Winrock’s USAID-funded Vietnam Forests and […]How Arkansas Became the U.S. Edamame Capital
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PROJECT NAME: Market Potential of Using Specialty Soybeans as Replacement Crops in Arkansas River Valley SYNOPSIS: Winrock U.S. Programs develops solutions for the challenges facing rural communities, from farming to entrepreneurial development. Its work on edamame in Arkansas was funded through the United States Department of Agriculture. YEARS ACTIVE: 2010-2011 FUNDER: USDA A WINROCK LEGACY […]
USAID and Winrock Provide Training on Using Mobile Phones for Quicker, Safer, and More Transparent Forest Protection Payments
November 10, 2020|post
Mrs. Dieu Thi Trang, a Chau Ma ethnic minority, grew up in the Cat Tien region in Lam Dong Province of Vietnam’s Central Highlands. From her childhood, and now as a married mother of two, Mrs. Trang and her family have relied on the Cat Tien forest for their income. To lessen dependence on forests […]
Showing Resilience in Unprecedented Times
November 3, 2020|post
In January of 2020, Noah Asher was feeling good. Vascugenix, the Little Rock medical device startup where he serves as CEO, had completed its fundraising. It was on track to bring its first product — a medical device called the Speed Torque invented by Vascugenix co-founder Dr. Dwight Chrisman — to market by April. “We […]
USDA Rural Development and Winrock Launch Placemaking Project in Four Arkansas Communities
October 19, 2020|post
LITTLE ROCK, AR — October 19, 2020 — United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Bette Brand today announced that USDA has signed cooperative agreements with five organizations to support placemaking technical assistance throughout the United States, including in four Arkansas communities. Winrock International will use a $215,000 grant to […]
Partnerships for Sustainable Businesses
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Rooted in more than 65 years of innovative programming, we have decades of successful business collaborations and a rich history of engaging the private sector. We created an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Arkansas, catalyzed a specialty coffee sector in Myanmar and boosted productivity and incomes in Mozambique. We are proud of our longstanding history of developing […]