endowment

A new scholarship for music students has been established at Arkansas State University in honor of a longtime music faculty member. More than $25,000 has been committed to create the Dan Ross Memorial Scholarship, in honor of the late Dr.…

A new $150,000 gift has been earmarked for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at the University of Arkansas’ Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. U of A alumni Lanny and Becki McInoth have made the planned gift to the…

The Windgate Foundation has established a new multimillion dollar endowment – this time benefitting the Eureka Springs School of the Arts (ESSA). ESSA has been awarded a $10 million endowment that is expected to generate $400,000 in per year in…

A new scholarship has been established at the University of Arkansas to aid students from Pulaski and Jefferson counties. Cathy and Kevin Crass have contributed $50,000 to create an endowed scholarship that will benefit new, returning and transfer students to…

Lesyle Shellam is making a significant donation in honor of her late father, real estate icon L. Dickson Flake. Shellam has donated $100,000 to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to establish the L. Dickson Flake Endowed Scholarship. This…

Retired University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor Dr. Vincent Vinikas has donated approximately $100,000 as part of a trust to create two endowed funds at the university. The revocable trust will support both the UA Little Rock Center for…

Two University of Arkansas alumni are making a six-figure gift to create a new supply chain student organization and symposium at the university. David and Shelley Simpson have committed $175,000 toward the supply chain initiative with the specific goal of…

A former Arkansas State University Board of Trustees member has announced a new $1 million gift to benefit agricultural research after completing a prior $1 million gift commitment. Mike Gibson, an ASU Board of Trustee Emeritus, has announced plans to…

Wetlands America Trust (WAT) recently elected George Dunklin as one of its newest trustees. The WAT board is the land trust arm of Ducks Unlimited (DU) – a world leader in waterfowl and wetlands conservation. WAT is one of the…

University of Arkansas alumna Jean Cameron “Cami” Jones, youngest daughter of Fay and Gus Jones, has committed a planned gift of more than $1 million to benefit the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and University Libraries. Jones’s gift…