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Pat Walker and her husband, Willard Walker started the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation, in Springdale, Arkansas in 1986.They financed the charity using funds made from stock investments in Walmart and by 2010 had donated more than $125 million to other charities and organizations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. [4]
Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976) was an American political and social activist in the state of Arkansas.Terry leveraged her position within the Little Rock community to affect change in causes related to social justice, women's rights, racial equality, housing, and education.
Civic activist for women's issues; a founder and charter member of the UCA Women's Giving Circle [16] Joyce Williams Warren (1949–) 2023 Arkansas’ first black female judge, and multiple other firsts for black women [17] Dorothy McFadden Hoover (1918–2000) 2023 American physicist and mathematician [18] Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976 ...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is a non-profit advocacy organization which encourages public policy in Arkansas that will benefit children and their families. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families was founded in 1977 by attorney Hillary Rodham [ 6 ] as a non-partisan 501(c)(3) group and continues to be supported by a ...
Arkansas Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), organized in 1888. [1] Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs (AFWC). [2] Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), formed in 1881. [1] The second iteration of the Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1914. [3] It was also known as the Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee (AESCC ...
Helen Robson Walton (December 3, 1919 – April 19, 2007) was an American philanthropist and prominent arts advocate, dedicated to being a grandmother and to her community in Bentonville, Arkansas where she instituted a committee for a national museum of arts.
Jan. 2—MOSES LAKE — Grant County Commissioners have approved $1 million in funding for a new Grant County Animal Outreach shelter, if GCAO meets some conditions. That matches a similar $1 ...
Lynn Rosenthal, M.P.A., is an American policy maker, expert, activist, and consultant for gender-based violence, sexual assault, and domestic violence serving as the first White House Advisor on Violence Against Women appointed by President Barrack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in 2009. [1]