Walton Family Foundation

Progress with Purpose: Walton Family Foundation's 2021-2025 Strategy

Every five years, the Walton Family Foundation updates its strategic plan. This strategy update highlights progress, outlines what we're discovering and where we're making adjustments to improve our work.

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The Ripple Effect

The Ripple Effect is a new storytelling series from the Walton Family Foundation featuring women leading efforts to protect water in the midst of climate change.

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Creating Pathways to Promising Careers

The Walton Family Foundation is committed to supporting career pathways programs built for the needs of Northwest Arkansas. We believe deep collaboration is key to building and sustaining a thriving workforce in the region.

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Americans Unite on Key Issues, Trust Nonprofits for Change

New polling finds that Americans are united on some of today's biggest and most pressing issues – improving education, protecting the environment and building strong communities.

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Recent Stories

“It's Never Too Late to Learn”

Home Region

Yee-Lin Lai December 17, 2024

At a Northwest Arkansas culinary hub, one resident creates a pathway to a fulfilling new career

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Brightwater Helps A Gluten-Free Baker Turn a Hobby Into a Successful Small Business

Home Region

Yee-Lin Lai December 17, 2024

How a dietary limitation inspired one Northwest Arkansas baker to feed her community

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Dispatch from Indonesia: Watching a New Tuna Harvest Strategy Unfold in Real Time

Environment

Leo Pradela November 7, 2024

A journey through the archipelago uncovers how sustainable tuna fishing practices are impacting entire communities

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In This Moment of Division, Signs of Unity on Issues That Matter to Nonprofits

Foundation

Stephanie Cornell November 2, 2024

Americans want nonprofits and foundations to lead on some of the country’s toughest challenges, a new survey says. Here are four strategies to answer that call

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The Power of Public Opinion Research to Better Understand Communities and Inform Philanthropic Strategy

Strategy and Learning

Matthew Carr October 29, 2024

The Walton Family Foundation uses opinion research to helps us better understand public views and make meaningful, data-informed funding decisions

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It's not what you gather in life, but what you scatter in life, that tells the kind of life you have lived.

Helen Walton's favorite saying

Our Mission, Vision & Values

Our Mission, Vision & Values

March 23, 2018

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Learning and Leading Together: The Next Five Years

Learning and Leading Together: The Next Five Years

Foundation

February 8, 2021

The foundation will support innovation, new ideas and — above all — community-led change

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Careers

Careers

March 23, 2018

We are a family-led foundation redefining the way philanthropy collaborates with communities. Alongside our partners, we seek catalytic solutions to some of the world’s toughest social and environmental problems. Join our team.

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