Founded in 2021, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM) is a nonprofit, four-year MD program that will enhance traditional medical education with the arts, humanities, and whole health principles. The school’s culture embraces self-care to empower students to care for their own well-being as well as their patients’. The school’s state-of-the-art medical education facility is under construction in Bentonville, Arkansas on the Crystal Bridges campus, home to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Heartland Whole Health Institute. The school has been granted preliminary accreditation status by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. AWSOM's inaugural class of 48 students will start in July 2025.

All people deserve access to a life filled with opportunity. That’s the vision behind philanthropist Alice Walton’s founding of non-profit organizations that include Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Art Bridges Foundation, Heartland Whole Health Institute, the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, and the Alice L. Walton Foundation. Founded in 2017, the Alice L. Walton Foundation is committed to increasing access to the arts, improving education, enhancing health, and advancing economic opportunity for all. Through this work, the foundation strives to deliver meaningful and lasting change to individuals and communities most in need.

Arkansas Children's is the only healthcare system in the state solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas' more than 700,000 children. The private, non-profit organization includes two pediatric hospitals, a pediatric research institute and USDA Nutrition Center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and many education and outreach programs — all focused on fulfilling a promise to define and deliver unprecedented child health. Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is a 336-bed, Magnet-recognized facility in Little Rock operating the state’s only Level I pediatric trauma center; the state's only burn center; the state's only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric intensive care unit; the state’s only pediatric surgery program with Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the state’s only Magnetoencephalography (MEG) system for neurosurgical planning and cutting-edge research; and the state's only nationally recognized pediatric transport program. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in seven pediatric specialties (2022—2023): cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, nephrology, neurology & neurosurgery, pulmonology, and urology. Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW), the first and only pediatric hospital in the Northwest Arkansas region, is a Level IV pediatric trauma center. ACNW operates a 24-bed inpatient unit; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and Northwest Arkansas' only pediatric emergency department, equipped with 30 exam rooms. Generous philanthropic and volunteer engagement has sustained Arkansas Children's since it began as an orphanage in 1912, and today ensures the system can deliver on its promise of unprecedented child health. To learn more, visit archildrens.org.

Art Bridges is a foundation that shares outstanding works of American art with those that have limited access to our country’s most meaningful works. Art Bridges organizes exhibitions of American art for display at public and academic art museums of all sizes. These exhibitions draw from Art Bridges’ growing collection and partner institutions. The exhibitions supported by Art Bridges are engaging, content-rich, and include in-depth educational and interpretive materials. They range from single-object loans to fully developed thematic exhibitions and include support for programming, audience engagement, and meaningful evaluation. Art Bridges is deeply interested in furthering work that is innovative and experimental; multi-disciplinary; and audience-building.

Beaver Water District (BWD) supplies clean, safe drinking water to more than 350,000 people and industries in Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, and surrounding areas in Northwest Arkansas. BWD's water source is Beaver Lake. BWD makes the water clean and safe, then wholesales water at $1.38 per 1,000 gallons to our four customer cities. Water is pumped to the cities through their distribution system (pipes and storage tanks, etc.), and the cities deliver this water to their customers. BWD partners with the cities to ensure drinking water is available 24/7, 365 days a year. BWD's mission is to sustainably supply our customers with safe, economical water. BWD's administration center and water education center earned the LEED Gold (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) designation from the U.S. Green Building Council. Visit us at 301 N. Primrose Road in Lowell, Arkansas. We are open to the public from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Special tours and educational opportunities may be arranged in advance. Simply visit our website at http://www.bwdh2o.org and use the tour button to make a request for a tour or educational visit to our facility or for us to come to you!

CEI Engineering Associates, Inc. provides civil engineering, planning, land surveying, and landscape architecture services for medium to large scale developments and multi-structure sites in the United States. We offer civil engineering services, including public work, airport design, land development, park and recreation, hydrology and hydraulic, construction administration, traffic and transportation, water and sewer design, municipal project, education facility, and flood protection services; and land surveying services, such as pipeline, ALTA/ACSM land title, boundary, as-built, telecommunication tower site, highway and utility route, wetlands location, accident, riparian, and cadastral survey, as well as due diligence report, topographic survey for design, ROW/easement documentation for acquisition, subdivisions platting, construction staking, ground control for aerial photography, industrial equipment layout, and tax map preparation and review services. The company also provides landscape architecture services that comprise program development, site inventory, site analysis, conceptual study, preliminary plan, final plan and construction document, and construction administration services; construction administration services, which include prebid conference, bid negotiation, competitive bid procedure, construction observation, coordination of testing, construction progress review, request for payment processing, shop drawing/review/submittal, construction punch list, and contract closeout services; and survey services for the energy sector. CEI Engineering Associates, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is based in Bentonville, Arkansas with additional office locations in Dallas, TX | Fresno, CA | Houston, TX | Jacksonville, FL | Minneapolis, MN | Philadelphia, PA | Phoenix, AZ | Nashville, TN | Oklahoma City, OK.

Forward Arkansas is a strategic partnership of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, and Arkansas Board of Education that aims to prepare every Arkansas student for success in college and the workplace. To achieve this vision, Forward has crafted recommendations for P-16 education to dramatically improve student achievement, close the achievement gap, and help Arkansas become a leading state in education. Visit www.forwardarkansas.org for the latest information and updates.

The Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center is a Northwest Arkansas nonprofit organization providing high-quality early childhood education for children age six weeks to pre-kindergarten. We build a foundation of lifelong learning for young children in a nurturing, healthy, research-based environment focused on intentional play, exploration, and family well-being. Our campus is the first early childhood program in the nation designed and constructed with an emphasis on a toxic-free environment using only the safest building materials. Our classrooms are staffed with experienced and degreed teachers and have low teacher/child ratios. We provide whole family support services to help mobilize families experiencing financial difficulty to create a foundation for multi-generational change. Our programs include scholarship assistance, food assistance, coat and diaper assistance, holiday assistance, and family engagement, among others.

John Brown University is a private Christian university, ranked No. 2 overall and No. 1 best value among Southern regional colleges by U.S. News and World Report. JBU enrolls more than 2,500 students from 42 states and 45 countries in its traditional undergraduate, graduate, degree completion, and concurrent education programs. JBU is a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and a founding member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.

Our focused expertise is in providing master planning, and sustainable architectural and interior design of PreK-12 education, higher education, municipal, public safety, corporate, and healthcare facilities. The team at Paragon Architecture has been impacting communities across the region for over 15 years. The team's cohesiveness and commitment to the mission has propelled the firm’s inertia by merging a diverse professional history, new and established ideas, but with a common strategy: a reputation for creative thinking and focused expertise through quality design and an approach that puts our clients on our team. Our approach brings all parties to the drafting table – Paragon Architecture, our client, our consultants, and anyone necessary to meet the needs of the project. From the initial idea to the last phone call, our process guides and informs our clients. That's the Paragon approach and that's why the relationships we foster with our clients are deeply rooted and naturally collaborative. We believe design projects reach far beyond the boundaries of four walls and aren't just defined by what you see, but include the journey up the mountain and back down again. We organize and manage a proactive team that — like a Sherpa preparing the course for mountain climbers — anticipates critical milestones and requirements of each project. In the end, we're designing an experience — we want to ensure that the end result speaks to the experience you want your unique users to have. We are close to home and at your service. We are a family of about 30 professionals spanning four locations in Missouri and Arkansas, and we may just be the trusted design partner you've been looking for.

Founded by Simon Mottram in London in 2004, RAPHA makes the world’s finest cycling clothing. For 15 years, our products have redefined comfort, performance, and style for cyclists from absolute beginners through to WorldTour professionals. Born from a love of the sport, RAPHA regularly organises and sponsors unique rides and events. The RAPHA Cycling Club was founded in 2015 to bring cyclists together, and today there are already more than 17,000 members worldwide. Our 21 clubhouses across Europe, North America, and Asia have become hubs for RCC members and local cyclists, offering a café space and stocking the latest products. RAPHA is proud to have worked with the sport's best athletes from its earliest days. First, as title sponsor to the British UCI Continental team RAPHA-Condor from 2005 to 2012, then as clothing supplier to Team Sky from 2012 to 2016. We continue to work at the top tiers of professional cycling with the women’s UCI WorldTour team Canyon//SRAM since 2016, and, after publishing a two-year study on the state of the sport titled The RAPHA Roadmap, we have returned to the men’s WorldTour with EF Education First Pro Cycling from 2019.

Rogers Public Schools serves 15,500 students in Rogers, Arkansas. Our mission is to provide an environment of educational excellence where all belong, all learn, and all succeed. For more information about our district, please contact us at 479-636-3910 or visit our website at rogersschools.net.