Connections: Yellow Rocket Concepts hosts gift card fundraiser

Arkansas-based restaurant group Yellow Rocket Concepts launched a community-focused fundraiser supporting food banks across its operating regions. Its brands include Big Orange, Local Lime, ZAZA, Taco & Tamale Co. and Lost Forty Brewing.

The initiative, which runs through Dec. 31, allows customers of its brands to raise money for food banks by purchasing gift cards either in-store or online. For each $100 in gift cards purchased in a single transaction, Yellow Rocket Concepts will donate $5 to an area food bank. Funds raised in Northwest Arkansas will go to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank in Lowell, while funds raised in central Arkansas will go to the Arkansas Foodbank in Little Rock.

“This initiative started with our restaurant teams who see the needs in our communities every day and wanted to do something meaningful,” said Amber Brewer, chief marketing officer and creative director at Yellow Rocket Concepts. “We wanted to make giving simple — something built into what we already do. The gift cards we sell will help put real meals on local tables this season.”

APPOINTMENTS
Education
Tyler Farrar
Fayetteville
Employer: Arkansas Colleges of Health Education
Title: vice president and general counsel
Appointment: Peer Corps reviewer
Organization: Higher Learning Commission

Poultry
David Jackson
Siloam Springs
Employer: Simmons Foods
Title: chief operating officer
Appointment: chairman
Organization: National Chicken Council

December
• 9 — Coffee Connection
Sponsor: Rogers Lowell Chamber
Time: 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location: ArkansasBlue Welcome Center, Rogers
Contact: 636-1240

• 10 — Central Referral Connection
Sponsor: Rogers Lowell Chamber
Time: 9-10:15 a.m.
Location: Golden Corral, Rogers
Contact: 636-1240

• 11 — Morning Brew
Sponsor: Springdale Chamber of Commerce
Time: 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location: Clear Creek Springdale Apartments, Springdale
Contact: 872-2222