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NWACF Announces Seven New Grants

Following recent news that the Northwest Arkansas Community Foundation had boosted its endowment total to 22 funds totaling more than $1 million, the foundation awarded seven grants totaling $41,900 to local nonprofit organizations.

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Find Another Place to Cut

More so than any other cuts made to break the state?s $142 million shortfall, we?re concerned that a ?freeze? on new recipients of the Arkansas Academic Challenge and Governor?s Distinguished Scholarships will have the worst impact.

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Corky?s Caters to Hog Fans

Ben Clark is excited about landing the contract to provide Corky?s barbecue to Razorback football games, but he said the profit margin for that catering job is just about zero.

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Kizer Scored Big-dog Invite

Tim Kizer, director of the University of Arkansas? Center for Management and Executive Development, rated an invite to a select symposium Dec. 12 at the Equitable Center in Manhattan.

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Ex-pros Give Pep Talks to Tigers

A Wal-Mart executive phoned BHS just before the Tigers? bus left Bentonville for Little Rock?s War Memorial Stadium and said former Dallas Cowboys tight end Jay Novacek wanted to come give them a pep talk.

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UA Kicks Off $500 Million Campaign

The University of Arkansas officially announced its $500 million ?Campaign for the Twenty-First Century? on Oct. 26, but the main campus of the UA system already has raised $270 million of that amount in gifts and pledges since July 1998.

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Webster Offers Online Security Degree

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Webster University has teamed with the American Society for Industrial Security to launch an online version of its graduate degree in ?organizational and business security management.?

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Capital Idea Puts Vim Into Genesis

Momentum is still swirling in Fayetteville?s mountain air following the Oct. 16 announcement that the University of Arkansas and the Arkansas Capital Corporation Group will partner to attract and develop startup companies in Arkansas.