Chamber Hosts First Quarterly Spotlight Series Featuring Walton Family Foundation

The Rogers Lowell Chamber enjoyed highlighting the important work that the Walton Family Foundation (WFF) is doing in Northwest Arkansas during the March 2 Spotlight Series at the Supply Chain Hall of Fame in Rogers.

What happened: WFF Home Region Program Director

Robert Burns spoke about the foundation’s work in advancing economic and cultural vibrancy, opportunity, and inclusion in Northwest Arkansas through workforce housing, philanthropy, community development and governmental affairs.

Backgrounder: This was the first 2023 program in the quarterly series designed to bring the right people together at the right time to spark innovation, inspire ideas and align our community around common goals. Each quarter features a different theme to spotlight progress and illuminate issues that are opportunities for growing business, activating highimpact leaders and building a strong and diverse place to visit, live, invest, work and play.

It’s our mission work: This program is part of our Community Development and Economic Development mission-work.

• Our Community Development mission work activates a diverse, next generation of business and community leaders. We champion community engagement and inclusion initiatives by convening and engaging the right people at the right time. Our work also improves our community’s quality of life by supporting quality of place initiatives.

• Our Economic Development mission work creates a pro-business, pro-growth economic environment. It spurs economic growth as a key driver for increasing the sales tax base which funds education, public safety, and infrastructure. We also develop talent pipelines for current and future workforce needs by connecting educators and students with industry. Our resources and support help our community sustain responsible economic development growth from Downtown Rogers to Uptown Rogers and Lowell.