ASPIRE ARKANSAS
A Project of Arkansas Community Foundation

At Arkansas Community Foundation, we're in the business of providing resources to make charitable giving in our state more effective. We consider Aspire Arkansas one of the most important tools in our toolkit. The report is both a yardstick to measure where our state currently stands and a compass to help you and your neighbors determine where we should go. Equipped with this tool, we hope you'll have the information you need to begin to identify the local needs you will address with your time, talent and treasure.


  

“The data collected, assimilated and updated, gives much needed insight into communities as they plan for the future. For those of us in positions that are inherent in the decision-making process, it provides critical information in addressing a vast range of socio-economic conditions and utilizes an electronic dashboard that is easy to navigate.”
~Ben D. Cross, Pope County Judge 






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Featured Indicators
You'll find multiple indicators within each category to see how trends are moving in Arkansas county-by-county. Learn how Arkansas ranks nationally and check data by various demographics such as age or gender.
Education
Adults with a Bachelor's Degree or Higher
25%
  
in 2018-22

Increasing
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Health
Physically Inactive Adults
31%
 of adults
in 2022

Maintaining
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Families
Children Living in Poverty
22%
 of children
in 2018-22

Maintaining
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Community
Charitable Giving
3.4%
  
in 2018

Increasing
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StoryMaps
 
Visit our StoryMap pages to take a deeper dive and find text and images that help tell the story of some compelling Arkansas statistics.
Early Childhood Development in Arkansas

Data shows that in our state 24% of our children are living in poverty. We rank 34th in the nation for child abuse and neglect, 42nd in access to prenatal care and 50th in food insecurity for children under five. 

 

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Create a Dashboard
Create your own Dashboard of key indicators by county.

Our Dashboard provides a quick, at-a-glance graphic summary of indicators for a variety of geographies and populations. Select a county of interest and display all indicators with available data. Or build your own Dashboard by selecting just those indicators you care about.


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Engage Magazine

ENGAGE is a quarterly publication that explores the people and programs behind the data.

Communities Unlimited Launches "Food Farmacy" in Jefferson County

A new way of combining local, healthy food and medicine, Food Farmacy connects local farmers with health clinics. This partnership provides more access to patients to healthier food while supporting local growers [...]

 

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