$30,000 / 2011
1308 West Second Street
Little Rock, AK 72201
Bill Kopsky, Executive Director
Website: www.arpanel.org
Arkansas Public Policy Panel is working at the local and state levels to build power and identify an agenda rooted in grassroots communities’ interests and priorities. APPP’s work centers on nine counties in south Arkansas and the Delta region where high poverty rural black communities are situated; they are also working in northwest Arkansas to build a constituency in Latino communities. A one year $30,000 grant in 2011 will enable the Arkansas Public Policy Panel to pursue local organizing in rural predominantly African American communities in Arkansas while also building a state wide coalition for educational equity.