Impact Stories

NOV 15 2023 Are you a local entrepreneur with a business dream? Our entrepreneurship team is sharing important information to help you achieve your goal! Learn about the role of CDFIs: In the realm of financial institutions, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) have emerged as powerful catalysts for economic growth and empowerment. With a distinct…

OCT 12 2023 Reflections and Photography by Khalid Ahmadzai

SEP 27 2023 The Canopy Entrepreneurship team works with business owners and entrepreneurs all across our region with ideas to begin brilliant businesses to serve this community. We have been thrilled to have the opportunity to support so many immigrant business owners as they bring vibrant new ideas to NWA! Thinking about starting a business?…

SEP 27 2023 In the dynamic and diverse landscape of Northwest Arkansas, stories of entrepreneur triumph continue to inspire and uplift. Salome Riklon, or Sal, embodies the spirit of resilience and determination as she establishes her successful business, Sal’s Cleaning Services LLC. Hailing from the Marshall Islands, Sal, along with her husband Timothy, has overcome…

JUL 13 2023 We are grateful to be a part of a community that welcomes and invites new neighbors to build new lives and follow their dreams. For Ernest, a Cameroonian immigrant, his dream became a life-changing reality when he won the US Visa Lottery in 2021. With a burning desire to create his own…

APR 25 2023 Sanya is a local entrepreneur in our community and a member of the thriving Marshallese community in Northwest Arkansas. She decided to serve her community by providing foods and products that cannot be found anywhere else and that feel like home. Her market, Alele Mart, which is a word for a “basket…

FEB 20 2023 The Strategic Plan Canopy NWA is pleased to introduce our strategic plan for 2023-2025, developed through key stakeholder interviews with people resettled as refugees through Canopy, Canopy staff, board members, partner organizations, and local faith leaders. The strategic planning process was facilitated by the refugee resettlement and organizational development experts at Multicultural…

JAN 24 2023 Kara, Canopy’s Housing Specialist, shared with us about her process of finding each new family a home here in NWA and answered a variety of frequently asked questions by landlords and property managers in our area. “My job is to secure safe, affordable housing for refugees as they arrive in Northwest Arkansas….

JUN 29 2023 World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the globe. It celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home to escape conflict or persecution. Each year on June 20th, we come together to honor this day and…