Innovation Hub Receives $50k Grant for Innovation Center
The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub this week announced a $50,000 grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation Awards.
The money will support the development of the Hub's Argenta Innovation Center,expected to open later this summer at Poplar and Broadway in downtown NLR.
The center, of course, houses the Art Connection creative space and once complete will include the Launch Pad maker space and Silver Mine co-working space.
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The Windgate Charitable Foundation recently awarded a $50,000 grant to the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub to support the development of its new Innovation Center.
Specifically, the funds will be directed toward securing the equipment and furnishings for the wood and metal shops within The Launch Pad.
"We are very grateful for the generous support we have received from the Windgate Charitable Foundation," said Warwick Sabin, executive director of the Innovation Hub.
"This grant not only will make more resources available to the community we are serving, but also is a vote of confidence from one of our state's most respected organizations."