Choose How Your Gift Makes an Impact
Donor funds at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute allow supporters to direct their generosity to the areas that matter most to them. Your generous donations are crucial in supporting our educational initiatives, seizing new opportunities, and preserving our historic facilities.
Whether you choose a targeted or flexible gift, your support strengthens the people, programs, and place that define the Institute.
Programs & Education Fund
Support leadership development, civic education, and collaborative problem-solving.
The Programs & Education Fund was the first fund established at the Institute and remains central to our mission. Gifts to this fund support educational events, public programming, and opportunities that bring people together to address complex challenges using the Rockefeller Ethic.
How Your Gift Helps:
- Expands Institute-led educational programs and workshops
- Provides scholarships for individuals and organizations to participate in programs
- Supports free public events and student-focused learning opportunities
- Advances programming efforts on significant topics of interest to Governor Rockefeller
- Extends the Institute’s reach throughout Arkansas and the South
Opportunity Fund
Provide flexible support where it is needed most.
The Opportunity Fund offers unrestricted funding, allowing the Institute to respond quickly to emerging needs and high-impact opportunities. This flexibility is essential for innovation and long-term sustainability and allows us to pursue unforeseen opportunities, which often have the greatest potential impact.
How Your Gift Helps:
- Builds the capacity of our most important resource: our people
- Supports strategic initiatives that improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Invests in new ideas that improve participant outcomes
- Enables rapid response to unforeseen opportunities
- Enables us to grow our impact and foster collaboration throughout the region
Preservation Fund
Preserve a historic place for future problem-solvers.
Initiated by a generous gift from our Executive Director Emeritus, Dr. Marta Loyd, this fund focuses on preserving and updating the historic facilities built by Governor Rockefeller. Your contributions ensure that these important sites remain a place for future generations to solve problems and create opportunities collaboratively.
How Your Gift Helps:
- Funds repairs, maintenance, and preventive care for historic structures
- Maintains Winthrop Rockefeller’s former cattle farm on Petit Jean Mountain
- Preserves the spaces where Governor Rockefeller convened leaders
- Supports a comprehensive facilities preservation plan, including repairs and preventive maintenance
Initiated by a generous gift from our Executive Director Emeritus, Dr. Marta Loyd, this fund focuses on preserving and updating the historic facilities built by Governor Rockefeller. Your contributions ensure that these important sites remain a place for future generations to solve problems and create opportunities collaboratively.
Your support is invaluable to us. Each fund plays a vital role in furthering our mission, and we are grateful for your consideration and generosity.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Donors may direct their gift to the Programs & Education Fund, Opportunity Fund, or Preservation Fund, or allow the Institute to allocate funds where they are most needed.
Restricted funds support a specific purpose (such as education or preservation), while unrestricted gifts—like those to the Opportunity Fund or Annual Fund—provide flexibility to address emerging needs and opportunities.
No. Donor recognition and benefits are based on total annual giving, regardless of which fund(s) you support.
Yes! The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Make a Gift to a Donor Fund
You may support any donor fund through a one-time or recurring gift:
- Online: Secure giving portal
- Phone: (501) 727‑6211
- Email: advancement@rockefellerinstitute.org
- Mail:
Attn: Advancement
1 Rockefeller Drive
Morrilton, AR 72110