Powerful Impact. Valuable Resources. Worthy Community.
Delta Circles utilizes techniques to advance economic equity, entrepreneurship and innovation to change the trajectory of communities.
Agricultural
Agricultural
If you teach a man to farm, his family will eat. If you teach a woman to farm the community will eat.” -Author Unknown
Delta Circles Ground Breakers has partnered with Delta Grows to change the food security landscape of an entire community with groundbreaking agricultural techniques and hands-on experiences.
Health
Health
Delta Circles impacts health disparities through its partnership with the CDC Foundation. The Heart Healthy Communities Initiative is aimed at improving the health of medically underserved people in the Arkansas Delta. It gathers data on health needs and outcomes as well as provides information and resources to historically marginalized and disadvantaged populations. Our project supports community healthcare workers to go door to door, establish trusting relationships with citizens, and examine the relationship between health disparities, racial stigma, and discrimination in under-served communities.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurial Leadership project engages youth and adults in the community, to inspire an entrepreneurial perspective of their surroundings. The project is designed to inspire and engage participants in the fundamental aspects of an entrepreneurial mindset. The project provides technical support and access to capital and resources for seasoned business owners.
Delta Farmers Business Incubator
Delta Farmers Business Incubator
Delta Circles has partnered with ReMix Ideas to equip Black Farmers in the Delta region with practical tools to grow their businesses and increase access to fresh healthy food in Arkansas.
The 12-week incubator program focuses on three areas:
Knowledge Capital: Providing business education to help farmers build viable, sustainable and scalable businesses
Financial Capital: Connecting farmers with potential funding sources
Customers: Accessing new markets
Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy
Empowering Women through a women’s savings group is a flagship program of Delta Circles. Delta Circles creates a forum for women to strengthen their financial literacy and increase incomes. Women who participate in Delta Circles programming have seen measurable success in saving money and achieving personal goals. Additional support is provided for women who have engaged in entrepreneurship to increase income for savings.
Technology/Innovation
Technology/Innovation
Recognizing that agriculture is the new STEM, Delta Circles technology lab explores ways in which agriculture can be used to create innovative mindsets while generating sustainable incomes through career opportunities in agriculture, technology, and entrepreneurship. This historic Eliza Miller campus serves as the ideal setting for fostering the next generation of agricultural innovators.
How We Are Serving The Delta Arkansas
Delta Circles utilizes techniques to advance economic equity, entrepreneurship and innovation to change the trajectory of communities. Help us to reach 100% in our efforts!
Changing The Trajectory Of Our Community
Delta Circles utilizes techniques to advance economic equity, entrepreneurship and innovation to change the trajectory of communities. By recognizing the value of Black women and rural communities it provides solutions that impact generational change.
Arkansas Regional Level Statistics
According to the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas:
- Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in America.
- Black women own 60% of Black-owned businesses in Arkansas
- 41.1% of businesses in Phillips County are owned by women in Arkansas.
- Women in Central and Northeast Arkansas are less likely to live in poverty with 83.9% of women in Central Arkansas and 82.7% in Northeast Arkansas living above poverty.
- The largest gap is in Arkansas Delta counties with 83% of white women living above poverty in contrast to 65.5% of women of color. This is an 18.2% gap.
- Women in Central and Northwest Arkansas are least likely to live in poverty, with 83.9 percent of women in Central Arkansas and 82.7 percent in Northwest Arkansas living above poverty.
- Women in Northeast and Southeast Arkansas are least likely to live above poverty regardless of race/ethnicity, yet the race/ethnic gap in both regions is larger than the race/ethnic gap in North- west or Central Arkansas.
- The smallest racial/ethnic gap in women’s poverty status is in Northwest Arkansas, with 75.6 percent of women of color and 83.4 percent of white women living above poverty.
- The largest gap is in Southeast Arkansas, where 83.7 percent of white women live above poverty in contrast to 65.5 percent of women of color. This is an 18.2 percent gap.
Delta Circle Wins
Women Increasing Net-worth (WIN) Savings Group
Delta Circles empowers women through a women’s savings group which was initiation approximately three years ago. We create a forum for women to strengthen their financial literacy and increase incomes by participating in our Women Increasing Net-worth (WIN) Savings Group.
