Case Study: Community Venture Foundation empowers underserved Arkansas communities through entrepreneurship education with Aplos

Community Venture Foundation - Customer Case Study

Community Venture Foundation, led by Executive Director Jessica Boyd, is a Northwest Arkansas nonprofit that uses entrepreneurship education to empower underserved youth and communities and to grow the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. The organization was founded to help neighborhoods with limited resources, but faces common nonprofit challenges—chiefly securing sustainable funding to run existing programs and scale to reach more students and underserved adults.

To overcome this, the foundation has cultivated strong community partnerships and focused on delivering practical youth entrepreneurship programs while planning expansion over the next five years to serve more students and add offerings for underserved adults, including ex-offenders. That combination of targeted programming, local support and persistent outreach has raised awareness, generated enthusiastic community backing, and positioned the organization to increase its social and economic impact across the region.

Community Venture Foundation

Jessica Boyd

Executive Director