Philanthropy & Service

Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation/Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. Philanthropies & Service Projects

• 20th Century Club’s Lodge – Hope Ball
• ALS Foundation
• American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE)
• American Heart Association
• Arkansas Cancer Coalition
• Arkansas Children’s Foundation
• AR Kids Read
• AR Women in Power
• Arkansas Foodbank
• Arkansas Game & Fish Foundation
• Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
• Arkansas National Guard Foundation
• Arkansas Rural Volunteer Firefighters Association
• Arkansas State Veterans Home NLR
• CareLink
• CARTI – Tour De Rock
• CASA
• Centers for Youth and Families
• Church Food Pantries
• Cooperative Development Foundation
• Cooperative Family Fund
• Easterseals
• Fellowship of Christian Athletes
• First Electric Cooperative – Pulling for Power
• Goodwill Gala for Good
• Habitat for Humanity
• Human Connections Fund
• Literacy Action of Central Arkansas
• Literacy Action Trivia Bee
• Make-A-Wish Foundation
• Morgan Nick Foundation
• NMSU Foundation
• Ouachita Student Foundation
• Our House
• PIP
• Real Images
• Ronald McDonald House
• Taste of the South
• The CALL
• The Hat Club
• UADA – Giving Committee
• UAPTC Foundation Diamond Chef AR 2025
• Wolfe Street Foundation
• Women and Children First
• Women’s Foundation of Arkansas
• Wounded Warriors

Arkansas Rural Teachers of the Year

Two educators were named Arkansas Rural Teachers of the Year in 2025.

Clair Antoon-Newton, an AP Literature English teacher at El Dorado High School, and Shawna Radcliff, a fifth and sixth grade math teacher at Corning Middle School, were recently named the 2025 Arkansas Rural Education Association’s Teachers of the Year. The Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas have sponsored the Rural Teachers of the Year Award since 2004.

Antoon-Newton and Radcliff were presented with a crystal apple gift and a check for $1,000 from the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas.

Teacher-of-the-year nominations are vetted by the state’s 15 educational cooperatives, which then submit a finalist for each educational cooperative district to the Arkansas Rural Education Association for consideration.

The Rural Teacher of the Year Award winner is selected based on the quality and depth of answers to questions in the following categories: professional biography, educational history, professional development, community involvement, teaching philosophy, education issues and the teaching profession.

Previous Arkansas Rural Teacher of the Year Winners