June 18, 2013
Andrea Muirragui DavisAmericans gave an estimated $316.2 billion to charity last year, continuing a string of small philanthropic gains. What cause
got the bulk of the bounty?
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April 13, 2013
Lou HarryThe new, 450-seat Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts at Butler University fills a venue gap between the school's two theaters
that each seat about 100 and the 2,200-seat Clowes Memorial Hall.
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April 8, 2013
The $5 million donation from the family of late Indianapolis businessman James F. DeVoe will help found a new school of business
on the university’s Marion campus.
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March 2, 2013
Dan HumanAn Indiana-born entrepreneur gave $125 million. Just five others gave $1 million or more.
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February 9, 2013
Dan HumanThe ISO hopes that occasionally featuring classically trained artists who stray from traditional symphony conventions will
tap new audiences and fill empty seats.
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January 12, 2013
Dan HumanThe Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has raised barely half the $5 million the organization says it needs by Feb. 3 to live
up to the terms of a contract it negotiated with musicians last fall.
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December 12, 2012
Dan HumanThe Arts Council of Indianapolis on Wednesday unveiled a a new program to help central Indiana not-for-profit arts, cultural
and humanities organizations raise funds for individual projects.
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December 3, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisThe Indiana Historical Society has raised $19.5 million to support the Indiana Experience, its series of interactive history
lessons intended to draw more visitors to the local not-for-profit’s downtown facility.
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November 15, 2012
Dan HumanThe Nina Mason Pulliam Trust spread the grants across two dozen not-for-profits in human services, animal and nature protection,
and community enrichment.
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November 14, 2012
IBJ StaffThe Glick Fund has doled out more than $2.5 million in grants to 37 Indianapolis-area organizations, the Central Indiana Community
Foundation, which manages the fund, announced Wednesday.
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November 13, 2012
Dan HumanA $200,000 gift from the Dr. Laura Hare Charitable Trust will help the Central Indiana Land Trust acquire 109 forested acres
in southwest Johnson County.
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September 29, 2012
Dan HumanThe ailing Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra intends to step up annual donations 40 percent. But many longtime donors feel conflicted
about future contributions as they await word on whether the ISO will scale back to part time.
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September 15, 2012
Dan HumanThe Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s decision to cancel the first two weeks of its season and lock out musicians could
carry long-term risks in alienating subscribers and donors, observers say.
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September 4, 2012
Cory SchoutenIndianapolis Zoo officials are hoping to finish strong on the organization's largest fundraising effort since the zoo
moved to White River State Park in 1988.
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August 11, 2012
Dan HumanEllen Annala has less than a year to lead United Way of Central Indiana through a multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign
and launch a five-year strategy. At the same time, the not-for-profit’s board has its own challenge: finding someone
to take over when Annala retires April 1.
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July 17, 2012
Lilly Endowment's $500,000 gift will help fund needed maintenance to the historic building on Indiana Avenue. Center directors
say the theater needs a new HVAC system, in addition to electrical wiring, lighting and sound equipment.
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July 11, 2012
Associated PressPurdue University says donations to the school rose by 32 percent during the past year for its second-best fundraising year
on record.
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June 19, 2012
Dan HumanCharitable giving grew 4 percent nationally in 2011, but the increase was less than 1 percent after adjusting for inflation,
according to a report released Tuesday by the Giving USA Foundation and The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
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April 27, 2012
Associated PressPurdue University will use a $10 million anonymous gift to help build a facility dedicated to encouraging student excellence
and leadership.
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April 14, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThose left in the lurch by financial promises unfulfilled by Joe Bilby are mystfied by his motives, since he seems not to
have profited from any of it.
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April 14, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Indiana Achievement Awards is going on what organizers called a “sabbatical,” though its return isn’t
guaranteed. The change is the result of a loss in grant funding for all not-for-profit programs at the IUPUI Solution Center,
which organized the awards.
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April 7, 2012
Anthony SchoettleThe city’s public radio and television stations are more than holding their own, even as their commercial brethren continue
to suffer from a now-5-year-old economic swoon.
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April 7, 2012
Brackets for Good pits one not-for-profit against another in an NCAA-tournament style fundraising competition.
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April 5, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinA 70-year-old Trafalgar man who made empty promises of multimillion-dollar gifts to local cultural institutions was sentenced
to six years of probation Thursday morning in an unrelated check-fraud case.
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March 27, 2012
United Way of Central Indiana is projecting that its 2011 annual campaign will raise a record-breaking $40.6 million, topping
the previous high of $39 million in 2007.
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Saw the Indy Men's Chorus "Music of Gilbert & Sullivan" at the Indiana Historical Society on Sunday evening.
Temporary workers are not "tools" they are people and companies that keep large amounts of temp staff are cheating.
I miss having them around. I hope one of their stores is in the general Meridian/86th Street area. I will make good use of it.
The Fringe! Plus, the simple fact that there are so many local faves in such close proximity to each other.
I remenber, watching the toll road, being built, through South Bend, when I was 10 years old. I believe, back then that it was estimated, that the toll road, would be paid for in 20 years and then it would be free. I am now 71, what happened? Since the power is in the people, by that, I mean that, we the people are in total control of everything. I, suggest that no one ever use the toll road again, let it go broke. We the people can control the price of everything, from groceries to gas, if we would just do it. If we don't pay the asking price, the sellers will lower the price and if we wait awhile, they will lower the price to what we accept as reasonable. I would like to know why a highway like interstate 94, is so well maintained, a much better highway, than the toll road, but has no tolls. I would also like to know why, a sitting governor, with a term limit, maximum of eight years, can lease, public property, for 75 years. Even though I have transponders in both of my trucks and will not be affected by the increase, I have been and will contine to avoid using the toll road. I make many trips from northern Indiana to Chicago, every year, and I prefer the better highway, I94!