The world’s largest private collection of Lincoln memorabilia – including signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment – will be housed at the Indiana State Museum. The collection, valued at $20 million, has been housed in Fort Wayne by Lincoln Financial Foundation, and is being donated to a consortium of Indiana groups led […]
Click here to view a video of the announcement. Indianapolis attorney and businessman Michael Maurer is giving $35 million to the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, which has been renamed in his honor. The gift, the largest in the law school’s history to come from a single donor, will fund an undetermined number […]
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s operating loss of $293,000 during the most recent fiscal year is not nearly as troubling
in the long term as the symphony’s shrinking endowment.
Shepherd Community Inc., a Christian-based organization serving the near-east side, is pulling other charities into its fold
at a pace not often seen in the local not-for-profit sector.
The Humane Society of Indianapolis has appointed Christine Jeschke, an animal-welfare activist and a former opponent of the organization, as director of operations. Jeschke has served on the board of Move to Act, which fought the Humane Society in court over its 2003 plan to use the Mary Powell Crume Trust as collateral against a […]
Wealthy people are getting more advice from hired professionals and less from not-for-profit personnel and peers when making decisions about charitable giving, a new study shows. Accountants were a leading source of advice for 43.2 percent of respondents, according to preliminary results of the study, which was conducted by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana […]
In the Indianapolis area, small-business owners told IBJ that they give in whatever
way they can, and would like to continue as long as their finances allow. But a Chronicle
of Philanthropy survey indicates that giving is already on the decline.
Rather than further test Indianapolis’ tolerance for edginess, public art guru Mindy Taylor Ross is taking a different tack in 2009 by bringing in the widely known kinetic sculpture of the late George Rickey. Installation of an untold number of Rickey sculptures will begin on April 4, said Ross, public art director for the Arts […]
For its next major public exhibition, the Arts Council of Indianapolis plans to bring the moving, geometric sculpture of the late George Rickey. Rickey’s time in Indiana played a key role in developing the tall, sweeping sculptures that won him acclaim in the 1960s. He was born in 1907 in South Bend, but his father, […]
Indianapolis Museum of Art has decided to acquire the landmark home and gardens of late Cummins Inc. Chairman J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia. The Columbus house, designed in 1957 by architect Eero Saarinen and considered one of the best examples of the international Modernist aesthetic, will be donated to the museum by the […]
In a sign of financial challenges ahead, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra yesterday reported a 1-percent budget shortfall for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31. Expenses exceeded revenue by $293,000, or 1 percent of the $26.8 million budget. CEO Simon Crookall said income from ticket sales and contributions did not keep pace with rising expenses for […]
Marian College will name its new $6.8 million athletic facility St. Vincent Health Field after the Catholic hospital system pledged money to allow the start of a second phase of building. St. Vincent’s gift amounted to “six figures,” Marian spokeswoman Andrea Fagan said. She said St. Vincent did not want to reveal the exact amount. […]
John Aleshire, the executive director of the Humane Society of Indianapolis, is rolling out policies that please animal advocates.
St. Vincent Foundation said today that it will use a $1 million donation from retired Herff Jones Inc. CEO A.J. Hackl to set up a permanent endowment for the St. Vincent Joshua Max Simon Primary Care Center. The center, which serves poor and uninsured patients, opened in October 2007 at 8414 Naab Road, across from […]
Indy Fringe executive director Pauline Moffat and Gary Reiter, a board member of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival
Inc., want to build an affordable live-work complex near Massachusetts Avenue.
A commission that has drawn $12.5 million in grants and public money to promote Indianapolis’ artistic side is awaiting word
on its future.
Ingersoll-Rand donated $35,000 worth of materials, $15,000 for engineering and labor, and future support to IPS 94.
Seven Martin University trustees have resigned this year, and at least two say President Algeania Freeman’s methods were a factor.
Families Thru International Adoption holds a reunion each summer at Forest Park in Noblesville that draws hundreds of families. Most of the children were born in China or Guatemala, but adoptions from those countries have slowed dramatically. The Evansville-based agency will have to form relationships in other countries, or expect fewer new faces at the annual picnic. FTIA is among a handful of Indiana agencies revamping their strategies to deal with the dramatic downturn. “It is a difficult time for…
Voters decided last Election Day that they’d had enough of Bart Peterson, but the former mayor is in demand with academics, a think tank, and now the city’s premier leadership network. Peterson is moderator of the Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series, which introduces “emerging leaders” to Indianapolis and its problems. “It’s something I never went through as a class member. I’ve always envied those who did,” Peterson said of the series, which accepts just 25 applicants each year. “It’s…
