Taylor racked up the highest number of individual million-dollar-plus gifts—14—among the 57 donations in IBJ’s 2024 list of largest individual gifts to Indiana organizations.
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The donation, the largest individual gift in Marian’s history, came from Julie Wood—on behalf of the Tom & Julie Wood Family Foundation.
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Streets to Home Indy, a public-private partnership, said Elevance Health’s donation will help sustain housing efforts through rental assistance, case management and implementation support.
The new Hub for Innovation, Ventures and Entrepreneurship is the latest in a series of initiatives Purdue has launched over the past several years to encourage entrepreneurship and technology commercialization.
Nonprofit IYG plans to use the unrestricted grant to nearly double its ability to offer services and gathering spaces to young Hoosiers.
More people also volunteered their time on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving this year, with 11.1 million people in the U.S. volunteering.
The Tuesday after Thanksgiving has become one of the biggest fundraising days of the year for nonprofits in the United States.
The latest federal filings show more than $430,000 was raised through Team Braun, a joint fundraising arm.
In Pursuit Of Inc. plans to begin taking referrals early next year from area organizations helping men who are struggling to get their lives together.
The funding commitment from a DePauw alumnus will fund the construction of a new, 70,000-square-foot athletic stadium and sports performance center.
Strong performance by companies, particularly in the tech sector, pushed corporate giving up 6%, to a record amount.
The donation will be used to establish the Noblitt Entrepreneurship Program, which will provide opportunities to work with faculty on “experiences related to entrepreneurship and the principles of the free market.”
The donation is the largest gift to Butler University’s athletic department and the largest known estate commitment in the school’s history.
After giving sparsely to the presidential inaugurations of Trump in 2017 and Joe Biden in 2021, the country’s biggest tech firms—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Uber—have showered the president-elect with gifts or pledges of $1 million each.
The goal is to double the community college’s early-childhood education programs by 2027, resulting in nearly 2,000 more graduates each year.
This year, about 18.5 million people donated to nonprofits and another 9.2 million people volunteered on GivingTuesday, according to the organization’s estimates.
The money will go to start three programs designed to give students real-world business experience along with their classroom experience.
The Lake States Dairy Center—a nonprofit educational affiliate of Fair Oaks Farms—will receive the contribution from seven financial institutions, the organizations announced Tuesday.
A new study from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy found fewer givers as the pandemic started, but larger donations.
The estate of Jack “J.J.” and Mary Kaye Ott, who met as students at the school, donated the sum.
The park foundation described the gift on Monday as the largest grant in history benefiting the U.S.’s national parks. The money will be used to address the needs of the country’s more than 400 national park sites.
There have been only a handful of previous $1 billion donations to universities in the U.S., most coming in the past several years.
