The Lilly Endowment has pledged $50 million to the United Negro College Fund to launch the UNCF Career Pathways Initiative—an effort to improve employment rates and wages for African-American college graduates.
The philanthropist says she’s picky about what she gets involved with—and therefore she’s never regretted a project or program she’s contributed to.
N. Clay Robbins, the president and CEO of the Lilly Endowment, has been given the additional title of chairman at the Indianapolis-based private charitable foundation.
A phone number to the Jared Foundation Inc. was out of service and its website was down Wednesday, a day after federal and state authorities seized electronics and other items from Jared Fogle’s Zionsville home.
Assets in 2014 rose from $7.7 billion to $10.1 billion, a 31-percent surge. The value of the endowment now has nearly doubled since closing 2010 at $5.3 billion.
The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based education reform group, will use the money from the family of Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton to provide more innovation school fellowships and launch more charter schools.
Liberty is one of the richest foundations in the state, with $332 million in assets—firepower it devotes to publishing books and staging some 200 all-expenses-paid conferences a year.
The foundation created by Cynthia Simon Skjodt and Paul Skjodt has endowed an international center focused on averting genocide.
Purdue University has received the biggest cash donation in the school’s 146-year history—a $40 million gift from Lilly Endowment Inc. to fund five projects in engineering, technology and research.
Betsy McCaw, 38, vice president of strategy and operations at Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, is helping changing the region.
Melynne Klaus, 37, oversees grants from a $43 million fund as director of Christel DeHaan Family Foundation.
The owner of the Indianapolis Colts has ponied up a sizable sum for a Massachusetts organization that keeps the writer’s legacy alive.
The advanced manufacturing and logistics advocacy group will use the grant for programs, outreach and research for the state’s largest industry sector.
Hendricks County Community Foundation improves the quality of life in Hendricks County by awarding grants to not-for-profit organizations and projects, and by collaborating to address community issues.
The funds will help providers around Indiana improve curricula, build classrooms, educate parents about the importance of high-quality child care and education, and support professional development for teachers.
Paul Skjodt, owner of the now-dormant Indiana Ice hockey team, has secured an option on 92 acres in a busy northwest-side corridor for a $25 million multi-use sports complex.
The endowment hopes to expand educational MBA programs, including one at the University of Indianapolis, to give business skills to more principals and superintendents at Indiana public schools.
Jennifer Burns is looking for a couple of dozen twenty-somethings who, like her, share the lofty goals of the World Economic Forum, the organization that gathers heads of state and CEOs each January in the Swiss mountain town of Davos.
Jeffrey Sparks, 63, has joined Indianapolis-based not-for-profit and public policy research group Sagamore Institute as a senior fellow. He stepped down from Heartland Truly Moving Pictures in 2013.
Richard Markoff comes to the job from IUPUI, where he was a senior adviser to Chancellor Charles Bantz and a visiting lecturer teaching graduate courses in organizational leadership.
