Pacers Foundation keeps giving
The Pacers Foundation Inc. eclipsed more than $700,000 in giving in 2008, according to Pacers Foundation Executive Director Jami Marsh.
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Orchestra lays off eight as donations, ticket sales drop
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will look to volunteers to help cover the work done by eight people who were laid off last week in a move to trim $600,000, or 2 percent, from the $29.5 million annual budget.
Project plants seeds of academic success
United Way is spending $114,000 to bring Project Seed, a program with specially trained math experts, to 11 Indianapolis Public Schools.
Not-for-profit governance needs to be taken seriously
Many boards of directors have not taken to heart their responsibilities, opting instead for the easier route of trusting management and operating personnel.
Arts leaders brainstorm for new funding streams
A panel convened by IBJ discusses the lack of funding dilemma and need for broad-based support in the Indianapolis arts community.
IU scores with ‘Philanthropy 50’ gifts
Two Indiana businessmen, Michael Maurer and the late Jesse Cox, made the Philanthropy 50 with enormous gifts to Indiana University in 2008.
NFP of NOTE: Fairbanks
Fairbanks is focused on recovery from alcohol and other drug problems, serving as a resource to improve the well-being
of individuals, families and communities by offering hope and support through its programs and services.
Grant-makers, stung by market crash, favor safety-net causes, discourage new applicants
Some major foundations in central Indiana are narrowing grantmaking criteria so they can funnel their reduced asset streams
toward pressing needs brought on by the recession.
Library foundation to launch $10,000 prize for Hoosiers
Indiana has its share of renowned dead writers, but the Indianapolis-Marion County Library Foundation is planning to recognize modern-day Hoosier scribes with a new and quite hefty prize.
Police museum planned
The not-for-profit Indianapolis Historical and Educational Foundation is planning a police museum in the first floor of an old warehouse along Pennsylvania Street across from Conseco Fieldhouse.
Women’s Fund backs home for teen girls
A group of volunteers who hope to open a home for pregnant teens will soon hire an executive director, thanks to a $25,000
grant from Women’s Fund of Central Indiana.
City’s environmental effort gets boost
The McKinney Family Foundation has created a fund to support initiatives of Mayor Greg Ballard’s 3-month-old Office of Sustainability, an environmental initiative that promotes projects ranging from energy-efficient city buildings to bicycle paths.
Grant from racecar driver will rescue thoroughbreds
A group of thoroughbred lovers concerned about the horses’ futures spend every weekend during the summer racing season at
Hoosier Park.
Donation helps establish grief counseling for kids
This fall, Brooke’s Place used a $100,000 gift from the Levin Living Trust to start individual counseling.
Indy-art-loving lawyer pays studio rent for artists
Paul Hunt, a partner with Barnes & Thornburg, recently decided to pay seven months’ studio rent for two artists at Harrison
Center for the Arts. And the Columbia Club on Monument Circle is looking for new members.
Group plans special-needs sports complex in Martinsville
A not-for-profit group led by an account executive at Clayton-based Ray’s Trash Service is raising money to build a sports
complex designed for people with special needs.
Lawrence Township School Foundation
The mission of the Lawrence Township School Foundation is to encourage and support creativity, innovation and excellence that
enhances the educational community of the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township.
Givers get strategic
Wealthy people are getting more advice from hired professionals and less from peers and not-for-profit personnel when
making
decisions about charitable giving, a new study shows.
In a recession-ridden holiday, shop and give locally
When it comes to holiday shopping and charitable giving, act locally.
Health reform network crumbles without Rooney
The state’s Dec. 1 takeover of Medical Savings Insurance Co. marks the formal crumbling of J. Patrick Rooney’s network of
health care reform efforts.