The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has received a three-year, $700,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to renovate its early childhood exhibit, Playscape. It is the first major gift the foundation has made in Indianapolis.
After losing more than 6,000 donors in a single year, the United Way of Central Indiana is making its first concerted effort to reach people outside their workplaces.
Public TV and radio broadcaster WFYI is counting on its listeners and viewers to open their wallets in a big way this fall,
as it gears up for a campaign to grow its endowment well beyond its current $2.2 million.
If the debt refinancing is completed, Junior Achievement would be nothing more than a tenant at the Gene B. Glick Junior Achievement Education
Center.
Lilly Endowment announced Monday that its assets declined 7 percent, to $5.3 billion, in 2009, as the foundation continued
to lose money on Eli Lilly and Co. stock.
The new home for the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute that’s rising from the ground at IUPUI must do a lot
of things well.
The findings may come as a surprise to not-for-profit executives who think the Internet generation doesn’t require a
personal touch.
Former Junior Achievement CEO Jeff Miller says Mayor Greg Ballard was about to hire him as a senior policy adviser, but comments
by Central Indiana Community Foundation President Brian Payne and current CEO Jennifer Burk ruined the offer.
The Indianapolis affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure plans to unveil what might be the first such “text-to-donate”
option offered among local not-for-profits.
Michele Thomas Dole has been a wealth adviser at JP Morgan Chase and development director of the IU Foundation.
Organizations like Kiwanis boost awareness of international needs, which otherwise rank low on Americans' giving priorities.
Most know him as a retired captain of industry—of banking, as chairman of First Indiana Corp., and law, as co-founder
of Bose McKinney & Evans. Few know that Robert H. McKinney started out planning to become a national park guide.
The center will recognize the donation by naming
the cafe and gift shop inside the 1,600-seat concert hall after the Basiles.
Lilly’s death on Dec. 30 at age 94 will trigger the release of hundreds of millions of dollars from her
estate, with perhaps as much as $200 million flowing to the fledgling Ruth Lilly Charitable Foundation.
Lilly, 94, who died Wednesday, gave away hundreds of millions of dollars of her fortune during her lifetime.
Over the course of her life, the last surviving great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly gave away much of her
inheritance.
Over the past four years, Carrier has donated $71,000 for the purchase of equipment and software that will
allow mechanical engineering students at IUPUI to do more advanced work.
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the Indianapolis Parks Foundation a $7.3 million grant to fund improvements that include
a new pool at Bethel Park on the near-southeast side.
Dubbed the “Indiana Experience,” the exhibits represent the first ticketed tourist attraction at the society’s headquarters building.
Entrepreneur earmarks 10 percent of profits for charity, honors well-run not-for-profits.
