The organization uses its money to lure national reform programs like Teach for America to the city and to fund education entrepreneurship fellows to launch innovative programs for schoolchildren in Indianapolis.
They're some of the most stable people in the state, a new study shows.
The Indianapolis-based not-for-profit has a new president and a vice president of strategic growth initiatives.
An Arkansas-based charity, formed by Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton, will run a competition to award grants to five community
organizations that want to start charter schools.
Simon Youth Foundation, a local not-for-profit, helps at-risk high school students across the country by partnering with local
school systems.
Should engineers be required to spend time in repair shops, and architects with the lunch bucket crowd?
Indy Reads' Travis DiNicola empowers employees by preaching an entrepreneurial mindset.
A philanthropy expert thinks donors could unwittingly undermine their dollars and time by insisting on too much documentation.
Launched in Houston three years ago, Lemonade Day aims to educate children from pre-kindergarten through high school how to
start, own and operate their own small businesses.
Dan Schmidt of Indianapolis-based Schmidt Associates Inc. architecture firm has returned from a trip to Georgia helping to
evaluate school infrastructure there.
The Indiana State Teachers Association might shoot itself in the foot in its standoff with the state’s school chief.
Jukes raises money so Ugandan children can attend secondary school through his Jukes Foundation for Kids.
A plan to get more parents interested in their children’s performance in school and reward good teachers might inadvertently strip resources from students who most need the help most.
Butler president should pounce on the outpouring of basketball publicity, former IUPUI chancellor urges.
Debating whether stigmas should be attached to sheepskins from university outposts.
Like cattle, hogs and other big farm animals? You’re now considered a diversity candidate.
Jennifer Burk, who took the helm in July, wishes she'd asked more questions when she was a board member.
Steel Dynamics is highly competitive partly because employees are compensated on how much money they save. Should Purdue and
other universities take notice?
The cuts, both in Bloomington and Indianapolis, come as part of an effort to trim $2.4 million from the fund-raising group’s
$26 million operational budget.
Inconceivable as it might sound, will the increasing focus on academic performance in public schools give private schools
a run for their money? It wouldn’t be the first time statistics upset an apple cart.
