Host Mason King talks with the Center for Leadership Development’s president, Dennis Bland, about how a Lilly Endowment grant will expand the group’s programs to help minority students achieve in school and in life.
The endowment is soliciting proposals from not-for-profit organizations—and is encouraging those groups to collaborate with each other or with companies and governmental agencies on their efforts.
The Indianapolis-based Center for Leadership Development, which promotes personal development and educational attainment for minority youth, said the grant announced Tuesday morning is expected to be “transformational.”
And that’s despite the fact that 73% of all not-for-profit employees are female, according to Philadelphia software developer DonorPerfect.
Sports executive Allison Melangton had never led a capital campaign before Wheeler Mission asked her to chair its $12 million fundraising effort.
The former bank branch, which closed in late 2016, will reopen as a co-working space called Vault.
Severely wounded while serving in the Middle East, Jeff Mittman underwent dozens of surgeries and years of rehab while trying to figure out how he could again provide for his family.
Joy’s House is trying to raise $559,000 by Nov. 1 after receiving far less than expected in corporate, foundation and individual donations this year.
An email from CEO David Horth to staff and volunteers said employees with decades of combined experience had been terminated, including the chief operating officer and director of animal behavior for the not-for-profit.
A new alliance with the Seattle-based affiliate chapter might be the key to the turnaround and longevity of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.
The Lilly Endowment awarded millions of dollars over the last three years to help several central Indiana human service agencies start endowments of their own.
Catherine O’Connor, CEO of the Julian Center since March 2014, plans to retire at the end of the year, the domestic-violence shelter and services provider announced Thursday.
A philanthropy expert thinks donors could unwittingly undermine their dollars and time by insisting on too much documentation.
From the perspective of return on investment, the Super Bowl ad might be considered a failure.
Its education focus just might make the endowment more of a jobs engine than the Indiana Economic Development Corp.
Some Indiana mayors, desperate for revenue, think it’s time for "payments-in-lieu-of-taxes."
The Bay Area has zillions of the tiny dogs. But Indianapolis isn’t part of the airlift strategy.
If a new denomination results from a vote to allow gay clergy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Indianapolis
might be at the top of the list for its headquarters.
The launch of the orthopedics not-for-profit OrthoWorx is quite an accomplishment in Warsaw, where some of the world’s
biggest companies fight tooth-and-nail.
The wealthy in the Indianapolis area arenâ??t carrying their weight in supporting United Way of Central Indiana,
according to an analysis by the not-for-profit   comparing places including Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Columbus,
Ohio.
The Indianapolis chapter has 22 â??principalâ?? donors, defined as…
