Retro arcade and tech training academy to partner up at Circle Centre
Gameplay at Circle Centre Mall’s Video Game Palooza Charity Arcade is helping to fund scholarships for Hope Training Academy.
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Women4Change names former EmployIndy CEO as new leader
Angela Carr Klitzsch becomes the second CEO in the advocacy group’s eight-year history,
With overhaul looming, organ network pushes to reduce wait times
The Indiana Donor Network, which serves 85 of Indiana’s 92 counties, is booming with a record number of registered donors and transplanted organs.
IBJ Podcast: Inside the plan to pack a million meals for food pantries in 24 hours of All-Star Weekend
Founded by Nancy and Hintz in 2007, Indianapolis-based Million Meal Movement has packed nearly 35 million meals.
IBJ Podcast: RecycleForce founder on new HQ, hiring ex-offenders and his own story of second chances
Here’s how a kid from Winchester got involved in the drug trade, moved to Jamaica and became a straight-laced business leader, and then returned to Indiana to help ex-offenders restart their lives and make an honest living.
Indianapolis-based Bloomerang acquires Florida-based software firm
Bloomerang, which offers software tools for not-for-profit organizations, says its acquisition of Florida-based Qgiv will help fuel growth.
Lilly Endowment awards $30M grant to help not-for-profits with construction, renovation projects
The grant replenishes United Way of Central Indiana’s Capital Projects Fund, which helps not-for-profits purchase, build, upgrade or expand their facilities to better serve their clients.
Phyllis Armstrong named next CEO of Child Advocates
Armstrong will succeed longtime CEO Cindy Booth, who is retiring after nearly 30 years with the children’s advocacy organization.
Total GivingTuesday donations up slightly this year, with 10% fewer donors participating
Not-for-profit organization GivingTuesday estimates that donors gave $3.1 billion this year on what has become one of the most important fundraising days of the year.
Many not-for-profits hoping to catch up on GivingTuesday
Supporting not-for-profits on GivingTuesday this year could have a bigger impact than usual. Why? Because not-for-profits and industry groups say donations so far are down compared with previous years.
Study: United Way grants provide $45M annual boost for regional economy
The study from the Kelley School of Business Indiana Business Research Center found the United Way of Central Indiana helped support groups that had a $1.52 billion impact on the regional economy since 2020.
Ascend Indiana CEO Jason Kloth stepping down
Kloth, a former Indianapolis deputy mayor, helped launch the Indianapolis-based talent-development and job-placement initiative in 2016.
Indianapolis Foundation awards $12M in violence reduction grants
Seventy-two organizations were chosen to receive a total of 159 grants from the Elevation Grant program.
Walker Legacy Center to start endowment with proceeds from real estate sales
The sale of Walker Plaza, which was built in 1989, also clears the way for the center’s leadership to usher in a new plan for the Legacy Center, which is expected to focus on further educating the public about C.J. Walker and her work as a businesswoman and prominent figure in Indianapolis in the early 1900s.
City of Indianapolis announces $4M in mental health, juvenile justice grants
The money comes from the city’s allotment of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Greenlight Guru CEO offers top-flight gym to boost young basketball players
David DeRam has used his Progeny Foundation and contributions from clients and partners to invest $10 million in a private, world-class training arena for youth basketball in Indianapolis that opened last year.
Youth-racing initiative that focuses on children of color aims to gear up
NXG Youth Motorsports has signed an option to purchase a 2.2-acre, city-owned plot just west of the former Central State Hospital site on the west side of Indianapolis.
CEO Booth to retire after 30 years at Child Advocates
Cindy Booth joined Child Advocates as its first full-time staff attorney in 1994. She was named CEO of the not-for-profit in 1996 and has held that position ever since.
NXG Youth Motorsports planning to buy site at Central State for new headquarters
A local motorsports not-for-profit plans to acquire more than two acres at the former Central State Hospital campus on the west side of Indianapolis with a goal of converting the property into a new multi-building headquarters.
Good vibes put you in a philanthropic mood, researchers say
Although images of suffering—aka “sadvertising”—motivate some people to give to not-for-profits, organizations also can benefit from a feel-good approach, the study says.