Scouting fund honoring Jim Morris to help first-time campers
The new fund will pay for half of the cost for a child to attend camp.
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IBJ Podcast: Mission of Indy furniture maker ‘is about building other people up’
More than 240 people who have struggled with addiction, homelessness, incarceration and other obstacles have been employed and trained by Purposeful Design. And sales of its high-end furniture cover most of the cost of operation.
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Marian University receives $29M gift for medical school
The donation, the largest individual gift in Marian’s history, came from Julie Wood—on behalf of the Tom & Julie Wood Family Foundation.
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Riley Children’s Foundation lands $8M gift from Lechleiters
The Indianapolis-based foundation, which announced the donation Friday, said the funds would help make mental health and behavioral health services more available to children and adolescents.
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Indy’s corporate-philanthropic housing fund launches $10.5M fundraising effort
The campaign was announced during the unveiling ceremony for St. George Apartments, a 53-unit supportive housing complex on the near-north side of Indianapolis.
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Purposeful Design rebuilds lives as participants build furniture
The east-side company is about to finish 2024 with more than $2.7 million in sales—up from $1.35 million four years ago. By 2026, the business expects sales to reach $3 million.
UPDATE: IU lands $138M grant from Lilly Endowment to fund new biosciences accelerator
The gift is the largest grant that Indiana University has ever received in support of research and development. IU President Pamela Whitten said the funding will help “change the very landscape of our capital city and state.”
Nonprofit aims to help seniors, disabled stay at home
Home Repairs for Good serves Marion County homeowners who are at least 62 years old or have a disability and are at or below 150% of the federal poverty line.
GivingTuesday estimates $3.6B was donated this year, an increase from 2023
This year, about 18.5 million people donated to nonprofits and another 9.2 million people volunteered on GivingTuesday, according to the organization’s estimates.
Lilly Endowment CEO gets 2024 Sachem Award
Indianapolis philanthropic leader Clay Robbins is the 19th person to receive the award, meant to honor outstanding community contributions.
Riches and gifts roll on for Lilly Endowment
The Lilly Endowment is writing a flurry of big checks again and recently sold more than $50 million worth of stock in namesake drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. to fund the gifts, many of them to Indiana organizations.
Volunteers came back to nonprofits in 2023, after pandemic tanked participation
Compared to other adults, people between the ages of 45 and 54 volunteered at the highest rates overall, the survey found, and more women volunteered than men, continuing a long-term trend.
Fair Oaks Farms education arm getting $2.7M to help further its mission
The Lake States Dairy Center—a nonprofit educational affiliate of Fair Oaks Farms—will receive the contribution from seven financial institutions, the organizations announced Tuesday.
Attorney Melissa Proffitt’s enthusiasm, endurance benefit community organizations
Because of her tireless devotion to Indiana’s economic and social betterment, IBJ has named Proffitt the 31st recipient of the Michael A. Carroll Award.
Study shows pandemic’s impact on charitable giving
A new study from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy found fewer givers as the pandemic started, but larger donations.
Aspire Indiana Health lands $1M gift from Lilly Endowment for recovery residence program
Progress House, about a mile east of downtown, serves about 300 people a year for substance use disorder.
Eskenazi Health lands $10M gift from Lilly Endowment for internships to college students with physical disabilities
The gift will fund operations at Gregory S. Fehribach Center at Eskenazi Health for the next five years and also create an endowment for future funding.
Tony Stewart Foundation to shut down after two decades
The foundation, founded by Stewart in 2003, has donated more than $7 million to dozens of organizations, including several pediatric cancer support groups and numerous animal sanctuaries and rescues.
Salesforce announces $1M grant to Indianapolis schools
The grant brings Salesforce’s total giving to Indianapolis Public Schools district to $5.5 million over the past seven years.
UIndy announces $5.2M alumni donation, endowed scholarship
The estate of Jack “J.J.” and Mary Kaye Ott, who met as students at the school, donated the sum.
Lilly Endowment to give $100M grant to National Park Foundation
The park foundation described the gift on Monday as the largest grant in history benefiting the U.S.’s national parks. The money will be used to address the needs of the country’s more than 400 national park sites.
Lilly Endowment offering up to $600M in competitive grants for Marion County K-12 schools
The Indianapolis-based philanthropic foundation said Thursday that more than 80 public, private and charter school districts and networks representing more than 300 schools in Marion County are eligible to apply for grants.
IU med school grad gifts $5M to support new anatomy lab
The lab, which will be located on the second floor of the 11-story IU Medical Education and Research Building, will emphasize hands-on physical dissection as a vital component of medical training.
Lilly Endowment approves more than $300M in grants to 13 Indiana colleges
The five-year implementation grants range from $12.1 million to $32 million each, with DePauw University in Greencastle landing the largest grant.