The recovering, yet-still-weak economy puts charity retailer Goodwill in a sweet position. Consumer spending is up, so more old stuff makes its way to thrift stores. At the same time, high unemployment means the bargain hunters are still out in force.
Well, it’s that time of year again: time to gaze into the crystal ball and predict what trends will dominate fundraising in the year ahead.
Marlowe and Patricia Kluter of Richmond designated 13 churches, schools and charities to share more than $6 million from their estate.
Manchester College will use money to launch the state’s third program offering doctorates in pharmacy.
The following is a list of Indianapolis-area not-for-profit organizations and the things each needs most.
Little Red Door is committed to serving people with cancer in the greater Indianapolis area and surrounding counties who lack financial means or adequate insurance.
$300,000 from the local philanthropists is the hospital’s first naming-rights gift.
A Purdue University-based institute that aids military families whose lives have been disrupted by a relative's deployment overseas has won a $6.3 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to boost its mission.
Grant from Lilly Endowment will create a workforce training center, space for distance education and administrative offices at 45-year-old former hotel on North Meridian Street.
The following is a list of Indianapolis-area not-for-profit organizations and the things each needs most.
Cynthia Rallis, who begins work Jan. 1, held a similar job at the National Museum of Science and Industry in London.
The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, which faltered in the summer of 2009, is on stable footing at its year-old location in Fountain Square—so much so that it won’t move closer to downtown, as it had planned.
The university announced Monday it would match the $10 million being donated by Kenneth Meyer, the retired chairman and chief executive officer of Lincoln Capital Management Co. The money will fund eight fellowships a year.
The Indiana Symphony Society on Monday reported a near-record deficit of $2.7 million for the 2010 fiscal year. And symphony CEO Simon Crookall said this won't be the end of the bleeding.
HAND’s mission is to create and promote affordable, quality housing and to educate the community about housing needs.
The following is a list of Indianapolis-area not-for-profit organizations and the things each needs most.
Momentive Consumer Credit Counseling Service Inc. has agreed to be absorbed by Ohio-based Apprisen Financial Advocates, as financial pressures in the industry push not-for-profit agencies to become larger.
Conner Prairie Interactive History Park will open a Civil War exhibit in June, hoping for a similar bump in membership and ticket sales as it got from its Balloon Voyage rides the past two years.
A longtime senior manager at the Indianapolis Museum of Art has retired—the result of a settlement in a retaliation lawsuit she filed earlier this month.
Girls Inc. needs 100 new volunteers by the end of December to facilitate winter programs across the metro area.
