Local arts patrons Jane Fortune and her longtime partner Robert Hesse started City Ballet in the spring of 2009, but it was
more of a pitch than a reality. More than a year later, organization leaders are still not sure when they will hire their
own dancers.
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.
The house in the 1300 block of East Ninth Street is the first low-income home in the state to achieve platinum LEED certification.
Red-tail Conservancy director Barry Banks says the group hopes to raise the full $150,000 as soon as possible to buy the 47-acre
Camp Munsee.
The lingering recession is cutting into the money Indiana’s not-for-profit groups generate from bingo, pull-tabs and other
gambling ventures, straining their budgets.
Through land protection, stewardship and education, the Central Indiana Land Trust protects natural areas, improving air
and water quality and enhancing life in our communities for present and future generations.
The 63-year-old head of the central Indiana food bank plans to leave after a nationwide search for her successor. She departs
as the group ramps up plans to move into a new headquarters.
Keira Amstutz of the Indiana Humanities Council has counterintuitive advice for fundraising pitches, plus counsel on
finding balance and avoiding overthinking.
A plan to build a 28-acre sports complex on the southeast side is sparking hopes that a polluted parcel across the street
that formerly housed a Citizens coke plant can be revived as a retail and industrial center.
Burd, who is president of Burd Ford, a mother of four, and a fixture on television commercials for the dealership, has become
an advocate for mental health following her husband’s suicide.
The ACLU of Indiana promotes, protects and defends the rights, liberties and freedom guaranteed to all people in our state
by the U.S. and Indiana constitutions.
The Indianapolis-based not-for-profit has a new president and a vice president of strategic growth initiatives.
Seeing a lack of timely, accurate information about pay and benefits at local not-for-profits, two consultants have launched
an online compensation survey.
BP franchisee Ricker Oil and Conner Prairie, whose balloon ride is emblazoned with the company logo, find themselves awkwardly
linked to the disastrous Gulf oil spill.
illainous image.
Kiwanis International will back UNICEF with a $110 million campaign to eliminate tetanus in mothers and newborns, the Indianapolis-based
organization announced Thursday.
Key Indianapolis Museum of Art fundraiser Kathy Nagler has been hired as the first development director for Health Foundation
of Greater Indianapolis.
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.
A Bloomington task force is looking into ways to better serve the city's homeless, including creating a year-round shelter
that would fill in gaps from other service providers.
Fair Haven Foundation brings our community together to serve seriously ill patients visiting our city for treatment in downtown
Indianapolis.
If the debt refinancing is completed, Junior Achievement would be nothing more than a tenant at the Gene B. Glick Junior Achievement Education
Center.
