Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Protecting the Digital Backbone of Not-for-Profits
How scary is the thought of a data breach? So scary that they made October cybersecurity month. 2024 marks the 20thanniversary of this observation. Not-for-profits who work within large, digital systems are contemplating ransomware, malware, and phishing as much as werewolves, witches, and mummies. To “celebrate” Cybersecurity Month, CICF asked its Senior Director of Information […]Read More.
Support Hurricane Relief Efforts
As our community faces the looming threat of another major hurricane, many Central Indiana residents have reached out to us asking how they can help. We understand that many are also still deeply concerned about the impact of recent storms and are eager to contribute to relief efforts. We are here to make it easy […]Read More.
Endowments Demystified: How a $25,000 Investment Can Help Secure Your Not-for-Profit’s Future
Written by Jennifer Turner, Vice President of Philanthropy, Central Indiana Community Foundation For many of us, the word “endowment” can feel intimidating. It conjures up images of billion-dollar family foundations or Ivy League universities, entities that seem to exist in another dimension from our own. In reality, an endowment is far more accessible – and […]Read More.
IMPACT Central Indiana Grant Revives Historic Riverside Corridor
For Riverside residents De’Amon Harges and Wildstyle Paschall, it started back in 2017 with a question as simple as it was unlikely: “What if we bought a city block?” Increasingly, their historic near-westside neighborhood, Riverside, was in danger of losing itself to gentrification. A century after prejudicial housing practices like redlining had set off an […]Read More.