Public Transit is More than a Bus Line—it can be a Lifeline
A real problem is people don’t recognize the importance of transportation unless they don’t have access to a personal vehicle. *Insert nervous laugh as I look around the room guiltily. When you’ve always had your own vehicle, you don’t even consider what life would be like without it. I’m a perfect example. My parents bought my first car before I passed the driving test. I won the “first-year-student parking lotto” to bring my car to campus freshman year of college. Duri…Read More.
Q&A with Lacy Wooden
Meet Lacy Wooden. Lacy is the new director of people and culture for CICF. What excites you about your new role? What excites me about my new role is that it is a “New Role” for CICF. This to me means that I have an opportunity to do a new thing in a space that has […]Read More.
Q&A with Rishard Allen
Meet Rishard. Rishard is the new Equitable Initiatives Officer for The Indianapolis Foundation, a CICF Affiliate. What excites you about your new role? I’m really excited to connect with and learn from other community foundation leaders across the nation on strategies to tackle what is perhaps the wickedest of problems: systemic racism. There is so […]Read More.
Stop Calling Black Philanthropists “Emerging Donors”
Often when people think about philanthropists, their minds immediately go to the big names we’ve seen in the history books and on our newsfeed—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Buffet and Gates. And while the wealthiest people and those deemed to be “top philanthropists” tend to be White, this section of our population is not alone in making generous gifts to impactful causes. When we stray from the traditional portrait of a philanthropist, the term often used is “emerging donor.” And too of…Read More.