Stories of Change

Q&A with Leah Nahmias

August 31, 2021 Meet leah nahmias Leah serves as a community leadership officer. What excites you about your new role?  I started my career as a teacher so I’m excited to be back in a role where my work directly impacts kids, even if I’m not interacting with them every day. Plus educators and others who work with […]Read More.

Innovation Catalyst 2021 Cohort Announced

August 30, 2021 In partnership with our strategic partner, Cause Impact LLC, The Indianapolis Foundation and Hamilton County Community Foundation, affiliates of Central Indiana Community Foundation, announced the six members of the 2021 Innovation Catalyst cohort.Read More.

A Celebration of Black Philanthropy Month

August 30, 2021 Black Philanthropy Month, observed every August, is a global initiative that shows the ingenuity and transformative impact of the generosity of Black philanthropists. An important portion of this month is highlighting the experiences and uplifting the Black voices in the philanthropic sector. Read from some of our own staff on their perspectives being in this space.Read More.

Q&A with Larry Smith

August 2, 2021 Meet Larry Smith. Larry serves as the Director of Development for the Hamilton County Community Foundation. What excites you about your new role? I am excited about the opportunity to serve the people of Hamilton County, which has been my home for about five years. (I was born and reared in Indy.) Hamilton County is […]Read More.

Oppression Olympics: The Game That Needs to End

August 2, 2021 As people around the globe are tuning in for the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, there’s a variation that rewards no medals yet many insist on competing—Oppression Olympics. The first recorded use of the phrase was by Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez in a 1993 conversation with activist Angela Davis. Oppression Olympics is the idea that marginalization is a competition of determining the relative weight of overall oppression of individuals or groups, based on identity. Simply put, it’s comparing…Read More.

Housing to Recovery

August 2, 2021 The Housing to Recovery fund was established in 2019 as a partnership between the City of Indianapolis and CICF.  Acknowledging the time has come for a more permanent solution to our homelessness crisis, the City, CICF, Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP), and Corporation for Supportive Housing joined together to loudly call for a “housing-first” model in our community.  Housing-first is a proven approach in many cities across the country that verifies providin…Read More.