Your Story. Our Community.

They’re pretty much giving everyone a second chance—to be able to start over. If you are unfortunate enough to come from a family that’s struggling with either addiction or financial issues or whatnot – or if you’re living out on the streets, they pretty much give you a second chance to restart your life.
—Rodney, youth from Stopover’s Safe Place program

We’re trying to provide access, for everyone, to all of our 250 bikeshare bikes and 29 stations, regardless of age, race, gender or income level. We’re making sure everyone feels that they are able to take part in the fun that bikeshare provides or use it for transportation. The Cultural Trail is a safe place for my Everybody Rides members that have not been on a bike for quite a long time in some cases. It allows them to easily and safely move throughout the downtown area without having to worry about bike lanes and the shared roads of traffic.
—Frank, Everybody Rides program coordinator with The Indianapolis Cultural Trail

A friend asked me to look into PrimeLife because she thought the aquatics would help with my MS. My friend was EXTREMELY right! My neurologist tells me that I’ve made major strides here. He’s surprised by my progress.
—Lisa, member at PrimeLife Enrichment

I love exercise. I’ve always been a big advocate for it. It can help with their self-esteem, their confidence, and it can just make them feel good.
—Chris, program operations director at Nine13 Sports

Receiving funding from CICF is critical to us in fulfilling our mission. We are about 80% property tax funded and with tax caps in Indianapolis, we lose funding. When we want to build programs that really build on our potential, we turn to folks like CICF. For example, continuing education for our staff. As Indy becomes a more diverse place we need our staff to understand more about the wide array of folks that live here. We have been able to work with our sister cities to experience library experiences in other countries. The staff has come home with a much richer appreciation that the world is a lot bigger than us, that international folks are coming here and are we prepared to understand them and are we open to different values and ways of life.
—Jackie, CEO of The Indianapolis Public Library

We really love doing community events because it gives us a chance to speak with parents. We have a lot of repeat riders that go to these events and then the parents get to see what they’ve came home and talked about. The future is unwritten, but there are so many communities we have yet to even step foot in with our programming.
—Aryn, special programs director at Nine13 Sports