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Charitable Strategies to Help Your Clients

October 4, 2017 Back to school isn’t just for kids: scholarship donors provide hope to students in need. Fall has arrived, and kids are back in school. Many high school seniors are working on their college applications, while underclassmen are ensuring they have the right course-load and extracurricular activi…Read More.

Meet Brittany Rayburn

October 4, 2017 What is your role at CICF? I am director of development for Legacy Fund, the CICF affiliate serving Hamilton County. I have the privilege of cultivating new and existing relationships with donors and professional advisors in Hamilton County. I get to help prospective donors identify the type of g…Read More.

2017 Annual Professional Advisor Seminar 

October 1, 2017 Business Succession Expert Turney Berry Headlines 2017 Seminar  On September 28th, CICF welcomed over 140 local professional advisors to the annual CICF Professional Advisor Seminar, featuring Turney Berry, partner at Wyatt Tarrant & Combs LLP and nationally recognized leader in the area…Read More.

Jennifer

September 29, 2017 I started here as a volunteer in 2000 and the organization was founded in 1998, so everything was young and new. For me it has been a tremendously rewarding blessing. I’ve seen literally hundreds of students come through this program. We can’t function without our volunteers, financial donors…Read More.

The Indianapolis Foundation Awards Nearly $1 Million in Grants to Marion County Not-for-Profit Organizations

September 25, 2017 Board of directors for The Indianapolis Foundation, an affiliate of Central Indiana Community Foundation, approved and awarded $945,000 for 23 programs and projects in September. This is the foundation’s third grant round for 2017.Read More.

Ernest

September 25, 2017 If there’s no funding for arts education, then kids that thrive in the arts lose one of their top motivators to attend school. Many districts with low engagement in the arts see higher levels of truancy. There are connections between the arts and higher grades and higher rates of attendance amo…Read More.