Stories of Change

Nonprofit Partnerships: Central Indiana’s Secret Weapon

June 9, 2025 Written by Guadalupe Pimentel Solano, Program Director, Herbert Simon Family Foundation; and Erin Tanner, CICF Chief Financial Officer   Uniquely, the Central Indiana region committed to a robust nonprofit landscape in its earliest years. Over the decades, Central Indiana became home to an impressive number of service-minded, charitable organizations.    This year, of course, three major challenges […]Read More.

Senior Fund Webinar Recap: How Will Health Policy Changes Impact Older Adults?

June 1, 2025 Central Indiana Community Foundation recently hosted a Senior Fund webinar exploring the evolving landscape of health policy and its impact on older adults. CICF staff members Jeff Bennett and Robin Elmerick helped lead the conversation, offering valuable insights into key policy changes and what they mean for aging populations in Central Indiana. The webinar addressed the […]Read More.

DAF Giving At the CICF Collaborative: What Funding Recipients Should Know

May 27, 2025 Written by Clark Collier, Director of Giving Strategies; and Robin Elmerick, Senior Director of Effective Philanthropy Chances are, if you work at a nonprofit, then you have some awareness of donor-advised funds (DAFs) and how they contribute to philanthropy. If not, here’s a quick overview:    DAFs are giving vehicles that allow donors to contribute […]Read More.

CICF Collaborative Bus Tour: Fundholders Explore How to Support Students and Schools

May 27, 2025 With funding shifts and reductions to education taking place at the federal and state levels, philanthropy will be playing an outsized role in filling the gaps. So, on Wednesday, May 14, the CICF Collaborative took about a dozen fundholders and financial advisers to two Indianapolis schools to better understand the role of philanthropy in education […]Read More.

Sharing Your Nonprofit’s Social & Economic Impact

May 5, 2025 Written by Erin Tanner, Chief Financial Officer of Central Indiana Community Foundation   In 2023, Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy came out with a survey showing Americans’ general awareness of and opinions about nonprofits. Among many striking results was the following:   Only about 5% of Americans believe they or someone in their family had […]Read More.

Indy Hunger Network, CICF Will Release Regional Hunger Study

April 30, 2025 This summer, Indy Hunger Network releases its annual hunger study. Traditionally measuring the rates of food insecurity in Marion County, CICF funded an expansion this year to add eight additional Central Indiana counties (Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison, Morgan and Shelby). To accompany the study’s release, communities throughout Central Indiana are hosting panel discussions and screenings of the widely-hailed mini-documentary Food, […]Read More.