Organization Name
|
Grant
Awarded
|
Grant
Description |
| 100
Black Men of Indianapolis, Inc. |
$50,000 |
Support
to sustain and expand the Scholastic Basketball program to help youth in
IPS to improve their academic performance, personal conduct and school attendance.
|
| African
Community International, Inc. |
$55,000 |
Support
to implement the African Center's Primary Health Care Delivery Project,
which will provide health care and health education for 500 members of the
growing African population in Indianapolis. |
| Agape
Therapeutic Riding Resources, Inc. |
$150,000 |
Support
to build Agape's second instructional site, which is a handicapped-accessible
indoor horse arena in southwest Indianapolis that will serve 600 IPS students. |
| BehaviorCorp,
Inc. |
$25,000 |
Support
to purchase a van to transport clients participating in the Continuing Services
program, which serves 725 mentally ill adults. |
| Bosma
Industries for the Blind, Inc. |
$71,500 |
Support
to purchase two new specially outfitted vehicles to transport clients to
and from work at Bosma Industries and other job sites. |
Butler
University's Center
for Citizenship and Community
|
$40,000 |
Support
to develop and implement an educational enrichment program at Kaleidoscope
Youth Center, which serves inner-city youth. |
| Child
Advocates, Inc. |
$80,000 |
Support
to expand a new Mediation Program to resolve termination of parental rights
cases without litigation, which eases the caseloads of the agency and courts,
allowing for placement of each child in a permanent home more quickly. |
| The
Children's TherAplay Foundation, Inc. |
$16,500 |
Support
to replace the footing in the indoor horse arena, which is used as an outpatient
rehabilitation clinic for children in need of physical therapy and treatment. |
| Christamore
House |
$90,000 |
Support
for the Teen Opportunity Program, a year-round after-school program that
builds the skills required for academic achievement, employment and job
readiness, activities for daily living, and community service for youth
in the Haughville neighborhood. |
| Fathers
and Families Resource/Research Center, Inc. |
$100,000 |
Support
for continuation of the education, employment and parenting programs, which
serve young fathers struggling to support themselves and their children
due to limited education or employment. |
| Girls
Incorporated of Indianapolis |
$50,000
|
Support
to develop and implement an outreach program for 150 Hispanic girls in Indianapolis
and to increase cultural awareness and appreciation among girls of diverse
ethnicities. |
| Indiana
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc. |
$57,000
|
Support
to develop a legal advocacy and representation system on behalf of victims
of domestic violence throughout Indiana. |
| Indianapolis
Public Schools Education Foundation |
$150,000 |
Support
to create 150 Classroom Take-Home Libraries for Indianapolis Public School
kindergarten and first-grade students in an effort to increase their reading
skills. |
| Jameson,
Inc. |
$125,000
|
Support
for capital improvements, which will enable the organization to serve 600
at-risk children per year at the camp. |
| NPower
Indiana |
$30,000
|
Support
to provide approximately 350 hours of customized technology consulting services
to nine local nonprofit agencies. |
| Prevent
Blindness |
$85,000
|
Support
for the Improved Technology to Save Sight for At-Risk Adults program, which
will expand free vision screenings, eye health education and referrals for
exams/glasses to at-risk adults and senior citizens. |
| Raphael
Health Center |
$200,000
|
Support
to expand the existing health care facility in the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood. |
| Reach
for Youth, Inc. |
$75,000
|
Support
to expand the organizational capacity of the agency to better serve youth
and families involved with the juvenile justice system. |
| Seeds
of Hope, Inc. |
$31,000 |
Support
for the Supportive Services Toward Sobriety programs that serve women with
substance abuse problems. |
| United
Way of Central Indiana |
$100,000 |
Support
to enhance the Social Assets and Vulnerability Indicators (SAVI) project,
which provides comprehensive local demographic information in a usable format
for United Way agencies and other community-based organizations in order
to better serve their clients.. |
| Visiting
Nurse Service, Inc. |
$100,000 |
Support
for construction of a facility that will provide a home-like setting for
hospice patients who are homeless or lack a caregiver. |
| The
Writers' Center of Indianapolis |
$45,000
|
Support
for a second year of the Institute of Writing and Creativity, an initiative
to serve minority middle and high school students and teachers of creative
writing. |
