Building a Legacy of Community Grantmaking  since 1998

IN Grants Awarded    November 2008

Organization Name grant AMT Grant description
Art With a Heart, Inc. $65,000 Support to expand the kindergarten art instruction program for 300 additional children in 12 Indianapolis elementary school classrooms.
Asante Children's Theatre, Inc. $30,000 Support for a third year to expand performing arts and acting opportunities to 75 African American youth.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana, Inc. $100,000 Support to maintain and expand the one-to-one mentoring program for 200 children impacted by current or past incarceration of a family member.
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People, Inc. $60,000 Support to provide individual counseling sessions for up to 1,000 grieving children and their families throughout central Indiana.
Catholic Charities Indianapolis $250,000 Support to furnish and equip the new Holy Family Shelter in the Haughville neighborhood to assist homeless families.
Choices, Inc. $60,000 Support over two years to develop relationships and provide social support services to adults leaving the state prison system annually and returning to Marion County.
Community Development Law Center $75,000 Support for the second year of a two-year pilot program that provides pro bono legal assistance to Center Township neighborhood organizations to enforce property safety codes and remedy problems with abandoned, vacant and deteriorated properties.
Horizon House, Inc. $150,000 Support to purchase and renovate the building adjacent to the agency's current facility to expand services to the nearly 3,700 homeless individuals served annually.
* Indiana Juvenile Justice Task Force, Inc. $65,000 Support for the first year of a three-year pilot project to provide 30 male juvenile offenders with job training and life, communication and leadership skills.
* Indiana University Foundation on behalf of the IU School of Law - Bloomington $65,000 Support to develop a partnership between the Law School and Conservation Law Center; assist community environmental organizations with educational information, training and regulatory policies; and attract more students to environmental law.
Indianapolis Civic Theatre $15,000 Support for an outreach program that offers free arts curriculum to students at IndyMet and Christel House Academy charter schools.
* Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership $10,000 Support to develop and implement a wealth-building and financial planning program for low-to-moderate income families.
Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation, Inc. $50,000 Support to expand College Summit in IPS high schools to increase college enrollments.
International Center of Indianapolis, Inc. $25,000 Support for a second year to expand a youth and teacher training program about the U.S. citizenship process, including attendance at naturalization ceremonies.
Kaleidoscope Church and Community Youth Center $150,000 Support to help purchase the Center's building to expand programming to neighborhood youth.
Kids' Voice of Indiana, Inc. $50,000 Support to expand the court-ordered supervised visitation program for the parents of 250 formerly abused and neglected children in Marion County.
Latino Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, Inc. $25,000 Support for a second year to raise the Latino community's awareness about domestic violence and related crimes and to provide legal advocates for Latino families in central Indiana affected by these crimes.
Learning Well, Inc. $180,000 Support for two years to provide behavioral health services to students in school-based clinics in Marion County.
Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center $50,000 Support for a second year to expand the Fostering Independence program to provide transitional housing, social services and employment support for 28 former foster-care youth.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Indianapolis $45,000 Support for a second year to provide services to individuals and their families affected by serious mental illness.
Save the Youth, Inc. $50,000 Support for a third year to provide crime-prevention programming to more than 600 middle and high school students in the Meadows, Martindale-Brightwood and Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhoods.
School on Wheels $100,000 Support to provide educational advocacy to 200 homeless parents and to provide 400 homeless students with access to high school mentoring and information about the 21st Century Scholars program.
Spay-Neuter Services of Indiana, Inc. $50,000 Support over two years to provide 900 free spay/neuter surgeries for animals of low-income pet owners.
Starfish Initiative $100,000 Support over two years to expand one-on-one mentoring services to 100 freshman students enrolled in 21st Century Scholars.
Sycamore Land Trust, Inc. $100,000 Support over two years to increase the organization's land stewardship and protection activities in south central Indiana.
* The Changed Life $65,000 Support to provide employment and life-skills training for at least 60 adults leaving the state prison system annually and returning to Marion County.
The Conservation Law Center, Inc. $70,000 Support for a third year to assist as many as 20 Indiana nonprofit environmental conservation organizations annually.
* The Immigrant Welcome Center, Inc. $50,000 Support over two years to assist 1,500 immigrants/refugees connect to basic education, employment, housing and healthcare services in Marion County.
* Use What You've Got Prison Ministry Keeping Families Connected, Inc. $50,000 Support to hire the first paid staff members for an organization that annually provides transportation services for 675 Marion County residents to visit family members in Indiana's prisons.

*denotes this organization is a first-time NMPCT grant recipient.