Written by Jim Grim For decades, IUPUI has supported university-assisted community school programs in the Near West area of Indianapolis. Currently, IUPUI is working with Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center and more than 70 area organizations collaborating on a second five-year, $2.3 million U.S. Department of Education-funded Near-Westside Community Schools Project focused on five Indianapolis Public Schools – George… Read more »
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SOURCE River West adds new entrepreneurship services with Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust grant
SOURCE River West Entrepreneurship Center (SOURCE RW) is proud to announce that they have received a two-year, $125,000 grant from Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust to expand services at the Near West education and business support center, located at 2230 West Michigan Street. The grant will allow SOURCE RW to provide additional services, programs, coaching, and co-working… Read more »
IUPUI partners with community partners, residents and stakeholders to impact quality of life in the Near West
Written by Drew Rensberger IUPUI Office of Community Engagement works in concert with neighborhood partners, residents, and stakeholders to raise the quality of life for those living in the Near West neighborhood of Indianapolis. To do this, we build relationships in the community and partner with the neighborhood associations of Haughville, Hawthorne, Stringtown, and We Care to organize themselves into… Read more »
First recipients of IUPUI Anchor Housing Program find home sweet home: News at IU: Indiana University
IUPUI’s Anchor Housing Program helps staff members with home purchases and repairs near campus. Source: First recipients of IUPUI Anchor Housing Program find home sweet home: News at IU: Indiana University
IUPUI students provide real-world answers to Community Partners
Written by Teresa Bennett Learn more about fall 2017 and spring 2018 opportunities to engage IUPUI students in your company’s or organization’s success. In late August, nearly 30,000 students will converge upon the beautiful and welcoming IUPUI campus in downtown Indianapolis, each on their own path to a career and future. While they have a… Read more »
Innovative IUPUI faculty receive support for community-based research
Written by Teresa Francis Exploring the invisible history of local Indianapolis. Helping seniors with memory loss. Finding and removing dangerous lead from soil. Creating a system that protects children and keeps them in school. What do all of these things have in common? The community-based research supported by the Charles R. Bantz Chancellor’s Community Fellowship…. Read more »
LISC Indianapolis receives IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy Award
Written by Susan Kigamwa The Office of Community Engagement recognized the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Indianapolis during the 2017 IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy Awards Ceremony held on April 4, 2017. This university-wide event honors individuals, corporations and foundations that have contributed to IUPUI programs through gifts and voluntary services. Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Indianapolis… Read more »
Students from IUPUI and beyond bring health and legal services to an underserved Indianapolis neighborhood
Written by Jennifer Boehm The IU Student Outreach Clinic (IUSOC) was created half a decade ago to bring medical services to Indianapolis’s poor and underserved. But it’s hard to say who’s gotten the most out of the arrangement – the near-eastside neighborhood that receives everything from free medical checkups to physical therapy to dental work, or… Read more »