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  • Neighborhood Empowerment & Placemaking – the plan for Marion County
    “Our responsibility, our obligation to holding to the integrity of where we invest and how we invest is grounded in the people. And so these neighborhoods have people who have already built assets within their neighborhoods, but we have to now dig deeper to figure out where those relationships are.”
    —Pamela Ross, vice president of opportunity, equity and inclusion at CICF

    In this special episode of For Good, Pamela Ross talks about neighborhood empowerment and placemaking—one of five of CICF’s leadership initiatives for Marion County—and how it is impacting our community. This episode is part of a special series introducing CICF’s strategic plan for Marion County. Listen to the other four episodes to learn more about how CICF is working to help create a more equitable Central Indiana.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!


    Transcription of episode available below.



    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Pamela Ross –vice president of opportunity, equity and inclusion at CICF

    DISCOVER MORE

    * CICF’s community ambassadors
    * CICF’s strategic plan for Marion County
    * Family Stabilization – a For Good episode with Diane Schussel, CICF senior community leadership officer
    * Economic Mobility – a For Good episode with Andrew Black, CICF community leadership director
    * Criminal Justice Reform – a For Good episode with Alicia Collins, CICF community leadership director
    * Dismantling Systemic Racism – a For Good episode with Brian Payne, CICF president and CEO


    You’re listening to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose, and progress in Central Indiana.
    At CICF, we believe in creating a community where everyone can reach their full potential, no matter place, race, or identity.
    In this episode, you’ll learn about one of the initiatives included in CICF’s five year strategic plan for Marion County from experts on our staff.
    This is our community. And these are your stories.
    PAMELA: Hi. I’m Pamela Ross, vice president of opportunity, equity and inclusion at Central Indiana Community Foundation. CICF has a mission to mobilize people, ideas and investment to make this a community where everyone has equitable opportunity to reach their full potential, no matter place, race, or identity. And we have five initiatives that will help us execute that mission in Marion County.
    One initiative is empowering neighborhoods and placemaking. For CICF, empowering neighborhoods and placemaking means investing more in some of the blight, some of the disinvestment that we see in several communities throughout Marion County. We have looked at research. We have had conversations. We have elevated voices that have helped us to be more informed about what the neighborhood residents would like to see in their neighborhoods. So as a community foundation, it’s really important for us to make sure that neighborhoods all across Marion County have an opportunity to have sidewalks, to have safety, to have beautification in their neighborhoods that really represent the faces and the people in those neighborhoods.
    7 min
  • Family Stabilization – the plan for Marion County
    “We’ve seen in other cities. as transit gets developed that a lot of that becomes highly marketable property, especially near the transit stops, and we just want to make sure that we don’t leave some people behind or displace people.”
    —Diane Schussel, senior community leadership officer at CICF

    In this special episode of For Good, Diane Schussel talks about family stabilization—one of five of CICF’s leadership initiatives for Marion County—and how it is impacting our community. This episode is part of a special series introducing CICF’s strategic plan for Marion County. Listen to the other four episodes to learn more about how CICF is working to help create a more equitable Central Indiana.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!


    Transcription of episode available below.



    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Diane Schussel – senior community leadership officer at CICF

    DISCOVER MORE

    * Statistics from CHIP (Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention)
    * CICF’s strategic plan for Marion County
    * Economic Mobility – a For Good episode with Andrew Black, CICF community leadership director
    * Criminal Justice Reform – a For Good episode with Alicia Collins, CICF community leadership director
    * Neighborhood Empowerment & Placemaking – a For Good episode with Pamela Ross, CICF vice president of opportunity, equity and inclusion
    * Dismantling Systemic Racism – a For Good episode with Brian Payne, CICF president and CEO


    You’re listening to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose, and progress in Central Indiana.
    At CICF, we believe in creating a community where everyone can reach their full potential, no matter place, race, or identity.
    In this episode, you’ll learn about one of the initiatives included in CICF’s five year strategic plan for Marion County from experts on our staff.
    This is our community. And these are your stories.
    DIANE: Hi, I’m Diane Schussel, senior community leadership officer at Central Indiana Community Foundation. CICF has a mission to mobilize people, ideas, and investment to make this a community where everyone has equitable opportunity to reach their full potential, no matter place, race, or identity. And we have five initiatives that will help us execute that mission in Marion County. One initiative is family stabilization.
    Essentially, we’re looking for equitable opportunities for everyone to obtain housing, transportation, and health services. So my focus is broadly housing, we’re looking at access to housing around transit opportunities as Marion County and especially downtown starts to get a fuller array of transit opportunities. We want to make sure that there’s access to affordable housing for everyone located near transit. We’ve seen in other cities. as transit gets developed that a lot of that becomes highly marketable property, especially near the transit stops, and we just want to make sure that we don’t leave some people behind or displace people.
    8 min
  • CICF’s mission: a conversation with Brian Payne
    This episode originally aired in Aug. 2018.
    “We’ve always been pretty comfortable talking about class, but we’ve done that because that keeps us from talking about race. We have not been comfortable in this country or in Indianapolis or Central Indiana talking about race. We’re not an outlier, in Indianapolis. No one has been good about this in America. We don’t know how, we’re not trained, we don’t even learn the real history of racial America.”
    —Brian Payne, CICF president and CEO

    In this special extended episode of For Good, Brian Payne has a candid conversation about CICF’s new mission, explains why the organization cannot talk about equity without talking about race; and shares his personal journey to understand the historic context of institutional racism in America.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!


    Transcription of episode available below.



    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Angela Cain – Angela Cain Communications
    * Brian Payne – CICF president and CEO

    DISCOVER MORE



    * One City, Worlds Apart – a series from the Indianapolis Business Journal examining the growing gap between the affluent and poor
    * The Equality of Opportunity Project – a focused study led by Harvard researcher, Raj Chetty
    * The Brookings Institute – multiple graphs illustrating race gaps within the American middle class
    * The Intertwined Crisis of Black Infant and Maternal Mortality – a study featured in The New York Times
    * The Color of Money – book about the racial wealth gap by Mehrsa Baradaran, University of Georgia School of Law professor
    * Our New Mission – blog post by Brian Payne
    * Dismantling Institutional Racism: Our Journey – blog post by Pamela Ross, CICF’s vice president of opportunity, equity and inclusion
    * The G. I. Bill Changed My Family’s Life – blog post by Brian Payne




    Welcome to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose, and progress in central Indiana. At CICF, we believe in opportunity and equity. We believe that our communities and neighborhoods are stronger because of our diversity. And we believe that with innovation and boldness, central Indiana can be a place where everyone can reach their full potential, no matter their place, race, or identity.
    This is our community. And these are your stories.
    ANGELA: Transformation. That’s what CICF has been undergoing for a few years. It is seeking a more inclusive community where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. So CICF has developed a new mission to help make central Indiana a healthy and thriving community for everyone, not just for some.
    Hello,
    27 min
  • Celebrating Black Philanthropy
    “I do believe that we come from a rich history that says we might have little but when we pull it together, it’s a powerful force.”
    —Kiahna Davis, founding member of African American Legacy Fund of Indianapolis

    In this month’s episode of For Good, we learn from IUPUI’s Mays Institute for Diverse Philanthropy about the history of black philanthropy and members of the African American Legacy Fund of Indianapolis on the efforts underway to leave a legacy of giving in our community.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!
    Transcript of episode available below.

    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Tamara Winfrey-Harris – vice-president of community leadership & effective philanthropy at CICF
    * Dr. Una Osili – advisory council member Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy at IUPUI’s Lilly School of Philanthropy
    * Dr. Tyronne Freeman – advisory council member Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy at IUPUI’s Lilly School of Philanthropy
    * Kiahna Davis  – steering committee and founding members of the African American Legacy Fund of Indianapolis
    * Roderick Wheeler  – steering committee and founding members of the African American Legacy Fund of Indianapolis
    * Nichelle Hayes – program specialist for the Center for Black Literature and Culture at the Indianapolis Public Library

    DISCOVER MORE

    * African American Legacy Fund of Indianapolis, a fund of CICF
    * Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy at IUPUI’s Lilly School of Philanthropy
    * Center for Black Literature and Culture at the Indianapolis Public Library


    You’re listening to, For Good. Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose and progress in Central Indiana. At CICF we believe in creating a community where everyone can reach their full potential—no matter their place, race or identity. This is our community and these are your stories.
    TAMARA: Hello and welcome to For Good. I’m Tamara Winfrey-Harris, the vice president for community leadership and effective philanthropy at Central Indiana Community Foundation. I am excited to announce that we are recording today from the Center for Black Literature and Culture at the Central Library in Downtown Indianapolis. It’s an inspiring setting to discuss the impact of black philanthropy and what it has done to affect our community over generations.
    I’m here first with Dr. Una Osili and Dr. Tyronne Freeman from the Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy at IUPUI’s Lilly School of Philanthropy. I’m very honored to sit on the board of advisors for the Mays Institute. Thank you both for joining me today. You both have very illustrious paths, and no one can probably talk about it better than you can. Can you introduce yourselves? We’ll start with you, Tyronne.
    TYRONNE: Well I am a professor at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and I hail from New Jersey but I’ve been in Indianapolis since the mid 1990s. This is home now. I’ve raised my family here and this is where I’ve had my full engagement with the non-profit sector and with the study of philanthropy.
    TAMARA:  And an author?
    TYRONNE: And an author, yes, a forthcoming book under contract with the University of Illinois Press on Madam CJ Walker and black women’s philanthropy at the turn of the 20th century.
    40 min
  • Race: What We’ve Learned So Far
    “…feeling at a heartfelt level that everybody is like, ‘we’re all in.’ There is no exit strategy. This has now become a part of how we think and how we live. It’s not just here at CICF, this is the way we live our life.”
    —Pamela Ross

    CICF is serious about creating equitable opportunity for everyone in Central Indiana to reach their full potential, and we know race plays a profound role in access to opportunity. Becoming an anti-racist organization and building lasting impact starts with open, honest dialogue, and that’s what CICF has been working on internally for the past two years. In this episode of For Good, four staff members open up about their personal and professional journeys to understanding systemic racism and how the foundation is continuously learning and preparing for the work ahead.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!
    Transcript of episode available below.

    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Tamara Winfrey-Harris – vice-president of community leadership & effective philanthropy at CICF
    * Pamela Ross –vice-president of opportunity, equity & inclusion at CICF
    * Jeanie Andes –director of human resources at CICF
    * Ben Snyder  –manager of marketing & communications at CICF

    DISCOVER MORE

    * Undoing Racism with The People’s Institute for Change and hosted by Child Advocates
    * Implicit bias training with the Peace Learning Center
    * “White Like Me” – a documentary by author Tim Wise available on YouTube
    * Read more about CICF’s new mission from Brian Payne


    You’re listening to, For Good. Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose and progress in Central Indiana. At CICF we believe in creating a community where everyone can reach their full potential—no matter their place, race or identity. This is our community and these are your stories.
    TAMARA: I’m Tamara Winfrey Harris, vice president for community leadership and effective philanthropy at Central Indiana Community Foundation. And I am here today at one of my favorite spots. We’re at the Coat Check Coffee at the Athenaeum on Mass Ave. So, I’m with several of my colleagues from CICF and we want to give you a window on a really interesting experience that we’ve been having for almost two years now. As you may have heard, our foundation’s new mission is to make this a community where every individual has an equal opportunity to reach their full potential, no matter their place, race or identity.
    And it means we’ve been on a really interesting journey both organizationally as well as professionally. And we want to take some time to talk about it with each other today. So before we dive into the good stuff, can everyone introduce themselves and kind of tell the audience what you do at CICF? Why don’t we start with Ben who is the official voice of For Good?
    BEN: Hello. I am Ben Snyder and I am the marketing and communications manager here at CICF.
    JEANIE: Hi, this is Jeanie Andes and I’m the director of human resources.
    PAMELA: Hello, I’m Pamela Ross. I’m the vice president of opportunity, equity and inclusion.
    TAMARA: So, I was thinking maybe we should start at the very beginning. One of the first things that I experienced when I came to CICF in 2016 was a two-day workshop called undoing racism pu...
    32 min
  • A Conversation with CICF Scholarship Recipients
    “Growing up, college was not part of the conversation. It was just basically survival—what kind of job are you going to get to support the family and things like that. Now the conversation has changed…My son has already picked out a major, the school he wants to go to, and he’s taking the necessary steps to getting the scholarships already, at 11 years old.”
    —Gloria Turner

    Scholarships change lives. Jesus, Monica and Gloria say the scholarships they received from CICF have changed their lives, as well as their parents and, in Gloria’s case, her two sons. These three smart and talented students sat down with For Good to talk about what it was like to set foot on a college campus for the first time, their surprise at the cost of books, advice for scholarship applicants and their plans for after college.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!
    Transcription of episode available below.

    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Laurie Burns – community collaborations and impact analyst at CICF
    * Gloria Turner – student at IUPUI and CICF scholarship recipient
    * Monica Hardy – student at University of Indianapolis and CICF scholarship recipient
    * Jesus Marcial  – student at IUPUI and CICF scholarship recipient

    DISCOVER MORE

    * Scholarship opportunities available through CICF – application deadline is Feb. 5, 2019
    * Education and scholarships vitally important – blog from Clayton De Fur, senior community investment officer at CICF
    * A nontraditional scholarship for a nontraditional student – feature story on Two Oaks Scholarship at CICF
    * Scholarship opportunities through La Plaza
    * Scholarship opportunities through TeenWorks


    LAURIE BURNS: I am Laurie Burns, community collaborations and impact analyst at CICF. I am honored to be here today with Monica Hardy, Jesus Marciel and Gloria Turner, three incredible individuals who have each received a scholarship from CICF. You all know me, but probably not each other. So let’s start with introductions, the scholarships you received, your school and your major. Monica, will you lead us off?
    MONICA HARDY: I received the TeenWorks Scholarship. I go to University of Indianapolis. I’m a junior and I’m majoring in art education.
    GLORIA TURNER: I’m Gloria. I’m IUPUI. I’m studying social work and the scholarship I received was Reach Your Potential Scholarship.
    JESUS MARCIEL: Hi, my name is Jesus Marciel. Some of the scholarships I received include the La Plaza Scholarship, the Mexican Consulate Scholarship, Reach Your Potential Scholarship, The Michael and Anna Kurty Scholarship and the SADCO Scholarship. I go to IUPUI and I’m a senior in electrical engineering program.
    LAURIE: Great. So I’d like to start by asking all of you what motivated you to go pursue your degrees at your respective institutions?
    GLORIA: I was a transfer student from Ivy Tech and I learned about the opportunity to transfer from Ivy Tech to IUPUI, I thought that it would be a great opportunity to show my children that I could go further beyond my associate degree and then pursue my bachelors. Ever since being at IUPUI, I’ve grown so much and I feel like being a nontraditional student, being there and being in that space gives other people a look at, “Wow,
    21 min
  • A Conversation with Tom Kilian
    Earlier this month, Legacy Fund changed its name to Hamilton County Community Foundation to better reflect who the foundation serves, partners with and supports. In addition to the new name, the foundation has a new mission, vision and strategic direction. It’s the result of more than a year’s worth of intentional community conversations and research conducted by staff, the board of directors and a special task force. Learn more about the strategy from president, Tom Kilian, in his extended podcast interview on For Good.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!

    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Kim Jacobs – WFYI Public Media
    * Tom Kilian – president of Hamilton County Community Foundation

    DISCOVER MORE

    * We are ready for change – a blog from Tom Kilian
    * Legacy Fund announces new name—Hamilton County Community Foundation – a CICF post about recent Celebration of Philanthropy event


    Welcome to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose, and progress in Central Indiana. At CICF, we believe in opportunity and equity. We believe that our communities and neighborhoods are stronger because of our diversity. And we believe that with innovation and boldness, central Indiana can be a place where everyone can reach their full potential, no matter their place, race, or identity.
    This is our community. And these are your stories.
    Earlier this year, the community foundation of Hamilton County changed its name to better reflect the people it serves. Legacy Fund, an affiliate of Central Indiana Community Foundation is now Hamilton County Community Foundation, but that’s not all they’re working on. I’m Kim Jacobs for this special episode of “For Good,” featuring Hamilton County Community Foundation’s president, Tom Kilian. In addition to rolling out a new name, the foundation is also launching a new strategic framework to lift up the communities opportunities and address its challenges. Tom, thanks for joining us.
    TOM: Thank you for having me.
    Hamilton County Community Foundation. Tell me about it.
    TOM: We were founded in 1991 by a group of individuals in Hamilton County who saw the need to create a community foundation. About seven years after that we ended up forming a partnership with the Indianapolis Foundation, which ultimately created the Central Indiana Community Foundation. And since that time have been in a wonderful partnership, really focusing our efforts both on Marion in Hamilton County, to create a better opportunity, a better environment for those that live in our community.
    What is a community foundation do exactly, what does it mean?
    TOM: I think it means three things. I think it means that we’re there to help lead on certain initiatives in our communities, places where our citizens need our help. We’re there to work with donors and their philanthropic interest and what’s important to them. We’re also there to help grant dollars back out to the community to deserving non-profits who are helping improve our landscape. One of the things that we’ve been doing over the course of the last two years is understanding that many of our residents have a passion and desire to specifically fund their community. And so over the last couple of years we’ve been developing city funds,
    13 min
  • An emerging type of learning in Central Indiana

    “If you are trustworthy, if you’re respectful, if you’re disciplined, if you live with forgiveness, you can achieve. You can have a dream. And at the same time that you’re achieving, you can cope with the inevitable negative factors that happen in life. We all experience negativity in life but the difference between those that those that excel and move past them and those who crumble underneath their pressure is your ability to cope and to utilize it, to have a growth-mindset and continue to push forward.”

    —Marlin Jackson, social entrepreneur and former cornerback for the Indianapolis Colts


    Several schools and organizations in Central Indiana are better understanding the long-term effect of experiencing some form of trauma, a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. This episode of For Good explores how local educators throughout Central Indiana are introducing student-focused approaches to learning that acknowledge and address the social and emotional experiences of students. The goal—to support and empower students to reach their full potential. The approaches are all different, but the impact on a child’s mental health as well as academics are powerful.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!
    Transcription of episode available below.

    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Kim Jacobs – WFYI Public Media
    * Ena Shelley, Ph.D. – dean and professor of College of Education at Butler University
    * Nicole Kent – principal at Indianapolis Public Schools/Butler Lab School 55
    * Kristina Hulvershorn  – director of humane & restorative programs at Peace Learning Center
    * Brooke Lawson, LCSW – mental health and school counseling coordinator student success team at Hamilton Southeastern Schools and CICF community ambassador
    * Marlin Jackson – founder and CEO of Fight for Life Foundation and former cornerback for the Indianapolis Colts

    DISCOVER MORE

    * Racial disparities in child adversity in the U.S.–from Harvard University
    * Are schools ready to tackle the mental health crisis? – article from National Teachers Association
    * Children and Trauma: update for mental health professionals–from the American Psychiatric Association
    * 2017 Brown Center Report on American education: race and school suspensions–from the Brookings Institute
    * Understanding the impact of trauma–from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
    * Learn more about our community ambassadors – CICF podcast episode


    Welcome to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion,
    12 min
  • Central Indiana’s Latino and Hispanic youth

    “We are advocates and we are educating our own family, our own peers and friends. We’re the future and we’re the people who will one day be representing you. We want to become professionals as well and be a change for this community. We want to make our society better by accepting everyone who is a part of this nation.”

    —Maria de Leon, CICF community ambassador


    Sept. 15 kicked-off Hispanic Heritage month with a celebration and turning the Downtown Canal orange. More than 50 percent of Spanish-speaking people living in Indianapolis are under the age of 24, so this month’s episode of For Good, is all about Latino youth. Maria de Leon, a CICF community ambassador, talks about what she learned from her peers and shares her own story, while an undocumented college student shares his plans to give back to the community. The episode also features Miriam Acevedo Davis, president and CEO at La Plaza, and Yecenia Tostado, former senior program director at Indiana Latino Institute.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!
    Transcription of episode available below.

    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Angela Cain – Angela Cain Communications
    * Maria de Leon – CICF community ambassador and student at Butler University
    * Yecenia Tostado – senior program director at the Indiana Latino Institute
    * Miriam Acevedo Davis – executive director of La Plaza
    * Leo – undocumented college sophomore in Indianapolis

    DISCOVER MORE

    Learn more about our community ambassadors – CICF podcast episode

    Welcome to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose, and progress in central Indiana. At CICF, we believe in opportunity and equity. We believe that our communities and neighborhoods are stronger because of our diversity. And we believe that with innovation and boldness, central Indiana can be a place where everyone can reach their full potential, no matter their place, race, or identity.
    This is our community. And these are your stories.
    September 15th kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month. It’s a celebration of the rich culture, heritage, diversity, and achievements of descendants of Spanish speaking cultures, including some one hundred thousand living in Indianapolis.
    More than 50 percent of those residents are under the age of 24 and they are charting a path of possibilities and promise in America.
    I’m Angela Cain with a special episode of “For Good.” What is life like here for Latino and Hispanic youth? Especially at a time when the nation is facing cultural and political change.
    MARIA DE LEON: I feel like there are a lot of opportunities here for the Hispanic and the Latino community. I think that it’s a city where people can just grow from anything.
    This is the hope of youth. Encapsulated in the word of Maria de Leon, a CICF community ambassador for Latino youth and she has words of wisdom beyond her 18 years, urging us to embrace the diversity of Indianapolis, the city in which she was born and raised.
    MARIA: We’re just like everyone else. I always questioned why some people have to view society within color, within race and ethnicity. Sometimes I just don’t really understand. We should just accept how everyone is. Just find a way for all of us to come together and celebrate our diversity.
    Maria’s parents immigrated here from Guatemala to build a m...
    14 min
  • A Conversation with Brian Payne
    “We’ve always been pretty comfortable talking about class, but we’ve done that because that keeps us from talking about race. We have not been comfortable in this country or in Indianapolis or Central Indiana talking about race. We’re not an outlier, in Indianapolis. No one has been good about this in America. We don’t know how, we’re not trained, we don’t even learn the real history of racial America.”

    —Brian Payne, CICF president and CEO

    In this special extended episode of For Good, Brian Payne has a candid conversation about CICF’s new mission, explains why the organization cannot talk about equity without talking about race; and shares his personal journey to understand the historic context of institutional racism in America.
    If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!


    Transcription of episode available below.



    WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO

    * Angela Cain – Angela Cain Communications
    * Brian Payne – CICF president and CEO

    DISCOVER MORE



    * One City, Worlds Apart – a series from the Indianapolis Business Journal examining the growing gap between the affluent and poor
    * The Equality of Opportunity Project – a focused study led by Harvard researcher, Raj Chetty
    * The Brookings Institute – multiple graphs illustrating race gaps within the American middle class
    * The Intertwined Crisis of Black Infant and Maternal Mortality – a study featured in The New York Times
    * The Color of Money – book about the racial wealth gap by Mehrsa Baradaran, University of Georgia School of Law professor
    * Our New Mission – blog post by Brian Payne
    * Dismantling Institutional Racism: Our Journey – blog post by Pamela Ross, CICF’s vice president of opportunity, equity and inclusion
    * The G. I. Bill Changed My Family’s Life – blog post by Brian Payne




    Welcome to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose, and progress in central Indiana. At CICF, we believe in opportunity and equity. We believe that our communities and neighborhoods are stronger because of our diversity. And we believe that with innovation and boldness, central Indiana can be a place where everyone can reach their full potential, no matter their place, race, or identity.
    This is our community. And these are your stories.
    ANGELA: Transformation. That’s what CICF has been undergoing for a few years. It is seeking a more inclusive community where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. So CICF has developed a new mission to help make central Indiana a healthy and thriving community for everyone, not just for some.
    Hello, I’m Angela Cain with a special episode of For Good.
    27 min