Monthly Archives: April 2024

LISC Awarded Grant from National Clean Investment Fund

April 11, 2024 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Power Forward Communities, a coalition of some of the country’s most trusted housing, climate, and community investment groups, was awarded a $2 billion, seven-year National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF) grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide capital for affordable residential decarbonization throughout the country, with a … Read More

City Announces Elevation Grant Recipients

April 11, 2024 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — City officials and the Indianapolis Foundation recently announced the fifth round of grantees receiving funding through the Elevation Grant Program. Twenty-seven grants, totaling more than $5.1 million, will be distributed to Indianapolis organizations. The funding supports local, grassroots nonprofits working to address root causes of violent crime and … Read More

“The King and I” at Beef & Boards

April 11, 2024 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS – Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre is now showing the famous musical The King and I, on stage through May 19. Based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon, the show by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II won the Tony Award for Best … Read More

The Poetry of April: Redux

April 11, 2024 | by CJ Woods III

My friend in Florida sent me a text message telling me to expect an early birthday gift. My birthday is in March, but her gift was delivered to me late in February. She was excited about the present because she knows that I love poetry. The gift was a book … Read More

100 Years Ago: April 12-18

April 11, 2024 | by Steven R. Barnett

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, April 16, 1924: Initial steps were taken yesterday by a group of businessmen to organize a local National Aeronautic Association chapter which seeks to place Indianapolis on all airway maps of the United States. This action followed Rear Admiral William Fullman’s appearance before several audiences … Read More