Partner Spotlight: Central Indiana Community Foundation
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Since ROW's inception in 2012, Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) has been a critical strategic and financial partner. CICFs annual funding contribution has continued to provide capacity for ROWs work, and especially for ROW's collective backbone. In addition, CICF's support has helped ROW in its efforts to work in Indianapolis neighborhoods to lift up communities around its waterway. And to this day, CICF has and is engaged in many levels of the collective -- Steering Committee, Waterways and Elements. CICF's mission towards building a more equitable Indianapolis has also helped the collective be more intentional in its neighborhood work to ensure diverse voices and ideas are heard.
We are pleased to announce that CICF has approved a 2021 funding allocation under its Neighborhood Empowerment & Placemaking Grant program. The $75,000 grant will help ROW support its staff and Seed Grants for our committees to implement projects. CICF is helping ROW's leadership attend Interrupting Racism for Children training to progress our equity work. Thank you to CICF for their support of our mission in this important contribution.
Not just an important funding partner, CICF has taken a great interest in our waterway neighborhoods. Pictured here, CICF representatives Brian Payne and Alphons Van Adrichem joining members of Indy Parks and Pleasant Run residents to discuss trail maintenance partnerships.
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More Coloring Pages Available
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ROW has added three new coloring pages to promote waterway engagement and care. Initiated by ROW's Central Canal Committee in 2020 to distribute with food boxes, ROW is working with local artist, Tyeesha Bradley, to create a series of coloring pages to educate kids and their parents
Provided in English and Spanish, ROW has added three new pages, including these themes:
- Fishing for Fun
- Refillable Water Bottles
- Water Safety
These new pages join coloring pages on native plantings, litter clean up and the need for clean water for hand washing and more. Download any of these coloring pages here. We can also provide a quantity of printed pages and crayons for our waterway and other partners upon request.
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