The Lilly Endowment, Inc. is an Indiana-polis-based private philantrhopic foundation established in 1873 by the members of the Lilly family; J.K. Lilly Sr., J.K. Lilly Jr., and Eli Lilly.
The foundation was formed through the stock gifts of their pharmaceutical company called the Eli Lilly and Company. However, the foundation is considered to be a separate entity from the company.
The foundation aims to help people in Indianapolis build a better life through supporting efforts of national significance and international projects.
An Indiana community is putting its money where its mouth is.
The Madison County Community Foundation has announced the biggest fundraising campaign in its 31-year history in an effort to raise...more
An Indiana community is putting its money where its mouth is.
The Madison County Community Foundation has announced the biggest fundraising campaign in its 31-year history in an effort to raise...more
This report researches the worldwide Philanthropy Funds market size (value, capacity, production and consumption) in key regions like North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (China, Japan) and other...more
The Lilly Endowment is putting its money where its mouth is, offering $50 million in grants to community organizations in Indiana for building and renovation projects, the Indianapolis Star...more
A small Nazarene university in Tennessee has been awarded the largest grant in its history to train future pastors, the Times Free Press reports.
The Lilly Endowment Foundation has awarded $1.25...more
"We want to imbue the individuals who graduate from our program with a lot of knowledge and wisdom," says John M.
Mutz, founder and president of the Mutz Institute for Philanthropic...more
People who study philanthropy and advise donors like Vanessa Lee, a program officer who coordinates giving circles at the Chicago Foundation for...more
When Danny Thomas founded St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis in the '60s, he made a promise to his daughter, Marlo: "My dad in his day brought in Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and...more
Vertical farms are designed in a way to avoid the pressing issues about growing food crops in drought-and-disease-prone fields miles away from the population centers in which they will be consumed.