Lifelong Learning

When students feel more hopeful about their future, the more engaged and motivated they may be to stay in school and ultimately graduate. We’ve helped:

• Send high-achieving students to college through the administration of our scholarships.
  
  
• Provide 164 students a free ride to any Indiana college or university through our administration of the Lilly Scholarship since its inception.
  
  
• Nonprofits throughout the community with support for a number of tutoring programs from early education through adult education services.

Access to best-in-class education and learning opportunities helps ensure that all people in our community reach their full economic potential. We know that traditionally underserved students, including minorities and low-income students, are less likely to have access to strong teachers and challenging curricula and are more likely to be suspended, expelled, and drop out at higher rates. We’ve helped by:

• Establishing and implementing the Youth Empowered Philanthropy program. This program educates youth on the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors within our community. By developing leadership skills, building relationships with nonprofits through volunteer projects, learning about philanthropy, and being provided resources to give grants through a grantmaking process, students are empowered to make an impact within the community.
  
  
• Through the Children’s Health Collaborative, we’ve helped establish, staff, and provide tools for Regional Enrichment Centers for students who have fallen through the cracks of the education system during COVID-19. This is in support of students to earn the necessary credits they need to graduate high school.
  
  
• Supporting nonprofits throughout the community with a number of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs for our immigrant and refugee populations who tend to be some of the most under-resourced and under-supported in our community.