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Articles & Interviews

A Passport to Possibilities: How Travel is Transforming Local Youth

• 8 minute read

Youth Global Perspectives opens the door to new life-changing opportunities

Community Stories

From Struggle to Strength: One Young Man’s Journey with Groundwork Indy

• 7 minute read
Articles & Interviews

Beyond the Headlines: Mothers Share the Realities of Life After Gun Violence

• 5 minute read

A recent screening of What’s Left Behind spotlights the voices of grieving mothers — shifting the conversation from crime stats to lived experience

Articles & Interviews

Rethinking Homelessness: Why Housing — Not Just Hardship, Is the Root Cause

• 5 minute read

Economist Gregg Colburn sheds light on why structural issues, not just individual struggles, are driving homelessness in U.S. cities.

Eastside 37 Keystone apartments project closer to becoming reality

• Mirror Indy 

The project, 37 Keystone, would be near East 38th Street and North Keystone Avenue.

Haitian leader in Indy talks ‘stress and anxiety’

• Mirror Indy 

Heated rhetoric and increased immigration enforcement are affecting Haitians here.

Love nature? Here’s your chance to help document Indy’s wildlife in the City Nature Challenge

• Indianapolis Recorder 

For the eighth consecutive year, Indy will join a global effort to document urban biodiversity in the City Nature Challenge.

BLACK: A Festival of Joy announces Brick by Brick Fund to fuel spaces for Black joy

• Indianapolis Recorder 

The Brick by Brick Fund was launched on Feb. 28 with the goal of using collective action to secure resources and funding for the fourth annual BLACK: A Festival of Joy

‘It would make a big difference’: Indy affordable housing project ready to get more Hoosiers in new homes

• WRTV Indianapolis 

There's a shortage of affordable housing nationwide and Indianapolis is no exception. A brand new northside development is trying to help get more Hoosiers in homes for a lower cost.

$2.6M project set to revamp west side park

• Indianapolis Recorder 

Mayor Joe Hogsett and Indy Parks celebrated the groundbreaking of a $2.6 million project at Chapel Hill Park on the city’s west side. 

GANGGANG’s State of the Culture reflects on past and looks to future

• Mirror Indy 

The cultural development firm presented an interactive impact report and previewed future programs Feb. 11 at Kan-Kan Cinema.

CAFE is offering free career classes on the far east side

• Mirror Indy 

Free career classes are now offered at CAFE on the far east side.