AKRON — The Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation has received a planning grant of $30,000 under Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Comprehensive Counseling Initiative for Indiana K-12 students. Lilly Endowment Inc. announced on Jan. 20, the recipients of planning grants in the first phase of its Comprehensive Counseling Initiative for Indiana K-12 Students, a five-year effort to strengthen …read more.

Indiana INTERNnet has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to be a “catalyst for internship opportunities statewide.” The organization is charged with expanding its cooperative efforts with the business sector, education institutions and state government, and inspiring new sources of support and partnership. An affiliated program of the Indiana Chamber of …read more.

Conexus Indiana has been awarded a two-year $3.625 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to expand its programs supporting Indiana’s advanced manufacturing and logistics industries, including its Hire Technology marquee initiative to prepare high school students to pursue and succeed in advanced manufacturing and logistics (AML) careers. Conexus Indiana, the state’s advanced manufacturing and logistics …read more.

[weaver_youtube 7IgD6VHjEa8 rel=8] “Celebrate Home” was the theme for the past fiscal year for Kosciusko County Community Foundation and that theme continued at the conclusion of its 2014 Annual Celebration Luncheon today. The event ended with a “Kiss Goodnight.” Each guest was asked to provide the board his/her opinion by finishing a sentence: “If I …read more.

By BRAD BISHOP Executive Director, OrthoWorx OrthoWorx, Warsaw, recently marked its fifth anniversary with a showcase for volunteers and funders of its achievements. OrthoWorx and the Orthopedics Capital Foundation were created in September 2009 with an initial grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to the Kosciusko County Community Foundation. The purpose of the grant was …read more.

Kosciusko County Community Foundation recently received approval from Lilly Endowment Inc. to participate in their GIFT VI initiative. Also known as Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow, the GIFT VI initiative will match every dollar donated to the Kosciusko County Community Foundation’s “Bring it Home” campaign. Dollars contributed to the Bring it Home campaign will go …read more.

Indiana Tech announced today that the university’s new entrepreneur center, the Center for Creative Collaboration (the C3) is now open. The C3 will provide entrepreneurs with rapid, targeted, and effective assistance in all phases of business startup, operation, and growth. The C3, located in Indiana Tech’s new Academic Center on its main campus in Fort …read more.

Grace College was recently awarded a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. as a part of the Endowment’s Initiative to Promote Opportunities through Educational Collaborations. The initiative aims to encourage and enhance efforts to help Indiana college graduates find meaningful employment in the state. “Grace will use the grant to create a Career Advantage …read more.

Are you part of the perfect match? Today is the final day to help preserve Kosciusko County’s orthopedic legacy through a vibrant community — that’s the perfect match! The unique opportunity through Lilly Endowment Inc. doubles qualified contributions received by today, Oct. 15, and legally binding/committed contributions on or before June 30, 2016, ends today. …read more.

Some time during the period from 1895 and today, you’ve been impacted by the Warsaw-region orthopedic industry cluster.  For more than 100 years, the orthopedic industry grew and thrived in our region and tens of thousand of individuals built lives and careers here or had an association that contributed to their success. If you are …read more.

In Monday night’s Warsaw Community School Corporation Regular School Board Meeting, Brad Bishop, executive director of OrthoWorx, announced the donation of funds to expand STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the region. OrthoWorx, which is partnering with the school on the initiative to further STEM education, has committed $300,000 toward the school corporation’s …read more.

Two students have been named recipients of four-year, full-tuition scholarships as the Kosciusko County Community Foundation 2013 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars. Barbara Kimmel and Rebecca Ailes will receive full tuition to the Indiana colleges of their choice and $900 yearly stipends for required books and equipment. Barbara Kimmel is ranked first in her class at …read more.

Local woman Sarah Doty has been named a 2012 recipient of the “Realizing the Dream” award, a one-time scholarship bestowed each year by the Independent Colleges of Indiana through the Lilly Endowment. The award honors first-generation college sophomores who have graduated from an Indiana high school, have a superior GPA, and have demonstrated leadership abilities …read more.