Valparaiso University Lilly Fellows Program Receives $1.19 Million Grant

VALPARAISO | The Valparaiso University-based Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts was awarded a $1.19 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. This is the 10th such grant that has been awarded to the Lilly Fellows Program, which has supported more than 60 Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow…

Club and restaurants partner to advance college readiness

LAKE STATION | The Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Indiana’s Lake Station club has been selected to receive a $1,000 grant as part of the Restaurant Community Grants program from the Darden Foundation, the charitable arm of Darden Restaurants Inc.

Opportunity Enterprises receives Inclusion Project Grant

VALPARAISO | Opportunity Enterprises has received a $10,000 grant from the National Inclusion Project to partner with the Valparaiso YMCA to make their summer day camps inclusive for children with special needs. The camps, which will be held during the summer of 2013 at the Valparaiso YMCA, …

Speedway donation helps foundation provide HALO SleepSacks

DYER | Chicagoland Speedway’s 501c3 foundation, R.A.C.E., awarded $25,000 in grants to five Chicago-area charities at a recent luncheon, including $2,000 to the Nathan C. Splant Foundation for the Halo Project.

Federal grant to fund green stormwater management project at Marquette Park

Susan Hedman, EPA Region 5 administrator, left, talks with Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson on Tuesday after the announcement of an EPA grant for stormwater management in the Marquette Park Lagoons.

Federal grant to fund green stormwater management project at Marquette Park

Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, left, talks with Susan Hedman, EPA Region 5 administrator, Tuesday near the Marquette Park lagoon after a news conference to announce a $351,073 grant from the EPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for stormwater management in the area. A $1 million U.S. E…

Federal grant to fund green stormwater management project at Marquette Park

Bill Hanna, president and CEO of the Regional Development Authority, speaks Tuesday during the announcement of an EPA grant to the RDA for stormwater management at the Marquette Park Lagoons in Gary.

Federal grant to fund green stormwater management project at Marquette Park

Bill Hanna, president and CEO of the Regional Development Authority, speaks Tuesday at the Marquette Park Pavilion during the announcement of a $351,073 grant from the EPA to the RDA for stormwater management around the Marquette Park Lagoons.

Opportunity Enterprises receives grant from Horizon-Cares Charitable Grant Program

VALPARAISO | Opportunity Enterprises, Inc. is the recipient of a $2,500 grant from the Horizon-Cares Charitable Grant Program. Currently, Opportunity Enterprises is in the midst of constructing the first apartment building at its Lakeside campus, and the grant funding will be used to support…

La Porte Hospital Foundation receives grant from Indiana Breast Cancer Awareness Trust

LAPORTE | The La Porte Hospital Foundation, on behalf of Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital, was awarded a $13,695 grant from the Indiana Breast Cancer Awareness Trust (IBCAT).

Grant aims to advance higher ed among African-American students

HAMMOND | Purdue University Calumet is administering a $60,921 collaboration grant awarded by the Foundations of East Chicago to encourage northwest Indiana's African-American middle school students to obtain a college education.

Helping M'ville High students plan for college sparks grant

MERRILLVILLE | Merrillville High School was one of three schools in the state that received a $1,000 college success grant from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

Chicago Community Trust renews grant for 'One More Night' series at GSU

The Natya Dance Theatre will perform Feb. 16 at Governors State University. The performance is made possible through a grant from the Chicago Community Trust.

Chicago Community Trust renews grant for 'One More Night' series at GSU

UNIVERSITY PARK | For the second straight year, The Chicago Community Trust has awarded a $50,000 grant to Governors State University Center for Performing Arts. The grant will be used to support GSU Center’s “One More Night” series, which brings the best in Chicago-area live performance to …

New radios enhance communications

WHITING | The Whiting Fire Department recently received a $23,616 Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to purchase 20 portable P25 digital radios.

Grant continues "You and Your Baby" program

VALPARAISO | Kankakee Valley REMC recently awarded the Porter-Starke Services Foundation a $5,000 grant to continue the “You and Your Baby” program designed to build parenting skills for first-time mothers.

Foundation grant buys xylophone for preschool

Stability balls pay off in better classroom performance

LOWELL | When Kassie Hanger's first-graders at Three Creeks Elementary School found out they were getting new Wittfit stability balls through a grant funded by the Tri-Creek Education Foundation Inc., they may have thought recess was moving into the classroom. 

Students visit their national park

HAMMOND | Hokey Spokes International presented a $500 grant to Kathy Gillespie’s fifth-grade class at O’Bannon Elementary School in Hammond towards the expense of attending the Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center near Chesterton for a three-day educational camp experience “to foster …

Impact Porter County awarded $50,000 grant to Family & Youth Services Bureau

VALPARAISO | “Thank you all, you are helping a lot of ladies and children,” said Lisa Jordan, Vice President of Family Youth Service Bureau, as she accepted a $50,000 Women’s Fund of Porter County grant for the Tot Shop from Impact Porter County, a women’s giving circle associated with the P…