Groups
Here’s a list of the Groups that help make Central Indiana the place it is:
- Ambassadors for Children
- promotes “volun-tourism”
- American Values Alliance
- seeks to restore civility to political discourse
- Arts Council of Indianapolis
- provides underpinning for the vibrant art scene
- Big Car Gallery
- cuts the edge with surrealist inspired art & events
- Butler University
- hosts some of the most distinguished visitors
- Center for Faith and Vocation
- challenges Butler students & the community to rethink service & calling
- Center on Philanthropy
- engages in original research about civil society
- Central Indiana Community Foundation
- creates great public spaces & embraces ethnic communities
- Christian Theological Seminary
- prepares men & women for service in the 21st century
- Clowes Memorial Hall
- is the city’s premiere arts & culture venue
- Cultural Tourism Initiative
- presents Indy’s arts to the world
- Franciscan Center for Global Studies
- aspires to be the most innovative thinker about international issues
- GeoPol
- is a virtual think tank of international relations junkies
- Hoosier Environmental Council
- is the state’s foremost protector of ecological values
- Indiana Council on World Affairs
- celebrates more than half a century of discussion
- Indiana Film Society
- shows foreign, independent, and hard-to-find films
- Indiana Historical Society
- is “Indiana’s Story-teller, Connecting People to the Past”
- Indianapolis - Marian County Public Library
- is still one of the finest systems in the country
- Indianapolis Early Music Festival
- has presented early music for forty years
- Indianapolis International Film Festival
- in four years has emerged as one of the best
- Indianapolis Jazz Fest
- restores Indy’s place in the jazz firmament
- Indianapolis Monthly
- publishes some of the best writing about the city
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- has emerged as one of the cultural and global powerhouses of the Midwest
- Indianapolis Opera
- performs great music while educating the public
- Indianapolis Star
- gives the city its daily news
- Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- provides world class entertainment
- Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival
- just won a NUVO Creative Vision Award
- Indy Ethnic Food
- reviews hundreds of obscure delights
- Intake Weekly
- is more than Nuvo for soccer moms
- International Center
- of Indianapolis opens Indy to the world
- International Festival
- celebrates the community’s ethnic diversity
- International Interfaith Initiative
- supports multiconfessional peace efforts
- International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
- makes Indy the center of the music universe every four year.
- IU Kenya Partnership
- redefines the ways local initiatives can solve global problems
- IUPUI
- connects Indianapolis to global research and problem-solving
- Kiwanis International
- have their HQ in Indy
- Madam Walker Theatre Center
- is at the heart of all cultural communities, not only African American
- Marian College
- provides first rate education rooted in Franciscan values… Move it to Marian College
- Nationalities Council of Indiana
- gathers the city’s ethnic and international groups
- NUVO
- is Indianapolis’s alternative weekly newspaper
- Polis Center
- works with communities to apply knowledge to problem solution
- Rotary Club of Indianapolis
- is a major global player
- Sagamore Institute for Policy Research
- provides serious thinking to solve serious problems
- Spirit and Place
- is a civic collaboration celebrating the arts, religion, and the humanities
- University of Indianapolis
- is in the top-tier of Midwestern universities
- World Trade Club of Indiana
- promotes better understanding of globalization









