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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WDRB) – Major changes are coming to Indiana university's basketball scene as the school broke ground on long-awaited renovations to Assembly Hall. The 43-year-old home of IU basketball will get a whole new look by the fall of 2016 and construction began this week. “I am thrilled that this project will preserve the best home

The Indianapolis Foundation board of directors approved and awarded $1,761,000 in grants to 39 not-for-profits serving Marion County residents on March 10, 2015. Grant requests were approved by The Indianapolis Foundation board of directors and made possible by generations of community donations to the Endowment for Indianapolis (an unrestricted

Transformative gift to sustain and expand innovative approaches to genocide prevention WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum announced today that the Samerian Foundation of Indianapolis has committed a $20 million endowment gift to advance the Museum’s genocide prevention mission. The gift by Foundation founders Cynthia

INDIANAPOLIS — The vision for the Indianapolis Zoo’s newest exhibit supports a sustainable future for endangered orangutans by inspiring the community to take an active role in their conservation. Motivated by that call to action, longtime Zoo supporter Cindy Simon Skjodt has made a $5 million donation to the Campaign for Conservation and

In recognition of largest gift in IU Athletics history, home of IU Hoosiers to be renamed the Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie today announced that IU Athletics has received a $40 million gift -- the largest in its history -- from IU alumna Cindy Simon Skjodt to provide much-needed renovations

Philanthropist Cindy Simon Skjodt is donating $2 million to the Herron School of Art and Design’s Art Therapy Program, the school announced Thursday. The gift will endow a chair in the program, which is based at IUPUI and was developed with cooperation from the Indiana University School of Medicine. The two-year, full-time residential program is

When you are the daughter of a billionaire, you have some options. But how do you decide where to make a difference? “That’s a very good question,” said Cynthia Simon Skjodt, founder and president of the Samerian Foundation and daughter of the late mall magnate Melvin Simon. Her answer: “It has to be something that is near

Cynthia Simon Skjodt, the daughter of late shopping mall magnate Melvin Simon, is donating $1.5 million to the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in honor of her father, the school announced Wednesday morning. The gift will create the Melvin Simon Chair in Philanthropy, which will help the school "attract and retain world-class