Lilly Endowment Inc. - 1998 Annual Report

Contains board chair and president's message, program information, community development, religion, and education grantee profiles, grants list, and financial statements

Indianapolis: A Young Professional\u27s Guide

This new guide to Indianapolis for the young (or young at heart) professional answers the following questions: where can one obtain leadership training in Indy? Where can someone get free wi-fi access with a great cup of coffee, and where can one learn about starting a business, or connecting philanthropically. This nearly 200 page guide contains 40-plus categories of information, clubs, groups and organizations for those new to Indianapolis or just want to learn more about how to connect to this great city.https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/butlerbooks/1002/thumbnail.jp

Fruit of the Spirit: An investigation of how French Colonialism trans-nationally created the creolized Black Dance in New Orleans, called Secondline, through the lens of an Original Treme babydoll.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

LOCAL WOMEN: THE PUBLIC LIVES OF BLACK MIDDLE CLASS WOMEN IN KENTUCKY BEFORE THE “MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

This dissertation looks at the responses of African American club women to the challenging racial environment of Kentucky from the late 1800s through the early decades of the 20th century. It explores their efforts to negotiate the dialectical relationship between local circumstances and national movements. While most discussions of club women argue that their work merely enabled respectability, this dissertation argues that its real significance lies in the way black club women established support systems and communication systems for other forms of activism. The black women\u27s club movement is the communication arena which establishes networks for advancing the direct action protests of the modern Civil Rights Movement

Three Necessary Things: The Indianapolis Free Kindergarten and Children's Aid Society, 1880-1920

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)A group of well-to-do women formally organized the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten and Children’s Aid Society with the goal to open kindergartens for children like Onis Williams. Reverend Oscar C. McCulloch, a social gospel proponent, was influential in organizing these women as well as several other Indianapolis charitable organizations. The clubwomen of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten and Children’s Aid Society collected funds and goods from local businesses and wealthy businessmen to support their work; the clubwomen also hosted teas, parties, and an annual ball to raise money. At first, the women of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten and Children’s Aid Society (hereafter IFK) opened kindergartens and distributed clothing to young children in the poorest districts of the city. Over time, however, IFK expanded to include adult programs, programs for children of all ages, and opened a teachers’ training school. This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter will focus on the Indiana Primary and Normal Training School, the teacher training school run by IFK. The second chapter will discuss the various social and academic programs available to Indianapolis children, including the actual kindergarten. The third chapter will focus on six different programs available to mothers whose children attended kindergartens and other programs. This thesis will show how some Indianapolis clubwomen used the teacher’s school, the kindergartens, and the programs for mothers of IFK to create a successful Progressive program that endured for nearly seventy years

Old Ideas in New Skins: Examining Discourses of Diversity on the Websites of 10 Urban-Serving Universities

Deficit discourse, the idea that minorities lack intellectually, runs through current ideas about diversity in higher education. Diversity is viewed as a policy that helps the deficient. Recent litigation about diversity, Fisher v. University of Texas (2013), embodied the alignment of deficit and diversity. This study examined portrayals, visual and textual, of diversity on the websites of ten urban-serving universities, using a method of critical discourse analysis and a lens of critical race theory, to uncover the ways they defined diversity and if notions of deficit were attached. This study also addressed the ways these universities, a part of the Coalition of Urban-Serving Universities, discussed their communities and if deficit was attached. Diversity was defined as deficient racial minorities and communities as well as diversity as tokens and a form of compliance. The findings of this study show that these college websites, through their portrayals of racial minorities as deficient, duplicate inequality and encourage the maintenance of White hegemony

Women's Giving Circles: Reflections from the Founders

The narrative in this publication shares the stories of the women founders of giving circles. The majority of the first giving circles were created by women for women members. Though giving circles are now popular among both genders, women have contributed more significantly to the inception and the growth of the giving circle movement

Collectors, Collecting, & Collections: A Symposium Sponsored by the International Quilt Study Center

Welcome… to the 2005 Biennial Symposium of the International Quilt Study Center. Like all of the IQSC undertakings, the goal of this gathering is to celebrate quilts and quiltmaking. The focus of this Symposium is “Collectors, Collecting, & Collections.” Selection of this theme made good sense, since the IQSC is built around a wonderful collection. At the same time, selecting this theme was something of a risk since quilts and collecting go together in ways that are undeniable, but not always comfortable. Collecting and quilting are activities that people can find satisfying, even fun. They involve routines and exploration. They usually involve social interactions and networks of people who exchange interests, insights, and things. Both quilting and collecting involve special skills. A good quilter needs developed skills of eye, hand, and mind. A serious collector must know where to find and how to judge potential collectibles. These skills are different, but no less real. Finally, both quilters and collectors are assemblers since both quilts and collections are made up many pieces. Just as quilters decide how best to use individual elements in a quilt, collectors decide what goes together in a collection. Such similarities can’t hide obvious differences that separate collectors and quilters. Quilters decide what to make. Collectors decide what to save. In those processes both quilters and collectors change the meaning–and the value–of individual pieces. Quilters recycle pieces that have had their own histories of use, value, and service. Collectors remove objects from the context of use and personal appreciation. These activities can’t help but change the value of individual pieces. One turns scraps and snippets into functional expressions of gender, class, religion, ethnicity, and aesthetic exploration. The other can elevate some objects to icons, or reduce them to curios or even simple commodities. Sincere collectors will find beauty and celebrate skill and tradition. But are these the same qualities that the quilter drew on? When collectors recognize excellence, quilters can rightfully wonder what makes some works more collectible than others? Both quilts and collections reflect traditions, but rarely the same tradition. In addressing questions like these over the next three days we hope to stimulate collectors, quilters, and scholars to explore basic qualities and quilts and collecting. Peter A. Bleed Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Professor, Anthropology and Geography University of Nebraska-Lincol

Collectors, Collecting, & Collections: A Symposium Sponsored by the International Quilt Study Center

Welcome… to the 2005 Biennial Symposium of the International Quilt Study Center. Like all of the IQSC undertakings, the goal of this gathering is to celebrate quilts and quiltmaking. The focus of this Symposium is “Collectors, Collecting, & Collections.” Selection of this theme made good sense, since the IQSC is built around a wonderful collection. At the same time, selecting this theme was something of a risk since quilts and collecting go together in ways that are undeniable, but not always comfortable. Collecting and quilting are activities that people can find satisfying, even fun. They involve routines and exploration. They usually involve social interactions and networks of people who exchange interests, insights, and things. Both quilting and collecting involve special skills. A good quilter needs developed skills of eye, hand, and mind. A serious collector must know where to find and how to judge potential collectibles. These skills are different, but no less real. Finally, both quilters and collectors are assemblers since both quilts and collections are made up many pieces. Just as quilters decide how best to use individual elements in a quilt, collectors decide what goes together in a collection. Such similarities can’t hide obvious differences that separate collectors and quilters. Quilters decide what to make. Collectors decide what to save. In those processes both quilters and collectors change the meaning–and the value–of individual pieces. Quilters recycle pieces that have had their own histories of use, value, and service. Collectors remove objects from the context of use and personal appreciation. These activities can’t help but change the value of individual pieces. One turns scraps and snippets into functional expressions of gender, class, religion, ethnicity, and aesthetic exploration. The other can elevate some objects to icons, or reduce them to curios or even simple commodities. Sincere collectors will find beauty and celebrate skill and tradition. But are these the same qualities that the quilter drew on? When collectors recognize excellence, quilters can rightfully wonder what makes some works more collectible than others? Both quilts and collections reflect traditions, but rarely the same tradition. In addressing questions like these over the next three days we hope to stimulate collectors, quilters, and scholars to explore basic qualities and quilts and collecting. Peter A. Bleed Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Professor, Anthropology and Geography University of Nebraska-Lincol