by Rebekah Corwin | Apr 15, 2024 | Equity, Stories
In 2001, OPTIONS Alumnae came together to create something directly impacting women seeking higher education. Through their collaboration, fundraising, and generosity, they created the OPTIONS Alumnae Scholarship. This scholarship was created to help women who needed...
by Rebekah Corwin | Jan 9, 2024 | Equity, Stories
In 2006, OPTIONS Alumnae came together to create something directly impacting women seeking higher education. From their collaboration, fundraising and generosity, they created the OPTIONS Alumnae Scholarship. This scholarship was created to help women who needed...
by Rebekah Corwin | Sep 29, 2023 | Equity, Stories
As part of its mission to ensure every woman and girl in our community has equitable opportunity to reach her full potential—no matter place, race or identity, Women’s Fund of Central Indiana invests in women’s development. More than 20 years ago, Women’s Fund...
by Rebekah Corwin | Aug 28, 2023 | Equity, Stories
The Founding Mothers of Women’s Fund of Central Indiana were concerned that women were not recognized as philanthropists in Central Indiana and that women- and girl-serving organizations in our community did not get the support they deserved. The OPTIONS program was...
by Rebekah Corwin | Jun 27, 2023 | Equity, Stories
In recent years, June has brought along rainbow flags hanging in storefronts and homes, rainbow-covered merchandise at large and small retailers, and parades and festivals celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. But Pride is so much more than that. Pride month is a time...
by Rebekah Corwin | Jun 16, 2023 | Equity, Stories
The Women Behind Court Cases That Helped Ended Slavery in Indiana Juneteenth marks the date in 1865 that United States troops arrived in Texas and Major General Gordon Granger read an order enforcing the emancipation of enslaved Black men and women. Originally...