Music and moneymakers
Speaking of the two as one, I loved the following grant announcement in the 1/10 Chronicle of Philanthropy:
Lilly Endowment. Higher education. To construct and equip a new building for its Jacob School of Music, and for a program to attract professors and scholars to the School of Law: $69,000,000 to Indiana. (Bloomington, Ind.).
Ut omnes unum sint . . .
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I spent a few weeks in Indianapolis last year. It is truly astounding how the Lilly money has been used to leverage urban redevelopment. Local nonprofit folk refer to Indy slyly as "The City that Prozac Built," and have very interesting observations on the impact of that money, how it is spent and who receives it, what burdens are placed on the recipients, and in fact the politics resulting from a behemoth of a long-running family fund making enormous change tightly focused on one municipality. It's quite a case study.