Join us for our 2019 kickoff event at Indy Reads on Mass Ave! Hear from past grant partners, and learn about the upcoming plans for the year! Mingle and find out what you can do to make an impact in Indy for 2019. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Fun fact: Indy Reads Bookstore was partially funded by a Giving+Sum grant!

Join us for a drink, show off your ugliest sweater, compete in Holiday Movie Trivia, and to celebrate Giving+Sum’s impact on Indianapolis this year! Everyone is welcome! 

If you're interested in making a real impact to Indianapolis in 2019 come, learn more, and celebrate with us!

Join our 2018 Grant Partner, Horizon House in celebrating 30 years helping neighbors in Indianapolis. Everyone is welcome. During the Open House you will hear from Horizon House leadership, success stories from former neighbors, and be able to tour the facility. Let’s learn more about the impact we can make on ending homelessness in Central Indiana.

Volunteer opportunities are available through Giving+Sum before, during, and after this event. Contact us if you would like to participate.

Join us at Horizon House to help organize their donations area. A clean donations area allows Horizon House staff better clothe and meet the needs of their neighbors.

Giving+Sum is 10 years old and it's time to celebrate!!! More details to come, but Save the Date! 

Save the Date!  Join us for Indy Do Day with our 2018 Grant Partner- Horizon House!  More details coming. 

Join Giving+Sum with YNPN and learn about the homelessness trends that are impacting Indianapolis.  Get tickets here

Join us for our first big Volunteer event with our 2018 grant partner, Horizon House! 

We will be touring their facility and working in their donation center to help sort and prepare donations for the neighbors that come to Horizon House.  Both members and non-members are welcome to this volunteer event! Join us for a morning of making an impact. 

Join us for Big Check Night! It's our 10th Anniversary and you won't want to miss it! 

Come discuss our 5 semi-finalist site visits with your fellow Giving+Sum members. Learn more about any visits you were unable to attend, hear member impressions of each visit, share your experiences, and learn more about our semi-finalists. 

This will be the last time we meet as a group before our 3 Finalists are selected and present their proposals on Big Check Night. 

Don't miss it!

Madam Walker: entrepreneur, activist, self-made millionaire, and Indy's founding lady of collective impact? Come join Giving+Sum at the historic Walker Theatre for a conversation with Dr. Tyrone Freeman about how Madam Walker shaped philanthropy as we know it. Come learn about how Madam Walker set the stage for Indianapolis as a giving community, and how Giving Sum follows in those footsteps through our own collective giving model. We will also announce our semi-finalists and discuss site visits for the grant selection process. 

All are welcome! 

Join us on a tour of the Madame Walker Theater before the event!! 
$5 cash donation for the tour.

Arrive by 5:45 for a tour of the theater before our talk with Dr. Freeman. The man who gives the theater tours is in his 90s and spent a lot of time at the theater growing up. His mother was also one of the original beautician employees of Madam C.J. Walker.
 

Parking is free and is located to the west and north of the theatre itself, i.e. lots behind and beside the theatre.

Dr. Freeman is Assistant Professor of Philanthropic Studies and Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Dr. Freeman has conducted groundbreaking research on Madam Walker, a centerpiece in the history of philanthropy in Indianapolis.