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KIB STRENGTHENING INDIANAPOLIS THROUGH ARTS AND CULTURAL INNOVATION

Posted by: Derek Glass
Posted: December 11, 2018
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ANNOUNCEMENTContact: Ashley Haynes, Director of MarketingKeep Indianapolis Beautiful317-793-2871engage@kibi.org Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Strengthening Indianapolis Through Arts and Cultural Innovation INDIANAPOLIS (December 10, 2018) – Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) has received a grant of $674,520 as part of Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Strengthening Indianapolis Through Arts and Cultural Innovation initiative. KIB is one of 18 organizations receiving grants […]

Little Fletcher Place Addition is a BIG Improvement

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: December 6, 2018
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Glenn Blackwood is an Adopt-A-Block Captain for the Fletcher Place neighborhood. He is a true community advocate as he is the President for the neighborhood association, and has been greatly involved with the development of the Fletcher Place Gateway GreenSpace at the intersection of Pine and Fletcher at the I-65/70 off-ramp. The city benefits greatly […]

Community and Corner Stores in Indianapolis’ Near-Westside

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: December 5, 2018
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Paul Mullins is an anthropology professor at IUPUI. His research has focused on urban displacement in Indianapolis, examining how a century-old, predominately African-American community was displaced and is now reconstructing its history. Mullins’ current project, Invisible Indianapolis, explores place in the city that that initially may seem counter-intuitive to our ideas about what constitutes “historical” sites. […]

Back-to-School: Learning + Greening + KIBing + Internship-ing

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
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Students of all ages are making their way back to school, which means one thing at KIB: The fall planting season is nearly here! But seriously, summer is really great. We get to do plenty of wonderful things like count the pollinators all over our favorite native blooms, paint structures in community greenspaces straight out […]

Field of Flags, Tree Flags That Is

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If you drive past the Shadeland and English interchange, you will notice hundreds of tiny white flags flapping in the breeze. If you look closer, you will see each one is labeled with the name of a tree species. It is a sign of the immense impact volunteers will have on Thursday, September 29 for […]

Tree Dedication

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
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What are you willing to do for your trees? My neighbor recently listed her house for what I believed to be a fairly low sum. She indicated one of the reasons it was lower than I might expect is because her house is on a septic system, not connected to the city sewer system. Unlike […]

Rethinking Our Streets

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by Lorraine Phillips Vavul Lorraine Phillips Vavul is a resident of Historic Meridian Park and works at Phillips Strategic Marketing and Planning and mentors students at Butler University’s Lacy School of Business on Career Development as an Executive Career Mentor. She volunteered and continues to volunteer to lead planning and implementation on Rethinking Our Streets. In […]

Tree Cheers for OAKtober!

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: November 30, 2018
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Oaks know no borders. For that reason we celebrated OAKtober with our Illinois friends this weekend. Illinois has designated October as Oak Awareness Month and for good reason. They provide many benefits including reducing air pollutants, collecting storm water which cleans our rivers, cools our cities, and of course, provide beauty. Another extremely important benefit […]

Great Indy Cleanup 2017: BRAG Neighborhood

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by BRAG resident Chris Dossman about how BRAG was selected to be the focus neighborhood for Great Indy Cleanup 2017 I love my city and I especially love my neighborhood. It saddens me to see all of the trash piling up along our streets, sidewalks and greenspace. Cleaning it up has become my passion (Just […]

Chinquapin Oak Park

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In 2012, 296 years after it was planted, Chris Hartley noticed a tree. Hartley, then president of the Springdale Neighborhood Association, discovered that this neighborhood giant was on a lot slated for demolition. Working with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., Hartley was able to protect the Chinquapin Oak as the city moved forward with clearing the […]

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