{"id":13198,"date":"2023-12-19T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rmff.org\/?p=13198"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:31:58","slug":"charitable-grants-program-awards-funds-to-six-indianapolis-nonprofits-addressing-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/2023\/12\/charitable-grants-program-awards-funds-to-six-indianapolis-nonprofits-addressing-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Charitable Grants Program Awards Funds to Indianapolis Nonprofits Addressing Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation is pleased to announce it is awarding one-time grants to six Indianapolis nonprofit organizations addressing homelessness intervention and prevention as a part of its annual Charitable Grants program. This year\u2019s recipients are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fpgi.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Family Promise<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indyhealthnet.org\/hip\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HealthNet Homeless Initiative Program<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizonhouse.cc\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Horizon House<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianayouthgroup.org\/projectprism\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Youth Group<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outreachindiana.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Outreach, Inc.<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pourhouse.org\/index.php\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The PourHouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2021, the Fairbanks Foundation has awarded what we refer to as Charitable Grants, which are one-time, $25,000 grants to Indianapolis organizations based on a funding theme that reflects the pressing needs in Indianapolis.&nbsp;The Charitable Grants program continues the legacy of Dick Fairbanks\u2019 interest in making small, unrestricted grants to organizations where these dollars could make a significant impact.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s funding theme, homelessness intervention and prevention, is of particular relevance at this time. Indianapolis city and community leaders have identified housing instability and a lack of support services to help families achieve stable housing as a critical issue&nbsp;\u2013 one that comes with significant impacts on the health, education&nbsp;and economic outcomes of Indianapolis.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual count of people experiencing homelessness in Marion County has held relatively steady over the past decade, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmff.org\/community-data-snapshot\/vitality-of-indianapolis\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 1,600 people<\/a> identified as experiencing homelessness in the January 2023 point-in-time count. Additionally, in 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmff.org\/community-data-snapshot\/vitality-of-indianapolis\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 3,700 Marion County students<\/a> were identified as experiencing housing instability.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fairbanks Foundation is awarding one-time grants to six Indianapolis nonprofit organizations addressing homelessness intervention and prevention.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vitality-of-indianapolis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmff.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}