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Beth Harrick(Photo: Susanna Tanner Photography)


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  • Girls Inc. receives grant including up to 150 hours of consulting from Indiana Youth Institute.

  • Organization has identified strategic planning, service expansion and facilities planning as needs.

  • Registration and travel expenses for fundraising course, Kids Count conference also included.



The Indiana Youth Institute has awarded Girls Inc. of Richmond a grant designed to build the organization’s capacity to serve children and the community.


“Youth-serving nonprofits often need assistance recruiting volunteers, raising money and strengthening their internal operations,” said IYI president and CEO Bill Stanczykiewicz in a press release.


The grant offers up to 150 hours of professional consulting from IYI. Girls Inc. has identified strategic planning, service expansion and facilities planning as the needs they would like to have addressed.


In addition, the grant includes registration and travel expenses for one Girls Inc. representative to attend the Indiana University School of Philanthropy’s Fund Raising School’s course in principles and techniques of fundraising, and for two representatives to attend IYI’s Kids Count Conference.


“This grant gives us the opportunity to identify the ways in which we will invest in the future of our girls through program expansion, staffing and facilities,” said Beth Harrick, co-executive director at Girls Inc. “It will allow us to increase our effectiveness in meeting our girls’ needs today and in the future.”


Thirteen organizations around Indiana received the grant.


Girls Inc. provides after school and summer programs to girls in grades 1-8 and school-based pregnancy outreach to 1,700 middle and high school students each year.


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