Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program FY 1999 Grantee

BUTLER UNIVERSITY, INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- $399,145

Butler University will receive a Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program New Grant of $399,145 to work in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood of Indianapolis to strengthen existing community partnerships and create new ones as well. Rates of poverty, crime, and deterioration are increasing in this neighborhood and the community has asked the University to help them stabilize the area. Butler's university-wide effort will deploy its resources in ways that are beneficial both to the University and to the community.

Among the activities Butler will undertake are:

• Development of business plans for new or expanded businesses;

• Providing tutoring and after-school enrichment programs to students at a high school and an alternative middle school;

• Preparation of architectural and marketing plans for the Omo Obokun African Cultural Resource Center, to serve as both a cultural and an economic resource for the community;

• Offering workshops and other activities to help neighborhood residents learn how to better use information technology; and

• Conducting an education program on the rights and responsibilities of property owners and tenants.

Contact: Dr. Margaret Brabant, 317-940-9683

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