KIB ‒ Beautiful Moments

For 40 years, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful has been creating and maintaining urban greenspaces for the benefit of all. Every Friday afternoon at 4:44, through the end of August, 90.1 WFYI profiles one of these places with the “Beautiful Moment” series.

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Aug 26, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Trees

IPS School 109 is located on East Raymond. Vacant grounds that were once simply an expanse of grass and blacktop are now home to an urban forest, nature play elements and happy and engaged students.

Aug 19, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Oaks Academy

At the Oaks Academy at 23rd and Park, school leaders imagined an outdoor space enriching the educational experience of its young students.

Aug 12, 2016

Beautiful Moment: KIB Headquarters

When Keep Indianapolis Beautiful needed a new home, it chose the intersection of Fletcher and Shelby, near the heart of Fountain Square.

Aug 05, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Vibrant Corridors

Once gray, dark highway underpasses today are bright custom connections that help people feel safe, and help neighborhoods express pride in their unique identity.

Aug 05, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Lynhurst

In a neighborhood full of veterans and active duty military, educator Chris Moore believed the Lynhurst 7th and 8th Grade Learning Center Campus landscape could honor the surrounding community.

Jul 23, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Ransom Place

Downtown, Historic Ransom Place sits at the cross section of tremendous change and a powerful history.

Jul 23, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Community Baptist

At Community Missionary Baptist Church, Rev. Ward had a problem. Across the street from his new daycare was a vacant lot attracting drug dealers, gangs and gunfire.

Jul 15, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Greenspace and Crime

On the city's near eastside, a visionary pastor had a novel idea. What if green spaces could reduce crime?

Jul 01, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Youth Tree Team

KIB's Youth Tree Team is giving Indy's youth meaningful jobs, and nurturing tomorrow's green professionals

Jun 16, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Fall Creek

Along Fall Creek, from the State Fairgrounds to Ivy Tech's campus, neighbors have been working to make this polluted waterway a community asset.

Jun 16, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Vitamin "G"

The simple act of planting a garden, a tree, or creating a park can have a myriad of benefits in neighborhoods that need it most.

Jun 10, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Purpose Park

With Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Danny Marquez imagined a different landscape on North Holmes. A place where children could play, be fed, and learn lessons that build character.

Jun 10, 2016

Beautiful Moment: Benedict Inn

With the help of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, what was once a parking lot is now a profound invitation to all people and a natural habitat in the form of a native prairie.

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