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Indiana Organizations Receive COVID-19 Grants From Lilly Endowment

Food from an Indianapolis pantry.
Jill Sheridan/WFYI
Food from an Indianapolis pantry.

The Lilly Endowment is giving Indiana organizations millions of dollars in grants in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The philanthropic organization is giving about $30 million to Indiana United Ways to help statewide. Additional funding will go to the United Way of Central Indiana.

The Salvation Army’s Indiana Division will receive a $5 million grant to help sustain services in response to COVID-19.

Lilly Endowment Vice President for Community Development Ronni Kloth said in a media release, “We hope these resources will encourage and support these organizations in this critically important work.”

The grants will help continue and build on social services that include help with housing, child care and food.

Disclosure: The Lilly Endowment also provides funding for Indiana Public Broadcasting News.

Contact Samantha at  shorton@wfyi.org or follow her on Twitter at @SamHorton5.

This is a rapidly evolving story, and we are working hard to bring you the most up-to-date information. However, we recommend checking the websites of the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  or the  Indiana State Department of Health  for the most recent numbers of COVID-19 cases.

Samantha Horton is the All Things Considered newscaster and a reporter at WFYI. She is a graduate from University of Evansville with a bachelor’s degree in international studies, political science and communication where she also swam all four years. Samantha has worked as a reporter at WNIN in Evansville, Side Effects Public Media, Indiana Public Broadcasting and the Kansas News Service. In 2022 she was one of two fellows with the NPR Midwest Newsroom and Missouri Independent investigating elevated blood lead levels in children.
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