Lilly Endowment grants $146M to Indiana colleges

[KreitzerSTL]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/12/15/lilly-endowment-gives-146-million-in-grants-to-six-indiana-colleges/

Lilly has issued major grants to Ball State, Purdue, and other Indiana universities for community partnership endeavors.

A little surprised/disappointed not to see Valpo on the list. I had thought we were close with the Lilly Foundation?

[VULB#62]

Many of the proposed projects that were granted had something to do with bringing campus and community closer.  That's something we've discussed on this forum.

[historyman]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/12/15/lilly-endowment-gives-146-million-in-grants-to-six-indiana-colleges/

Lilly has issued major grants to Ball State, Purdue, and other Indiana universities for community partnership endeavors.

A little surprised/disappointed not to see Valpo on the list. I had thought we were close with the Lilly Foundation?

Also Lilly is close to both Purdue & Butler which have pharmacy schools that provide pharmacy students that become registered pharmacists in Indiana & researchers for the Lilly Corporation. If you go into any pharmacy in Central Indiana you'll most likely find a Purdue or Butler pharmacy student working as a trainee or brand new pharmacist as an intern.

[vu84v2]

Any university seeking this grant needed to submit a proposal. We do not know if Valpo submitted a proposal.

[KreitzerSTL]

Any university seeking this grant needed to submit a proposal. We do not know if Valpo submitted a proposal.

Could the grant have applied to any of the capital projects we know are in the works? Dorms, nursing building, or arena? Probably depends on how you sell it, but I would bet dorms would be a long shot. Nursing has a new partnership with UChicago, right? That seems community oriented.

If Valpo didn't apply... why not??

[valpopal]

Any university seeking this grant needed to submit a proposal. We do not know if Valpo submitted a proposal.

Could the grant have applied to any of the capital projects we know are in the works? Dorms, nursing building, or arena? Probably depends on how you sell it, but I would bet dorms would be a long shot. Nursing has a new partnership with UChicago, right? That seems community oriented.

If Valpo didn't apply... why not??

Valpo did submit a proposal and can try again in the spring during a second round of applications.

[KreitzerSTL]

Valpo did submit a proposal and can try again in the spring during a second round of applications.

Appreciate the insider info, 'pal. Do you know what the grant would have supported?

[crusadermoe]

Any idea how many of the schools in Indiana got grants in the first round? and/or what size of grants we are talking about?

[crusadermoe]

Never mind, I answered both my questions and Kretizers. 

Schools winning the grants were: 

$30M Taylor, $25M Wabash, $25M Earlham, $25M Ball Sate, $25M Purdue, $5.8m Indiana State.

https://lillyendowment.org/news/initiative-seeks-to-strengthen-quality-of-life-and-place-in-indiana-communities/

[David81]

President Padilla has been playing up VU's future as being more intertwined with the NW Indiana region. This Lilly grant program seems to be a good fit for that, so hopefully future applications will bear some fruit. That's a boatload of grant money being put on the table.

[vu72]

Maybe you guys missed this:

https://www.valpo.edu/stories/2023/12/18/valparaiso-university-continues-to-boost-science-of-reading-in-indiana/

[KreitzerSTL]

Maybe you guys missed this:

There's a big difference between $750k over three years, vs. $35m all at once.