Our Mission: CIBA Foundation, through its grant program, strives to provide financial and other resources to partner organizations that support its goal of promoting the benefits of cycling to the community.
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About the Foundation
CIBA Foundation is a charitable organization formed and supported by the Central Indiana Bicycling Association. CIBA, a cycling organization with nearly 2,000 members, initially funded the Foundation to provide its members and other interested parties a method for giving back to the cycling community.

CIBA Foundation received its tax-exempt, non-profit status in 1997 and began to consider grant requests. Through the action of its 10-member Board of Directors, the Foundation has already funded a number of cycling-related projects, primarily in Central Indiana.

Since its inception, the CIBA Foundation has dispersed over $130,000 to various cycling organizations. Grants are awarded in an effort:

• To inform, educate, advise, and promote the general public awareness of the health, recreational, economic, social, cultural, and other benefits arising from the use of bicycles and other types of human-powered transportation devices.

• To inform, educate, and advise the general public concerning matters of bicycle safety.

• To promote bicycle-related nonprofit, charitable and educational purposes as deemed appropriate by its Board of Directors.

Grants are reviewed on a quarterly basis -- March, June, September, and December. Grant applications must be filled out completely and submitted by 15th of the month prior to the review month.

Grant applications can be obtained by mailing a request to the following address:
 
CIBA Foundation, 4215 S. Eaton Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46239 or downloading below
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Donate to the Foundation
Did you know?-- You can now direct your United Way contribution specifically to the CIBA Foundation.

CIBA Foundation, INC., is an unaffiliated agency, approved to receive designated gifts through the United Way of Central Indiana's Donor Choice Program. Our Agency Book Number is #5425. As a non-profit organization, CIBA Foundation is authorized to accept tax-deductable contributions. If you share the foundation's desire to support cycling and cycling-related causes, your contributions are welcomed. The foundation's goal is to raise $1 million, from which money will be available each year for grants. Giving is easy. Contact the foundation or download and fill out the form below and mail it.

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Grant Application
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PURPOSE:

The objects and purposes for which the CIBA Foundation is organized and for which it will utilize its resources, are as follows:


• To inform, educate, advise and promote the general public awareness of the health, recreational, economic, social, cultural and other benefits arising from the use of bicycles and other types of human powered transportation devices.

• To inform, educate and advise the general public concerning matters of bicycle safety.

• To promote bicycling-related non-profit, charitable and educational purposes as deemed appropriate by its Board of Directors.

GUIDELINES:

• CIBA Foundation prefers to make grants to organizations that will improve bicycling, using the purposes listed above as a guideline for funding.

• Although the Board of Directors may revise its guidelines from time to time, grants are generally for
$1,000 or less.

• CIBA Foundation prefers to give to organizations and projects which will primarily benefit residents of Central Indiana and/or Indiana, but will consider applications from other locales provided they meet the general objectives of the CIBA Foundation.

• Grant applications must be submitted for review before one of the following closing dates: postmarked by February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15. They will be acted upon at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors. If you have any questions about this process, please contact the address below.

Mail 12 copies of completed Grant Application to:

CIBA FOUNDATION
GRANT REVIEW COMMITTEE
ROSEMARY THOMAS
4215 S. EATON AVE.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46239
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Board Members
Steve Barnes
Debbie Beaudin
Ray Cannarella
Randy Clark
Marc Freeman
Skip Higgins (Vice President)
Andy O'Donnell
Irwin Prince (President) 		Fred Evans
Warren Smock (Secretary)
Rosemary Thomas (Treasurer)
Diana Virgil
Erm Weir
Central Indiana Bicycling Assn. Foundation
4215 S. Eaton Ave
Indpls., IN 46239

Contact: Irwin Prince at 334-9200 Fax 228-3355

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