Five Allen County students will receive full-tuition, four-year scholarships as the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne 2012 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars.

Alyssa Chandler, Christine Connell, Nicole DeCriscio, Danielle Messman, and Caroline Meyer will receive full tuition to the Indiana College of their choice and a $900 yearly book stipend for required books and equipment. Read more.

The Community Foundation, in conjuction with Foellinger Foundation, hosted a panel discussion based on the demographic and socio-economic data for Allen County that was released by the U.S. Census Bureau over the past several months from both the 2010 Census and from the American Community Survey. To listen to the panel discussion click here.

The panel consisted of John Beams from the Center for Nonviolence, Chris Douse from IPFW Multicultural Services, Juanita Meiji-Goodwell from Indiana Youth Institute, Mary Haupert from Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc., and John Stafford from the Community Research Institute.

The panel discussed the following selected topics from the data analyzed by The Community Research Institute:

• Current educational attainment among all racial and ethnic groups versus ten years ago.
• Gaps in median household income between the white population and other racial and ethnic groups.
• Difference in overall poverty rates.

 

 

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