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Podcast: The IBJ Podcast with Mason King
Episode: Brian Payne on the Cultural Trail, promoting equity, fighting systemic racism and leaving CICF
Description: On June 30, Brian Payne will finish a 23-year run as CEO and president of the Central Indiana Community Foundation and president of the Indianapolis Foundation. You can think of CICF as an umbrella organization that includes the Indianapolis Foundation and many other foundations and charitable funds that make nearly $100 million in grants every year to help not-for-profit groups in central Indiana. Over 23 years of Payne’s leadership, the total assets of the CICF collective organization have grown from $338 million to more than $1 billion.
For that alone, Payne is widely considered one of the most influential not-for-profit leaders in...