Mayor’s highest honor for civic leadership recognizes those dedicated to progress in Indianapolis through public-private partnerships and beyond INDIANAPOLIS – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) is seeking nominations for the 37th annual Charles L. Whistler Award. The award recognizes an individual who has brought together the public and private sectors for civic improvement in [...]
Mary Titsworth Chandler to step down after four and a half years in the leadership role INDIANAPOLIS (July 5, 2022) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) announced today that Mayor Joe Hogsett has appointed Heather Wilson, attorney with Frost Brown Todd, as the organization’s new Chairperson of the Board. Wilson has served GIPC since [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (April 6, 2022) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) has selected Emily Koschnick as the organization’s next Executive Director, effective April 6, 2022. Koschnick is a communications and public relations professional who most recently served as director of public relations for Indianapolis-based Porch Light Public Relations. As GIPC Executive Director, Koschnick will serve [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (December 6, 2021) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) and Mayor Joe Hogsett presented the Charles L. Whistler Award for 2020 to Milton O. Thompson and for 2021 to J. Murray Clark at a breakfast ceremony on Thursday, December 2, at the Ivy Tech Community College Culinary and Conference Center. Two awards were [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (October 1, 2021) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) and Mayor Joe Hogsett are pleased to announce that Milt Thompson (2020) and Murray Clark (2021) will receive the Charles L. Whistler Award this year. Two awards are being given due to the pandemic-related cancellation of the Whistler Award celebration in 2020. The annual [...]
Mayor’s highest honor for civic leadership recognizes those dedicated to the betterment of Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS (July 19, 2021) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) is seeking nominations for the 36th annual Charles L. Whistler Award. The award recognizes an individual who has brought together the public and private sectors toward civic improvement in Indianapolis. [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (April 20, 2021) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) offers this statement in response to the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. “Today’s guilty verdict is one step in our journey to examine the role of the criminal justice system, particularly policing, in the treatment of Black Americans,” said GIPC Board Chair Mary [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (February 3, 2021) – Today, the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) released a report entitled “Police Reform: Equal Treatment of Black Americans,” the culmination of months of work by a legal Structural Reform Team formed in the summer of 2020 and charged by GIPC to research, benchmark, and make recommendations on the most critical [...]
Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee Highlights Civic Leadership with Submission to Indiana Historical Society’s Indianapolis Bicentennial Collection INDIANAPOLIS (January 27, 2021) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) announced today that the Charles L. Whistler Award materials will be included in the Indianapolis Bicentennial digital image collection, which is housed at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick [...]
GIPC Launches Racial Equity Pro Bono Legal Surge Team during National Pro Bono Week and Seeks Volunteer Lawyers INDIANAPOLIS (October 28, 2020) – The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) has launched a new pro bono initiative through its Race and the Legal Process Working Group to address a pressing need within the Indianapolis community. The [...]
