Fundraising support

Crown Hill Cemetery embarked on a Master Plan to support this historic not-for-profit institution’s restoration, preservation, and community-partnership needs. Following up on the opportunities and challenges identified in this document, the Crown Hill Heritage Foundation used direct mail to reach its donor audience with a message about the cemetery’s origins. Titled “From Strawberry Hill to … More…

On Your Level Youth Project uses broadcast media, online resources, and face-to-face interactions to encourage teens to explore and accept diversity, communicate honestly and openly, and seek out productive life paths as they forge their way into adulthood. The project is the brainchild of a teacher, media personality, and spoken word artist named Blair Karsch, … More…

In Indiana’s Decatur County, the Greensburg area serves as a focus of travel and tourism. The 501(c)(6) non-profit Decatur County Visitors and Recreation Commission needed a headquarters location with enough programming space, parking, and public amenities to provide space for its own functions and as a home for other, smaller non-profits. A $1.5 million capital … More…

Girl Scouts of Central Indiana provides organizational leadership for girls and adults in a large number of Hoosier counties: 35, at the time GSCI embarked on a capital campaign to replace its longtime office space with a building more suited to its mission and its people. B Plus C Communications researched, wrote, and designed a … More…

The Phoenix Theatre, an Actors’ Equity member institution, presents diverse plays, including recent Broadway hits (which it’s often the first Midwest theatre to stage) and new works by Hoosier playwrights. It mounts its productions on two stages in a renovated church that’s been its home since 1988. Faced with ongoing needs for updates to its … More…

The Indianapolis Senior Center served residents aged 50 and older with an extensive menu of services focused on independent living, good health and well being, intellectual and cultural enrichment, and travel and tourism. Its quest for a better alternative to its long-standing facility ended with the determination that buying and renovating its current facility offered … More…

The emerald ash borer first reached the United States in the 1990s, stowing away in wooden shipping crates bound for Michigan from China. In the emerald ash borer’s native habitat, many trees display natural immunity to it. Not so in the U.S., where thousands fall prey to the insect’s devastating effects every year. At historic … More…

Founded in 1863 as a not-for-profit institution, the third-largest non-governmental cemetery in the United States occupies 555 acres in the heart of Indianapolis, Indiana. Crown Hill Cemetery relies on its not-for-profit Heritage Foundation to fund the preservation and restoration of the historic treasures on its grounds. The Heritage Foundation calls on B Plus C Communications … More…

This 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization serving persons with disabilities needed a headquarters building that could bring all its staff together within the community they serve. To assist with fundraising efforts targeting the costs of designing and building the facility, B Plus C Communications created a brochure that told the organization’s unique story through the eyes and … More…

A publishing executive who attended the 1963 March on Washington was moved by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to create an organization designed to increase the representation of people of color in influential positions within American corporations. He established INROADS as a non-profit network of locally incorporated non-profits serving … More…