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A Conversation with Brian Payne CICF's For Good
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“I’m convinced that the only way that we’re going to dismantle systemic racism in this country, and in our region…is that people of color and white people—people of the white race and people of other races—that they get into deep, authentic relationship with each other and they learn from each other.” – Brian Payne
In this episode of For Good, Brian Payne, CICF president and CEO, closes out 2019 in reflection and with gratitude. Listen to his top three projects, ideas and partnerships from the year, the value of relationships, and giving people grace.
If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!
Transcription of episode available below.
WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO
* Sarah Cowart, director of marketing and communications at CICF
* Brian Payne, president and CEO of CICF and president of The Indianapolis Foundation
DISCOVER MORE
* CICF’s mission and strategic plans for Marion and Hamilton counties
You’re listening to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose, and progress in Central Indiana. At CICF, we believe in creating a community where everyone can reach their full potential, no matter their place, race or identity. This is our community and these are your stories.
SARAH: Welcome to For Good. I’m Sarah Cowart, director of marketing and communications at CICF. We have a special episode for you today, featuring CICF president and CEO, Brian Payne. We’ll take a look back at 2019 and look forward to 2020. And there is a lot to talk about, so we are going to dive right in.
Brian, thank you for the conversation today. Can you talk about, all the things that have happened in this last year, what stands out to you the most as your top three projects, ideas, partnerships, anything that’s going on in the last year.
BRIAN: There has been a tremendous amount going on that we’re very proud of. It’s been one of the most memorable years of my career. And so getting it down to three, which I think is a reasonable question, is a bit of a challenge, but let me think. On April 11th, we all, on staff and our board and a lot of people in the community, gratefully, refer to our April 11th announcement. Which is now known as our Inclusive City Initiative. And you and I know, you being the marketing director, we thought Inclusive City was a great name for the announcement, but people have kind of dubbed our initiatives Inclusive City. And I think that’s tremendous. So we had this incredible announcement on April 11th at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. We think somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 people showed up as we announced a whole new mission statement, our new strategic plan, a generational or multi-generational commitment to dismantling systemic racism in central Indiana with a focus on how do we create a community.
We’re all individuals, have an equitable opportunity to reach their full potential no matter their place, race or identity. So that was a big, new announcement. One of the thrills was to be on one end of the court and to look at the corner of Bankers Life and see a full house from that perspective. To use the big $10 million video scoreboard as our PowerPoint screen. I mean, just being in that room, I had no idea when I walked in that I would have that kind of feeling of importance and impact that the space gave us. And then we put on a heck of a show with partners, and lifted up people’s voices, brilliant people’s voices, brilliant people of color who don’t usually get a stage like that. None of us get a stage like that, usually. And it was an incredible memorable 90 minutes of an evening.
“I’m convinced that the only way that we’re going to dismantle systemic racism in this country, and in our region…is that people of color and white people—people of the white race and people of other races—that they get into deep, authentic relationship with each other and they learn from each other.” – Brian Payne
In this episode of For Good, Brian Payne, CICF president and CEO, closes out 2019 in reflection and with gratitude. Listen to his top three projects, ideas and partnerships from the year, the value of relationships, and giving people grace.
If you enjoy this episode, subscribe to For Good through your favorite podcast app and leave us a review!
Transcription of episode available below.
WHO YOU’RE LISTENING TO
* Sarah Cowart, director of marketing and communications at CICF
* Brian Payne, president and CEO of CICF and president of The Indianapolis Foundation
DISCOVER MORE
* CICF’s mission and strategic plans for Marion and Hamilton counties
You’re listening to For Good, Central Indiana Community Foundation’s podcast highlighting stories about passion, purpose, and progress in Central Indiana. At CICF, we believe in creating a community where everyone can reach their full potential, no matter their place, race or identity. This is our community and these are your stories.
SARAH: Welcome to For Good. I’m Sarah Cowart, director of marketing and communications at CICF. We have a special episode for you today, featuring CICF president and CEO, Brian Payne. We’ll take a look back at 2019 and look forward to 2020. And there is a lot to talk about, so we are going to dive right in.
Brian, thank you for the conversation today. Can you talk about, all the things that have happened in this last year, what stands out to you the most as your top three projects, ideas, partnerships, anything that’s going on in the last year.
BRIAN: There has been a tremendous amount going on that we’re very proud of. It’s been one of the most memorable years of my career. And so getting it down to three, which I think is a reasonable question, is a bit of a challenge, but let me think. On April 11th, we all, on staff and our board and a lot of people in the community, gratefully, refer to our April 11th announcement. Which is now known as our Inclusive City Initiative. And you and I know, you being the marketing director, we thought Inclusive City was a great name for the announcement, but people have kind of dubbed our initiatives Inclusive City. And I think that’s tremendous. So we had this incredible announcement on April 11th at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. We think somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 people showed up as we announced a whole new mission statement, our new strategic plan, a generational or multi-generational commitment to dismantling systemic racism in central Indiana with a focus on how do we create a community.
We’re all individuals, have an equitable opportunity to reach their full potential no matter their place, race or identity. So that was a big, new announcement. One of the thrills was to be on one end of the court and to look at the corner of Bankers Life and see a full house from that perspective. To use the big $10 million video scoreboard as our PowerPoint screen. I mean, just being in that room, I had no idea when I walked in that I would have that kind of feeling of importance and impact that the space gave us. And then we put on a heck of a show with partners, and lifted up people’s voices, brilliant people’s voices, brilliant people of color who don’t usually get a stage like that. None of us get a stage like that, usually. And it was an incredible memorable 90 minutes of an evening.
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