ABSTRACT
Indianapolis convention bureau and the economic development corporation prominently feature the Cultural Trail in the promotions and publications. The central Indiana community foundation (CICF), the cultural trail team, and its partners and donors wanted to create an urban bike and pedestrian trails bigger, bolder, and beautiful in the world. CICF is a big funder of the United Way of Central Indiana and pleases the United Way is broadening its community leadership approach and recently announced a new partnership with the Arts Council of Indianapolis. Community foundation believes central Indiana to thrive in the twenty-first century, does a superior job of developing, attracting, and retaining highly educated, creative, and community-minded people. Activist private foundations certainly can play a major leadership role if they have a broad enough scope and a strong enough commitment to leadership. The trails environmental design features are being copied in other parts of the city. Indianapolis is a different city from when the Cultural Trail began.
