INDIANAPOLIS – Reconnecting to Our Waterways (ROW), a collective impact organization that works to improve Indianapolis’s waterways, has added Brianna Dines as the new Waterways & Communications Coordinator for the initiative. Dines joins the group with after working for IndyEast Promise Zone.
“Working with communities to create inclusive and empowering opportunities to experience their social and physical environments is where my passion lies,” said Dines. “Reconnecting to Our Waterways works in some of Indy’s most diverse neighborhoods, and I look forward to supporting those efforts in ways that bring value and connection to our waterways and surrounding communities.”
Dines will work directly with ROW’s six Waterway Committees from Central Canal, Fall Creek, Little Eagle Creek, Pogue’s Run, Pleasant Run and White River. One key component of the ROW’s work with Waterways is facilitating grants that assist the waterways in the creation of events, projects and programs.
Brianna will also serve as ROW’s coordinator for communication throughout the collective, and for the Partners for the White River (that includes all of the organizations funded by the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust in 2018).
“ROW’s hiring of Brianna brings the collective to full capacity for staffing, and we couldn’t be more excited about the community development and neighborhood skills she brings,” said Julie L Rhodes, ROW’s Collective Impact Director. “ROW is now fully poised to realize the collective’s strategic plan, approved by the ROW Steering Committee last December.”
ROW is funding its current capacity building, grants and project work through generous gifts from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Central Indiana Community Foundation, and the Herbert Simon Family Foundation.
About Reconnecting to Our Waterways
Reconnecting to Our Waterways (ROW) is a collective impact initiative that has worked purposefully since 2012 to change the quality of life and ecology along Indianapolis waterways and surrounding neighborhoods. ROW has been able to convene community partners to enhance quality of life through innovation, analysis, cultural advancement and investment along Indy waterways and neighborhoods. ROW focuses on six of Indianapolis’s main waterways: Fall Creek, Pogue’s Run, Pleasant Run, White River, Little Eagle Creek and the Central Canal. For a schedule of upcoming meetings or for more information, visit OurWaterways.org, Facebook.com/OurWaterways, Twitter @OurWaterways.
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Contact:
Julie L Rhodes, 317.371.2788, [email protected]