Crown Hill Foundation

Founded in 1975, Bands of America is a nonprofit, educational organization providing avenues for learning and excellence in music education for the high school students and directors of the United States. Bands of America's internationally acclaimed repertoire of events includes the Grand National Championships, National Concert Band Festival, Summer Symposium, Regional Marching Championships and one-day musical and leadership clinics. More than 270,000 teens, family members and enthusiasts attend BOA events each year with more than 90,000 teens participating. Bands of America also publishes award-winning national newsletters five times annually. Its student divisions include the concert band, jazz band, orchestra, marching band, world percussion symposium, color guard and the George N. Parks drum major academy. It also provides the leadership weekend experience two-day interactive learning lab. Bands of America is headquartered in Indianapolis.

Faith Christian School, located in Lafayette, Ind., provides students educational opportunities in grades prekindergarten through 12, and enrolls more than 800 children. As a ministry of Faith Baptist Church it combines its educational program with religious instruction, and assists parents in training their children both academically and spiritually in order to serve effectively in their home, church, and community. Established in 1997, its elementary school program covers a wide range of subjects and experiences that help prepare a child for success. It introduces reading through a fun, hands-on activity and mathematics and the other subjects are also taught through hands-on and teacher-directed activities. It provides a comprehensive educational program, including core subjects, such as mathematics, language arts, social studies, and science, in junior and high school. Faith Christian School also offers a wide variety of extracurricular activities.

Since 1993, PRF has grown the Purdue Research Park into a model for other technology parks around the state of Indiana. As we gathered feedback from our client companies and gained additional confidence from our faculty-entrepreneurs, we watched our technology transfer, business development and incubation programming garner Purdue numerous honors and awardsI hope you'll take a moment to review PRF's 2006-2010 Strategic Plan so that you can get a feel for PRF's new direction. We are honored and excited to have an important role in Purdue's extensive plan to strengthen Indiana's position in this emerging knowledge-based economy. Working closely with researchers from Purdue's Discovery Park, we are committed to bringing Hoosiers the promise of new high-tech companies with secure, high-paying jobs.