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“You can give money, but you also need guidance.” That belief helped shape the scholarship program Jesse H. and Beulah Chanley Cox created for hardworking Indiana students. Financial support would open the door to college. Mentorship, relationships, and leadership development would help students find their way once they arrived. For Cox Scholar Lily Brown, that support has changed how she sees her future. College had seemed financially out of reach, but her scholarship made it possible to pursue something she loves: writing scripts that help people through difficult times and say something meaningful about the world. As she began pursuing that ambition, she found friends among fellow scholars and direction in Art of Meaningful Work, a class that helped her think about managing her life and envisioning what comes next. “I have the freedom to do what makes me passionate; I have the freedom to do it without worry.” The Never Daunted campaign seeks to close the gap of unmet financial need so more students can have the freedom Lily describes. What began as one couple’s belief now reaches more than 1,100 students across Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University Indianapolis, showing how financial access and sustained guidance can work together to shape a student’s future. Read Lily’s story and the belief behind the Cox Scholars Program: https://lnkd.in/e4dgZ7te

With support through Groups, Amyana Moody has more room to focus on the future she is building in accounting and marketing. IU’s Never Daunted campaign aims to alleviate that pressure by closing the gap of unmet financial need and generating support for scholarship programs like Groups. Fewer barriers. More room to imagine what’s next. What internship could shape my career? Where could I study abroad? What kind of leader could I become? Through Groups, Amyana has found financial support, academic resources, and a community committed to seeing her through graduation. Nearly four decades before Amyana, Samuel Young III entered IU Bloomington as a Groups Scholar. Now, he leads the program that helped launch his education and carries that opportunity forward for the next generation. Meet Amyana and Samuel and discover the legacy they share.

For a year, Binary Heart’s IU chapter consisted of one student and an apartment stacked with computers. Jack Wilber, BS'26, refurbished and donated nearly 100 devices during that first year. Then Mary Dinkha, BS’26, joined him, helping turn the one-person effort into a growing nonprofit. Today, Binary Heart has seven chapters and more than 130 student volunteers. With approximately $50,000 in funding from IU sources, a workspace provided by the Ostrom Workshop and guidance through IU Innovates, its chapters have donated about $90,000 worth of technology. Strengthening communities across Indiana and beyond is one of the aspirations of the Never Daunted campaign. Binary Heart shows how far that work can travel when a student with an idea finds people willing to help it grow. Read the full story.

Join us in shaping what’s next. Introducing Never Daunted, IU’s ambitious campaign to improve lives around the world.

Powered by people and driven by purpose, Never Daunted is IU’s ambitious campaign to improve lives around the world.

A brighter future starts now. Introducing Never Daunted, IU’s ambitious campaign to improve lives around the world.