Foundation Leader Is on a Roll With an Unusual Fund-Raising Tool

By Alison Stein Wellner

On this Wednesday morning, Brian Payne, president of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, starts off his group's monthly staff meeting with an unusual question.

"What was something wonderful or meaningful that happened to you this summer?" he asks the assembled collection of employees, grant recipients, and visitors.

The next half hour or so is consumed with each person in the room answering the question. The answers are diverse: a son graduating from a physician's