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Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded a $5.7 million grant to Indianapolisbased TechPoint so the not-for-profit can expand its programs for tech-minded college students.
TechPoint, which is part of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, is an advocacy group that promotes Indiana's tech industry. Talent attraction is one of its focus areas.
The three-year Lilly Endowment grant will allow TechPoint to expand two of its talent initiatives: a 10-week college internship program called Xtern, and a three-week Xtern Bootcamp that aims to prepare college underclassmen for future Xtern experiences.
The grant is the third TechPoint has received from Lilly Endowment. In 2013, the endowment gave a $1.3 million, twoyear grant to establish the Xtern program, which launched in the summer of 2014. Then, in 2015, Lilly Endowment granted TechPoint $1.4 million, also a two-year grant, to continue the program.
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