Philadelphia’s, $2.5 million.

The Central Indiana Community Foundation, is taking Franklin’s model with a bigger goal in mind: to raise $100 million in 100 years.

“The thing we don’t realize is how philanthropy has shaped Indy,” saidA Malina Jeffers, who is leading the Ben Franklin funds project for the foundation.A “The city that will be 100 years from now will beA supported by those dollars.”

This will be done by creating two funds: one in which 1,000 people donate $100 each, and another in which 100 donors contribute $1,000 each. “This is a way to leave our mark.a

Call Amy Bartner at (317) 444-6752 and follow her onA Facebook,A Twitter, andA Instagram.

For more information or to donate toA CICF’s Ben Franklin Funds, go toA www.bein2016.org/bff.