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Area charities and nonprofit organizations have the opportunity to thank their dedicated volunteers in a special way.

The Indianapolis Home & Flower Show is offering passes to interested, local not-for-profit organizations to hand out to their volunteers to enjoy the show for free. The new, annual show coming to Lucas Oil Stadium is scheduled for Friday, March 5 through Sunday, March 7, 2010.

The show is produced by Marketplace Events, the same company that produces the Indianapolis Home Show. The international exhibition company was selected by Lucas Oil Stadium to organize the Home & Flower Show as the first consumer show of its kind and the only annual spring home and flower show at the stadium. It offers exhibitors a high-quality 3-day show as an additional option to its companion show, the 10-day Indianapolis Home Show, the nation’s oldest and the Midwest’s largest home-focused extravaganza.

A large area for feature flowers and gardens will be the Home & Flower Show’s centerpiece, which will be enhanced by the surroundings of Lucas Oil Stadium. Both shows are endorsed by Marketplace Events’ Spokesperson Ty Pennington, host of ABC-TV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Interested local charities should call the Indianapolis Home & Flower Show office at 317-705-8719. And for more information, visit www.indyhomeandflowershow.com.

Two civic-minded volunteers are nearing the mid-way point of a 50-day, 50-state journey that has them rolling up their sleeves and helping community organizations and their initiatives. Day No. 25 of their travels will bring them to Indianapolis Thursday to gather donations from area businesses and help perform renovation work on a long-term care home for pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers.

On Jan. 4, Tim Malcolm and Kirsten L’Orange, co-founders of The Civic Projects, began a 14,000-mile cross country journey to promote social awareness and community service by volunteering at 50 community organizations in 50 states in 50 days. The couple will arrive in Indianapolis on Thursday (Jan. 28) to collect local donations from around the city and volunteer their time and skills to Project Home Indy. Malcolm and L’Orange update their travels daily on their blog. Project Home Indy provides a nurturing residential environment that helps teenage girls who are pregnant or parenting gain self-sufficiency. This summer, the organization began renovation of a historic home located on the campus of Trinity Episcopal Church, located at 32 E. 32nd St., that will begin to provide a long-term living arrangements for families later this year.

During their day in Indianapolis, Malcom and L’Orange will help perform renovation work on the house and travel the community picking up donations for the home. Malcolm and L’Orange will begin their day accepting donations from RJE Business Interiors, a full-service furniture and design company located in downtown Indianapolis. RJE Business Interiors is donating office furniture, desks, chairs, bookcases and a dining room table. Managed Health Services, one of the state’s health care plan providers for Hoosiers on Medicaid, will be the next stop on the trip.  At 11 a.m. at its offices at 1099 N. Meridian St., Suite 400 downtown, MHS will donate baby crib mattresses and several baby care bags that include daily essentials, including diapers. The Civic Projects will also gather donations, including new baby cribs, from Plews Shadley Racher and Braun and smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and a $2,500 gift card from Home Depot for Project Home Indy.

The Civic Projects is documenting its journey across the country through its Web site, complete with photos and video from their stops. “We hope that sharing the challenges, rewards and the human story of our journey will inspire countless other individuals to support their own community organizations through service and donation.”