Innovation

Update

January 30, 2025

In 2024, the Indianapolis Meridian Foundation honored six more nonprofits as Arago Honor recipients for innovation. This group of nonprofits share $122,000 in varying amounts. The small award program for nonprofits has been shining a light on levels of disruptive innovation since it began in 2021 and has now recognized 33 nonprofits!

Nonprofit innovation is defined as a creative break in practice, large or small, solving a community problem.

The 2024 Arago Honor recipients and their awards and innovation recognition level are:

• Big Car Collaborative -- $20,000 disruptive sustainable innovator.

• Fonseca Theatre Company -- $15,000 disruptive sustainable innovator.

• Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana -- $30,000 disruptive innovator.

• St. Matthew’s House of Naples, Florida -- $12,000 incremental innovation.

• Trinity Free Clinic -- $25,000 for disruptive innovation.

• You Yes You! -- $20,000 for catch-up innovation.

For more information about the innovative projects of the six nonprofits receiving an Arago Honor, visit the 2025 news release here.

Information about the 2025 Arago Honors will be ready in May 2025. Please send an email to indymeridianfoundation@gmail.com if you have specific questions.