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# Sagamore 

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- [Building Better Communities](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/building-better-communities/) - Sagamore has several initiatives that are advancing community development alongside community members with experts in Indianapolis and beyond.
- [Building Better Communities - Indiana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bbc-indiana/) - Sagamore has several initiatives that are advancing community development alongside community members with experts in Indianapolis and beyond.
- [Failure to Launch](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/failure-to-launch/) - Sagamore Institute's report on the the status of Indiana's Boys and Men
- [Nelson Okanya](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/nelson-okanya/) - Senior Fellow
- [Capstones: Broader Lessons of the Middle East War](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/iran-lessons/) - The Middle East War has opened a new chapter in the decades-long struggle between the community of nations and the Islamic Republic of Iran—a chapter that highlights a number of lessons America and its allies should heed when the guns fall silent.
- [Personal Paydays for Public Service](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/personal-paydays-for-public-service/) - Leaked passages from John Bolton’s yet-to-be-published memoir of his time as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor triggered a firestorm during the Senate’s impeachment trial.
- [After the Storm, Repairing the Roof](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/after-the-storm-repairing-the-roof/) - We don’t know much about the consequences of the COVID19 pandemic, but one thing is obvious as this public-health crisis triggers an economic crisis: America didn’t save for these rainy, stormy days of crisis—and didn’t repair our fiscal roof while the sun was shining.
- [Nonprofit and Business Sectors Rise to the COVID19 Challenge](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/nonprofit-and-business-sectors-rise-to-the-covid19-challenge/) - Churches, charities and businesses are fighting COVID19 and helping Americans in need.
- [A Roadmap to Normalcy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-roadmap-to-normalcy/) - As the worst of the public-health crisis spawned by COVID19 recedes, some leaders and organizations are looking ahead.
- [The Danger of Deferring to Experts](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-danger-of-deferring-to-experts/) - The COVID19 crisis is a case study of what can go wrong when policymakers defer governing to topic experts.
- [Building a More Perfect Union](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/building-a-more-perfect-union/) - The killing of George Floyd while in police custody triggered peaceful protests across America, which were altogether appropriate and necessary; sparked violent and deadly riots, which were altogether illegal and unnecessary; and reenergized efforts to expunge certain symbols of America’s complicated past.
- [Seeing Xi's China as It Is](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/seeing-xis-china-as-it-is/) - After years of wishful thinking, America and its allies in the Indo-Pacific are returning, finally, to what President Franklin Roosevelt called “armed defense of democratic existence.”
- [A Writer, a Scientist and a Football Fan](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-writer-a-scientist-and-a-football-fan/) - Sunetra Gupta, Gordon Gee and Jack Lewis come from different walks of life, different parts of the world, even different moments in history. But they share a keen understanding of how a free society should deal with—and live with—danger. We could learn a lot from them.
- [Pledge Drive](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/pledge-drive/) - “I would shut it down,” Vice President Biden recently promised when asked about how he would respond to COVID19 flareups. “I would listen to the scientists.” After experimenting with that option in March and April, President Trump has staked out a different position, vowing, “We won’t be closing the country again.”
- [Freedom, Football, and Fear](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/freedom-football-and-fear/) - College football just crossed the goal line. A handful of programs are undefeated; some finished winless; most are somewhere in between. But all of them are winners this year—because, together, they overcame COVID19 fear. In doing so, the administrators, coaches and players who made the 2020 college football season possible have reminded the rest of America that life and living must go on—even in the middle of a pandemic.
- [Learning from History and Each Other](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/learning-from-history-and-each-other/) - From the outset of the crisis spawned by COVID19 (and by government reaction to it), Project Fortress essays have emphasized that there are people of good will and good intentions on both sides of the COVID19 divide. But even people of goodwill sometimes engage in bad reasoning.
- [Reviving Religious Liberty](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/reviving-religious-liberty/) - Next month marks the 229th anniversary of ratification of the Bill of Rights. The Founders designed the Bill of Rights as a bulwark for individual liberty against government coercion. Regrettably, our government’s respect for the Bill of Rights—especially the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty—was an early victim of pandemic panic.
- [Sagamore Midwest Defense Summit 2026](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mds-2026/) - Join us in Dayton for Sagamore's 2026 Midwest Defense Summit.
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2026](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/icoc2026/) - On Constitution Day, Sagamore hosts its Indiana Conference on Citizenship focused on Building Better Communities.
- [Carol D'Amico](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/carol-damico/) - Mental Health Research Fellow
- [Alan Dowd](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-alan-dowd/) - Senior Fellow
- [Guiding Values | Sagamore Network](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/guiding-values/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Guiding Values Sagamore CEO Jay Hein was privileged to be mentored by Bob Buford when Sagamore was launched. Renowned management consultant Peter Drucker was mentoring Bob himself at the same time. Bob’s Top 10 Values continue to guide the Sagamore Network and its many streams of innovative ideas into action.
- [Providence Essays](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/providence-essays/) - Providence Essays Providence is a quarterly print journal and web-based daily focusing on faith and foreign policy. Sagamore Institute Senior Fellow Alan Dowd, who authors the Project Fortress blog and heads Sagamore’s Center for America’s Purpose, also serves as a contributing editor with Providence. The following is a library of Dowd’s articles published in Providence. SPINNING TRUMP’S POLICIES INTO STRATEGY, February 20,
- [Center for America’s Purpose Library](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/center-for-americas-purpose-library/) - Center for America's Purpose Library Senior Fellow Alan Dowd’s writing about national defense and international security has been featured in a number of scholarly and policy publications, including Real Clear Defense, Providence, Policy Review, The American Interest, Global Security Review, The Weekly Standard, American Outlook, National Review, The National Interest, The American, Military Officer, Wall
- [Application | COS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/cos-app/) - CHIEF OF STAFF | JOB APPLICATION View the job descriptionThank you for your interest in a position with Sagamore. Please complete the form below to be considered for this role. Contact Information First Name Last Name Email Phone Number Is your salary requirement within the range of $90K/yr – $110K/yr?Please select… Yes No Do you
- [Donald Cassell](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-donald-cassell/) - Senior Fellow
- [Erin Darling](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/erin-darling/) - Erin Darling Office and Events Coordinator Erin Darling has served as the Office and Events Coordinator for Sagamore since 2024. With over a decade of experience in Social Work and public service roles, Erin brings practical organizational experience, project management support, and a heart for service to Sagamore. Erin holds a BA in Social Work from Cornerstone University, a certificate
- [Capstones: Warning Signs](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/warningsigns/) - They say the devil’s in the details. But when it comes to the 28-point peace plan the Trump administration recently delivered in hopes of ending Russia’s war on Ukraine, it’s not just the details that are a problem.
- [The Celebrating American Ideas Award](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/celebrating-american-ideas-award/) - The American Idea offers a society where all its citizens can flourish. Sagamore Institute honors those individuals and enterprises whose heroic action transformed lives at home and abroad.
- [Capstones: Heartland Contributions to the Arsenal of Democracy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/heartland-contributions-arsenal-of-democracy/) - From the frontlines to the home front, the Midwest is stepping up for our national security.
- [Closing the Wealth Gap](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/wealth-gap/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Closing the Wealth Gap Supporting underserved communities through innovative enterprise and strategic capital. Economic mobility remains out of reach for too many Americans, especially in historically underserved communities. At Sagamore, we are working to close the wealth gap by identifying scalable solutions, supporting inclusive entrepreneurship, and shaping policies that foster
- [Liberia Rising](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/liberia-rising/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Liberia Rising Liberia was a nation founded by the United States in 1821 as a place to send its newly freed Black slaves. This was an idea superior to colonization but filled with unintended consequences that reverberated for 175 years, culminating in civil war between the descendants of the American
- [Capstones: Points, Counterpoints and Starting Points](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/points-ukraine/) - They say the devil’s in the details. But when it comes to the 28-point peace plan the Trump administration recently delivered in hopes of ending Russia’s war on Ukraine, it’s not just the details that are a problem.
- [Capstones: Six Lessons from Six June](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-six-lessons-from-six-june/) - Six Lessons from Six June By Alan W. Dowd June 6, 2014 As they do every five or so years when the calendar turns to 6 June, presidents and prime ministers are descending on Normandy to commemorate the D-Day landings. They will intone about the price of freedom, draw parallels between today and yesterday, and
- [Capstones: A Gamble That Didn’t Pay Off](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-gamble-that-didnt-pay-off/) - A Gamble That Didn’t Pay Off By Alan W. Dowd June 16, 2014 Iraq is reeling—and hemorrhaging—from a highly coordinated series of thrusts across the country by what is, in effect, a jihadist army. In quick succession, al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists operating under the banner of the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) have taken a number
- [Capstones: The Shadows of August](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-shadows-of-august-2/) - The Shadows of August By Alan W. Dowd July 28, 2014 President Woodrow Wilson called it “the most terrible and disastrous of all wars.” Winston Churchill described it as the moment when “all the horrors of all the ages were brought together.” H.G. Wells, with a sense of misplaced optimism, labeled it “the war that
- [Capstones: The End of the Post-Post-9/11 Era](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-shadows-of-august/) - The End of the Post-Post-9/11 Era By Alan W. Dowd September 3, 2014 The war on terror, we were assured, ended sometime between the president’s inauguration in 2009 and Osama bin Laden’s elimination in 2011. “The president does not describe this as a ‘war on terrorism,’” then-Assistant to the President for Homeland Security John Brennan
- [Capstones: Back to Basics for NATO](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-back-to-basics-for-nato/) - Back to Basics for NATO By Alan W. Dowd September 29, 2014 Noting that “Russia’s aggressive actions against Ukraine have fundamentally challenged our vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace,” NATO’s 28 political leaders declared during their September summit in Wales “continuing and unwavering commitment to defend the populations, territory, sovereignty and shared values
- [Capstones: Enemies of Humanity](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-enemies-of-humanity/) - Enemies of Humanity By Alan W. DowdOctober 28, 2014As U.S. military forces continue the long war against ISIS, al Qaeda and other jihadist groups, it’s tempting to view these stateless, ruthless enemies as unlike anything America has ever faced. After all, by striking America’s military nerve center and attacking America’s largest city, al Qaeda
- [Capstones: Time to Dust off the Monroe Doctrine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-time-to-dust-off-the-monroe-doctrine/) - Time to Dust off the Monroe Doctrine By Alan W. Dowd November 25, 2014 Much has been reported about Washington’s “Pacific pivot” aimed at deterring Chinese adventurism in the South China Sea and the “reassurance initiative” aimed at deterring further Russian revisionism in Eastern Europe. What’s not as widely reported is Beijing’s pivot to the Americas
- [Capstones: Awareness without Action](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-awareness-without-action/) - Awareness without Action By Alan W. Dowd January 9, 2015 When asked about his limited response to ISIS, President Obama recently said he is not interested in “devoting another trillion dollars, after having been involved in big occupations of countries that didn’t turn out all that well.” Instead, he would rather “spend a trillion
- [Capstones: Rediscovering America’s Purpose](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-rediscovering-americas-purpose/) - Rediscovering America’s Purpose By Alan W. Dowd2.2.15 What is America’s place and purpose in the world? Over the centuries, Americans have answered that question in many different ways. When the United States was young and weak, Washington prudently plotted a path of studied nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could
- [Capstones: The Problem of Foreign Policy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-problem-of-foreign-policy/) - The Problem of Foreign Policy By Alan W. Dowd, 3.3.15 Americans realized after World War II that “security was something that had to be worked at, to be managed,” Derek Leebaert writes in The Fifty Year Wound. “Americans could not turn their backs on the world.” Yet today, 58 percent of Americans say the
- [Capstones: System Administrator](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-system-administrator/) - System Administrator By Alan W. Dowd, 3.30.15 The nation-state system has served to organize the world for the better part of 400 years, but it’s under withering assault today. Just glance at the headlines: ISIS is maiming and murdering its way toward a borderless caliphate enfolding Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Boko Haram
- [Capstones: Triaging the Middle East](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-triaging-the-middle-east/) - Triaging the Middle East By Alan W. Dowd, 4.27.15 What some have termed “Islam’s civil war” is dizzying in its complexity: Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen appear to be fracturing along sectarian fault lines. The air forces of Egypt and the UAE are striking jihadist groups in Libya. The Syrian government is using
- [Capstones: Missiles, Mistakes and Madmen](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-missiles-mistakes-and-madmen/) - Missiles, Mistakes and Madmen By Alan W. Dowd, 6.2.15 Three decades ago, there were nine countries that fielded ballistic missiles. Today, there are 32. Excluding the U.S., Russian and Chinese arsenals, the number of ballistic missiles in the world has swelled from 1,200 to 6,000 in recent years. Several of the countries in the growing
- [Capstones: NATO: One for All or All for One?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-nato-one-for-all-or-all-for-one/) - NATO: One for All or All for One? By Alan W. Dowd, 7.8.15 “We cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering temptations to a trial of strength,” Churchill warned at the onset of the Cold War. Lt. Gen. Riho Terras, who commands Estonia’s military, sounds positively Churchillian as
- [Capstones: After the Iran Deal, Bracing for the Worst](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-after-the-iran-deal-bracing-for-the-worst/) - After the Iran Deal, Bracing for the Worst By Alan W. Dowd, 7.24.15 President Obama is trumpeting a deal hammered out by U.S., European, Russian and Iranian diplomats aimed at halting Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon. But before we usher in yet another era of peace in our time, let’s take a moment
- [Capstones: First Responder and Last Line of Defense](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-first-responder-and-last-line-of-defense/) - First Responder and Last Line of Defense By Alan W. Dowd, 9.8.15 By now, most of us know about the three American heroes—two of them off-duty military personnel—who foiled a terrorist attack on a packed Amsterdam-to-Paris train. Armed with an AK-47, a handgun, nine magazines of ammunition and a box cutter, the lone-wolf terrorist
- [Capstones: An Army of Conscience](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-an-army-of-conscience-2/) - An Army of Conscience By Alan W. Dowd, 9.29.15 What a relief: The UN Security Council (UNSC) has agreed to allow an international WMD watchdog to determine who is to blame for the chemical-weapons attacks in Syria. Up until now, in classic UN style, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was only
- [Capstones: An American Policy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-an-american-policy/) - An American Policy By Alan W. Dowd, 10.28.15 After months of warning Beijing that the U.S. Navy would challenge China’s illegal bid to seize a large swath of the South China Sea by turning atolls into armed islands, the White House has finally ordered the destroyer USS Lassen to defend freedom of the seas
- [Capstones: Convincing the Commander-in-Chief](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-convincing-the-commander-in-chief/) - Convincing the Commander-in-Chief By Alan W. Dowd, 12.1.15 A day after the president declared ISIS “contained,” the terror superpower launched a series of attacks across Paris, killing 130 people. The Paris siege followed the ISIS bombing of a Beirut market and takedown of a Russian airliner over the Sinai. In short, ISIS is anything
- [Capstones: Word Games](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-word-games/) - Word Games By Alan W. Dowd, 1.5.16 Words are never more important than actions, but words matter, especially a president’s words. Using language to steer the nation is part of a president’s job. The American presidency, after all, is “the bully pulpit.” Theodore Roosevelt coined the term to underscore the rhetorical power a president
- [Capstones: Nervous Systems](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-nervous-systems/) - Nervous Systems By Alan W. Dowd, 2.3.16 Large-scale cyberattacks targeting U.S. citizens, interests and infrastructure are happening so frequently that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of the onslaught. The most recent of these came last summer, when Chinese hackers penetrated the Office of Personnel Management and compromised the personal, financial and employment history
- [Capstones: Cold Front](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-cold-front/) - Cold Front By Alan W. Dowd, 3.1.16While the United States and its allies watch Russian strongman Vladimir Putin dismember Ukraine and carve out a foothold in the Mediterranean, they should keep an eye on the Arctic. “Our interests are concentrated in the Arctic,” Putin says. “We should pay more attention to issues of development
- [Capstones: The Unrealistic Realists](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-unrealistic-realists/) - The Unrealistic Realists By Alan W. Dowd, 4.4.16One of the most intriguing but least discussed aspects of Jeffrey Goldberg’s recent exit interview with President Obama is how often the two of them use variations of the words “realist” (it appears 11 times) and “interest” (it appears 31 times). On two separate occasions in the
- [Capstones: Time to Stop Outsourcing the Space Program](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-time-to-stop-outsourcing-the-space-program/) - Time to Stop Outsourcing the Space Program By Alan W. Dowd, 5.2.16 Since September 11, 2001, Washington has been preoccupied with dismantling terrorist networks, fighting insurgencies and stabilizing broken nation-states—and understandably so. But China and Russia have not been standing still during America’s 15-year war on terror. Instead, they have invested their resources into
- [Capstones: NATO Returns to Deterrence](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-nato-returns-to-deterrence/) - NATO Returns to Deterrence By Alan W. Dowd, 6.15.16 After years of engaging in far-flung operations from Afghanistan to Africa, NATO is returning to its core mission. Next month’s NATO summit in Warsaw will complete the transatlantic alliance’s transformation back to what it was built for: deterring Moscow. The reason for NATO’s return to
- [Capstones: The Costs of Inaction](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-costs-of-inaction/) - The Costs of Inaction By Alan W. Dowd, 7.1.16 In 2011, Adm. Eric Olson, then-commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, reported that “al-Qaeda version 1.0 is nearing its end.” But he added an ominous caveat: “I’m very concerned about what al-Qaeda version 2.0 will be.” Adm. Olson’s worries—seemingly ignored by a government and a public
- [Capstones: A 21st-Century Fortress America?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-21st-century-fortress-america/) - A 21st-Century Fortress America? By Alan W. Dowd, 1.4.17As we move toward Inauguration Day and the beginning of the Trump administration, there are many questions surrounding U.S foreign policy and national defense. That’s a bit worrisome, because uncertainty in Washington and the West has often been the enemy of stability and peace in the
- [Capstones: A Darkening World](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-darkening-world/) - A Darkening World By Alan W. Dowd, 2.3.17 Not long ago, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was clinging to power. Bolstered and rescued by Moscow, Assad is now consolidating control over areas that were once rebel strongholds. In recent weeks, for instance, he flattened Aleppo. Before leaving his post as UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon
- [Capstones: Order from Chaos?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-order-from-chaos/) - Order from Chaos? By Alan W. Dowd, 3.7.17Before Donald Trump became president, economist Tim Harford suggested in his book “Messy” (which examines the “power of disorder to transform our lives”) that the real-estate mogul not only thrives on chaos, but tries to sow chaos. While his campaign rivals “would tiptoe in,” Harford observes, the
- [Capstones: Foreign Aid under Fire](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-foreign-aid-under-fire/) - Foreign Aid under Fire By Alan Dowd, 4.5.17 The White House recently announced plans for “dramatic reductions in foreign aid,” floating suggestions that the administration is prepared to cut between 20 percent and 37 percent of the budgets for the State Department and Agency for International Development (USAID). “We are going to propose to
- [Capstones: Defending Interests and Ideals in Syria](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-defending-interests-and-ideals-in-syria/) - Defending Interests and Ideals in Syria By Alan Dowd, 5.9.17President Donald Trump made the right decision in responding militarily to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s latest chemical-weapons attack, which killed dozens of civilians. Assad’s henchmen unquestionably violated decades-old prohibitions against the use of such weapons as well as an internationally-brokered agreement Assad signed promising to
- [Capstones: For America, Ideals Must Guide Interests](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-for-america-ideals-must-guide-interests/) - For America, Ideals Must Guide Interests By Alan W. Dowd, 6.8.17 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent state of the State Department address continues to make news for all the wrong reasons, with Tillerson three weeks after delivering the speech trying to fend off Sen. John McCain’s sharp critique of this not-so-new brand of
- [Capstones: Washington’s Wavering Commitment to NATO](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-washingtons-wavering-commitment-to-nato/) - Washington's Wavering Commitment to NATO By Alan W. Dowd, 7.6.17 President Donald Trump’s trip to Europe for the NATO summit was supposed to reassure NATO’s members—and remind NATO’s enemy—that the United States remains committed to the alliance. Specifically, administration officials indicated that Trump would reinforce U.S. support for Article V of the North Atlantic
- [Capstones: To Quarantine or Heal?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-to-quarantine-or-heal/) - To Quarantine or to Heal? By Alan W. Dowd, 8.3.17 During the Cold War, there was an implicit understanding—and a strong incentive—that the two superpowers would shore up weak states in their respective spheres of interest. After all, if one of the superpowers failed to do so, it would present an opportunity to the
- [Capstones: At Home and Abroad, Character Matters](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-at-home-and-abroad-character-matters/) - At Home and Abroad, Character Matters By Alan W. Dowd, 9.6.17August always calls to mind the presidency of George H.W. Bush. While August is when official Washington shuts down, the elder Bush was always busy in August. His presidency wasn’t perfect—none of them are—but he did some of his best work during these dog
- [Capstones: Failed Coups and Failed Policies](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-failed-coups-and-failed-policies/) - Failed Coups and Failed Policies By Alan W. Dowd, 8.8.16 The failed coup against Turkey’s popularly-elected government—and the abuses by that very government leading up to the putsch and following it—force Americans to revisit a question that has challenged our republic for more than a century: Should we stand up for democratic values or
- [Capstones: New Fronts, Old Lessons](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-new-fronts-old-lessons/) - New Fronts, Old Lessons By Alan W. Dowd, 9.20.16In case you missed it, the U.S. and its allies have opened a new front in the widening war against ISIS. Add Libya to the growing list, as U.S. warplanes began hitting ISIS positions in the coastal city of Sirte in August. What’s striking about this
- [Capstones: To Safeguard America’s Interests](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-to-safeguard-americas-interests/) - To Safeguard America’s Interests By Alan W. Dowd, 10.7.16 In a matter of weeks, either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be elected president of the United States. They are different in many ways—in temperament, political philosophy, personal and vocational background, foreign-policy outlook, the list goes on—but they are similar in one important and
- [Capstones: Freedom in Retreat](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-freedom-in-retreat/) - Freedom in Retreat By Alan W. Dowd, 11.4.16“Acceptance of democracy as the world’s dominant form of government—and of an international system built on democratic ideals—is under greater threat than at any point in the last 25 years,” Freedom House grimly concludes. In addition, Freedom House reports “an overall drop in freedom for the ninth consecutive year,” with 72
- [Capstones: Land of the Free (and the Foolish)](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-land-of-the-free-and-the-foolish/) - Land of the Free (and the Foolish) By Alan W. Dowd, 12.2.16 The Board of Trustees of Hampshire College in Massachusetts ordered the U.S. flag on campus lowered to half-staff after the presidential election “to acknowledge the grief and pain experienced by so many.” The school’s president explained that lowering the flag was supposed
- [Capstones: A Dangerous New Nuclear Age](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-dangerous-new-nuclear-age/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: Fixing the Blame and the Problem](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-fixing-the-blame-and-the-problem/) - Fixing the Blame and the Problem By Alan W. Dowd, 4.25.20 There’s an old saying that counsels, “It’s better to fix the problem than fix the blame.” But sometimes the former depends on the latter. That’s certainly the case when it comes to the foreign-policy dimensions of COVID19, which mushroomed from a manageable public-health
- [Renewing America's Maritime Industry | Photos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ty-photos/)
- [Capstones: The ABCs of National Security](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/abcs-natsec/) - America’s Heartland is postured to do its part by contributing to the arsenal of democracy, the breadbasket of democracy and the circuitry of democracy—what might be called “the ABCs of national security.”
- [Capstones: The Korea Conundrum](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-korea-conundrum/) - The Korea Conundrum By Alan W. Dowd, 10.18.17 There can be no debate that North Korea’s nuclear-weapons tests, missile launches into Japanese airspace and threats to attack U.S. territory are hostile acts. What is debatable is what the U.S., Republic of Korea, Japan and other allies in the not-so-pacific Asia Pacific region should do
- [Capstones: Pacific Partners](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-pacific-partners/) - Pacific Partners By Alan W. Dowd, 11.2.17 We have heard much in recent years from the Oval Office about allies “free-riding” and not “paying their share.” Setting aside the myriad problems with publicly scolding allies, such broad-brush criticisms are often unfair and unwarranted—especially when it comes to Japan. Spurred by China’s drive for regional
- [Capstones: U.S. Military Carries a Heavy Load in Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-u-s-military-carries-a-heavy-load-in-africa/) - U.S. Military Carries a Heavy Load in Africa By Alan W. Dowd, 12.5.17The United States conducted six airstrikes in November—and at least 30 this year—against jihadists in Somalia. Four U.S. Green Berets were killed in an ambush in Niger in October. And U.S. Arica Command (AFRICOM) confirmed in late September that U.S. warplanes conducted half-a-dozen
- [Capstones: Trump Sketches America’s Place and Purpose in the World](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-trump-sketches-americas-place-and-purpose-in-the-world/) - Trump Sketches America's Place and Purpose in the World By Alan W. Dowd, 1.18.18 “We are prioritizing the interests of our citizens and protecting our sovereign rights as a nation…We are not hiding from the challenges we face. We are confronting them head-on and pursuing opportunities to promote the security and prosperity of all
- [Capstones: The Preserve, Prevent and Persuade Doctrine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-preserve-prevent-and-persuade-doctrine/) - The Preserve, Prevent and Persuade Doctrine By Alan W. Dowd, 2.2.18Wary of Mainland China’s relentless military buildup, provocative words and downright threatening actions, Taiwan has announced plans to increase defense spending 20 percent by 2025. Strengthening the island nation’s defenses is an important ingredient to deterring Beijing, but the United States should add more to
- [Capstones: Storm Clouds over Korea](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-storm-clouds-over-korea/) - Storm Cloud over Korea By Alan W. Dowd, 2.26.18 The National Security Council (NSC) is reportedly pushing the Pentagon for fresh military options against North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program and missile program. As the New York Times reported this month, options range from a limited preventive strike targeting missiles being prepped for testing, to covert operations
- [Capstones: Policymakers Mull U.S. Space Corps](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-policymakers-mull-u-s-space-corps/) - Policymakers Mull U.S. Space Corps By Alan W. Dowd, 3.27.18 President Donald Trump says the United States may need to create a military branch dedicated to protecting and promoting U.S. interests in space. “We have the Air Force,” he observes matter-of-factly, “we’ll have the Space Force.” This comes on the heels of efforts in Congress
- [Capstones: Next Steps in Syria](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-next-steps-in-syria/) - Next Steps in Syria By Alan W. Dowd, 5.1.18 We can add Iraq—yes, war-torn, deeply-divided, barely-sovereign Iraq—to the growing list of outside forces that have engaged in military action in Syria, as the Pentagon confirms that Iraqi F-16s crossed into Syria to strike ISIS positions in April. The list of belligerents in Syria’s civil war now
- [Capstones: Good Riddance to a Bad Deal](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-good-riddance-to-a-bad-deal/) - Good Riddance to a Bad Deal By Alan W. Dowd, 5.30.18 By formally reinstating economic sanctions against Iran, President Donald Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal, which is officially known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). There were valid reasons for the U.S. to remain party to the deal—keeping the deal
- [Capstones: America’s Empire of Liberty](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-americas-empire-of-liberty/) - America's Empire of Liberty By Alan W. Dowd, 6.19.18 Not long ago, a professor of philosophy offered a remarkable assessment of the United States. Americans, he concluded, are building “an extensive empire…which seems very likely to become one of the greatest and most formidable that ever was in the world.” What’s so remarkable about that?
- [Capstones: Cold War in a Cold Place](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-cold-war-in-a-cold-place/) - Cold War in a Cold Place By Alan W. Dowd, 7.30.18 NATO’s recent summit in Brussels served as a reminder of just how much the alliance has on its plate: standing up two new commands that will help keep a revisionist Russia at bay, implementing the “four 30s” initiative, bringing the Republic of North Macedonia
- [Capstones: A Nation without a State](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-nation-without-a-state-2/) - A Nation without a State By Alan W. Dowd, 8.27.18 Iraqi-Kurd peshmerga soldiers are teaming up with Iraqi government forces in operations targeting resurgent ISIS cells outside Kirkuk. The joint mission is evidence that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Baghdad-based central government can work together—but only when it’s absolutely necessary. Iraq’s Kurds simply don’t
- [Larger Naval Presence Key to a More Stable World](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/larger-naval-presence-key-to-a-more-stable-world/) - Larger Naval Presence Key to a More Stable World By Alan W. Dowd There are many elements to American power—the dynamism of the U.S. economy, the nearly-universal appeal of American culture, the depth and breadth of America’s system of alliances, and, of course, the reach and role of America’s military. While the American people know
- [Capstones: Lessons Learned, Relearned and Unlearned](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-lessons-learned-relearned-and-unlearned/) - Lessons Learned, Relearned and Unlearned By Alan W. Dowd4.23.20Not even COVID19 will stop the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Although military commanders confirm that COVID19 screening guidelines “necessitate some servicemembers remaining beyond their scheduled departure dates,” a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan adds, “We continue to execute the ordered drawdown to 8,600,” as set by the
- [Capstones: A Confluence of Interests and Ideals](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-confluence-of-interests-and-ideals/) - A Confluence of Interests and Ideals By Alan W. Dowd, 11.28.18 In 1898, President William McKinley called on Congress “in the cause of humanity…to put an end to the barbarities, bloodshed, starvation and horrible miseries” being visited upon the Cuban people. “It is no answer to say this is all in another country, belonging to
- [Sagamore Hosts Conference on the Eroding Democratic Order](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamore-hosts-conference-on-the-eroding-democratic-order/) - Sagamore Hosts Conference on Eroding Democratic Order The Sagamore Institute Center for America’s Purpose (CAP) and the Atlantic Council convened a roundtable conference at Sagamore December 6, 2018, to promote the Atlantic Council’s Democratic Order Initiative. The conference was keynoted by U.S. Ambassador Daniel Fried, Distinguished Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and
- [Intern Alumni](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/intern-program-alumni/) - Intern Alumni Sagamore has hosted nearly 200 graduates of our internship program to date. We invite you to review each class below and click on their names to see how they’ve continued to grow as professionals and exemplary citizens. now accepting summer 2026 applications! INTERNSHIP INFORMATIONAL FLYER APPLY NOW 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
- [Capstones: Rescuing the Democratic Order](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-rescuing-the-democratic-order/) - Rescuing the Democratic Order By Alan W. Dowd The natural order of the world is not all that orderly. That’s a problem because order is important. In fact, it’s essential for individuals and nations alike. We need some modicum of order to live our lives and interact with others, to maintain free government within nations,
- [Capstones: The Great War's Lessons for Today](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-great-wars-lessons-for-today/) - The Great War's Lessons for Today By Alan W. Dowd The nationwide release in January of Peter Jackson’s World War I documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old” does a great service to us and to history by re-humanizing the men who waged the Great War—reminding us that they were not wordless, colorless two-dimensional figures, but rather flesh
- [Capstones: A Risky Exercise](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-risky-exercise/) - A Risky Exercise By Alan W. Dowd For the second time in the span of a year, the Trump administration has suspended large-scale military training exercises with the South Korean military and may permanently cancel exercises involving field maneuvers. The hope is—increasingly was—that such a course of action would serve as a confidence-building step on the pathway toward
- [Capstones: The System Administrator is on Vacation](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-system-administrator-is-on-vacation/) - The System Administrator is on Vacation By Alan W. Dowd President Donald Trump’s reversal of his own decision to authorize punitive military strikes against Iran in response to the shootdown of a U.S. drone operating in international airspace and the mine attack against a Japanese oil tanker sailing in international waters is the most recent and most dramatic evidence of his
- [Capstones: Out of Order](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-out-of-order/) - Out of Order By Alan W. Dowd “Order” is not a word Americans celebrate. After all, it carries the connotation of being controlled or constrained—and America is about freedom and independence. Yet order is essential for individuals and nations alike. We need order to pursue happiness, to maintain free government within nations, to carry out
- [Can We Trust the Taliban?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/can-we-trust-the-taliban/) - Can We Trust the Taliban? By Alan W. Dowd 9.23.19They came from Egypt and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Some were trained in bomb-making, some in hand-to-hand combat. Others were instructed in surveillance and reconnaissance. All of them learned the fine art of hiding in plain sight. They honed these and other skills in
- [Capstones: The Mistakes of October](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-mistakes-of-october/) - The Mistakes of October By Alan W. Dowd 11.22.19As we continue to sift through the shrapnel of President Trump’s decision to pull back from Syria and greenlight Turkey’s long-planned operations against Syria’s Kurds and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria, we need to keep in mind that what transpired in October represents only the short-term consequences.
- [Capstones: Black and White—and Gray](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-black-and-white-and-gray/) - Black and White—and Gray By Alan W. Dowd2.21.20To frame this issue of Capstones, let’s consider a handful of news items from recent years: Russian troops scrubbed of insignia flood eastern Ukraine. Iran sends weaponry to proxies in Iraq. News reports claim that U.S. soldiers are stealing cars in Lithuania. Russia jams the GPS signals of
- [Capstones: An Alliance and an Answered Prayer](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-an-alliance-and-an-answered-prayer/) - An Alliance and an Answered Prayer By Alan W. Dowd 3.19.20After years of crossing their fingers and hoping for the best, NATO nations are rebuilding their military capabilities, preparing for worst-case scenarios and posturing the alliance for deterrence. Exercise Defender Europe 20, which gets underway in the coming days, is just the latest evidence that
- [A New Academical Village](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/charlottesville/) - Add Your Heading Text Here A New "Academical Village" In tandem with establishing our headquarters in Indianapolis, Sagamore opened a field office in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2004. The home of Thomas Jefferson seemed like the perfect complement to our heartland roots since we are dedicated to extending national influence from our places of local innovation.Jefferson’s
- [Capstones: Biden Aims for Balance](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-biden-aims-for-balance/) - As President-elect Joe Biden pivots to the all-important work of governing, those of us who teach and write about foreign policy are pivoting to the less-important work of forecasting how a Biden administration might steer the ship of state.
- [Capstones: Xi’s Regime Auditions for the Role of Good Samaritan](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-xis-regime-auditions-for-the-role-of-good-samaritan/) - Xi's Regime Auditions for the Role of Good Samaritan By Alan W. Dowd As the Pandemic of 2020 eases in North America and Europe, a new challenge is emerging for America and its allies: pandemic propaganda. In addition to a broad-scope disinformation campaign that blames the U.S. for COVID19, pleads innocence for its own failure
- [Capstones: The Good Old Days](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-good-old-days/) - The headlines make the faint-of-heart yearn for the good old days, when things were stable and simple. The bad news is literally everywhere.
- [Capstones: Preventing the Next War](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-preventing-the-next-war/) - What’s true in physics is true in geopolitics: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. China’s actions have finally triggered a corrective reaction across the free world, after years of complacency and wishful thinking. Now the free world must marshal its resources to deter a hostile regime and prevent a new cold war from turning hot.
- [Capstones: Time for Clarity in Taiwan](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/time-for-clarity-in-taiwan/) - “I believe the United States will fight to defend Taiwan if China invades Taiwan. In my opinion, it’s unthinkable that the United States would stand by and allow China to conquer Taiwan.”
- [Capstones: Addressing Our "Made in China" Problems](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-addressing-our-made-in-china-problems/) - If there’s a silver lining in the COVID19 crisis, it may be that Beijing’s criminal mishandling of the virus has spurred the free world into expanding cooperation, reducing dependence on China and thinking creatively.
- [Beyond the Wild Blue Yonder](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/beyond-the-wild-blue-yonder/) - As the U.S. Space Force (USSF) prepares to celebrate its first birthday, USSF commander Gen. John Raymond is set to receive a very unique present: a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is just one of many milestones and developments that underscore the rapid maturation of America’s newest military branch.
- [Midwest Defense Summit 2025](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/midwest-defense-summit-2025/) - The Sagamore Midwest Defense Summit will convene policymakers, senior national security leaders, researchers, industry executives, and technology innovators to address the urgent need for a stronger maritime posture and a more resilient defense manufacturing sector.
- [Jack Wolf](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jack-wolf/) - Jack Wolf Operations Associate Jack is an operations associate at Sagamore, where he works across the organization on administration for Sagamore’s programs and projects. Jack recently graduated from Olivet Nazarene University, where he majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Sociology. In his free time, he loves to help out at Harvest Church in Carmel,
- [Blair Milo](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/blair-milo/) - Senior Fellow
- [Joseph Loconte](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/joseph-loconte/) - Sagmore Senior Fellow, Joseph Loconte, PhD, is a scholar, writer, and host of a YouTube series focused on themes in Western civilization and our American Experiment.
- [Will Acuff](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/will-acuff/) - Will Acuff Senior Fellow Will Acuff is the co-founder of Corner to Corner, a Nashville-based nonprofit that has helped launch more than 1,800 entrepreneurs, generating $37.2 million in neighborhood economic impact in 2024 alone. Will is passionate about the idea that ownership ends poverty, and his work centers on expanding practical pathways for low-income neighbors
- [Jay Hein](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jay-hein/) - President
- [Erin Casperson](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/erin-casperson/) - Global Teach Exchange Relationships Manager
- [Shadece McFadden](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/shadece-mcfadden/) - Sagamore Institute Program Manager
- [Capstones: An All-Hands-on-Deck Approach to Deter China](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/all-hands-shipbuilding/) - The hard truth is that a world without American leadership is a world that’s out of order—and a world that’s out of order is a threat to American interests.
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2025](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-conference-on-citizenship-2025/) - On Constitution Day, Sagamore hosts its Indiana Conference on Citizenship focused on Building Better Communities.
- [Laurel Vanden Berg](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-laurel-vandenberg/) - Director | Scholarships for Education Choice
- [Bethany Stewart](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bethany-stewart/) - Mental Health Research Fellow
- [Kris Kaliher](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/kris-kaliher/) - Sagamore Institute Program Manager
- [Rachel Houck](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/rachel-houck/) - Program Coordinator
- [Julie Grice](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/julie-grice/) - Sagamore Institute Program Manager
- [Patty Buckhorn](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-patty-buckhorn/) - Education Programs Assistant
- [Mary Beth Boone](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mary-beth-boone/) - Sagamore Institute Program Manager
- [Jenn Amatuzzo](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jenn-amatuzzo/) - Sagamore Institute Program Manager
- [Rob Panos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-rob-panos/) - Chief of Staff
- [Blair Milo](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/blair-milo-full-bio-template/) - Senior Fellow
- [Marvella at WNBA All-Star Week](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/marvella-all-star/) - Indianapolis was alight with excitement in July as the Circle City hosted the WNBA All-Star Game with stars like Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston, and Sabrina Ionescu. But the excitement extended far beyond the court. All-Star Week was also another highlight in the rise of women’s sports in America – one where access, opportunity, community, and leadership go hand-in-hand with success on the court.
- [Sagamore Midwest Defense Summit](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamore-national-security-conference/) - On Constitution Day, Sagamore Institute hosted its 7th annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship, where we launched the Indiana Roundtable on Mental Health
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2024](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-conference-on-citizenship-2024/) - On Constitution Day, Sagamore Institute hosted its 7th annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship, where we launched the Indiana Roundtable on Mental Health
- [Mark Jay](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-mark-jay/) - Senior Fellow | Center for Healthcare Affordability
- [Defense Insights](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense-insights/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Defense Insights From research to readiness—we're shaping tomorrow’s defense. Sagamore’s research on defense and U.S. national security combines insights and commentary on strategy and policies with the nuts and bolts of implementation systems and industry. Rooted in Midwest values and interests but with a global outlook, our scholars and practitioners
- [Patricia Roe](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/patricia-roe/) - Sagamore Institute Program Manager
- [Capstones: No Replacement](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/no-replacement/) - The hard truth is that a world without American leadership is a world that’s out of order—and a world that’s out of order is a threat to American interests.
- [InnoPower at the 2025 Global Entrepreneurship Congress](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/innopower-gec-2025/) - “The only thing that matters is that you go for it” was the simple—but essential—advice that Mark Cuban gave a room full of eager business leaders in Indianapolis earlier this month at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC). Looking at the week’s litany of events, workshops, and keynotes, it’s clear that Hoosier entrepreneurs are taking this “going for it” mantra of the Indiana University graduate and prominent entrepreneur to heart, perhaps none more so than InnoPower, a Sagamore operating partner, and its tireless and talented founder, Emil Ekiyor.
- [Allison Barber](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/allison-barber/) - Senior Fellow
- [Capstones: China's Dream, the World's Nightmare](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-chinas-dream-the-worlds-nightmare/) - “I really think China is the future,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk declares. British scholar Martin Jacques, who writes books with titles such as “When China Rules the World,” predicts, “The future is China’s.” Author-columnist Fareed Zakaria writes that “China is winning the future.”
- [Capstones: All Hands on Deck to Meet the China Challenge](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-all-hands-on-deck-to-meet-the-china-challenge/) - President Joe Biden’s China policy is coming into focus. As some of us predicted before his inauguration, it looks to be a continuation of the previous administration’s hardline stance with Beijing—suggesting that the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point akin to how the communist bloc’s attempt to seize West Berlin and South Korea solidified bipartisan commitment to waging the Cold War. In a similar way, Beijing’s criminal mishandling of COVID-19 seems to be galvanizing a new consensus at home and abroad as we wade deeper into Cold War 2.0.
- [Capstones: An Old Playbook, a New Cold War](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-an-old-playbook-a-new-cold-war/) - What’s true in physics is true in geopolitics: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, Deng Xiaoping counseled the PRC to “disguise its ambition and hide its claws.” Xi Jinping ignored that advice. Much of the world is now awakened to the PRC’s ambitions and keenly aware of its claws. America and its partners are coming to the stark realization that a renewed commitment to deterrence is the only way to ensure the 21st century isn’t made in the PRC.
- [Capstones: End of an Endless War?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-end-of-an-endless-war/) - In the autumn of 2001, political scientist Simon Serfaty braced the world for “the wars of 9/11”—an open-ended campaign of campaigns that would extend far beyond al-Qaeda’s base of operations in Afghanistan. Twenty years later, even with U.S. troops withdrawn from Afghanistan, the wars of 9/11 continue.
- [Capstones: Deterrence in a Dangerous World](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-deterrence-in-a-dangerous-world/) - Congress has passed a stopgap bill to fund the Defense Department until December, as the House and Senate wrangle over how much to allocate to the Pentagon in FY2022. The House has approved a $740-billion base defense budget; Senate leaders are leaning toward about $10 billion above that.
- [Capstones: Stepping Back](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-stepping-back/) - Four months after the pullout of a U.S.-led stabilization force from Afghanistan, the consequences of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and America’s withdrawal from the world are coming into focus.
- [Capstones: The Haunting Rhymes of History](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-haunting-rhymes-of-history/) - President Ford called it “the saddest day of my public life.” For his South Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Van Thieu, it was a bitter betrayal, one final indignity in a long series of humiliations. Thieu's war-weary countrymen saw it as the end of their nation, while their communist adversaries saw it as cause for celebration. Bui Tin, a colonel in the North Vietnamese army, called it “a moment of joy.” It was the fall of Saigon, and it came swiftly and ferociously the last week of April 1975. With North Vietnam’s army enveloping the city, a handful of Americans became a lifeline of hope for a hopeless people—and the image of countless South Vietnamese trying to escape their crumbling country via a U.S. helicopter became a metaphor for America’s Sisyphean mission.
- [Capstones: History's Lessons for the Crisis in Ukraine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-historys-lessons-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine/) - After a flurry of diktats and deployments, Vladimir Putin’s contrived crisis over Ukraine has triggered a flurry of diplomacy across Europe. It all may be a ploy by Putin to test NATO, or extract concessions, or posture his coiled-to-strike army. Indeed, by the time you read this, Putin may be digesting another slice of Ukraine or hailing himself as peacemaker.
- [Capstones: Trump Leaves Resources and Tools for Biden](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-trump-leaves-resources-and-tools-for-biden/) - Anyone who has read Capstones columns the past four-plus years knows I was a critic of President Donald Trump long before his election victory. I criticized his harshness with NATO allies, his downplaying of human rights, foreign aid and free trade, his zigzagging approach to North Korea, chaotic approach to governing and transactional approach to foreign policy, and his eagerness to remove America’s stabilizing hand from Afghanistan and Syria. But I also pointed out the times he made the right call in conducting foreign policy and defending the national interest. Some of those policies will help the next administration. For those of us who care about the affairs of state—and who recognize that conducting foreign policy is far more difficult than critiquing it—giving credit where it’s due is just as important as calling out mistakes.
- [Capstones: Speaking in Code](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-speaking-in-code/) - Some of them are part of our national vocabulary—Manhattan Project, Rolling Thunder, Desert Storm. Others are a bit more obscure—Chromite, Noble Eagle, Tomodachi. Still others seem scrubbed of meaning (Inherent Resolve) or strange (Blue Spoon) or downright dull (Productive Effort). What all these phrases have in common is that each is a codename for an American military operation or national-security initiative—and each tells part of America’s story.
- [Capstones: A Good Day for our Enemies](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-good-day-for-our-enemies/) - The January 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol was a yet another day of infamy in America’s bruised and bloodied history. As President-elect Joe Biden said in his remarks, this “last best hope on earth” is “under unprecedented assault”—and “the world is watching.”
- [Capstones: Unity in NATO, Courage in Ukraine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-unity-in-nato-courage-in-ukraine/) - What many of us feared has come to pass: Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, attempted to decapitate Ukraine’s democratically elected government, laid siege to Ukraine’s cities, and officially opened a new and darker era in Europe.
- [Capstones: The Free World's Wall of Strength](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-free-worlds-wall-of-strength/) - Ukraine’s tenacious defense of freedom in the face of Vladimir Putin’s criminal war has inspired the world, reawakened NATO, and re-reminded Americans that our ideals and interests are woven together. President Joe Biden should seize this moment to rebuild, fortify and expand what he aptly called the “wall of strength” embodied by the freedom-fighters of Ukraine.
- [Capstones: Blame Game](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-blame-game/) - As Vladimir Putin continues his war of war crimes against Ukraine, there are arguments swirling around—some more serious than others—that this war is, somehow, NATO’s fault. That’s certainly what Putin believes, but the blame-NATO crowd is wrong.
- [Capstones: Finland and Sweden Shifting out of Neutral](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-finland-and-sweden-shifting-out-of-neutral/) - Long-time neutrals Sweden and Finland have applied for NATO membership. This dramatic change in the European security landscape will be good for them—and for NATO.
- [Capstones: Maverick's Message](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-mavericks-message/) - The summer blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick is not just fun and thrilling and moving; it’s not just breathtaking cinematography; it’s not just a great story; it’s not just great story-telling. For those with ears to hear, Maverick offers a powerful and needed message—and hence, much more than the original.
- [Our Model](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/our-model/) - Join us on September 17, 2020 for a conversation with John Bridgeland and Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky.
- [The NBA and Impact Investing](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/nba-impact-investing/) - Add Your Heading Text Here WHAT'S YOUR SHOT? Three options for NBA player impact investing LAYUP Avoid tax liability by making charitable donations to a Donor Advised Fund (DAF)Make grants from the DAF to have impact; e.g., World Shoe DAF providing shoes at African camps or court dedication events ($25k NBPA match)$25k grant + $25k
- [Improving Mental Health](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mental-health/) - Sagamore has several initiatives that are advancing community development alongside community members with experts in Indianapolis and beyond.
- [Capstones: Sagamore Hosts European Foreign and Defense Policy Officials](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-sagamore-hosts-foreign-defense-officials/) - Sagamore recently hosted a gathering of members of parliament, foreign policy practitioners, defense officials and scholars from across Europe for thought-provoking remarks and insights on transatlantic and international security issues.
- [Capstones: The New NATO’s Old Mission](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-new-natos-old-mission/) - NATO has unveiled a new Strategic Concept—a kind of mission statement for the 30-member alliance (soon to be 32-member alliance). The 2022 Strategic Concept is the first overhaul of NATO’s mission statement in a dozen years. Tellingly, the document has much more in common with NATO’s posture during its first four decades than that of the 1990s and early 2000s.
- [Capstones: Preparing for a Post-Putin Whirlwind](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-preparing-for-a-post-putin-whirlwind/) - “Nations are not eternal,” French philosopher Ernest Renan observed in 1882. “They have a beginning and they will have an end.” That’s something to keep in mind as we assess the damage Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is doing to Russia.
- [Capstones: Defending this Century’s West Berlin](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-defending-this-centurys-west-berlin/) - Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and all the consequences flowing from it—the human and economic costs, the geopolitical fallout, the humanitarian tragedy, the military-security ramifications—have given us a glimpse of what lies ahead if Xi Jinping keeps his word and tries to absorb Taiwan (ROC).
- [Capstones: Trials and Tests in Taiwan](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-trials-and-tests-in-taiwan/) - In the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stopover in Taiwan, the PRC has unleashed weeks of wargames around Taiwan that amounted to an air-sea blockade of the island democracy; tested (and demonstrated) its ability to use civilian vessels in an amphibious assault; launched a wave of cyberattacks against Taiwan; and pounded Washington for allowing the visit. Beijing’s post-Pelosi tantrum offers a glimpse of the PRC’s military plans and internal problems—and points the way toward how America and its allies can posture themselves to prevent a war.
- [Capstones: Time for Israel and Turkey to Pay It Forward](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-time-for-israel-and-turkey-to-pay-it-forward/) - With a revisionist Russia on the march, Ukraine is fighting for its very existence—and begging for help.
- [Capstones: The Arsenals of Democracy in Action](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-arsenals-of-democracy-in-action/) - With a revisionist Russia on the march, Ukraine is fighting for its very existence—and begging for help.
- [Capstones: Geometry and Arithmetic in the Indo-Pacific](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-geometry-and-arithmetic-in-the-indo-pacific/) - Most Americans have heard about the “Quad”—a loose security partnership enfolding the U.S., India, Japan and Australia. But there’s also a “security diamond,” several security triangles, and numerous other Indo-Pacific groupings focused on containing China—and keeping Cold War II from turning hot. Call it the geometry of geopolitics.
- [Capstones: Putin's Premise for War Capsized by Ukraine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-putins-premise-for-war-capsized-by-ukraine/) - A year after Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian strongman’s pretext for war, basic premise of the war, and plans for how the war would progress have been exposed as false and deeply flawed. The primary reason for this welcomed turn of events is the courage of the Ukrainian people, who are teaching Putin a lesson about the power of free men and women fighting for a just cause—and re-reminding the Free World that freedom is not free.
- [Capstones: A Biden Doctrine for Taiwan](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-biden-doctrine-for-taiwan/) - On at least four occasions, President Joe Biden has pledged to defend Taiwan if the island democracy comes under attack.
- [Capstones: Clarifying the Terms of Debate over Iraq](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-clarifying-the-terms-of-debate-over-iraq/) - Twenty years ago this week, U.S. Marines sweeping into Baghdad assisted a throng of Iraqis in tearing down a massive statue of Saddam Hussein in a place called Firdos Square. Rich in symbolism, the moment marked the end of Saddam’s terrorist tyranny—and underscored that the longsuffering Iraqi people needed America’s help to bring about that objective.
- [Capstones: Who's to Blame?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-whos-to-blame/) - Fifteen months into Putin’s second invasion of Ukraine—and just seven months away from what increasingly looks like a second Biden-Trump election showdown—partisans on both sides are trying fix the blame for the largest, bloodiest, costliest war to scar Europe since 1939. There’s plenty of blame to go around, but the central cause of this war is hiding in plain sight.
- [Capstones: Out of Order](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-out-of-order-2/) - From Crimea and COVID to Kabul and Kiev, recent events have reminded us that the natural order of the world is not all that orderly. That’s a problem because order is essential. Nations need some modicum of order to organize and sustain society within their borders, to conduct commerce, trade and other affairs across their borders, to keep the peace along their borders, and to preserve civilization beyond their borders.
- [Capstones: Rediscovering America's Purpose](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-rediscovering-americas-purpose-2/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: Words of War](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-words-of-war/) - There’s a solid piece of wartime journalism on the BBC website. Not only is it powerfully written; it’s reminiscent of the war-correspondent dispatches of the 1940s or even some of the literature that flowed out of the Great War. (Perhaps that’s why it’s so powerful.) Like all good writing, it points us toward some deeper, bigger truths.
- [Capstones: Piecing Together a Ukraine-Russia Peace](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-piecing-together-a-ukraine-russia-peace/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: Xi's Vision for the 21st Century](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-xis-vision-for-the-21st-century/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: The Barbarians of October](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-barbarians-of-october/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: Ukraine Reopens Allied Arsenals of Democracy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-rediscovering-americas-purpose-3/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: A Space Coalition of the Willing](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-space-coalition-of-the-willing/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: A Biden Doctrine for Taiwan](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-biden-doctrine-for-taiwan-2/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: Clarifying the Terms of Debate over a Once-Unpopular War](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-clarifying-the-terms-of-debate-over-a-once-unpopular-war/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: Creativity and Resiliency Key to Security in Cold War 2.0](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-creativity-and-resiliency-key-to-security-in-cold-war-2-0/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: A National Security Strategy of Free World Defense](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-national-security-strategy-of-free-world-defense/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: A Road to Catasrophe](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-a-road-to-catasrophe/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: All One Fight](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-all-one-fight/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: NATO: Growth Spurts and Growing Pains](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-nato-growth-spurts-and-growing-pains/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: With Trump, Focus on Winning](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-with-trump-focus-on-winning/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: After Ukraine, the Unraveling](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-after-ukraine-the-unraveling/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [Capstones: The Heart of National Security](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-the-heart-of-national-security/) - What is America’s purpose in the world? Americans have answered that question in different ways over the centuries. When the United States was young and weak, George Washington plotted a path of nonintervention, concluding that America’s purpose was to prove that self-government could work at home and “to steer clear of permanent alliances” abroad.
- [A Vision for Building Better Communities](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/vision-better-communities/) - A Vision for Building Better Cities A Vision for Building Better Communities A Q&A with Sagamore’s Eric Doden and Bill Taft on their work transforming Indiana small towns and neighborhoods. We asked Eric Doden, former director of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, and Bill Taft, former executive director of the Local Initiatives Support Corp. in
- [Second Chance Mentoring](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/second-chance-mentoring/) - Add Your Heading Text Here YOUTH & SECOND CHANCE MENTORSHIP Mentoring Leaders for Tomorrow Many of today’s urban youth lack the support and guidance from an adequate mentor, resulting in alarming school drop out and incarceration rates. Likewise, formerly incarcerated individuals often lack a positive social support network after release, leading to high re-offend and
- [Eric Doden](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/eric-doden/) - Eric Doden Lorum impsum.
- [Dayton Molendorp](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-dayton-molendorp/) - Secretary
- [Tim George](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/tim-george/) - Trustee
- [Bill Taft](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/senior-fellow-bill-taft/) - Sagmore Senior Fellow
- [About Jay Chaudhary](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/about-jay-chaudhary/) - Senior Fellow
- [Dean Hoke](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dean-hoke/) - Sagmore Senior Fellow
- [Project Fortress: Embarrassment and Sorrow](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-embarrassment-and-sorrow/) - The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
- [Super City: Scholar Takes Aim at Communities](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/super-city-scholar-takes-aim-at-communities/) - Dr. JoAnna Brown is a senior fellow at Sagamore Institute specializing in research aimed at building better urban, rural, and suburban communities.
- [Media Literacy Case Studies](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/media-literacy-case-studies/) - On Constitution Day, Sagamore Institute hosted its 7th annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship, where we launched the Indiana Roundtable on Mental Health
- [Dr. Jerry Hendrix](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dr-jerry-hendrix/) - Senior Fellow
- [Gene Habecker](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/gene-habecker/) - Senior Fellow
- [2024 Year in Review](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2024-year-in-review/) - We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. That is why Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth: to offer innovative financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [Jay Chaudhary](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jay-chaudhary/) - Senior Fellow
- [From Russia to Iran: Sagamore scholars discuss national security challenges the U.S. and its allies now face](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/from-russia-to-iran-sagamore-scholars-discuss-national-security-challenges-the-u-s-and-its-allies-now-face/) - Sagamore Institute scholars Alan Dowd, director of the Institute’s Center for America’s Purpose, and Dr. Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain who served on active duty for 26 years, recently published “The New Security Blueprint: Rebuilding, Rethinking and Renewing National Security.” National defense is one of three pillars for Sagamore’s research and initiatives as it celebrates the 20th anniversary of its founding this year.
- [Lisa Hershman](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/lisa-hershman/) - Trustee
- [A Welcome from Jay Chaudhary](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-welcome-from-jay-chaudhary/) - A Welcome from Jay Chaudhary Jay Chaudhary || November 13, 2024Welcome to my journey as Senior Fellow for Mental Health and Community Wellness at Sagamore Institute. I’m excited to make this transition after spending five years as Director of the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction, where I made policy for—and led the execution
- [From the Pentagon to Saddam Hussein's palace to Fever president, this is Allison Barber's life](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/allison-barbers-life/) - The capabilities required for America’s 21st century military are readily available in Indiana’s defense triangle—Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex, and Naval Surface Warfare Center-Crane Division—as well as in the state’s other installations and assets.
- [Jacob Baldwin](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jacob-baldwin/) - Program Manager | Commonwealth
- [CHIPS Act](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/chips-act/) - Taking a risk on emerging defense technologies has long been avoided by the private sector. Not anymore. American venture capital and private equity firms, spurred into action by rising geopolitical tensions and the Pentagon’s push to modernize its arsenal, have increasingly been pumping money into the defense tech sector. Below are some of the investment firms jumpstarting this new Defense Tech Revolution.
- [Defense Tech Investments](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense-tech-investments/) - Taking a risk on emerging defense technologies has long been avoided by the private sector. Not anymore. American venture capital and private equity firms, spurred into action by rising geopolitical tensions and the Pentagon’s push to modernize its arsenal, have increasingly been pumping money into the defense tech sector. Below are some of the investment firms jumpstarting this new Defense Tech Revolution.
- [A Banner for the Nations](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-banner-for-the-nations/) - By ALAN W. DOWD Click below to read the article featured in Providence Magazine.
- [Liberia Ag Research Center](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/liberia-ag-research-center/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Liberia Agriculture Research Center Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first woman elected president on the continent of Africa. She is also a Harvard trained economist. As she toured the Liberian farm built by Sagamore fellows Gina and Travis Sheets, she exclaimed, “I didn’t believe that a farm of this quality
- [Project Fortress: The Re-United States of America](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-the-re-united-states-of-america/) - The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
- [Engage](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/engage/) - We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. That is why Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth: to offer innovative financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [Forum Networks](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/forum-networks/) - We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. That is why Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth: to offer innovative financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [MEI Indiana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mei-indiana/) - We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. That is why Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth: to offer innovative financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [Project Fortress: Extremes Pulling America Down a Dangerous Path](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-extremes-pulling-america-down-a-dangerous-path/) - The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
- [Dan Peterson](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dan-peterson/) - Trustee
- [Dan Coats](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dan-coats/) - Trustee
- [Indiana's Defense Triangle](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indianas-defense-triangle/) - The capabilities required for America’s 21st century military are readily available in Indiana’s defense triangle—Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex, and Naval Surface Warfare Center-Crane Division—as well as in the state’s other installations and assets.
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2023](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-conference-on-citizenship-2023/) - On Constitution Day, Sagamore Institute hosted its 7th annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship, where we launched the Indiana Roundtable on Mental Health
- [15th Anniversary Report](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/15-years/) - Sagamore Institute is a heartland think tank. That means we prioritize problem solving over debate and we work to ensure opportunity for all of our neighbors. To illustrate, we invite you to explore 15 of our favorite stories from the past 15 years since our founding.
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2016](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/icoc-2016/) - In 2016, Sagamore Institute hosted the second annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship, focusing on Indiana’s third century. Former Congressman Lee Hamilton, co-chair of the Indiana Bicentennial Commission, had a big idea: Celebrate the state’s 200th anniversary by gathering thought leaders to set ambitious goals to achieve within the next 50 years. In response, Sue Ellspermann in her capacity as Indiana Lieutenant Governor led the Bicentennial Visioning Project.
- [J-1 Visa Program](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/j1/) - Add Your Heading Text Here J-1 Visa Program A Consortium for International Exchange Sagamore Institute was selected by the US State Department in May 2017 as a J-1 Exchange Teacher sponsor. This means our staff serves as “Responsible Officers” in the issuing of visas and monitoring of highly-qualified international teachers who come to the USA
- [Byron Johnson](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-byron-johnson/) - Senior Fellow
- [Ideas in Indiana: Deborah Daniels Keynote Address at the Executive Session of Criminal Justice Professionals](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ideas-in-indiana-deborah-daniels-keynote-address/) - We’re not in the “Roaring ’90s” anymore. Consider, as an example of this, the agency that I just left, the Office of Justice Programs, which is responsible for the Office on Victims of Crime; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the National Institute of Justice; the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Office on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Office on Violence Against Women; and the Office for Domestic Preparedness, before it was transferred to Homeland Security.
- [Chase Elliott](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-chase-elliott/) - Operations Manager
- [The Quiet Revolution: This is Our City](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/this-is-our-city/) - In his 2014 book The Quiet Revolution, Sagamore Institute’s Jay Hein highlights the work of George W. Bush’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative to work towards solving the world’s most pressing problems.
- [Red State, Green City](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/red-state-green-city/) - Much debate has surrounded American energy policies, and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard sees the big picture. A former U.S. Marine and veteran of the first Gulf War, Ballard knows the dangers of American dependency on Middle Eastern oil and has found many cost-saving and green ways to move Hoosiers away from oil.
- [The Bill Bennett Project](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-bill-bennett-project/) - Bill Bennett, author of the three volume set of the history of the United States entitled “America: The Last Best Hope,” which have been adopted for school use in the State of Indiana and the City of New York, asked
- [Society of Sagamores](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/society-of-sagamores/) - When Indiana’s most distinguished citizens receive the Sagamore of the Wabash award, they read a parchment that calls them to serve as counsel to the governor.
- [Carole Kariuki](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-carole-kariuki/) - Senior Fellow
- [Teaching America's Story](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/teaching-americas-story/) - Sagamore Institute and Bill Bennett Team Up for Civic Education As a conventional think tank, ideas are our business. Yet at Sagamore Institute, we’re unconventional in our methodology. We’re not removed from reality, and we don’t hypothesize from 30,000 feet. We’re committed to transforming innovative ideas into real results. We combine the power of new
- [Bill Bennett](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bill-bennett/) - On March 25, 2010 Sagamore Institute hosted its first “Celebrating American Ideas” gala. Former Secretary of Education and renowned author William J. Bennett gave a rousing keynote address on the American Idea. His address emphasized the essential role of citizens and our responsibility to learn our nation’s history in order to define and defend democracy.
- [Attacking America's Dropout Crisis: Elevate Indianapolis](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/attacking-americas-dropout-crisis-elevate-indianapolis/) - ELEVATE Indianapolis, one of the newest and most exciting youth development/mentoring programs in Indiana’s capital, is supported by Sagamore Institute and headquartered in its very own Levey Mansion.
- [A New Charter School Model: Herron High School](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-new-charter-school-model-herron-high-school/) - One means of improving the quality of education, encouraging greater participation in school, and preparing students to meet the challenges of the 21st century is to offer innovative programs and curricula that inspire students, excite them about learning, nurture creative and critical thinking skills, and offer the opportunity to become immersed in the rich global cultures of past and present.
- [Private Schools, Public Good](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/private-schools-public-good/) - In 2009, during his confirmation hearing before Congress, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education Arne Duncan said that education was “the most pressing issue facing America.”
- [A New Generation of School Leaders](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-new-generation-of-school-leaders/) - In 2008, a staggering 69.57 percent of students in Indianapolis Public Schools did not graduate from high school, the Associated Press reported. Statewide, the numbers aren’t more promising.
- [America's Leading Reform Laboratory: Indiana Reform Epicenter](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/americas-leading-reform-laboratory-indiana-reform-epicenter/) - Improving education in America can no longer be swept under the rug. Seemingly every report on the state of American education is grim. In 2012, American students came in 17th place out of 34 in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) – a test administered to 15 year old students every three years to measure comparative global education.
- [Scholar Spotlight: Nicole Baker Fulgham](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/scholar-spotlight-nicole-baker-fulgham/) - Sagamore Institute was delighted to host Nicole Baker Fulgham, the Founder and President of Expectations Project, to discuss her new book Educating All God’s Children. Fulgham’s book is a call to Christians to embrace their intellectual heritage in order to work to close the achievement gap between low- and high-income schools.
- [Racing Back to School](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/racing-back-to-school/) - Sagamore Institute and Office Depot Foundation hosted a conversation on cutting-edge innovation and best practices in engaging the nation’s students. Following the event, Office Depot Foundation invited NASCAR driver Tony Stewart to help them hand out backpacks to local children in Greenwood.
- [Aiming Higher in Higher Education](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/aiming-higher-in-higher-education/) - Mitch Daniels has achieved national recognition for his fiscal discipline. It’s well-known that Indiana was elevated to a AAA rating under his leadership, and that the state was busily racking up a surplus during the Great Recession while other state budgets around the country were cratering.
- [The Impact of Infusionomics](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-impact-of-infusionomics/) - “Infusionomics is transformational for kids,” Goble said. “It’s not just a curriculum we teach. It’s a different way of teaching, integrating economic thinking into everyday learning. We began to see unanticipated benefits. Kids began using the concepts in their daily interactions, making better decisions, and achieving higher grades in core subjects.”
- [Learn How Infusionomics Works](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/learn-how-infusionomics-works/) - Infusionomics works like this: teach students economic principles (like opportunity cost, scarcity, supply and demand) and entrepreneurial skills early on and they will reverse the negative cycles that lead to intergenerational poverty.
- [Teaching Economics as Life Skills](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/teaching-economics-as-life-skills/) - Many studies have shown that financial illiteracy is one of the key contributors to the overwhelming debt and poverty plaguing many American families.
- [Learn How Infusionomics Began](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/learn-how-infusionomics-began/) - It all started at a prep school in Virginia. In the late 1970s, Collegiate School, a K-12 college preparatory school in Richmond, Virginia, began teaching economics to their students using a curriculum developed by the Powell Center for Economic Literacy.
- [A Conversation with Aaron Story](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-conversation-with-aaron-story/) - On July 23, 2020, I had the opportunity to speak with Aaron Story, the CEO of Elevate Indianapolis. Elevate is an intensive mentoring initiative that serves students in the IPS school district.
- [Project Fortress: A Defense Against Digital Deepfakes](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-a-defense-against-digital-deepfakes/) - The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
- [Project Fortress: Flag Wavers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-flag-wavers/) - The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
- [2023 Year in Review](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2023-year-in-review/) - We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. That is why Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth: to offer innovative financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [Project Fortress: The Barbarians of October](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-the-barbarians-of-october/) - The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
- [Alexandra Hudson The Soul of Civility Launch Party](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/alexandra-hudson-the-soul-of-civility-launch-party/) - Join Joanna Taft and Alexandra Hudson as they dialog about beauty, community and the quiet Pourching revolution at the Harrison Center September 27th at 4:30pm. Reception to follow.
- [An Examined Life: The John Mutz Story Book Event](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/an-examined-life-the-john-mutz-story-book-event/) - Sagamore Institute hosted an online event with John Mutz, former Lt. Governor of Indiana, and Dr. Edward Frantz, historian, on the occasion of the release of his new book, An Examined Life: The John Mutz Story.
- [Amy Sherman](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-amy-sherman/) - Senior Fellow
- [Project Fortress: A Failing Experiment?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-a-failing-experiment/) - Recent public-opinion surveys paint a grim picture of an America that’s losing confidence in the very institutions and ideas that undergird the American Experiment—that enduring effort to build a more perfect union of free people.
- [Project Fortress: A Revealing Exchange](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-a-revealing-exchange/) - The salvos being lobbed between President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over their respective handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are at once troubling, encouraging and revealing. Americans who believe in individual liberty, individual responsibility and constitutional government should listen to what these men and all policymakers are saying about COVID-19 today—and equally important—remember how they responded in 2020.
- [Project Fortress: The Torch and Tapestry of Generations](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-the-torch-and-tapestry-of-generations/) - Here’s an oddity: Polls paint a grim picture for both of the prohibitive favorites in next year’s election: 70 percent of Americans don’t want President Joe Biden to seek reelection. And an identical 70 percent of Americans don’t want former President Donald Trump to run again. Perhaps related: 68 percent of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve a second term, and 57 percent say Trump is too old.
- [Honoring Jerry Semler](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jerry-semler/) - Dr. Byron Johnson Discusses the Global Flourishing Study
- [Dr. Byron Johnson Discusses the Global Human Flourishing Study](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dr-byron-johnson-discusses-the-global-human-flourishing-study/) - Dr. Byron Johnson Discusses the Global Flourishing Study
- [Development Director](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/development-director/) - We are seeking a Development Director to serve a dual role supporting Sagamore’s development operations and Christian ministries in Central Indiana through our partnership with Mission Increase.
- [Meet Our 2023 Summer Intern Class!](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/meet-our-2023-summer-intern-class/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Meet Sagamore's Summer 2023 Interns Sagamore is committed to developing the next generation of young leaders with a creative vision to pursue the common good and advance human flourishing. We welcome the following students who share a passion for championing free enterprise, fostering individual opportunity, and expanding democracy. about The
- [Project Fortress: A War of War Crimes](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-a-war-of-war-crimes/) - A year into Vladimir Putin’s second war on Ukraine, one of G.K. Chesterton’s most powerful and profound observations keeps coming to mind. “The true soldier,” Chesterton explained, “fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
- [Katie Mote](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-katie-mote/) - Trustee
- [Emily Cooprider](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-emily-cooprider/) - Operations Coordinator
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2022](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-conference-on-citizenship-2022/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2022 Can Indiana Help Keep America Safe? On October 5th, 2022 Sagamore hosted its 8th annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship. The conference explored the role that Indiana’s defense assets and technological innovations play in defending democracy around the world. VIEW GAME DAY PROGRAM Watch the event
- [Project Fortress: Time to Rally Around the Rule of Law](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-time-to-rally-around-the-rule-of-law/) - That phrase “being broken” is the one that strikes a nerve. The authority of law, the rule of law, the institutions of law are not broken—at least not yet—but in the shadow of all that political violence, they clearly are not whole or healthy. Just as erosion, falling rains, rising floodwaters and years of neglect can wear away at a once-sturdy bridge, we are watching a confluence of destructive forces wear away at the authority of law, the rule of law, the institutions of law.
- [J-1 Programs Relationship Manager](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/j-1-programs-relationship-manager/) - As an action-oriented think tank, Sagamore builds and implements solutions to society’s biggest problems.
- [Project Fortress: Citizens and Subjects, Worries and Warnings](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-citizens-and-subjects-worries-and-warnings/) - On September 21, 2022, in a bid to salvage his blood-soaked debacle in Ukraine, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin ordered 300,000 retired and reserve military personnel back into service.
- [Pathfinder](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/pathfinder/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Center for America's Purpose Pathfinder Pathfinder: A resource for better understanding America's purpose in the world. “Thanks to my reading,” General James Mattis explains, “I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed before. It doesn’t give me all
- [Mental Health Policy Research Fellow](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mental-health-policy-research-fellow/) - We are seeking a Research Fellow, Mental Health Policy to support the Indiana Mental Health Roundtable at Sagamore Institute.
- [Linden Barber](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/linden-barber/) - Senior Fellow
- [Project Fortress: Pondering Postwar Ukraine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-pondering-postwar-ukraine/) - As the Ukrainian army pushes deeper into Russian-occupied Ukraine, it’s obvious, as some of us noted months ago, that Vladimir Putin has failed to achieve his main objectives (eliminating President Volodymyr Zelensky, erasing Ukraine as a sovereign state, checking and splintering NATO).
- [Derek Redelman](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/derek-redelman/) - Senior Fellow
- [Project Fortress: A Generational Transition of Leadership](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-a-generational-transition-of-leadership/) - “Baby Boomers have been running the country for nearly three decades,” longtime presidential advisor David Gergen recently wrote. “It’s time to pass the baton to younger generations—Millennials and Gen Z.” Gergen is half-right: Baby Boomers have been running the country for nearly three decades—Bill Clinton took the oath of office in 1993—and their time to pass the baton is quickly approaching.
- [Chris Lowery](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-chris-lowery/) - Chairman
- [Project Fortress: Rights and Responsibility, Liberty and Limits](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-rights-and-responsibility-liberty-and-limits/) - All people of goodwill—no matter their views on guns—are sickened by the epidemic of mass-shootings and sense that it’s a symptom of something broken within our country.
- [Meet Our 2022 Summer Intern Class!](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/meet-our-2022-summer-intern-class/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Meet Sagamore's Summer 2022 Interns Sagamore is committed to developing the next generation of young leaders with a creative vision to pursue the common good and advance human flourishing. We welcome the following students who share a passion for championing free enterprise, fostering individual opportunity, and expanding democracy. about The
- [Gold Star Initiative](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/gold-star/) - Blair Milo, the Founding Director for the Center of Talent and Opportunity at the Sagamore Institute, recently completed an Ironman Race. While she has accomplished many athletic achievements in her career, this Ironman was one of the most influential races she has participated in.
- [Indiana Compassion Maps draft](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-compassion-maps-draft/) - Operations Coordinator
- [Katelynn White](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/katelynn-white/) - Operations Coordinator
- [Project Fortress: Presidential Playbook for a Dangerous Phase of Putin's War](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-presidential-playbook-for-a-dangerous-phase-of-putins-war/) - If there’s a silver lining in the hell Vladimir Putin has unleashed, it’s the newfound—or more accurately, re-discovered—sense among democratic nations that they have the capacity when working together to wield enormous power. In the Free World’s multifaceted response to Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, a blueprint for a global alliance of democracies is emerging.
- [Welcome 2020 Summer Intern Class!](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2020-intern-class/) - Sagamore is committed to developing the next generation of young leaders with a creative vision to pursue the common good and advance human flourishing. We welcome the following students who share a passion for championing free enterprise, fostering individual opportunity, and expanding democracy.
- [Agents of Flourishing Book Launch](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/aof-book-launch/) - As Vladimir Putin continues his war of war crimes against Ukraine, there are arguments swirling around—some more serious than others—that this war is, somehow, NATO’s fault. That’s certainly what Putin believes, but the blame-NATO crowd is wrong.
- [Pierre Atlas](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-pierre-atlas/) - Senior Fellow
- [Chip Weiant](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-chip-weiant/) - Senior Fellow
- [Citizenship Art Gallery](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship-art-gallery/) - On February 28th, 2020, Sagamore Institute hosted an art gallery event in partnership with the Harrison Center for the Arts and sponsored by Indiana Humanities. The gallery includes 8 original pieces from seven local artists centered around the theme of citizenship. These pieces highlight the unique perspectives of Heartland and Indiana citizens throughout the history of our great American experiment.
- [Matthew Klein](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/matthew-klein/) - Senior Fellow
- [Project Fortress: A Blueprint for Defending the Free World](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-a-blueprint-for-defending-the-free-world/) - If there’s a silver lining in the hell Vladimir Putin has unleashed, it’s the newfound—or more accurately, re-discovered—sense among democratic nations that they have the capacity when working together to wield enormous power. In the Free World’s multifaceted response to Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine, a blueprint for a global alliance of democracies is emerging.
- [Project Fortress: The Power of Real Heroism](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-the-power-of-real-heroism/) - In an age when the word “hero” is conflated with and attached to movie stars and athletes and people who risk nothing of consequence, it’s bracing to watch—even from afar—true heroes and true heroism in action. Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, never expected or aspired to be known as a hero. But in standing his ground, Zelensky inspired his countrymen to stand up to Vladimir Putin’s criminal invasion.
- [Indiana Community Needs Assessment](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-community-needs-assessment/) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides funding for the Community Service Block Grant (CSBG). The Community Services Block Grant provides assistance to States and local communities working through a network of Community Action Agencies (CAAs) for the reduction of poverty, the revitalization of low-income communities, and the empowerment of low-income families and individuals in rural and urban areas to become fully self-sufficient.
- [IU-Kenya Medical Partnership](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/iu-kenya-medical-partnership/) - A Case Study in Global Health Partnerships: Harnessing the Power of Relationships
- [Project Fortress: A Path Away from War](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-a-path-away-from-war/) - After invading Ukraine without cause, Vladimir Putin’s army is now targeting civilians—apartments, hospitals, schools, religious sites—without remorse or moral constraint. Governments worldwide have responded with heavy economic counterstrikes against Russia and torrents of weapons shipments into Ukraine.
- [Indiana Justice Reform](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-justice-reform/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Justice Reform Through its research portfolio in criminal justice, Sagamore has established itself as a leader in offering solutions and identifying “best practices” that may lead to a more just and peaceful society. Its researchers have explored the difficult crime problems facing communities and examined the roles that local and state
- [Mental Health Roundtable Policy Coordinator](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mental-health-policy-coordinator/) - Sagamore Institute Career Opportunities Mental Health Roundtable Policy Coordinator | Job Description Sagamore builds and implements solutions to society’s biggest problems. Through research, consulting, and impact investing, we fight for a society uplifted by heartland policy innovation, business solutions, and citizen engagement. We are seeking a Policy Coordinator to support the Lt. Governor’s Mental Health Roundtable
- [Operations Coordinator](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/operations-coordinator/) - Sagamore Institute Career Opportunities Operations Coordinator | Job Description Sagamore builds and implements solutions to society’s biggest problems. Through research, consulting, and impact investing, we fight for a society uplifted by heartland policy innovation, business solutions, and citizen engagement. We are seeking an Operations Coordinator to support the Headquarters team at Sagamore Institute, as well as
- [From the West Wing to Better Neighborhoods](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/from-the-west-wing-to-better-neighborhoods/) - In 2010, Llew Wells, former producer for The West Wing, began a venture called Living City Block, a cutting-edge experiment to make cities far more energy-efficient, one block at a time.
- [Electric Innovations at Gasoline Alley](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/electric-innovations-at-gasoline-alley/) - When the electric Tesla Roadster first launched from its starting position, the car accelerated from zero to sixty in under 4 seconds—a feat that took the Chevy Corvette sixty-years and six generations of gasoline engines to achieve according to the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
- [Energy Policy: From Non-Existent to Innovative Leader](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/energy-policy-from-non-existent-to-innovative-leader/) - Before Governor Daniels took office, Indiana had no existing energy policy to speak of. Eight years later, the Hoosier State is among the fastest growing wind power states and is on track to meet its future energy needs like never before.
- [Lincoln in Indiana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/lincoln-in-indiana/) - In this audio, Sagamore Institute President Jay Hein interviews William Bartell, a Lincoln scholar. From 1968 to 2005, Bartell was a Social Studies teacher at Evansville Harrison High School. He was also an adjunct professor at University of Southern Indiana. He is widely published on Lincoln’s time in Indiana. A consultant and volunteer at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and the Lincoln Home National Historic site. Indian Historical Society published his book,”There I Grew Up,” on Lincoln’s childhood in Indiana.
- [8 Questions for Mitch Daniels](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/8-questions-for-mitch-daniels-2/) - Most portrayals of him have focused upon his unconventional appeal. His lack of ideological sharp elbows combined with a nearly chronic obsession with parsimony has made him a subject of political intrigue —he’s just not like other political creatures.
- [Creating a Meth Free Indiana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/creating-a-meth-free-indiana/) - For several years, Indiana has ranked among the top five states of methamphetamine production, leading law enforcement officials and legislators to search for answers to halt the spread of production and use. Through its Meth Free project, Sagamore helped the State of Indiana to become a leader in the fight against methamphetamine production and usage.
- [Indiana Public Good Index](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-public-good-index/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Public Good Index Sagamore senior fellow Troy Riggs became nationally renowned for using data to prevent crime and build healthier Indianapolis neighborhoods. Troy worked to aggregate a wide set of data sources describing Indianapolis’ pain points—crime, hunger, education gaps, more—as well as the city’s positive characteristics (philanthropy, nonprofits, fiscal
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2015](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/icoc-2015/) - On November 23, 2015, Sagamore Institute hosted the Indiana Conference on Citizenship. At the luncheon, Governor Mike Pence celebrated their citizen service, called them to action, and challenged them to inspire the next generation with their citizenship stories. We invite you to watch Gov. Pence’s remarks below.
- [Growing Africa's Talent: Corporate Exec Transforms Nation](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/growing-africas-talent-corporate-exec-transforms-nation/) - Dale Dawson was a business titan. After graduating from the University of Texas-Austin, Dawson began his accounting and corporate tax career at the renowned consulting firm KPMG. By the age of 30 he became a partner at KPMG’s Dallas office, matriculating to national director of insurance only two years later.
- [Q&A with Vice Admiral Michael Bucchi](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/qa-with-vice-admiral-michael-bucchi/) - With talk of unmanned systems and cyber-security, it’s clear that warfare has changed. What might not be as apparent, though, is how these strategic currents influence the American Midwest.
- [The Future of Unmanned Systems](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-future-of-unmanned-systems/) - On September 18-19, 2013, the National Center for Complex Operations (NCCO) and Indiana State University presented the Mid-America Defense Conference, an informative event showcasing the use of unmanned systems in multiple national security and first response applications. These incredible platforms are having a profound impact around the globe in agriculture, public safety, drug-trafficking surveillance, disaster response, space exploration, weather forecasting, and even assessing events like the gulf oil-spill.
- [Dan Coats Germany Papers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/coats-germany-papers/) - Preserving the Transatlantic Democratic Order with Dan Coats About Dan Coats Dan Coats was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany on August 15, 2001 by President George W. Bush. A former member of Congress, Coats represented the state of Indiana in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 1999, and in
- [Citizens as Community Builders](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizens-as-community-builders/) - Citizens build up their communities in many different ways in their neighborhood, city, state, country, and beyond-- but the end goal is the flourishing of these communities. Three significant examples of community-building citizens are Paul Estridge, Bill Taft, and Dave Miner.
- [NCCO](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ncco/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Defense Network (NCCO) A One-Stop-Shop Indiana is a strategically located, critical asset in our Nation’s defense and ongoing security. In fact, few other places can claim the full range of defense assets and capabilities present here — from uniformed military and thousands of civilians and defense contractors, to assets
- [2021 Interns (cohort page)](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2021-intern-program/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Meet Sagamore's Summer 2021 Interns Sagamore is committed to developing the next generation of young leaders with a creative vision to pursue the common good and advance human flourishing. We welcome the following students who share a passion for championing free enterprise, fostering individual opportunity, and expanding democracy. Ian Ansel
- [Project Fortress: Two Years to Slow the Spread](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-two-years-to-slow-the-spread/) - In the first two months of 2020, the Trump administration drafted a policy document—stamped “not for public distribution or release” and indeed kept from public view for several months—that would guide decisionmakers at every level of government and every sector of the economy in dealing with a new virus that came to be known by the scientific shorthand “COVID-19.”
- [Sagamore in Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/qa-with-gina-and-travis-sheets/) - Did you know that Liberia was established by Americans opposed to slavery in the mid-1800s? It is a complicated history that fuses the slave trade with colonization and African indigenous rights. This fusion led to a civil war in the 1980s and 90s followed by the election of Africa’s first head of state in 2005. Sagamore is helping Liberia realize the promise of liberty with the dignity of self-government through the work of Donald Cassell and Travis and Gina Sheets. Read about their latest endeavor below.
- [Capstones: Putin Gambles with Europe's Future](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/capstones-putin-gambles-with-europes-future/) - Give Vladimir Putin his due. He plays a weak hand very well. Regrettably, America and its NATO allies play a strong hand very poorly. With Putin making outrageous demands on NATO, occupying parts of Ukraine, attempting to reverse the settled outcomes of the Cold War, and steadily erasing the sovereignty of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, it’s time to remind Moscow who holds the ace card.
- [Governor Holcomb Visit Photos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/holcomb-photos/) - Did you know that Liberia was established by Americans opposed to slavery in the mid-1800s? It is a complicated history that fuses the slave trade with colonization and African indigenous rights. This fusion led to a civil war in the 1980s and 90s followed by the election of Africa’s first head of state in 2005. Sagamore is helping Liberia realize the promise of liberty with the dignity of self-government through the work of Donald Cassell and Travis and Gina Sheets. Read about their latest endeavor below.
- [Sagamore Holiday Party Photos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/holiday-photos-2021/) - View a slideshow of photos from our annual holiday party.
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2021](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-conference-on-citizenship-2021/) - On Constitution Day, Sagamore Institute hosted its 7th annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship, where we launched the Indiana Roundtable on Mental Health
- [On the Road Lending Breakfast](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/otrl-event-2021/) - Sagamore recently hosted a breakfast event with Michelle Corson, Founder and CEO of On the Road Lending (OTRL), to learn how the company is removing transportation barriers and how Indiana nonprofits, employers, and impact investors can partner with OTRL to help our neighbors access reliable transportation.
- [Project Fortress: America's Santa Colonel](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-americas-santa-colonel/) - It’s Christmastime 1955—among the tensest, coldest days of the Cold War. Barely two years removed from a bloody stalemate on the Korean Peninsula, the American people are on edge and their military is on hair-trigger alert. A fragile armistice has taken hold along the 38th Parallel, but North Korea and South Korea are far closer to war than to peace
- [Staff Accountant](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/staff-accountant/) - We are seeking a Staff Accountant to assist the CFO in maintaining Sagamore’s financial processes by performing day-to-day accounting and data management functions.
- [The Thinning Blue Line](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-thinning-blue-line/) - There are moments in time and in life that serve as striking metaphors for deeper truths, that provide clarity in an otherwise-murky world, that remind us of the fundamentals we too often take for granted.
- [CTO Meet Our Entrepreneurs](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/cto-meet-our-entrepreneurs/) - Join us on September 17, 2020 for a conversation with John Bridgeland and Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky.
- [Lisa Morphew](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/lisa-morphew/) - Operations Manager
- [Mental Health Ecosystem Map TEMPLATE VERSION](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mental-health-ecosystem-map-template-version/) - Join us on September 17, 2020 for a conversation with John Bridgeland and Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky.
- [Defending Democracy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defending-democracy/) - This past summer saw a remarkable surge of activity from the engines of the Free World. America and Britain unveiled a “New Atlantic Charter” vowing to “defend the principles, values and institutions of democracy.”
- [Rex Bolinger](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-rex-bolinger/) - Senior Fellow
- [SIG Biannual Conferences](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sig-biannual-conferences/) - The Secretaries' Innovation Group gather twice a year to exchange ideas for successful innovations which have been executed "on the ground."
- [Expanding Economic Opportunity](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/expanding-economic-opportunity/) - We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. That is why Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth: to offer innovative financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [Secretaries Innovation Group](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/secretaries-innovation-group/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Secretaries' Innovation Group The Secretaries’ Innovation Group is a membership organization of state human service and workforce secretaries, founded in 2011. We exchange state program innovations and press for national solutions which favor healthy families, work, economic self-reliance, budget responsibility and limited government. Learn More about SIG Our members are
- [Jerry Pattengale](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jerry-pattengale/) - Senior Fellow
- [Foundations and Fundamentals](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/foundations-and-fundamentals/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Foundations & Fundamentals Building a Good Nation and a Great Power Declaration of IndependenceThe Federalist PapersJohn Jay, Federalist No. 4: The Fleets of America Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 68: The Dangers of Foreign InfluenceConstitution of the United States of AmericaGeorge Washington, Farewell Address, 1796Thomas Jefferson, Dreams of the Future, 1816James Monroe,
- [Jeff Sparks Feature](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/reclaiming-twin-aire/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Reclaiming Twin Aire: A Profile of Senior Fellow Jeff Sparks Jeff Sparks is an selfless innovator and consistent exemplar of what Hoosier Hospitality is all about. Yet, none of these descriptors do his nearly 40 years of philanthropic service justice. Indeed, when attempting to describe his own personality, Sparks settles
- [Meet Our 2021 Summer Intern Class!](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2021-summer-interns/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Meet Sagamore's Summer 2021 Interns Sagamore is committed to developing the next generation of young leaders with a creative vision to pursue the common good and advance human flourishing. We welcome the following students who share a passion for championing free enterprise, fostering individual opportunity, and expanding democracy. about The
- [Indiana Policy Center](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-policy-center/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Policy Center Sagamore’s 2016 Indiana Conference on Citizenship was led by former congressman Lee Hamilton and then-Lt Gov Sue Ellspermann who marked the state’s bicentennial with a look to its next 100 years. Then COVID hit. Now, the state is facing the dual task of helping all its citizens
- [CTO Our Partners template](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/cto-our-partners-template/) - Senior Fellow
- [Earl Phalen](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/earl-phalen/) - Senior Fellow
- [Sam Odle](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sam-odle/) - Senior Fellow
- [Mike Humphrey](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mike-humphrey/) - Senior Fellow
- [Susan Brooks](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/susan-brooks/) - Senior Fellow
- [Program Coordinator](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program-coordinator/) - We are seeking a Program Coordinator to support the Scholarships for Education Choice and J1 Visa programs at Sagamore Institute, as well as perform administrative functions across the organization.
- [Time to Reassert the First Amendment’s First Freedom](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/time-to-reassert-the-first-amendments-first-freedom/) - A year ago this time, most churches and synagogues shut their doors—not because their pastors or rabbis had decided to do so, but because government officials had deemed the free exercise of religious liberty a threat to public health. And so, people of faith, striving to be both good citizens and obedient to the call of conscience, livestreamed Lent, Palm Sunday, Easter and Passover like some Netflix miniseries.
- [We Need a COVID-19 Lockdown Commission](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/we-need-a-covid-19-lockdown-commission/) - Growing numbers of Americans are emerging, Lazarus-like, from the darkness spawned by a year of government-mandated lockdowns—and joining those of us who early on opposed this assault on our liberty and humanity. They’re finally asking hard, crucial questions: “How did this happen? Why did this happen? What were the real costs of locking down life and erasing freedom? How can we prevent this from ever happening again?” The answers to these and other lockdown-related questions won’t be found in the state and federal governments that perpetrated this assault, or in the media outlets that aided and abetted, or in the self-styled expert class that abandoned all critical thinking and instead forced an ahistorical, counter-scientific experiment onto our world. For answers to these questions, the American people will need something more.
- [Enhancing Opportunity in Indianapolis](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/enhancing-opportunity-in-indianapolis/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Enhancing Opportunity in Indianapolis The Brookings Institution suggests that it is a job that pays $18 per hour. Recently, Lilly Endowment took bold action to catalyze good jobs for the 2 in 10 Indianapolis residents struggling in poverty: a $93.6 million initiative to defeat poverty through enterprise. Included in the list of grantees is
- [Mitch Daniels: Heartland Reformer](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mitch-daniels-heartland-reformer/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Reform Model The Indiana Model Can the government move at the speed of business? As Indiana governor and Indianapolis mayor respectively, Mitch Daniels and Steve Goldsmith proved that business principles can indeed be adopted as public policy. The result is smaller but much more effective public service saving taxpayer
- [Distinguished Liberians Visit Sagamore](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/distinguished-liberians-visit-sagamore/) - In 2005, the Sagamore Institute hosted then Liberian presidential candidate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; she went on to win the election and maintains strong ties with Sagamore Institute.
- [10 Years at the Levey Mansion](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/10-years-at-the-levey-mansion/) - We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. That is why Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth: to offer innovative financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [From Indiana AG Secretary to African Farmer](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/from-indiana-ag-secretary-to-african-farmer/) - Gina Sheets and her husband, Travis, moved to Liberia in January of 2014 to develop the agriculture pro-gram at Liberia International Christian College (LICC). Prior to their departure, Gina directed Indiana Depart-ment of Agriculture and Travis was county commissioner in Clinton County, Indiana. Gina developed an interest in improving African agriculture after attending a summit on the issue at Sagamore Institute in 2011.
- [Travis and Gina Sheets](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-travis-and-gina-sheets/) - Senior Fellows, Travis and Gina Sheets are born Hoosiers, living on a small farm in Clinton County Indiana. The Sheets' are a part of the founding team of Hope in the Harvest Missions International and through this mission they spent five years living as volunteers in Liberia, West Africa.
- [Passions, Principles, and Parties](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/passions-principles-and-parties/) - It’s rare in American history for a political party with national reach to splinter and a new party to emerge from the wreckage. But we may be witnessing one of those rare moments.
- [Center for Workforce 2025](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/center-for-workforce-2025/) - We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. That is why Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth: to offer innovative financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [Faith and Justice](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/faith-and-justice/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Faith and Justice Sagamore-Baylor Research Partnership Senior fellow Byron Johnson is director of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. At Sagamore, Dr. Johnson leads the think tank’s “Faith and Justice” research agenda. Baylor also sponsored Jay Hein’s research for the book, The Quiet Revolution. Baylor ISR and Sagamore
- [A President's Prayer](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-presidents-prayer/) - The Friends of the National World War II Memorial recently announced the charity had received a $2-million grant that will allow inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer on the memorial site. In 2014, President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the prayer to be added to the memorial. However, as the charity’s website explains, “The legislation stipulated that no federal funds could be used to implement this directive.”
- [Tori Williams](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/tori-williams/) - Operations Coordinator
- [Chad Slotta](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/chad-slotta/) - Senior Fellow
- [Joanna Taft](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/joanna-taft/) - Indiana Citizen: Joanna Taft Brie Stoltzfus For Joanna Taft, citizenship is a mandate. When I asked her what good citizenship means to her, she responded with a clarity and passion of someone who thinks about this kind of question often: “I have a responsibility to contribute as a community member to grow another generation of
- [A Premediated Attack on the Republic](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-premediated-attack-on-the-republic/) - The Capitol siege was a terrible, shameful day for the Republic—truly yet another day of infamy. A month later, we are getting a clearer picture of just how bad it was, how much worse it could have been, and how much damage has been done to America’s institutions at home and image abroad.
- [Infusionomics](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/infusionomics/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Infusionomics Economic Literacy for Kids Many studies have shown that financial illiteracy is one of the key contributors to the overwhelming debt and poverty plaguing many American families. According to Michael Bohinc, 43 percent of American families spend more than they make, contributing to the nation’s $915 billion in credit card
- [2020 Citizenship Art Gallery](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2020-citizenship-art-gallery/) - This October, we are building on the success of the Harrison’s first rare books exhibit that took place July 2019.
- [Shared Prosperity in Israel](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/shared-prosperity-in-israel/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Shared Prosperity in Israel Sagamore Institute and our partners in Israel are unified in the conviction that increased direct investment in high quality business is the sturdiest pathway to unlocking economic potential, sustainability, and eventual peace in the Judea and Samaria region. We believe that it’s worthy of our best
- [Can Media Elevate Our Public Discourse?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/can-media-elevate-our-public-discourse/) - As part of Some Books Make Us Free—our rare books and art exhibit on American citizenship deep cultural divisions create din partnership with the Sagamore Institute, the Harrison Center, and the Remnant Trust—we talked with some of Indiana’s foremost leaders in the media about the challenges facing citizens and members of our news establishment.
- [Former Florida Gator Tackles At-Risk Youth](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/former-florida-gator-tackles-at-rish-youth/) - 1996 Heisman trophy winner and 2013 inductee to the college football hall of fame Danny Wuerffel addressed community leaders from around the country at the Sagamore Institute in the summer of 2010.
- [/new-super-city](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/new-super-city/) - New Super City /new-super-city Super City There are no great cities without great neighborhoods. Yet, too many of our neighbors are facing increasing threats from crime, food insecurity, inferior K-12 education, and unemployment. Sagamore conducts projects to advance innovative solutions to these challenges and to supply groundbreaking research guiding better decisions by policymakers, philanthropists, and
- [Scholar Spotlight: Donald Cassell](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/scholar-spotlight-donald-cassell/) - Donald Cassell is a Senior Fellow at Sagamore Institute and directs Sagamore's Africa portfolio. A native of Liberia, Mr. Cassell works "to encourage and nurture Liberia’s growth and development through scholarship, conversation, and action with the hope of strengthening civil society and business investment in Liberia."
- [Todd Wilson](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/todd-wilson/) - Senior Fellow
- [James White](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/james-white/) - Senior Fellow
- [2015 Report (HEA 1006)](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2015-report/) - The highlighted 2016 criminal code reform report followed the first report published by the Sagamore Institute. This page details the initial report published in July 2015.
- [Case Study in Culture Change: How Reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles Can Change a State](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/case-study-in-culture-change-how-reforming-the-bureau-of-motor-vehicles-can-change-a-stat/) - For those who track successes in governance across the country, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) story has become iconic. As a case study, it summarizes the Mitch Daniels era in one story.
- [Dealmakers: The Indiana Economic Development Corporation](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dealmakers-the-indiana-economic-development-corporation/) - Prior to 2005, Indiana did economic development in the same way many states do it: poorly, or at best, so-so.
- [From National Leader in Child Deaths to National Leader in Child Service](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/from-national-leader-in-child-deaths-to-national-leader-in-child-service/) - Observing how the Indiana’s Department of Child Services (DCS) is viewed in and outside of Indiana is kind of like watching how a prophet is received in and outside his hometown.
- [HEA 1006 Overview](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/hea-1006-overview/) - The Sagamore Institute’s Criminal Justice Reform Reports cover an intricate piece of Indiana legislation known as HEA 1006. The scope and complexity of HEA 1006 is extensive, meriting detailed review of the legislation itself.
- [Reagan's Midwestern Traits Starred on World Stage](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/reagans-midwestern-traits-starred-on-world-stage/) - Ronald Reagan would have celebrated his 100th birthday on this year’s Super Bowl Sunday. Ever fond of nostalgia, he’d delight in the old-school contest between two of the NFL’s most storied franchises.
- [Faith and Justice: Author Byron Johnson Joins Sagamore](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/faith-and-justice-author-byron-johnson-joins-sagamore/) - Renowned Criminologist Byron Johnson has left his footprint in some of the most influential quarters in the world.
- [Indiana Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Needs Assessment](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-enforcing-underage-drinking-laws-needs-assessment/) - Underage drinking is a major public health challenge with serious injury and social consequences that affects the adolescent brain and the potential for future alcohol dependence. It is also against the law.
- [Who Benefits Most from the Drop in Crime?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/who-benefits-most-from-the-drop-in-crime/) - Since the recent shooting death of Amadou Diallo in New York City, a spate of articles and media reports in New York and elsewhere have asserted that the police, courts, and corrections systems of the United States are inherently racist—much to the chagrin of the NYPD.
- [Beyond the Chain Gang](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/beyond-the-chain-gang/) - Despite the fluctuations in unemployment statistics, the entire country is realizing what human resource managers and small business owners have known for some time—America’s labor shortage is real.
- [Cutting Crime Through Police-Citizen Cooperation](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/cutting-crime-through-police-citizen-cooperation/) - A major public policy surprise of the mid-1990s has been the significant decrease in crime in many major U.S. cities.
- [Defending the Home Front](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defending-the-home-front/) - One of the clearest signs that America was forever changed by the September 11 terrorist attacks was the creation of the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) by President Bush.
- [Poverty and the Private Sector in Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/poverty-and-the-private-sector-in-africa/) - Authored by Josephat Juma, the following interview was published in African Executive in its March 2006 Issue.
- [Global Leaders for Unity at the Sagamore Institute](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/global-leaders-for-unity-at-the-sagamore-institute/) - The Global Leaders for Unity Fund (GLUF) is managed by Sagamore Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization to support the Global Leaders for Unity Executive Course (GLUEC) conducted in Sophia University Institute, Italy.
- [Sagamore Institute is Delighted to House the Center for Global Sports Advancement](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamore-institute-is-delighted-to-house-the-center-for-global-sports-advancement/) - The Center for Global Sports Advancement was founded to connect sports industry expertise with emerging cities and countries around the world that desire to develop their economies and people through sports.
- [Sagamore and Rotary's Work in Kenya](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamore-and-rotarys-work-in-kenya/) - Carole Kariuki Kariuki joins ISOKO as the CEO of Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), a business consortium seeking to create an enabling business environment in Kenya and East Africa
- [Sagamore Institute hosts Rwandan-U.S. Ambassador Mathilde Mukantabana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamore-institute-hosts-rwandan-u-s-ambassador-mathilde-mukantabana/) - The Sagamore Institute was honored to welcome Her Excellency Mathilde Mukantabana, Rwandan-U.S. Ambassador for a special event this fall, affirming the Indianapolis-based think tank’s continuing commitment to development in Africa.
- [Hoosier Mayors Drive U.S./China Ties](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/hoosier-mayors-drive-us-china-ties/) - Wayne Seybold is well-known as an Olympic ice skater. He is also earning a reputation as an innovative two-term mayor of his hometown of Marion. But few Hoosiers are aware of his role as global trade warrior.
- [World Food Day 2017](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/world-food-day-2017/) - On World Food Day, agricultural experts and concerned citizens gathered at the Sagamore Institute in Indianapolis to discuss best practices for addressing hunger issues for more than 800 million people worldwide.
- [Spreading Farming Tips and The Gospel in Liberia](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/spreading-farming-tips-and-the-gospel-in-liberia/) - They aren't really having a midlife crisis. Frankfort's Travis and Gina Sheets just want to do something significant with the second half of their lives.
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/frequently-asked-questions/) - Sagamore launched an impact investing fund to expand market-based solutions to society’s toughest challenges. In other words, it’s where capitalism meets philanthropy. These two great traditions in America has led to unprecedented growth and compassion. Tying these two strands together guards against the unintended consequences of wealth accumulation and poverty fighting.
- [Bringing Venture Capital Discipline to the Nonprofit Sector](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bringing-venture-capital-discipline-to-the-nonprofit-sector/) - Americans give $ 1 billion to charity every day and nonprofits account for 1 in 10 jobs in the American economy. These numbers suggest that the social sector is big business yet it’s really small business with a sore lack of market discipline.
- [Why Donor Advised Funds as Revenue Stream?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/why-donor-advised-funds-as-revenue-stream/) - Donor advised funds are one of the fastest growing trends in the financial services industry. There are now over a quarter million funds which have grown in the double digits each of the past seven years. Assets are over $80 billion and funds to nonprofits each year are approximately $15 billion.
- [Dan and Marsha Coats Foundation for the Public Good](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dan-and-marsha-coats-foundation-for-the-public-good/) - Senator Dan Coats and his wife Marsha established the Foundation for American Renewal in 1999 to champion effective principles of compassion.
- [Battleground States](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/battleground/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Battleground States Innovation and the Marketplace of Ideas There is a big difference between federal and national policy being formed across the nation. What happens in Washington does matter but it matters less than conventional wisdom would suggest. While the media covers who’s up and who’s down inside the Beltway,
- [New Energy Solutions](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/new-energy-solutions/) - Add Your Heading Text Here New Energy Solutions Sustainability: The Capacity to Endure With current U.S. energy prices spiraling upward, Americans are confronted once again with the vulnerability of energy supply and its “capacity to endure.” Energy demand is on the rise as developing countries build more buildings and drive more autos. Meanwhile, energy supply
- [Kenosha and The Turncoat](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/kenosha-and-the-turncoat/) - I find myself, like so many other people, trying to make sense of the stories of racial injustice that have filled my world and the narrative of my country, my people, and my communities. Often I wonder how it could still be happening.
- [Creating A More Perfect Union](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/creating-a-more-perfect-union/) - Add Your Heading Text Here A More Perfect Union Our founding framers laid out principles to establish a nation of unprecedented freedom, equality, and opportunity. In reality, however, the great American experiment is an imperfect reflection of this noble vision, an often divided collection of states and cultures and persons. Sagamore champions strategies that lead to reconciliation
- [Citizenship Art Gallery 2019](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship-art-gallery-2019/) - In July 2019, Sagamore Institute hosted the 5th annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship at the Harrison Center in Indianapolis.
- [A New Path to Peace in the Middle East?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-new-path-to-peace-in-the-middle-east/) - Training young Israeli and Arab leaders together shatters the Cold War mentality
- [Integrated Business Model Win-Win for Palestinians and Israelis](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/integrated-business-model-win-win-for-palestinians-and-israelis/) - Ever since the Oslo Accords of 1993, various attempts at segregating our populations have resulted in limited markets and heavily regulated trade.
- [Reflections on the 2019 USIEA Congressional Tour to Israel](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/reflections-on-the-2019-usiea-congressional-tour-to-israel/) - Having just returned from the US Israel Education Association (USIEA) 2019 Congressional Tour, I thought it important to share with you some reflections on this truly groundbreaking trip.
- [Milken Innovation Center on Palestinian Economic Growth](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/milken-innovation-center-on-palestinian-economic-growth/) - This policy brief argues that, given the political and diplomatic gridlock at which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict stands, new and innovative thinking is needed to spur economic development and build a stable foundation of shared growth.
- [SIG Policy Briefs](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sig-policy-briefs/) - The Secretaries' Innovation Group argues that the federal government must return key program and budget authority to states as exemplified by the successful 1996 law which reformed welfare and created TANF. An effective, secure safety net can be built around clearly delineated federal objectives that include work, economic self-sufficiency and healthy family life.
- [Our Team-SIG](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/our-team-sig/) - Our members are made up of activist Secretaries of human service and workforce agencies (sometimes titled directors or commissioners).
- [Rebuilding Indiana's Infrastructure](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/rebuilding-indianas-infrastructure/) - When Mitch Daniels became Governor in 2004, you could travel the entire 157 miles of Indiana’s toll road, which spans the northern part of the state, for $4.65. If you think that sounds like a pretty good deal, you’d be right.
- [Broadband Leadership from the Hoosier State](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/broadband-leadership-from-the-hoosier-state/) - When Mitch Daniels was elected, Indiana ranked 40th in the nation in broadband deployment. Only 18 percent of households had broadband access.
- [Tax Amnesty](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/tax-amnesty/) - As a disciplined fiscal conservative, Mitch Daniels gained a national reputation for insisting that every cent of every taxpayer dollar be managed rigorously. As Governor, he frequently spoke of the duty of elected leaders to remember that the citizens who put them in office are also ultimately the ones paying their salaries.
- [Balancing the Budget Amidst an Economic Crisis](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/balancing-the-budget-amidst-an-economic-crisis/) - Indiana had a $700 million deficit at the start of 2005 and a $2 billion surplus by end of 2012. During this seven-year stretch, America experienced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. All across America, states were facing fiscal crises during this period, but not Indiana. Why?
- [Strategic Purchasing](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/strategic-purchasing/) - For several decades, public innovators have wrestled with privatization and using competition to bring better quality and value into government operations. Many efforts stand or fall on the abilities and commitment of individual public managers here and there, but system-wide outsourcing often proves difficult to achieve.
- [Better, Faster, Cheaper: An Answer to a Fiscal Nightmare](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/better-faster-cheaper-an-answer-to-a-fiscal-nightmare/) - Grim doesn’t even begin to describe the fiscal nightmare at all levels of government. The silver lining? The daunting fiscal reality is forcing a reexamination of every aspect of public sector operations.
- [Making Government Work](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/making-government-work/) - Seven minutes. It was astounding when Michael Phelps and his American freestyle relay team broke the seven-minute mark to win the gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
- [Elevate](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/elevate/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Elevate Indianapolis Attacking America's Dropout Crisis America’s high school dropout crisis is one of the surest routes into poverty and prison. Sagamore identified Elevate as the #1 solution to not only high school competition but poverty alleviation in our nation’s urban public schools. Therefore, Sagamore helped incubate Elevate Indianapolis and
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2020](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/icoc-2020/) - Join us on September 17, 2020 for a conversation with John Bridgeland and Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky.
- [NCCO's Team](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/our-team-ncco/) - VADM Mike Bucchi, USN (Ret.) was commissioned in 1970 and completed flight training to be designated a Naval Flight Aviator. He retired in 2003 after an active duty tour as Commander of the United States Third Fleet and joined Ocean Systems Engineering Corporation (OSEC) as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.
- [Ocean Luncheon with Scott Weiss](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ocean-luncheon-with-scott-weiss/) - Dr. Amy Sherman delivered a talk to Q Ideas in New York City on the themes of her book, Kingdom Calling. Amy explains how we should all use our vocational power to make the world rejoice.
- [Some Books Make Us Free](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/some-books-make-us-free/) - We are living through what feels like an era of unprecedented division in our nation. We also have an unprecedented opportunity. The coronavirus crisis divided us physically.
- [The Duties and Privileges of Citizenship](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-duties-and-privileges-of-citizenship/) - It seems fitting for a group such as ours to meet this evening in the First Amendment Room of the National Press Club. Two years after the creation of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison led the original U.S. Congress in crafting the First Amendment. They met in New York City beginning on March 4, 1789, to draft and approve what has become our Bill of Rights.
- [This Glorious Past](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/this-glorious-past/) - Louis Levey built the Levey Mansion in 1905 and located it in the distinctive Meridian corridor during Indiana’s cultural golden era, which lasted from the early 19th century and into the early 20th.
- [Tavetta Patterson](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/tavetta-patterson/) - Indiana Citizen: Tavetta Patterson Norm Heikens Writing Off Intimidation Tavetta Patterson knows attending college can be intimidating for the first generation in a family. She did it herself in the ’90s. Now she is helping hundreds of children in the Gary area and Illinois make the plunge.Patterson started Gary Life Education Initiative in her hometown soon after
- [Earle Hart](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/earle-hart/) - Indiana Citizen: Earle Hart Norm Heikens ‘Retirement’ leads to outreach helping hundreds find new careers By his own admission, Earle Hart isn’t suited to watching daytime television. Good thing for jobless people that he isn’t. Hundreds have found new careers through the Passport to Employment program he started in retirement during the early months of
- [Citizens As Culture Makers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizens-as-culture-makers/) - How can individuals make a difference in today’s culture? Arguably one of the most effective vehicles by which communities are shaped and transformed, culture-making is a powerful tool for progress; the arts unify communities, shape individuals, and beautify and enliven neighborhood blocks.
- [Jailhouse Religion, Spiritual Transformation, and Long-Term Change](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jailhouse-religion-spiritual-transformation-and-long-term-change/) - “Jailhouse religion”—the sudden desperate piety of an inmate who’s up against it and hopes that God will somehow bail him out.I’m reminded of an inmate who spent 90 percent of his time in disciplinary confinement until he got “saved.”
- [Justice and Social Sin](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/justice-social-sin/) - Living in an individualist culture, we tend to have a very individualistic view of sin. We think of our specific actions or attitudes. And we need to do that because there is such a thing as personal sin.
- [Justice: The Paradox of Power and Humility](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/justice-power-humility/) - How we do the work of justice is characterized by a particular attitude of the heart. In order for us to be people who steward our power for a lifestyle of justice, we have to understand that we do it with a healthy, deliberate, studied recognition of the paradox of our power.
- [A Theology of Justice](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/justice-theology/) - It’s time for the Church to pay attention to justice, because justice is close to the heart of God. Doing justice is a critical part of every Christian’s vocational call. It is, according to Micah 6:8, something that “the Lord requires of us.”
- [Justice Missions](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/justice-missions/) - “Justice mission” is part of the essential calling of the Church corporately as we seek to follow in Christ’s footsteps, imitating His Kingdom mission. Justice is, according to Micah 6:8, something that “the Lord requires of us.” But what does it mean to do justice? How is this lived out?
- [Indiana General Assembly Endorses Reentry Program](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-general-assembly-endorses-reentry-program/) - The Indiana General Assembly took the unusual step today of endorsing unanimously a reentry program for women leaving prison that was conceived and developed by the women themselves. The program, Constructing Our Future, calls for women to be trained in building trades and spend time while incarcerated rehabilitating some of the thousands of abandoned homes in Indianapolis.
- [Improving the State's Corrections System](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/corrections-reforms/) - Before Mitch Daniels was elected Governor in 2004, Indiana was in the midst of trends toward building more prisons, increasing corrections spending, and yet an increasing recidivism rate among inmates. The Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) was in dire need of major reforms.
- [Using Data to Fight Crime](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/using-data-to-fight-crime/) - Sagamore Institute vice president Troy Riggs became nationally renowned for using data to prevent crime and build healthier Indianapolis neighborhoods.
- [2016 Report (HEA 1006)](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2016-report/) - Sagamore’s 2016 criminal justice reform report first aims to establish a baseline understanding of the Indiana criminal justice system’s status in June 2014, immediately before HEA 1006 took effect.
- [Impact of Transitional Jobs on Reentry](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/recycling-people-to-combat-recidivism-recycleforce/) - In 2008, Workforce, Inc. (WFI), a recycling company on Indianapolis’ Near Eastside that hires ex-prisoners, received a federal grant, Job Opportunities for Low Income Individuals (JOLI), to hire 481 ex-prisoners to assist them in the process of reentering society. Sagamore Research Fellow Rhonda Shipley evaluated the success of the grant in the report “Impact of Transitional Jobs: A Study of Ex-Offenders in Indianapolis,” released in October 2010.
- [Returning Citizens](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/returning-citizens/) - The complex subject of justice reform breaks down into three large categories: how to reform the laws, how to improve the prisons, and how to repair the lives of those who made a bad decision and they’re now facing a hopeless array of bad options.
- [Identifying Effective Police Strategies](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/identifying-effective-police-strategies/) - The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), working with police chiefs and mayors, have raised the concern that following a steady decline in violent crime that began in the early 1990s, the nation’s cities are experiencing an increasing violent crime trend.
- [Scholar Spotlight: Andrew Falk](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/scholar-spotlight-andrew-falk/) - Scholar Spotlight: Andrew Falk Andrew Falk is a Senior Fellow with the Sagamore Institute, with a research focus on criminal justice reform and international environmental and energy law.Andrew‘s initial project upon joining the Sagamore Institute was to lead a team working to research and draft reports analyzing Indiana’s criminal justice reforms (HEA 1006). Andrew and the team provided annual
- [Thinking Globally with Alan Dowd](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/thinking-globally-with-alan-dowd/) - Senior Fellow Alan W. Dowd heads the Center for America’s Purpose (CAP) at Sagamore Institute. CAP was launched in 2014 to promote America’s leadership role in the world through published work and policy speeches.
- [The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-rise-of-global-civil-society-building-communities-and-nations-from-the-bottom-up/) - In 2008, the Bradley Foundation funded then Sagamore Senior Fellow Don Eberly to write The Rise of Global Civil Society. In the book, Eberly calls attention to the role of volunteerism and compassion as “America’s most consequential export.” In an increasingly globalized world, charity and citizen-led initiatives are becoming an integral part of the development conversation.
- [Rich Westlake](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/rich-westlake/) - Chief Financial Officer
- [Jerry Semler](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jerry-semler/) - Trustee
- [Donald Palmer](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-donald-palmer/) - Trustee
- [James Morris](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-james-morris/) - Trustee
- [Claudia Cummings](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-claudia-cummings/) - Trustee
- [David Helmer](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-david-helmer/) - Trustee
- [Mike Bucchi](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-mike-bucchi/) - Treasurer
- [Jean Wojtowicz](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jean-wojtowicz/) - Vice Chair
- [Summer Interns](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2018-summer-intern-highlight/) - As we welcome our 2019 summer cohort of interns, we look back to one of last summer’s experiences. 2018 summer intern and Notre Dame student Chaya Cassell shares about her experience in the Sagamore Institute program. Click here or the image below to watch the video.
- [C.E. Crouse](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-c-e-crouse/) - Chief Financial Officer Emeritus
- [Anne Raway](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-anne-raway/) - Operations Manager
- [Joanna Brown](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-joanna-brown/) - Senior Fellow
- [Andrew Falk](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-andrew-falk/) - Senior Fellow
- [Jamie Goodwin](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jamie-goodwin/) - Senior Fellow
- [Brian Hudson](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-brian-hudson/) - Partner | Clapham Group
- [Noah Manyika](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-noah-manyika/) - Senior Fellow
- [Jeff Sparks](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jeff-sparks/) - Senior Fellow
- [Brittany Vessley](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-brittany-vessley/) - Senior Fellow
- [John Waters](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-john-waters/) - Senior Fellow
- [Rick Baker](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-rick-baker/) - Senior Fellow
- [David Bell](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-david-bell/) - Partner | Circle City Fellows
- [Chuck Bentley](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-chuck-bentley/) - Partner | Christian Economic Forum
- [Jesse Carlton](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jesse-carlton/) - Partner | Indiana Defense Network
- [Jim Dotson](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jim-dotson/) - Partner | Mission Triangle
- [Darrin Gray](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-darrin-gray/) - Partner | Center for Serving Leadership
- [Bryan Kelley](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-bryan-kelley/) - Partner | Prison Entrepreneurship Program
- [Matt Konkler](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-matt-konkler/) - Senior Fellow
- [Toby Malichi](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-toby-malichi/) - Senior Fellow
- [Toby Miller](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-toby-miller/) - Partner | One Heart Indiana
- [Burgess Owens](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-burgess-owens/) - Partner | Second Chance 4 Youth
- [Craig Westrick](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-craig-westrick/) - Trustee
- [John Stahl-Wert](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-john-stahl-wert/) - Partner | Center for Serving Leadership
- [Aaron Story](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-aaron-story/) - Partner | Elevate Indianapolis
- [Matthew Rohrs](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-matthew-rohrs/) - Senior Fellow
- [Shawn Peterson](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-shawn-peterson/) - Partner | Catholic Education Partners
- [Steve Riach](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-steve-riach/) - Partner | One Heart Project
- [Jason Turner](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-jason-turner/) - Senior Fellow | Secretaries Innovation Group
- [Mary Jo Hein](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bio-mary-jo-hein/) - Assistant Director | Scholarships for Education Choice
- [A Disengaged America, an Eroding International Order](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-disengaged-america-an-eroding-international-order/) - Order is essential for individuals and nations alike. We need order to pursue happiness, to maintain free government within nations, to carry out trade among nations, to keep peace between nations.
- [Houses of Worship Join Together for Crisis Training](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/houses-of-worship-join-together-for-crisis-care-training/) - Houses of Worship Join Together for Crisis Care Training On September 11, 2017, The Sagamore Institute was pleased to host the first-ever gathering of Indianapolis’ edition of the Ready to Respond Together (RTRT) Project, a collaboration of Christian and Muslim groups in cooperation with local law enforcement.The RTRT Project, sponsored by the Christian Emergency Network
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2018](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2018-icoc/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2018 The New Era of Corporate Responsibility: Social Impact On November 8, 2018, Sagamore Institute hosted the 4th Annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship and inaugural Venture Competition at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Please watch the recap videos below, view the highlights from our keynote speakers
- [Constitution Day Symposium](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/constitution-day-symposium/) - Despite the vast centralization of power in Washington D.C. in the 20th and 21st centuries, the idea and need for a renewed federalism continues to guide the debates around the proper spheres of national and state governments.
- [One Country One Race](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/one-country-one-race/) - Ask a random sampling of Americans to name the key turning points in the country’s struggle against racism, and most would cite the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, Rosa Parks’s quiet defiance on a city bus, and Martin Luther King’s march on Washington.
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2019](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/icoc-2019/) - On February 28th, 2020, Sagamore Institute hosted an art gallery event in partnership with the Harrison Center for the Arts and sponsored by Indiana Humanities. The gallery includes 8 original pieces from seven local artists centered around the theme of citizenship. These pieces highlight the unique perspectives of Heartland and Indiana citizens throughout the history of our great American experiment.
- [Amy's Q Talk](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/amys-q-talk/) - Dr. Amy Sherman delivered a talk to Q Ideas in New York City on the themes of her book, Kingdom Calling. Amy explains how we should all use our vocational power to make the world rejoice.
- [Rethinking Wealth](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/rethinking-wealth/) - Commonwealth has developed this set of resources to help our impact investing community rethink wealth and excel in stewardship: To Make the World Rejoice, Citizens as Better Economic Actors, and Churches as better Economic Actors. Listen as Commonwealth managing director Jay Hein introduces these themes in his 2019 Rethinking Wealth address.
- [More God Less Crime](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/more-god-less-crime/) - On July 18, 2011, Sagamore Institute hosted a book signing with criminologist Byron R. Johnson. Through years of research, Johnson has uncovered strong evidence that religion can be a powerful antidote to crime, but why is it that this “faith factor” is rarely included in traditional conversations about prisoner rehabilitation? In his new release More God, Less Crime, Johnson explores this discrepancy and provides readers with practical insights that could transform the effectiveness of our current criminal justice system.
- [Breakfast with Corban Addison and Dr. Amy Sherman](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/breakfast-with-corban-addison-and-dr-amy-sherman/) - On June 24, 2013, Sagamore Institute was pleased to host bestselling author Corban Addison and Dr. Amy Sherman for a discussion on human rights and modern-day slavery. Addison’s recent works—A Walk Across the Sun and The Garden of Burning Sand—combine compelling narrative with the realties of human suffering. Joining him was Dr. Amy Sherman, the Director of Sagamore Institute’s Center on Faith in Communities, who offered reflections on behalf of the International Justice Mission where she is a Senior Fellow. Following their presentations, the speakers dialogued with community stakeholders about human trafficking in Indianapolis.
- [Navajo Code Talkers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/code-talkers/) - On March 25, 2010, Sagamore Institute hosted the first annual “Celebrating American Ideas” gala, where the first Celebrating American Ideas award was presented to members of the Navajo Code Talkers who transformed their ancient language into an indecipherable military code.
- [Celebrating American Ideas Gala](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/celebrating-american-ideas/) - On March 25, 2010, Sagamore Institute hosted the first annual “Celebrating American Ideas” gala, where the first Celebrating American Ideas award was presented to members of the Navajo Code Talkers who transformed their ancient language into an indecipherable military code.
- [Compassion in Action Roundtables](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/compassion-in-action-roundtables/) - In January 2007, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI), headed by Jay Hein, launched a series of monthly Compassion in Action Roundtable meetings to highlight organizations, programs, and policies addressing critical social needs. The roundtables convened and facilitated discussion between policymakers, government officials, philanthropists, and faith-based and community service providers around targeted issues.
- [The New Wisconsin Idea National Press Club Event](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-new-wisconsin-idea-national-press-club-event/) - On September 17, 2013, Sagamore hosted an event at the National Press Club to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the landmark Wisconsin legislation that ended the state welfare programs established by FDR. The event featured former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson on why he signed the legislation, and UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith on why the UK is adopting the Wisconsin Model to shape their own welfare reform agenda.
- [China in Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/china-in-africa/) - On April 26th, 2013, the Sagamore Institute hosted an event titled China in Africa: A New Model of International Development? This event explored questions that arise from the growing presence of China in Africa, with input from Chinese, US, and African scholars, and engaged the Indianapolis community in questions of Africa’s future development.
- [Mitch Daniels: Heartland Reformer old](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mitch-daniels-heartland-reformer-old/) - Can the government move at the speed of business? As Indiana governor and Indianapolis mayor respectively, Mitch Daniels and Steve Goldsmith proved that business principles can indeed be adopted as public policy. The result is smaller but much more effective public service saving taxpayer dollars and strengthening society. Their combined success story offers a blueprint for state, regional, and local officials in America and beyond.
- [Bearing the Burden](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bearing-the-burden/) - “It’s important to make sure our alliances are as strong as they possibly can be,” a presidential candidate declared not long ago. He promised to “work with our European friends” and explained that “building a durable peace will require strong alliances.”
- [The Canary in the Coalmine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-canary-in-the-coalmine/) - Eleven months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt shared his vision of “a world founded upon four essential human freedoms”: freedom of speech, freedom from fear, freedom from want and “freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.”
- [Indiana Hosts Important Ag Trading Partner](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-hosts-important-ag-trading-partner/) - Indiana hosted a delegation from China on Wednesday as part of an important trading relationship that benefits Hoosier agriculture. Lt. Governor Becky Skillman, joined by Madam Qiao Chuanxim, chairwoman of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the People’s Political Consultative Conference, commemorated the 25th anniversary of Indiana’s sister state relationship with Zhejiang Province. The event, held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, reciprocates a celebration held this past June in Hangzhou, China.
- [A New Nation Reinvented: The Northwest Ordinance](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-new-nation-reinvented-the-northwest-ordinance/) - After the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, American settlers transformed the wilderness of the Northwest Territory into “a more perfect union.”
- [Indiana Invests in National Treasures](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana-invests-in-national-treasures/) - Sagamore is honored to host an exhibit of historic, rare books that contributed to the shaping of the American idea through the ages. From a first edition of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to The Federalist (1788) to the works of Thomas Hobbes, Machiavelli and St. Augustine, this exhibit from the Remnant Trust brings history to life through the pages of original, first edition and rare manuscripts.
- [Dan and Marsha Coats, Sagamore Co-Founders](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dan-and-marsha-coats-sagamore-founders/) - The American Idea offers a society where all its citizens can flourish. Sagamore Institute honors those individuals and enterprises whose heroic action transformed lives at home and abroad.
- [Sagamore's COVID-19 Response](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamores-covid-19-response/) - The Sagamore Institute has deployed its research, consulting, and impact investing services to help Americans navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. We invite you to explore the following stories, showcasing this effort.
- [Establishing Citizenship Reading Room](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/establishing-citizenship-reading-room/) - Bart Peterson is Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Communications for Eli Lilly and Company. From 2000 to 2007, he served two terms as the mayor of Indianapolis. Before joining Lilly in 2009, Bart served as managing director of Strategic Capital Partners, as a fellow with the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and as a distinguished visiting professor of public policy at Ball State University.
- [American Security Post 9-11](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/american-security-post-9-11/) - September 11, 2001 is a day that changed the course of America forever. On that fateful Tuesday morning, nearly 3,000 of our citizens lost their lives in a senseless act of terrorism. I was in Berlin that day as the newly installed U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. It was my second day on the job. The first day was spent touring the Embassy, meeting my new staff and receiving my first security briefing.
- [Following in Colonel Eli Lilly's Footsteps](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/following-in-colonel-eli-lillys-footsteps/) - Bart Peterson is Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Communications for Eli Lilly and Company. From 2000 to 2007, he served two terms as the mayor of Indianapolis. Before joining Lilly in 2009, Bart served as managing director of Strategic Capital Partners, as a fellow with the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and as a distinguished visiting professor of public policy at Ball State University.
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2017](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/icoc-2017/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Conference on Citizenship 2017 Centennial Spirit On August 12, 2017, Sagamore Institute opened its doors to welcome the Society of Sagamores and others interested in a look to the past innovators to see what we can learn from their example. We looked to Indiana’s first century innovators such as
- [Can Popular Art Help Revive American Identity?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/can-popular-art-help-revive-american-identity/) - This past Friday evening, I sat in a room of more than fifty reds and blues—Tea Partiers, Black Lives Matters supporters, and everything in between—from across the country as part of the Better Angels national convention in St. Louis, Missouri.
- [Bicentennial Visioning Report and The Third Century Project](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bicentennial-visioning-report-and-the-third-century-project/) - “Observing the Indiana Bicentennial is a time to celebrate our history and all of the past contributions that have made us the state and the people that we are today.
- [Legatum Institute's Global Index of Economic Openness](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/gieo-launch/) - On May 17, 2019, London-based think tank Legatum Institute launched their Global Index of Economic Openness ranking 157 countries’ openness to commerce, analyzing what enables or hinders a country’s ability to trade domestically and internationally. This is central to our work on understanding how prosperity is created and perpetuated.
- [Aster Bekele](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/incitizen-aster-bekele/) - Founder and Executive Director of the Felege Hiywot Center
- [Carl Erskine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/carl-erskine/) - Former MLB Pitcher and recipient of the Sachem Award, Indiana's highest honor.
- [George Srour](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/george-srour/) - Co-founder and 'Chief Dreamer' of Building Tomorrow
- [Jim Walker](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jim-walker/) - Indiana Citizen: Jim Walker Brie Stoltzfus We met Jim Walker at the Hinge Bureau in Fletcher Place, next door to Fountain Square, the Indianapolis neighborhood where Big Car Collaborative, a creative placemaking/community development organization, began its experiment in artist-led neighborhood renewal. Big Car is going on its eleventh year working its way out of a
- [Kanwal Prakash Singh](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/kp-singh/) - Indiana Citizen: Kanwal Prakash Singh Brie Stoltzfus When the Super Bowl came to Indianapolis in 2012, Kanwal Prakash (KP) Singh was highlighted in the “XLVI Faces” video series as a Community Outreach Ambassador involved with welcoming visitors from all cultures to Indianapolis. In his characteristic way of delivering idea-packed sentences in a flowing cadence, he
- [Kristian Andersen](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/kristian-andersen/) - Indiana Citizen: Kristian Andersen Brie Stoltzfus Kristian Andersen is a force of nature—a self-described restless opportunity-seeker. His profile lists him as having co-founded 6 companies, and invested in over 40, not to mention his role as Studio Science’s founder and CEO. Not one to sit still for long, his latest project High Alpha is a
- [Nathan Hand](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/nathan-hand/) - Indiana Citizen: Nathan Hand Sally Mindrebo Nathan Hand has worn many hats within the philanthropic sector of Indianapolis. A graduate of IU’s School of Philanthropy, as well as a current faculty member of the Fund Raising School, he has spent years thinking about how to make philanthropic endeavors successful and connect people to the causes
- [Sandy Sasso](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sandy-sasso/) - Indiana Citizen: Sandy Sasso Brie Stoltzfus Rabbi Emerita Sandy Sasso is in her second year of retirement from 36 years of leading Congregation Beth-El Zedeck with her husband (Dennis C. Sasso) as the first rabbinic couple in Jewish history. It’s been a busy couple of years: Sandy has spent her time traveling nationally and internationally
- [Vince Bertram](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/vince-bertram/) - Indiana Citizen: Vince Bertram Sally Mindrebo While in decades past some may have described Indiana as a sleepy Mid-Western state, the progress of the new millennia has shown that Hoosiers have made wise investments in the future. One such decision came from the joint efforts of Governor Daniels and Mayor Ballard who in 2011 paved
- [Jeff Sparks](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jeff-sparks/) - Indiana Citizen: Jeff Sparks Jeff Spark is a Fellow at the Sagamore Institute and a board member of the Southeast Neighborhood Development Corporation (SEND) where he serves as Chairman of the Twin Aire Ad Hoc Committee focusing on renewing that neighborhood of Indianapolis. The decision to do this type of work came during a time
- [John Wechsler](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/john-wechsler/) - Indiana Citizen: Jim Walker John Wechsler has been noted again and again by community members as a leader in the entrepreneurial field of Indiana. He has played a pivotal role in over ten different companies within Indiana taking on a variety of titles such as founder, co-founder, partner, director, president, CEO, and COO as well
- [Bill Taft](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bill-taft/) - Indiana Citizen: Bill Taft Norm Heikens One of Indianapolis’ most productive citizens is featured in a well-deserved profile article in Indianapolis Business Journal. Bill Taft, executive director of the Indianapolis office of Local Initiatives Support Corp., has played key roles in turning around Fountain Square and other down-on-their-luck neighborhoods. His wife, Joanna, was a spark
- [Pete Dye](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/pete-dye/) - Indiana Citizen: Pete Dye Norm Heikens Legendary golf course designer Pete Dye is still collecting honors at age 91.The resident of the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, named a Sagamore of the Wabash by no fewer than three former Indiana governors—Matthew Welsh, Evan Bayh, and Mitch Daniels—has received a tip of the hat from Golf Week
- [John Lechleiter](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/john-lechleiter/) - Indiana Citizen: John Lechleiter Norm Heikens No corporation has done more to advance civic life in Indiana than Eli Lilly and Co. Through its own foundation and employees, as well as through the independent Lilly Endowment which was established in 1937, Lilly has sent largess rippling throughout Indianapolis and the state for more than a
- [Jane Owen](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jane-owen/) - Indiana Citizen: Jane Blaffer Owen Norm Heikens The tiny historic community of New Harmony, Indiana, might not be the eclectic haven it is today had Jane Blaffer Owen chosen a different path in life.Owen, who died in 2010 at age 95, was wealthier than most Americans can imagine. Indeed, her substantial means opened virtually endless
- [Sarah Lincoln Grigsby](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sarah-lincoln-grigsby/) - Indiana Citizen: Sarah Lincoln Grigsby Norm Heikens Citizenship can build ladders destined to be scaled by giants of history, and an act of citizenship can be as simple as helping a sibling with school. Eleven-year-old Sarah Lincoln took on the education of her younger brother and future president, Abraham, following the death of their mother,
- [Andrew Carnegie](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/andrew-carnegie/) - Indiana Citizen: Andrew Carnegie Norm Heikens Indiana benefited in a big way from a 19th century industrialist whose passion was offering everyone a chance to read. Andrew Carnegie funded 157 libraries in Indiana, more than in any other state.Carnegie rode the steelmaking boom to become one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs produced by the United States.
- [Jane Pauley](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jane-pauley/) - Indiana Citizen: Jane Pauley Norm Heikens Jane Pauley took the “CBS Sunday Morning” show she began hosting in November, 2016, to its highest ratings ever for a fourth quarter. The 6.04 million viewers the show attracted was up 8% from 2015 and the best in the show’s 29 years, according to TVNewser.Pauley, a television news
- [Civic Education in Marion County Study](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/civic-education-in-marion-county/) - In 2013, Sagamore Institute conducted research to discern the state of civic education in Marion County. This included surveying administrators and teacher in public, private, charter, and parochial schools about the extent to which certain topics were explained or included in lessons as well as areas of improvement.
- [David McCullough on Teaching Citizenship](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/david-mccullough-on-teaching-citizenship/) - During Dr. Cole’s tenure at NEH, he interviewed David McCullough, two-time Pulitzer award winning author of history and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, about the humanities and the role they play in building and preserving democracy.
- [MEI Dallas Pitch Competition](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/upcoming-mei-dallas/) - Commonwealth is dedicated to advancing minority-owned businesses through its partnership with the Minority Entrepreneurship Institute (MEI). On July 10th, 2020 Commonwealth will host the second annual MEI Showcase in Dallas, Texas. NFL star and founder of MEI Jaylon Smith hopes to use the MEI Showcase to unite and galvanize the Dallas community in the wake of COVID-19 and racial injustices.
- [Sagamore's Response to America's Unrest](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamores-response-to-americas-unrest/) - The tragedy of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis rocked America. The response revealed much division but also two lanes of action to bring healing and hope: criminal justice reform and expanding economic opportunity. Please see below for stories about Sagamore’s efforts in both of these strategies.
- [3 Myths That Block Progress for the Poor](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bill-gates-3-myths-that-block-progress-for-the-poor/) - By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Extreme poverty rates have been cut in half in the past 25 years. Child mortality is plunging. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient.
- [The Bradley Project on African Book Shelf](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-bradley-project-on-african-book-shelf/) - The nature of foreign aid has changed. What was once a conversation solely for the world’s governments has become democratized through private philanthropy, remittances, personal networks, local nonprofits doing global work and of course trade, business and investment.
- [China in Africa: A New Model of International Development](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/china-in-africa-a-new-model-of-international-development/) - Once upon a time, a very large, poor, but resource-rich country emerging from a period of intense conflict decided to focus on development. “We need to modernize our infrastructure,” they said. “We need to develop our power plants.” And soon they were visited from a wealthy Asian country that was already a major consumer of their oil.
- [The True Size of Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-true-size-of-africa/) - In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there also should be such a concept as "immappancy", meaning insufficient geographical knowledge.
- [The African Lion and the Dragon in the East](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-african-lion-and-the-dragon-in-the-east/) - China’s interest in Africa raises tough questions the world over. Maybe most pressingly for the United States: What does China’s pragmatic, multifaceted agenda on the African continent mean for African democracy, especially in light of the failures of Western aid?
- [Dambisa Moyo on China in Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dambisa-moyo-on-china-in-africa/) - Amidst her critique of the Western aid regime in her 2009 book Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo looked east for answers to Africa’s development questions.
- [China in Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/china-in-africa-2/) - Myths and realities about China’s ambitions in Africa abound: China is monolithic, mired in stale ideology, subverting the Bretton Woods system, and unwilling to provide global public goods.
- [Singapore and Africa: Lessons from Singapore](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/singapore-and-africa-lessons-from-singapore/) - When Singapore gained its independence from Great Britain in 1965, it was considered a “basket case.” Wealth was scarce at $400 GDP per capita, unemployment was high (14%), and sanitation and education services were poor.
- [KEPSA CEO Meets Sagamore President on Partnership and Sustainability](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/kepsa-ceo-meets-sagamore-president-on-partnership-and-sustainability/) - On 26th September 2019, KEPSA CEO, Ms. Carole Kariuki met with the President of Sagamore Institute, Mr. Jay Hein at the Institution’s headquarters in Indiana, U.S.A.
- [Racial Wealth Gaps and What Your Church Can Do About It](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/racial-wealth-gaps-and-what-your-church-can-do-about-it/) - A few years ago in a powerful op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote that “the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.”
- [Commonwealth Partners Respond to COVID-19](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/commonwealth-partners-respond-to-covid-19/) - Several Sagamore partners have stepped up to help members of their communities navigate the difficult challenges brought on by this pandemic. We encourage you to explore some ways our partners are doing their part in the fight against COVID-19.
- [Andrew Falk & Constructing Our Future](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/andrew-falk-constructing-our-future/) - Sagamore Institute Senior Fellow Andrew Falk is an accomplished attorney who has argued cases before Indiana’s Supreme Court, but it is his role as the first executive director of a reentry program for residents of a maximum-security prison for women that was the subject of a recent NPR interview.
- [Greater Indy Habitat for Humanity 30 Year Impact Study](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/greater-indy-habitat-for-humanity-30-year-impact-study/) - The Greater Indy Habitat for Humanity seeks to break the cycle of poverty for low-income families by enabling them to access simple, decent, and affordable housing. Since its founding in 1987, Greater Indy Habitat for Humanity has provided the opportunity of homeownership to more than 525 local families. This research builds upon the evaluation 2012 Social I
- [Liberty Fund Constitution Day](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/liberty-fund-constitution-day/) - Despite the vast centralization of power in Washington D.C. in the 20th and 21st centuries, the idea and need for a renewed federalism continues to guide the debates around the proper spheres of national and state governments. What should federalism look like in th 21st century? How should we undestand its origins, development, and current trajectory in America? This 2013 Constitution Day symposium explores federalism’s contribution to liberty in the American Republic and the Constitution’s division of power between the federal and state governments.
- [Saving Indiana’s Small Businesses](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/saving-indianas-small-businesses/) - Time is of the essence. Right now, saving Indiana’s small businesses means saving Indiana’s economy. Nearly half (44.9%) of Indiana’s workforce is employed by small businesses — 1.2 million Hoosiers, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. To say that the survival of small businesses is critical to Indiana’s economy is huge understatement.
- [Virtual Town Hall with Sen. Todd Young](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/virtual-town-hall-with-sen-todd-young/) - On April 16, 2020, the Sagamore Institute hosted a virtual town hall featuring US Senator Todd Young on the subject of America’s critical response to COVID-19. The Senator offered perspectives from both Washington and Indiana, and engaged in a Q&A session with participants on the call.
- [IBR Economic Forum](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ibr-economic-forum/) - While the politicians debate pathways to peace in the West Bank, a group of investors and entrepreneurs are advancing shared prosperity among the Israelis and Palestinians living there.This year, the Integrated Business Roundtable (IBR) will host their first “Shark Tank” style pitch competition as part of this prosperity effort. More details to come regarding event date, etc.
- [An Unexpected Intersection](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/an-unexpected-intersection-2/) - A project devoted to exploring the intersection of faith, liberty and national security may seem odd at first blush.
- [A High Price](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-high-price-2/) - Thanks to movies and television, most Americans know about the wall of stars near the entrance of the original CIA headquarters building—and rightly so.
- [Liberty and Security in the Cyber Age](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/liberty-and-security-in-the-cyber-age/) - U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) was elevated to full combatant-command status in May—joining other regional and functional combatant commands such as European Command and Special Operations Command.
- [Holding Back the Chaos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/holding-back-the-chaos/) - “The risk of interstate conflict, including among great powers, is higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War.”
- [The Costs of a Broken Oath](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-costs-of-a-broken-oath/) - The practice of taking an oath—pledging one’s word and even inviting some sort of divine punishment for breaking that word—dates back thousands of years.
- [Defending a Dirty Word](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defending-a-dirty-word/) - In 1929, after learning about a secret code-breaking intelligence operation jointly run by the Army and State Department, Secretary of State Henry Stimson promptly de-funded it, declaring, “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.”
- [Values to Bridge the Divide](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/values-to-bridge-the-divide/) - The threat posed by a rising China, though real, is simply not the existential threat posed by the Soviet Union and its vast global bloc of satellites. Yet a heavy cloud of uncertainty and unhappiness hangs over America.
- [Seeking the Truth in a Post-Truth Age](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/seeking-the-truth-in-a-post-truth-age/) - Truth. It’s a loaded word. From early in life, we learn that there are moments of truth—and that we must face the truth.
- [A Founding Father’s Fix for Troubled Times](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-founding-fathers-fix-for-troubled-times-2/) - From Syria and Ukraine, to the Arctic Circle and the INF Treaty, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is upending post-Cold War arrangements that kept the peace for a quarter-century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- [Wisdom in the Storm](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/wisdom-in-the-storm/) - Indeed, all of the information, data and knowledge in the world is worthless—or downright dangerous—if we don’t have the wisdom to make proper use of it. That’s our challenge in this age of endless data and information overload.
- [Consequences of a Socialist Revival](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/consequences-of-a-socialist-revival/) - With capitalism in the crosshairs, it’s time to educate these generations about the benefits of free enterprise—and the problems of socialism. People of faith can make this case with a clear conscience.
- [A Recipe for Crisis and Chaos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-recipe-for-crisis-and-chaos/) - Nevada is the latest state to sign on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV), a somewhat obscure movement that’s seeking a fundamental change to how the president is elected.
- [The Apollo Program's Helpful Perspective](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-apollo-programs-helpful-perspective/) - This month marks the 50th anniversary of one of mankind’s—and America’s—greatest achievements: landing a man on the moon and bringing him home safely.
- [Wrestling With Immigration](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/wrestling-with-immigration/) - Some of us thought the ugliness of the language President Trump used to describe certain members of Congress—alongside the ugliness of the language certain members of Congress used to describe law-enforcement agents trying to enforce the law on our southern border—would mark the low point of America’s 21st-century struggles with immigration.
- [AWOL Ambassadors?](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/awol-ambassadors/) - Is it time for people of faith to mount a “deliberate, strategic retreat” from America’s often-grimy culture and deeply-discordant public square? Author Rod Dreher thinks so.
- [Good, Great and Sad](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/good-great-and-sad/) - What was supposed to be a routine congratulatory phone call between America’s president and a newly elected foreign leader has mushroomed into a political scandal and constitutional showdown.
- [Seamless Cities](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/seamless-cities/) - Former St. Petersburg, Florida mayor Rick Baker was invited by Sagamore Institute to deliver remarks on his book, The Seamless City, at a 2012 nonprofit conference co-sponsored by Sagamore Institute and the Office Depot Foundation.
- [8 Questions for Mitch Daniels](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/8-questions-for-mitch-daniels/) - Most portrayals of him have focused upon his unconventional appeal. His lack of ideological sharp elbows combined with a nearly chronic obsession with parsimony has made him a subject of political intrigue —he’s just not like other political creatures. Newsweek’s feature on Daniels described his “reality-based conservatism” as a “model of post-Reagan, post-Dubya, post-Obama governance.” Politico, quoting a Daniels friend, noted that his “sober sensibility” is a part of his appeal. He was a frugal cost-cutter before it was cool, and now it’s paying him dividends.
- [The New Wisconsin Idea](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-new-wisconsin-idea/) - Ending welfare as we know it. This was the signature line from Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992 proving that he was a new kind of Democrat. It was also a signal that bipartisan consensus had been achieved to end 60 years of entitlement welfare with policies that would empower the poor to become self-sufficient. Wisconsin was the first state to turn Clinton’s slogan into reality. The result was a 90% reduction in welfare assistance combined with record levels of employment for single mothers and reduced poverty.
- [Mapping Ohio's Compassion](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mapping-ohios-compassion/) - In March 2013, the Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (GOFBCI) sponsored a request for proposals for a multifaceted research study on the social service activities and financing of the state’s nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and houses of worship
- [Fighting Human Trafficking](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/fighting-human-trafficking/) - When bestselling author Corbin Addison wrote his first novel, A Walk Across the Sun, he had no reason to believe that his work would be endorsed by the literary legend Robert Grisham, being that Grisham had never before endorsed an author seeking a publisher. But upon reading Addison’s book Grisham did just that, as he became enthralled by the tale of the sex-slave trade in contemporary India.
- [Reforming Criminal Justice in Indiana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/reforming-criminal-justice-in-indiana/) - Before 2013, the last comprehensive review of the Indiana Criminal Code began when Governor Otis Bowen signed an executive order in 1973 reorganizing the Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission. The Commission began reworking the Criminal Code that same year and finished a proposed final draft in October 1974. The revised Criminal Code took effect January 1, 1976.
- [Fighting Abuse](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/fighting-abuse/) - One of the greatest crime problems facing many states has been the production, sale, and use of methamphetamines. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has labeled methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug with potent central nervous system stimulant properties, second only to alcohol and marijuana as the drug used most frequently in many Midwestern and Western states.
- [Agriculture as Economic Engine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/agriculture-as-economic-engine/) - Agriculture is central to African development. Agriculture in Africa generates 40% of the continent’s gross national product. It constitutes 40% of Africa’s export and 70%-80% of employment.
- [A Caring Citizen Sparks a Movement](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-caring-citizen-sparks-a-movement/) - In America one-fifth of our children live in poverty. In Indianapolis more than a third of our children don’t have enough to eat. How can this happen in our land of “too much everything”?
- [Night of Inspiration 2018](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/night-of-inspiration-2018/) - On Saturday, December 15, 2018, Constructing Our Future held our Second Annual Night of Inspiration. In addition to sharing our story, we were also excited to present some of the partners who are committed to working with us. Below you can listen to the full audio from the event or individual speakers. We hope you are inspired by these compelling stories. Please let us know if you would like any of us to speak at an event or if you would like to learn more about Constructing Our Future.
- [2019 Rwanda Ambassador Visit](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2019-rwanda-ambassador-visit/) - Rwanda Ambassador Dr. Charles Murigande attended along with other Rwanda young professionals in order to strengthen ties with Sagamore and engage in conversations about Indiana businesses and investment opportunities. Sagamore President Jay Hein was also in attendance, along with senior fellow and head of Africa and Rwanda initiatives Donald Cassell, who orchestrated the event in collaboration with Rwanda officials.
- [A Little American Myth-Making Never Hurt Anyone](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-little-american-myth-making-never-hurt-anyone/) - Throughout time and place, people have understood themselves and the world around them through stories that have meaning beyond the events described in the narrative itself.
- [Press Club Event: Tommy Thompson & Iain Duncan Smith](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/national-press-club-event/) - In September 2013, we gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Wisconsin’s welfare reform and to look ahead at the next round of reforms necessary in the United States and the United Kingdom.
- [Bringing America back to work!](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/bringing-america-back-to-work/) - How and when does America get back to normal? Tuesday, President Trump is announcing his Reopening Council, the group that will advise him on the task of recovering from the Covid19 disaster and bringing America back to the country that we enjoyed just a few months ago. This is welcome news.
- [The Lingering Effects of Lynching on Your Ministry: An Untold Story](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-lingering-effects-of-lynching-on-your-ministry-an-untold-story/) - On April 12, 2019, Sagamore scholar Rev. James White joined the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in hosting a talk entitled “The Lingering Effects of Lynching on your Ministry: An Untold Story.” This talk explores the ongoing effects that lynching, or sin of any sort, has on the proclamation of the gospel. Rev. White reminds us that “whenever [we] use words like ‘lynching’… we often miss that what happens in history is very much today.”
- [Virtual Town Hall with Senator Todd Young on COVID 19](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/virtual-town-hall-with-senator-todd-young/) - On April 16, 2020, the Sagamore Institute hosted a virtual town hall featuring US Senator Todd Young on the subject of America’s critical response to COVID-19. The Senator offered perspectives from both Washington and Indiana, and engaged in a Q&A session with participants on the call. He reminded participants that we are all in this together. However, when COVID-19 is a thing of the past, he encourages us to keep practicing what we have learned throughout these trying times, such as checking in with our family, friends, neighbors and loved ones more often. We invite you to watch Sen. Young encourage his fellow Hoosiers and offer a message of hope for the future.
- [2019 PEP Pitch Competition](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/2019-pep-pitch-competition/) - On November 201th, 2019, The Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) hosted the “Barbed Wire to Business Accelerator–Fueling Growth through Impact Investing” event at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. The event showcased three Prison Entrepreneurship Program graduate-owned companies. Sharks included Mark Holden (Koch Industries), Biggs Burke (record executive and film producer), Doug Deason (Dallas investor), and Joe Horford (PEP Pennsylvania founder).
- [Richard Brookhiser Book Event](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/richard-brookhiser-book-event/) - On April 16th, 2019, Sagamore Institute hosted a book event featuring Richard Brookhiser where he discussed his newest book, John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Court Supreme. This event included remarks by Mr. Brookhiser, a Q&A session, and a book signing.
- [Jonathan Whitacre](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jonathan-whitacre/) - Controller
- [A High Price](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-high-price/) - By Alan W. Dowd Thanks to movies and television, most Americans know about the wall of stars near the entrance of the original CIA headquarters building—and rightly so. Those 125 stars (and counting) serve as a silent and somber memorial to CIA personnel who have fallen in the line of duty, protecting us from our enemies. Those
- [A Dangerous World](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-dangerous-world/) - By Alan W. Dowd If there was any doubt about whether U.S. engagement in the world makes a difference – and whether aggressor nations capitalize on U.S. disengagement – recent developments in Europe, the Pacific and the Middle East should put it to rest. Blissful, neutral, idyllic Sweden is for the first time since 1961
- [A Clarifying Moment for the West](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-clarifying-moment-for-the-west/) - By Alan W. Dowd In mid-July, after a chaotic week of unforced errors courtesy of President Donald Trump, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats calmly explained that Russia’s efforts “to undermine our basic values,” “divide us from our allies,” and “wreak havoc with our election process” are “undeniable,” grimly concluding: “We’re under attack.” Noting that “the very
- [A Corroding Democratic Order](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-corroding-democratic-order/) - By Alan W. Dowd y 14, 2019 The natural order of the world, as we are being reminded on a daily basis, is not all that orderly. That’s a problem because order is important. In fact, it’s essential for individuals and nations alike. We need some modicum of order to live our lives and interact
- [A Dangerous Either-Or Dilemma](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-dangerous-either-or-dilemma/) - By Alan W. Dowd Landing Zone, June 11, 2019 Policymakers in the White House and Congress are coming under criticism for rejecting the Navy’s plans to retire the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman just halfway through its projected service life. The Navy’s rationale in proposing early retirement for Truman is to save money and invest its finite resources into
- [A Clarifying Moment for the West](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-clarifying-moment-for-the-west-2/) - Churches, charities and businesses are fighting COVID19 and helping Americans in need.

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- [America's Next 250](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/america-250/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Celebrating the past 250 years by renewing the American Dream for the next quarter millennium On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. On the same date, Sagamore will publish a book highlighting our work to invest in America’s Next 250—revitalizing Main Street,
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- [Center for America's Purpose](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/defense/cap/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Center for America’s Purpose (CAP) was launched to promote America’s leadership role in the world. Headed by Sagamore Institute Senior Fellow Alan W. Dowd, CAP identifies historical guideposts to bolster national-security strategy in the 21st century, applies the lessons of history to the challenges of today and seeks to remind
- [The Crisis in Ukraine](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/defense/the-crisis-in-ukraine/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Crisis in Ukraine Perspectives from Senior Fellow Alan W. Dowd Senior Fellow Alan W. Dowd heads the Center for America’s Purpose (CAP) at Sagamore Institute. CAP was launched in 2014 to promote America’s leadership role in the world through published work and policy speeches. In addition, Dowd manages and authors Sagamore’s
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- [Sagamore Network](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/network/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Sagamore network We believe society is transformed by a network of partners who join forces for the greater good. The Sagamore Network is an overlapping collection of policy experts, advisors, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and impact investors who form strategic alliances to solve big problems. This network of friends forms loose ties
- [Workforce 2040](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/workforce-2040/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana stands at a pivotal moment. Unprecedented disruptions challenge the equilibrium of our state’s economy. Leading indicators suggest that inaction or a tentative response will further erode the level of prosperity we presently enjoy. Concurrently, thoughtful observers point to the tremendous opportunities that lie on the other side of some
- [Athlete Impact Strategies](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ventures/athletes/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Athlete Impact Strategies Sagamore partners with RISE Family Office to help professional athletes become entrepreneurs and high-impact players off the field. Our services range from consulting to managing the athletes’ foundations or non-profits. Our Athletes Our Ventures Our Director Shadece McFadden is Director of Athlete Impact at Sagamore, where she
- [Osprey Impact](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ventures/osprey/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Osprey Impact Bridging the Innovation-to-Deployment Gap About the Founder US Army Major General Dave Grange is a living legend. He is the son of the namesake of the Army Rangers’ “Best Ranger” competition. He also served as a Ranger and finished his military career as commanding general of the 1st
- [Sagamore Solutions](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/get-involved/subscribe-to-newsletter/) - Read the latest newsletter To build and implement solutions to society's biggest problems. Sagamore Solutions is a monthly e-newsletter featuring efforts to advance our core mission: to build and implement solutions to society’s biggest problems. Each month, we showcase Sagamore Fellows and Partners who are putting ideas into action, as well as a few quick
- [About The Center for America's Purpose](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/defense/cap/about-the-center-for-americas-purpose/) - Add Your Heading Text Here About the Center for America's Purpose America’s role in the world has been debated since the founding. In his farewell address, President George Washington warned against “foreign alliances, attachments and intrigues.” President Thomas Jefferson echoed that view, calling for “peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with
- [Careers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/get-involved/careers/) - Careers Sagamore is a nonpartisan public policy think tank rooted in the Heartland of Indiana with a national influence and a global reach. Together, Sagamore’s scholars, staff, and partners build and implement solutions to society’s biggest problems. Through research, consulting, and impact investing, we fight for a society uplifted by heartland policy innovation, business solutions,
- [Forum](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/forum/) - Add Your Heading Text Here FORUM Creating a Better World Introduction Forum exists to serve leaders and influencers from all sectors of society to create a better world. Through lectures, salons, and working groups, Forum draws together senior leaders of character with a transformational mindset to form a cross-sector network who want to use their
- [Reindustrialization](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense/reindustrialize/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Reindustrialization Revitalizing our industrial core to secure our economy, strengthen national security, and empower Midwest communities Why reindustrialize? Reindustrialization is essential to strengthen America’s competitiveness, rebuild economic resilience, and ensure our national security. This is especially important to the Midwest, where industrial leadership has long powered American prosperity. Read More
- [Indiana Conference on Citizenship](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/icoc/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Conference on Citizenship On February 24, 2026, Sagamore hosted a special edition of its Indiana Conference on Citizenship featuring constitutional scholar and political scientist Yuval Levin. Learn More An Annual Citizenship Conference Our nation was founded on the idea that citizens would be at the center of the American
- [Defense](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense/) - Defense America faces a more complex, more volatile, more dangerous threat environment than anything we have seen since the Cold War. State and nonstate actors are developing tech-enabled weaponry and assaulting the global commons from the seas to space to cyberspace. Sagamore is helping bolster the Midwest’s defense innovators with new technologies and advanced manufacturing
- [The Fourth Coast](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense/fourth-coast/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Fourth Coast & America's Maritime Renewal Next generation industries and innovations run through the Great Lakes & Heartland What's the Fourth Coast? America’s “Fourth Coast” is the vast Great Lakes shoreline—over 5,300 miles along the U.S. side—that forms one of the nation’s most significant yet often overlooked maritime regions
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- [Midwest Defense Summits](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense/mds/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Midwest’s premier national security and innovation conference Upcoming Event 2026 Midwest Defense Summit Join us for the third annual Sagamore Midwest Defense Summit, where national security leaders, policymakers, and innovators unite to explore how the Heartland’s air and land power are driving the future of U.S. defense. June 10-11
- [Sagamore Network Events](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/network/events/) - Add Your Heading Text Here events Information and recaps from events and convenings across the Sagamore Network Forum One Big Thing Sagamore co-hosts Forum quarterly salon-type dinners at the Penn Club in New York City and the University Club in Washington DC. Past speakers include Arthur Brooks, Baroness Philippa Stroud, Yuval Levin, Erica Komisar and
- [Podcast | Manufacturing leaders say industry’s future looks bright in Indiana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/solutions-with-sagamore/) - Solutions with Sagamore is a podcast that hosts knowledgeable and solution-oriented conversations about the big challenges facing Indiana, our nation, and the world. Ep. 9 | Manufacturing leaders say industry’s future looks bright in Indiana Bryce Carpenter, chief operating and strategy officer with Conexus Indiana, and Andrew Berger, president and CEO of the Indiana Manufacturers
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- [Sagamore Ventures](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ventures/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Sagamore ventures Enterprise solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems. Sagamore Ventures is a collection of enterprise solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems. We support a select number of entrepreneurs and enterprises who are taking an innovative idea from zero-to-one or scaling a proven game-changing to widespread
- [Rise and Athlete Impact](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ventures/athletes/rise/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Through Sagamore Venture’s partnership with the Frisco, Texas-based RISE Sports Advisors, we help athletes create entrepreneurial and social impact strategies that secure lasting wealth while giving back to their communities. This Consulting Firm Is Making Sure Black Athletes Don't Fall Prey To The 'Broke Curse' Essence Leare More Conversation With:
- [Midwest Defense Events](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense/other-events/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Midwest Defense Events Along with our Midwest Defense Summits and the Green Bay-based Midwest Defense Forum, Sagamore regularly hosts events convening defense industry leaders and policymakers to collaborate on and advance national security solutions from the Heartland. Renewing America's Maritime Industry A conversation with Sen. Todd Young | Speedway, Indiana
- [Citizenship](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/) - citizenship Our nation was founded on the idea that citizens would be at the center of the American Experiment. That means citizens need to be informed and engaged for our democracy to survive and thrive. It also means that all sectors in society must be healthy—a government that preserves order, a marketplace that fosters growth
- [Sagamore Network | Faith and Society](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/network/faith-and-society/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Faith and Society Fellows Dr. Amy ShermanSenior Fellow, Sagamore Institute Director, Sagamore Center on Faith in Communities One Big Thing Dr. Amy Sherman serves as senior fellow and Director of the Center on Faith in Communities at the Sagamore Institute. Three Other Things You Should Know Amy has written dozens
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- [Renewing the American Idea](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/renewing-the-american-idea/) - Renewing the American Idea The Unknown Founding Father Watch Sagamore Institute Senior Fellow Joe Loconte’s new documentary on Benjamin Rush. One of America’s lesser-known Founders, Rush was a Revolutionary, a leading figure in public health reforms, a staunch abolitionist, and is recognized as the “father of American psychiatry. “Miracles do not cluster. Hold on to
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- [Midwest Defense Forum](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense/mdf/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Midwest Defense Forum The Midwest Defense Forum coalesces Heartland and national industry leaders and policymakers to enable and accelerate tech-enabled defense solutions. The Forum, which is chaired by former Congressman Mike Gallagher, is hosted annually in Green Bay, Wisconsin in partnership with TitletownTech. Midwest Defense Forum 2025 The second annual
- [Coats Photo Gallery](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/from-generation-to-generation/photo-gallery/) - Home Book Speeches Videos Photos Podcast A Life in Pictures This photo gallery offers a glimpse into the moments that defined Dan and Marsha’s adventure. From childhood memories and family milestones, to chapters of service at home and abroad, this collection of memories captures both the public and private sides of their shared life dedicated
- [Interurban](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/interurban/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Add Your Heading Text Here Helping Heartland communities envision and deliver transformational projects in underinvested neighborhoods by linking community and economic development. Interurban provides capacity-building resources to empower communities to transform, renew, and innovate. We work directly with local organizations to design and implement neighborhood revitalization plans, build development program
- [Interurban](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/interurban-2/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Add Your Heading Text Here Helping Heartland communities envision and deliver transformational projects in underinvested neighborhoods by linking community and economic development. Interurban provides capacity-building resources to empower communities to transform, renew, and innovate. We work directly with local organizations to design and implement neighborhood revitalization plans, build development program
- [Interurban v2 draft](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/elementor-27439/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Helping Heartland communities envision and deliver transformational projects in underinvested neighborhoods by linking community and economic development. Interurban provides capacity-building resources to empower communities to transform, renew, and innovate. We work directly with local organizations to design and implement neighborhood revitalization plans, build development program capacities, and support real estate
- [From Generation to Generation](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/from-generation-to-generation/) - Dan and Marsha Coats tell their story in the book From Generation to Generation—an intimate reflection on a shared life dedicated to service.
- [Coats Videos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/from-generation-to-generation/videos/) - Home Book Speeches Videos Photos Podcast Leadership in Action This collection of videos brings the Coats decades of service to life in his own words. From Senate debates to international forums and national security discussions, these videos reveal a more personal side of public life—often unscripted but always thoughtful and grounded in conviction. Remarks from
- [Coats Speeches](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/from-generation-to-generation/speeches/) - Home Book Speeches Videos Photos Podcast Words of Service From the well of the House and the floor of the Senate, to the U.S. Embassy in Berlin and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats always spoke with conviction and always focused on the things that matter most: faith, family, service to
- [Our Story](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/20report-our-story/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Our Story In 2004, Dan Coats was preparing to return to the United States following his service as US Ambassador to Germany and he joined Jay Hein to launch a think tank based in the American heartland’s values and geography. In contrast to the noise and rancor coming from Washington,
- [Donate Today](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/get-involved/donate-today/) - Donate Today Donate to Sagamore Sagamore Institute is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that seeks to serve leaders and the public through educating and engaging them on today’s important issues, policies, and initiatives. As a community of researchers and collaborators turning ideas into action, we incubate and advance innovative ideas to see:Smarter public policies to advance free
- [Sagamore Institute](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Sagamore institute Moving ideas into action. Sagamore Institute builds a better society through three distinct lanes of action – opportunity, defense, and citizenship. The “opportunity” lane advances solutions contributing to individual and community flourishing through innovations in education, mental health, and the economy. The “defense” lane seeks to enhance America’s
- [$125M+ in Social Impact](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/125m-in-social-impact/) - Add Your Heading Text Here $125M+in Social Impact Sagamore was launched via the Foundation for American Renewal which was founded by Dan and Marsha Coats to promote effective compassion through business savvy nonprofits and smart philanthropy. And Sagamore’s first big grant was in partnership with the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University to build
- [Citizenship](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship-2/) - Add Your Heading Text Here citizenship Our nation was founded on the idea that citizens would be at the center of the American Experiment. That means citizens need to be informed and engaged for our democracy to survive and thrive. It also means that all sectors in society must be healthy—a government that preserves order,
- [Our Anniversary Reports](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/about/our-anniversary-reports/) - Our Anniversary Reports 20th Anniversary Report To celebrate 20 years, Sagamore hosted an event with Governors Eric Holcomb and Mitch Daniels to discuss Indiana’s future and produced a video highlighting the organization’s history and plans for the next decade. Commonwealth 5th Anniversary Report To celebrate 20 years, Sagamore hosted an event with Governors Eric Holcomb
- [Opportunity](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/opportunity-1/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Opportunity The rise of the global economy has reduced the poverty rate from 46% in 1980 to 10% today. While this historic progress underscores the enduring value of free markets, work remains to ensure that the next phase of growth is both inclusive and sustainable.Please see the stories below depicting
- [Sagamore Network | Forum Leaders](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/network/forum-leaders/) - Add Your Heading Text Here forum leaders Learn more about the leaders involved in the U.S. FORUM Network operated by Sagamore. One Big Thing One Big Thing: Makoto Fujimura is a leading contemporary artist whose process-driven, reflective “slow art” has been described by New York Times columnist David Brooks as “a small rebellion against the
- [DRAFT Sagamore](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/8kk9vumqzeup/) - Innovative ideas. Real results. Sagamore is a global think tank headquartered in Indianapolis. We build and implement solutions to society’s biggest problems through three platform strategies: Our think tank. Our social enterprises. Our community of change agents. The Latest from Sagamore Read More Sagamore Solutions Read More Workforce 2040 Read More The Goldsmith Prize for
- [Teresa Lubbers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/teresa-lubbers/) - Teresa Lubbers I am confident Teresa will continue to expand upon Sagamore’s reputation of excellence by working alongside valued partners and encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation. Dan Coats | Co-Founder Teresa Lubbers serves as the President of Sagamore Institute, an action-oriented think tank that advances practical and sustainable solutions to improve communities. READ THE PRESS RELEASE
- [Indiana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/indiana/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Sagamore has served as Indiana’s think tank for 20 years. Yet, some of our leadership participated in Hudson Institute’s tenure as an Indiana-based think tank (1984-04) as well. This rich history has proven our dual value proposition—a think tank that can use ideas to fuel innovation at home while
- [Faith in Communities](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/faith-in-communities/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Faith in Communities Introduction Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam reports that faith is the #1 predictor of giving and serving in America. Led by senior fellow Amy Sherman, Sagamore has a long history of research, capacity building services and policy work to bolster the “faith factor” in addressing society’s most challenging
- [Policy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/) - Policy Heartland Policy Reform The textbook definition of policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. As a think tank, Sagamore is in the business of such policymaking. We advise government officials, conduct research, and educate the citizenry on the leading issues of the day. But policy extends far
- [Project Fortress Articles](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/project-fortress-articles/) - Capstone Add Your Heading Text Here Project Fortress Project Fortress: Embarrassment and Sorrow Read More » March 3, 2025 No Comments Project Fortress: The Re-United States of America Read More » April 26, 2024 No Comments Project Fortress: Extremes Pulling America Down a Dangerous Path Read More » January 24, 2024 No Comments Project Fortress:
- [Books for Faith](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/books-for-faith/) - Add Your Heading Text Here BOOKS FOR FAITH “Kingdom Calling”“Agents of Flourishing”“Sharing God’s Heart for the Poor”“Soul of Development”“Restorers of Hope”“Preferential Option–A Christian and Neoliberal Strategy for Latin America’s Poor” Theology Meets Practice: KINGDOM BUSINESS“Every Business Decision is a Theological Decision: An Interview with CEO Eric Stumberg” “The Cutting Edge of Marketplace Ministries” “How Can We Encourage
- [Social Impact](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/social-impact/) - Social Impact Improving Lives and the Places We Live. As an action-oriented think tank, Sagamore Institute works both upstream and downstream. We work upstream to transform laws and policies and downstream to improve lives and the places we live—i.e., social impact. Featured below are examples of downstream innovation that are bringing commercial excellence to solve
- [Teresa Lubbers on the Future of Work](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/teresa-lubbers-on-the-future-of-work/) - ‘We’re hopeful’: Teresa Lubbers discusses the future of work in Indiana – and of Sagamore Institute President Teresa Lubbers on plans for 2025 "I think this is a moment in time when people are looking for hope and purpose, and Sagamore has a role in providing both. People want to work with and for Sagamore
- [Mental Health and Community Wellness](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/mental-health-and-community-wellness/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Center for Mental Health and Community Wellness was established to address the critical gaps in well-being and community connectivity that have persisted despite Indiana’s strong economic growth. Recognizing that thriving businesses do not always equate to thriving communities, the Center was created to explore and implement strategies that foster
- [Workforce 2040 Book Launch](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/workforce-2040-book-launch/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Book Launch Event | September 12, 2024 Teresa Lubbers President With support from our partners, Sagamore launched Workforce 2040: Pathways to Prosperity at an event hosted Indianapolis. We were challenged by our keynote speaker, Ben Lytle, who provided a positive and bold vision of the future. Business, education, community and government
- [Defense Tech Investments](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/defense-tech-investments/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Defense Tech Investments Taking a risk on emerging defense technologies has long been avoided by the private sector. Not anymore. American venture capital and private equity firms, spurred into action by rising geopolitical tensions and the Pentagon’s push to modernize its arsenal, have increasingly been pumping money into the defense
- [Project Fortress](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/defense/projectfortress/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Project Fortress Project Fortress explores the intersection between faith, liberty, and security. Learn more about the framework for Project Fortress here. In Focus Project Fortress: The Re-United States of America The United States is many things in 2024, but it doesn’t seem united. Our map is divided between blue states
- [Oscar Charleston](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/oscar-charleston/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Oscar Charleston Oscar Charleston was born in Indianapolis and he became the best all-around baseball player in history. Yet, even sophisticated baseball fans and most Hoosiers don’t know his name.Indiana native Jeremy Beer and Indianapolis documentarian Jerald Harkness are teaming up to tell Oscar’s story. Harkness is turning Beer’s book
- [Board Portal](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/board-portal/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Board Portal To view this portal, please enter the password provided by the Sagamore team.
- [Policy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-3/) - Policy Promoting action-oriented policy innovation and business solutions. Sagamore advances its mission through three distinct lanes of action – opportunity, defense, and Indiana. The “opportunity” lane focuses on discovering and expanding new possibilities, fostering innovative thinking and fresh perspectives. The “defense” lane is dedicated to the practical application of these ideas, implementing strategies that protect
- [Society of Sagamores](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/society-of-sagamores/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Society of Sagamores The Sagamore of the Wabash The Sagamore of the Wabash award was created during the term of Governor Ralph Gates, who served from 1945 to 1949. Governor Gates was to attend a tri-state meeting in Louisville with officials from the States of Ohio and Kentucky. Aides to
- [Forum - New](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/forum-new/) - Add Your Heading Text Here FORUM Creating a Better World Introduction Forum exists to serve leaders and influencers from all sectors of society to create a better world. Through lectures, salons and working groups, Forum draws together senior leaders of character with a transformational mindset to form a cross sector network who want to use
- [Celebrating American Ideas](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/celebrating-american-ideas/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Celebrating American Ideas Introduction The American Idea began with Thomas Jefferson’s words—“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” And its fulfillment rests with the ability of every American to experience all their potential in society.This “idea” needs to be both celebrated and renewed. It
- [20th Anniversary](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/20th-anniversary/) - Add Your Heading Text Here SAGAMORE INSTITUTE'S20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Sagamore Institute was founded in 2004 as an action-oriented think tank rooted in the Heartland. On March 19, 2024 we celebrated our 20th anniversary by bringing together friends and partners who have come alongside us in our journey. The event featured a conversation with Indiana Governor
- [Barber Named as Board Chair](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/barber-named-board-chair/) - Sagamore Institute Names Allison Barber as Board Chair "Allison has always responded to the call to service. From teaching school in northern Indiana or setting up a communications shop on the frontlines in Afghanistan, she brings a can-do attitude, an inspiring love for people and a relentless pursuit of excellence. We are so grateful that
- [Read More for Sagamore Justice](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/read-more-for-sagamore-justice/) - A SECOND CHANCE THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP​ Ruben Mauricio grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Antonio. After losing his father at age 5, he was trained by his stepfather to sell drugs at the age of 14 as a way to help his family make ends meet. He was kicked out of high
- [State Policy Innovation](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/state-policy-innovation/) - Add Your Heading Text Here State Policy Innovation Sagamore Institute has prioritized state and local government policy for several reasons. First, we prefer to implement solutions and that work is done locally not federally. Second, innovative state action is an ideal driver of federal reforms. And third, states are the laboratories of democracy and deserve
- [Minority Business Opportunity Weekend](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/all-star-weekend/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indianapolis hosted NBA All-Star Weekend in February 2024. Alongside the weekend’s activities, Sagamore and Innopower hosted a series of events to celebrate Indianapolis’ Black business talent and showcase our portfolio of solutions helping Black communities access economic opportunity through education, entrepreneurship and investment. Innopower CEO Emil Ekiyor discusses the organization’s All-Star
- [Citizens at the Center](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizens-at-the-center/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Citizens atthe Center The American Experiment turned the course of history by placing power in the hands of citizens rather than government action or monarchy. It is up to every generation to protect this privilege and to carry out our duty of citizenship to create a more perfect union. Whereas
- [Ideas in Indiana](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/ideas-in-indiana/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Ideas in Indiana Sagamore fellows and partners have sought to improve Indiana’s well-being through decades of policy research, implementation of cutting-edge innovations, strategic convening of leaders and efforts to equip Hoosier citizens for service to their communities. This work takes place alongside then-Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’ reforms, inside black-owned businesses
- [America's Role in the World](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/americas-role-in-the-world/) - Add Your Heading Text Here America's Role in the World Sagamore’s team of scholar-practitioners have served on the frontlines protecting America’s ideals and they’ve written widely to guide a path advancing the democratic order at home and abroad. Our team has included diplomats, military officers, development professionals, academics and policy experts. What unites them is
- [Hudson in Indianapolis](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/20report-our-story/hudson-in-indianapolis/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Our Prequel: Hudson Institute in Indianapolis 1984-2004 Hudson Institute’s tenure in Indianapolis represented a bold experiment in American policymaking. Could a national think tank be relevant to national policy and global affairs from the heartland? Not only did Hudson’s 1984-2004 era answer the question in the affirmative, it created a
- [The Ohio Good Community Project](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/the-ohio-good-community-project/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Sagamore senior fellow Chip Weiant began working on iterations of The Ohio Good Community Project more than 30 years ago. The Buckeye project is based on the foundational work of Sagamore CEO Jay Hein and senior fellow Amy Sherman in demystifying the role of "the faith-driven intermediary." The Ohio Good
- [Our Mission](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/about/our-mission/) - Our Mission Sagamore builds and implements solutions to society’s biggest problems. Through research, consulting, and impact investing, we fight for a society uplifted by heartland policy innovation, business solutions, and citizen engagement. Ideas & Impact "A lot of people in politics and policy admire problems. We admire solutions. Focusing on problems tends to pit one
- [Society of Sagamores](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/citizenship-initiatives/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Society of Sagamores The sagamore of the wabash The Sagamore of the Wabash award was created during the term of Governor Ralph Gates (1945 to 1949) and it remains the highest honor given by governors to those who have rendered distinguished service to the state.The award also carries with it
- [Program](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/) - Sagamore Programs Our portfolio of projects and initiatives promoting action-oriented policy innovation, business solutions, and citizen engagement. Sagamore advances its mission across three lanes of action in nine program areas. These lanes of action (ideas, innovations, and investments) are complementary to one another, and each is required for meaningful impact to be achieved. Ideas expand
- [Black Talent](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/black-talent/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Black Talent Development Sagamore Institute has partnered with Innopower, an Indianapolis-based social enterprise, to build solutions that help Black communities access economic opportunity through education, entrepreneurship and workforce development. Innopower founder Emil Ekiyor, a former NFL player, points to the sophisticated talent development pipelines in professional sports as an example
- [Cook Group Semler Award](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/cook-group-semler-award/) - Cook Group receives the inaugural Jerry Semler Corporate Citizenship Award Sagamore honors bloomington, in based company at its annual conference on citizenship Like Sagamore Institute, which he helped to lead as a Board member for nearly 20 years, Jerry Semler was steadfastly dedicated to service and solutions. So, it’s fitting that the Cook Group –
- [Interns Interview](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/interns-interview/) - An intern at 80? How Sagamore brought together 2 generations to promote a stronger democracy The Unlikely Duo Shaping the Future of Citizenship Jim Dittoe has had many titles over the years as a small business owner and the chief executive of Chambers of Commerce and economic development organizations in three states.But the 80-year-old Dittoe
- [Jerry Hendrix Interview](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jerry-hendrix-interview/) - Navigating the Future: An Exclusive Interview with Dr. Jerry Hendrix on Naval Presence, National Security, and America’s Global Leadership "Naval presence is a critical concept in our current strategic approach to national security. We explicitly and implicitly depend upon it to undergird the global economic system we have spent 70 years creating, and to deter
- [Careers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/get-involved/careers-2/) - Careers Sagamore Institute is a nonpartisan public policy think tank rooted in the Heartland of Indiana with a national influence and a global reach. Together, Sagamore’s scholars, staff, and partners build and implement solutions to society’s biggest problems. Through research, consulting, and impact investing, we fight for a society uplifted by heartland policy innovation, business
- [Paid Family Leave](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/paid-family-leave/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Despite being one of the most advanced economies in the world, the United States remains the only high-income nation, and one of only eight countries globally, without a federal policy mandating paid leave for mothers. While some associate paid leave reform with adverse economic consequences, research increasingly suggests that paid
- [Teresa Lubbers Interview](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/teresa-lubbers-interview/) - Lubbers in awe of Sagamore’s vital work serving the state and nation President Teresa Lubbers on first year in role "The question I ask is: If Sagamore doesn’t provide this action-oriented work, then who will? I love what Jay Hein says: We don’t admire problems; we admire solutions. We are in the solution business. So,
- [Team new](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/about/team/) - Our Team Sagamore operates a network of partners and fellows or "scholar-practitioners", an accomplished Board of Trustees, and mission-driven headquarters team. Learn more about our people below. HeadquartersBoard of TrusteesPartnersSenior Fellows Pierre AtlasSenior Fellow Rick BakerSenior Fellow Jacob BaldwinPARTNER Allison BarberBoard of Trustees Chuck BentleyPartner | Christian Economic Forum Rex BolingerSenior Fellow Joanna BrownSenior Fellow
- [Charlotte For Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/charlotte/charlotte-for-africa/) - Alex Cummings Alex Cummings served as EVP and Chief Administrative Officer of the Coca-Cola Company and former head of its Africa Group. He also served on the board of Coca-Cola Consolidated in Charlotte. Today, Alex has returned home to run for president of his native Liberia. Alex and his wife Teresa also operate the Cummings
- [Charlotte](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/charlotte/) - CW City Fund Charlotte Commonwealth Charlotte is an impact investing strategy taking aim at city renewal at home and enterprise solutions to poverty in Africa.Our first investment was in COhatch, an innovative coworking company that seeks to revitalize dozens of neighborhoods and fuel grassroots entrepreneurship across Charlotte. Our second investment helped launch the Charlotte-based World
- [Commonwealth](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/commonwealth-new/) - Commonwealth Business Solutions to Improve Communities We believe that good business creates a better society. Indeed, enterprise has always given an uplift to the whole population and provided the surest path out of poverty for the most disadvantaged. Impact Investing Sagamore created an impact investing platform called Commonwealth to offer innovative financial services to expand
- [Rwanda Case Study](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/rwanda/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Rwanda Case Study On June 29, 2023, Sagamore Institute held a policy forum at Harvard University to share the lessons learned from Rwanda’s economic revival. Rwanda’s economy was decimated by the Rwandan genocide of 1994. But through private enterprise and smart economic development policy, Rwanda emerged as one of the
- [JOK Fund](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/jok-fund/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The JOK Fund Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah The JOK Charitable Fund is an impact investing fund created by Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, NFL linebacker for the Cleveland Browns, to support community and economic development opportunities in the US and Africa. Jeremiah played college football at the University of Notre Dame, where he was named the
- [Center for Talent & Opportunity](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/cto/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Center for Talent and Opportunity is a community resource for closing the wealth gap of Hoosier women and minorities by accelerating high-growth entrepreneurship and impact investing. The Center serves as a nexus of organizations collaborating to increase founders’ access to capital, develop talent in high technology career fields, and leverage place-based
- [Sagamore Innovations](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamore-innovations/) - Our Model: Innovations We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. COhatch: New Town Square COhatch reinvents work in America by blending enhanced productivity with family and community well-being. In other words, their success is measured in human flourishing and community
- [Sagamore Ideas](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/sagamore-ideas/) - Our Model: Ideas As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. Center for America's Purpose The Center for America's Purpose identifies historical guideposts to bolster national-security strategy in the 21st
- [Center on Faith in Communities](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/cfic/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Center on Faith in Communities (CFIC) inspires and equips Christ-followers to advance effective compassion and justice so that their congregations and communities flourish. READ OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER ABOUT CFIC is a “minister to ministries.” We come alongside ministry leaders with practical training, consulting, and “how-to” resources. Our training/consulting empowers
- [About Us](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/about-si/) - Sagamore Institute Leading leaders. Serving Servants. Since 2004, Sagamore is honored to provide this space for disparate groups and offer wise counsel to a world in progress. Our Mission: To Build & Implement Solutions to Society's Biggest Problems. Here I want to insert text re “Sagamore in a sentence” language we are discussing in monthly
- [Education](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/education/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Education Expanding Educational Opportunities Every child in the world deserves a good education. Yet, there are many obstacles standing in the way of this reality: failing schools systems, a lack of educational choices, a scarcity of mentors for at-risk students, outdated or inferior curricula, and too much more. In response,
- [Energy & Climate](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/energy-climate/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Energy & Climate Sustainability: The Capacity to Endure With current U.S. energy prices spiraling upward, Americans are confronted once again with the vulnerability of energy supply and its “capacity to endure.” Energy demand is on the rise as developing countries build more buildings and drive more autos. Meanwhile, energy supply
- [Health & Wellness](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/health-wellness/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Health & Wellness Live well indiana. The world needs innovative healthcare ideas and solutions now more than ever. Sagamore is dedicated to making our world healthier, safer, and better through mental health awareness, healthcare affordability research, and global health initiatives. IDEAS INNOVATIONS INVESTMENTS As a think tank, ideas are our
- [Get Involved](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/get-involved/) - Get Involved Headquarters: COhatch Broad Ripple 6151 Central Avenue | Indianapolis, IN | 46220 Mailing Address P.O. Box 301076 | Indianapolis, IN | 46230 Email Inquiries info@sagamoreinstitute.org Phone Number (317) 472-2050 Thomas Jefferson believed that an educated citizenry was necessary for the American Experiment to be successful. That assignment renews with every generation – so
- [About](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/about/) - Sagamore Institute WORKING FOR SOCIETY - from the heartland. Our Story Our Mission Our Model Our Team Our Anniversary Reports Our Story In early 2004, as Dan Coats was preparing to return to the United States following his service as US Ambassador to Germany, he and Jay Hein determined that America needed a think tank
- [Minority Entrepreneurship](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/minority-entrepreneurship/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Minority Entrepreneurship A Dime to a Dollar. That’s the gap between the median net worth of an Black American family ($17,000) and a white American family ($170,000). 1 in 5 Black families have zero or negative net worth–twice the rate of white families. Today in America, Black entrepreneurs access less
- [Justice Reform](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/justice-reform/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Justice Reform Returning Citizens. In 2018, 2.2 million Americans were incarcerated, costing the US government $80 billion. The crisis of mass incarceration has led to an unprecedented bipartisan consensus for criminal justice reform at the federal level. Now states are changing their laws to favor diversion and restoration. While promising,
- [International Development](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/international-development/) - Add Your Heading Text Here International Development Wise Counsel to a world in Progress. Sagamore Institute was founded in 2004 by Jay Hein with support of then-US Ambassador to Germany Dan Coats. With roots deeply planted in America’s heartland, Sagamore’s scholar-practitioners have always sought to deliver wise counsel to a world in progress. IDEAS INNOVATIONS
- [Indiana Policy Center](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/indiana-policy-center/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Policy center A Heartland Think Tank. At Sagamore, we value innovative ideas that are put into action with lasting results. To that end, this program is dedicated to highlighting our fellows and partners who have enriched Indiana communities through their innovation, investment, and hard work. By sharing their stories,
- [Community Development](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/program/community-development/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Community Development Supporting Thriving Communities. Building and sustaining cities that work is a key function of government. But government alone cannot sustain a strong city. An educated engaged citizenry is the best ingredient to assure lasting solutions. Sagamore’s citizenship portfolio engages citizens, scholars, and politicians to develop communities where all
- [Dan Coats Papers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/defense/dan-coats-papers/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Preserving the Transatlantic Democratic Order with Dan Coats About Dan Coats Dan Coats was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany on August 15, 2001 by President George W. Bush. A former member of Congress, Coats represented the state of Indiana in the U.S. Senate from
- [Our Story](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/about/our-story-old/) - Our Story In early 2004, as Dan Coats was preparing to return to the United States following his service as US Ambassador to Germany, he and Jay Hein determined that America needed a think tank based in the heartland’s values and geography. In contrast to the noise and rancor coming from Washington, D.C., Sagamore Institute
- [Education](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/education/) - Education Expanding Educational Opportunities. Every child in the world deserves a good education. Yet, there are many obstacles standing in the way of this reality: failing schools systems, a lack of educational choices, a scarcity of mentors for at-risk students, outdated or inferior curricula, and too much more. In response, Sagamore has advanced thought leadership,
- [Newsletter](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/newsletter/) - Sagamore Solutions A MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER FROM SAGAMORE INSTITUTE We are excited to launch Sagamore’s new monthly e-newsletter, Sagamore Solutions. The title and content of this publication reflect our core mission: to build and implement solutions to society’s biggest problems. Every month we will showcase Sagamore Fellows and Partners who are putting ideas into action, as well as a
- [Center for Talent and Opportunity](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/center-for-talent-and-opportunity/) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Center for Talent and Opportunity is a partnership of the Minority Entrepreneurship Institute, MEI Capital, and InnoPower through the Sagamore Institute focused on closing the wealth gap of women and minorities by cultivating inclusive startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Each partner brings assets to the ecoystem for founders to
- [Heartland Reformer](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/heartland-reformer/) - Heartland Reformer Sagamore was a think tank born in the states and our chief policy reform focus is centered on reform-oriented governors. Sagamore fellows have worked alongside innovative governors such as Indiana’s own Mitch Daniels and Wisconsin’s Tommy Thompson. This has placed us on the cutting edge of policy change such as welfare reform, fiscal
- [Africa](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/global/africa/) - Africa Rising The Sagamore Institute has been working in Africa for years. Once a continent seemingly dependent on aid, it has become one of the fastest growing economic regions in the world. Our years of involvement in the region have shown us again and again that true aid starts from the bottom up and not
- [Conversations](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/get-involved/conversations/) - Conversations What's New On Economic Openness On May 17, 2019, London-based think tank Legatum Institute launched their Global Index of Economic Openness (GIEO) at the Chamber of the House of Representatives in the Indiana State Capitol Building. The GIEO ranks 157 countries’ openness to commerce and analyzes what enables or hinders a country’s ability to
- [Justice](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/justice/) - Justice Reform In 2018, 2.2 million Americans were incarcerated, costing the US government $80 billion. But it costs American society far more in human suffering, lost potential, family fragmentation, and turbulent urban neighborhoods. The crisis of mass incarceration has led to an unprecedented bipartisan consensus for criminal justice reform at the federal level. Now states
- [Global](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/global/) - Global Sagamore Institute was founded in 2004 by Jay Hein with the support of then-US Ambassador to Germany Dan Coats. With roots deeply planted in America’s heartland, Sagamore’s scholar-practitioners have always sought to deliver wise counsel to a world in progress. Key Activities Shared Prosperity in Israel Africa Asia J-1 VISA Program What's New IBR
- [A State of Defense new](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/defense/a-state-of-defense-new/) - Add Your Heading Text Here A State of Defense Indiana's Defense Assets The state of Indiana has become one of the most innovative places in the world to bring technology and national defense together. The Naval Surface Warfare Center at Crane produces $2 million per day for Indiana’s economy while equipping America’s Special Forces with
- [Indiana Citizen](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/indiana-citizen/) - Add Your Heading Text Here Indiana Citizen Citizen Profiles At the Sagamore Institute, we value innovative ideas that are put into action with lasting results. To that end, this blog series is dedicated to highlighting those Indiana citizens who have enriched our communities through their innovation, investment, and hard work. By sharing their stories, we
- [Establishing Liberty](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/renewing-the-american-idea/establishing-liberty/) - Establishing Liberty The Foundation of a Nation The Declaration of Independence announced to the world the principles of good government. All men stand equal before God, and so they should stand equal before the law. That regime is just only which arises from consent of those governed and is maintained for the protection of their rights and responsibilities. The Constitution of
- [Perteptuating Liberty](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/renewing-the-american-idea/perpetuating-liberty/) - Perpetuating Liberty The Best of America Today The future of popular government depends on us. Our turn has come to inhabit the frame built by our founders and take on the obligations of self-government. It remains true that all men are created equal, that each of us has the capacity to order our lives and our souls, and that nature tells
- [Preserving Liberty](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/renewing-the-american-idea/preserving-liberty/) - Preserving Liberty Building an American Legacy The American founders staked their experiment on citizen participation. America’s founding had proved that men could establish good government; the remaining task was to prove that they could preserve it. And citizens of all 50 states have risen to the task. For over 240 years, leaders, thinkers, innovators, and community members have taken their place in the American narrative. Some have solved social and economic problems.
- [A More Perfect Union - Old Page](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/a-more-perfect-union-old-page/)
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- [Faith & Nonprofits](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/faith-nonprofits/) - Faith and Nonprofits Faith-based organizations and nonprofits are some of society's most efficient and effective change-agents. Sagamore partners with scholar practitioners, implementing strategies to leverage the grass-roots impact of leading faith-based and nonprofit organizations across the globe. These organizations effect change across industries as diverse as healthcare and workforce development. By introducing the best-practice methods
- [Super City](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/super-city/) - Super City There are no great cities without great neighborhoods. Cities are the pillar of society and the best vehicle for citizens to engage in effective local change. Rooted in Indianapolis, Sagamore applies all of our skills of consulting, research, and impact investing to advance our local Indianapolis community. Joining with the best citizens of
- [Community Development](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/citizenship/community-development/) - Community Development Supporting the infrastructure of a thriving city. Building and sustaining cities that work is a key function of government. But government alone cannot sustain a strong city. An educated engaged citizenry is the best ingredient to assure lasting solutions. Sagamore’s citizenship portfolio engages citizens, scholars, and politicians to develop communities where all people
- [Secretaries Innovation Group](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/policy-2-2/heartland-reformer/sig-2/)

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- [National Security Conference Speakers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=national-security-conference-speakers) - Opening Remarks & Fireside Chat with Russell Rumbaugh Panel: The Long View on US National Security Strategy Russell RumbaughAssistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) VIEW BIO Hon. Russell Rumbaugh The Honorable Russell Rumbaugh was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management & Comptroller) on January 3, 2023.He directly
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- [Sagamore Button](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=sagamore-button) - Our Story In early 2004, as Dan Coats was preparing to return to the United States following his service as US Ambassador to Germany, he and Jay Hein determined that America needed a think tank based in the heartland’s values and geography. In contrast to the noise and rancor coming from Washington, D.C., Sagamore Institute
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- [Defense Conference Speakers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=defense-conference-speakers) - Conference Hosts The Honorable Dan CoatsTrustee and Co-founder | Sagamore Institute VIEW BIO Bryce Carpenter As Senior Vice President of Industry Engagement for Conexus Indiana, Bryce leads the organization’s robust network of over 130 industry, public-sector and higher education stakeholders as they identify and activate the most impactful projects for industry growth. Conexus has strong
- [Board Portal](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=board-portal) - Introduction Welcome to the page specifically designed for board members of Sagamore Institute. On this site, you’ll find upcoming meetings and events, board documents & meeting minutes as well as agendas and resources for upcoming meetings. If you have any comments or questions, please let us know. Thank you for your service! Documents Upcoming Meeting
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- [award full](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=award-full) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Celebrating American Ideas Award About the Award Sagamore is a think tank that moves ideas into action. The Celebrating American Ideas Award honors those who have exemplified the best of American values and tackled some of the world’s biggest problems through innovative ideas. Award Recipients Purdue University Space Program
- [2023 Interns](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=2023-interns) - Andy Scheer Criminal Justice Reform Andy Scheer is a rising 2L at Indiana University’s, Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Andy studied religion at Huntington University and Theology and ethics at Emory University in the earlier parts of the 2000’s. Before returning to law school in 2022 Andy was a touring musician, winemaker and in
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- [Celebrating Ideas (FULL)](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=celebrating-ideas-full) - Celebrating American Ideas Featuring Dr. Bill Bennett, Former US Education Secretary On March 25, 2010 Sagamore Institute hosted its first “Celebrating American Ideas” gala. Former Secretary of Education and renowned author William J. Bennett gave a rousing keynote address on the American Idea. His address emphasized the essential role of citizens and our responsibility to
- [Books for Faith](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=books-for-faith) - “Kingdom Calling”“Agents of Flourishing”“Sharing God’s Heart for the Poor”“Soul of Development”“Restorers of Hope”“Preferential Option–A Christian and Neoliberal Strategy for Latin America’s Poor” Theology Meets Practice: KINGDOM BUSINESS“Every Business Decision is a Theological Decision: An Interview with CEO Eric Stumberg” “The Cutting Edge of Marketplace Ministries” “How Can We Encourage Safe and Encouraging Work Environments?” “Good Eats and
- [Forum - Events](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=forum-events) - The Forum program consists of an annual lecture and quarterly supper clubs per city. Also, an annual weekend is offered for all the cities to convene annually. To move ideas into action, Forum operates Working Groups formed by members. The Forum Lecture: inspires leaders to be transformational in their sector. The Forum Lecture is the
- [Ohio Good](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=ohio-good) - Add Your Heading Text Here Sagamore senior fellow Chip Weiant began working on iterations of The Ohio Good Community Project more than 30 years ago. The Buckeye project is based on the foundational work of Sagamore CEO Jay Hein and senior fellow Amy Sherman in demystifying the role of "the faith-driven intermediary." The Ohio Good
- [Forum OUR STAFF](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=forum-our-staff) - Baroness Philippa Stroud Philippa is the co-founder of Forum. Philippa is a Member of the House of Lords, CEO of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship and Chair of the Social Metrics Commission. Prior to this, she was the CEO of the Legatum Institute and Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Centre for Social Justice. She
- [Forum - Philosophy](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=forum-philosophy) - Networks of senior leaders have always changed the world. Such networks were at the heart of the Renaissance, the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions and many of the other most significant times that led to the rise and flourishing of civilisations.Networks are organic: they are flat in structure and people are connected via relationship and common
- [Compassion in Action](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=compassion-in-action) - Add Your Heading Text Here The Quiet Revolution: This is Our City American citizens have always been the backbone of ambitious solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. The twenty-first century has seen an unprecedented rise in generosity and a steep decline in global poverty. In The Quiet Revolution, readers are invited inside the White House
- [Renewing Liberty](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=renewing-liberty) - Renewing the American Idea “Miracles do not cluster. Hold on to the Constitution of the United States of America and the republic for which it stands. What has happened once in six thousand years may never happen again. Hold on to your Constitution, for if the American Constitution shall fail there will be anarchy throughout
- [Ideas](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=ideas) - Celebrating American Ideas Featuring Dr. Bill Bennett, Former US Education Secretary On March 25, 2010 Sagamore Institute hosted its first “Celebrating American Ideas” gala. Former Secretary of Education and renowned author William J. Bennett gave a rousing keynote address on the American Idea. His address emphasized the essential role of citizens and our responsibility to
- [Celebrating Ideas](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=celebrating-ideas) - Celebrating American Ideas Featuring Dr. Bill Bennett, Former US Education Secretary On March 25, 2010 Sagamore Institute hosted its first “Celebrating American Ideas” gala. Former Secretary of Education and renowned author William J. Bennett gave a rousing keynote address on the American Idea. His address emphasized the essential role of citizens and our responsibility to
- [Celebrating Ideas Event](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=celebrating-ideas-event-2) - Celebrating American Ideas: The Navajo Code Talkers On March 25, 2010, Sagamore Institute hosted the first annual “Celebrating American Ideas” gala, where the first Celebrating American Ideas award was presented to members of the Navajo Code Talkers who transformed their ancient language into an indecipherable military code. Watch the Event Watch the entire “Celebrating American
- [Celebrating Ideas Event](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=celebrating-ideas-event) - Celebrating American Ideas: The Navajo Code Talkers On March 25, 2010, Sagamore Institute hosted the first annual “Celebrating American Ideas” gala, where the first Celebrating American Ideas award was presented to members of the Navajo Code Talkers who transformed their ancient language into an indecipherable military code. The Navajo Code Talkers The Celebrating American Ideas
- [FORUM Staff](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=forum-staff) - Meet the Speakers View the Agenda Keynote Speaker Hon. Stephen Goldsmith Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy, Harvard University | Former Mayor of Indianapolis VIEW BIO Stephen Goldsmith Stephen Goldsmith is the Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and director of Data-Smart City Solutions at
- [Our Team updated](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=our-team-updated) - Our Team Board of Trustees Allison BarberChair Dayton MolendorpVice Chair Craig WestrickTreasurer Claudia CummingsSecretary Dan CoatsTrustee Tim GeorgeTrustee Sam OdleTrustee Dan PetersonTrustee Doug WilsonTrustee Jean WojtowiczTrustee Staff Jacob BaldwinResearch Associate PATTY BUCKHORNEDUCATION PROGRAMS ASSISTANT CHASE ELLIOTTOPERATIONS MANAGER Jay HeinChief Executive Officer Rachel HouckProgram Coordinator | Educational Opportunities Teresa LubbersPresident TIM MORANCONTROLLER Rob PanosChief of Staff
- [Education IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=education-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. Civic Education & Economic Literacy Coming Soon Learn More Coming Soon Fellows & Partners Laurel Vanden Berg Managing Director Rachel Houck Program
- [ICOC 2023 Speaker Bios](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2023-speaker-bios) - Meet the Speakers View the Agenda Keynote Speaker Hon. Stephen Goldsmith Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy, Harvard University | Former Mayor of Indianapolis VIEW BIO Stephen Goldsmith Stephen Goldsmith is the Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and director of Data-Smart City Solutions at
- [ICOC 2023 explore past conferences](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2023-explore-past-conferences) - Can Indiana Help Keep America Safe? 2022 Conference Kicking the Stigma 2021 Conference Citizenship in Timesof Crisis 2020 Conference Front Porch Citizenry 2019 Conference The New Corporate Responsibility: Social Impact 2018 Conference Centennial Spirit 2017 Conference Indiana's Third Century 2016 Conference Sagamores of the Wabash 2015 Conference Celebrating American Ideas 2010 Conference
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- [ICOC 2023 speakers](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2023-speakers) - Keynote Speaker Hon. Stephen Goldsmith Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy, Harvard University | Former Mayor of Indianapolis VIEW BIO Stephen Goldsmith Stephen Goldsmith is the Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and director of Data-Smart City Solutions at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at
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- [Minority Entrepreneurship INNOVATIONS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=minority-entrepreneurship-innovations) - We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. Innopower Minority Business Conference This conference convenes community and corporate leaders to identify frameworks and action guidelines on how innovation initiatives can accelerate economic development and wealth generation for minority communities. Learn More
- [Minority Entrepreneurship IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=minority-entrepreneurship-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. The Center for Talent & Opportunity The Center for Talent and Opportunity is a community resource at Sagamore Institute for closing the
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- [Defense IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=defense-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Please see the following stories featuring our national security scholars Dr. Jerry Hendrix and Alan Dowd. Center for America's Purpose The Center for America's Purpose identifies historical guideposts to bolster national-security strategy in the 21st century, applies the lessons of history to the challenges of today and
- [ICOC 2022 Videos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2022-videos) - Welcoming Remarks Teresa Lubbers From Rust Belt to Tech Belt Dr. Jerry Hendrix Who Keeps America Safe? See event program for panelists Celebrating AMerican Ideas Jay Hein Chips and SCience Act Lauren o'Brien and Andrew Kossack A Citizen's Story Dr. Allison Barber Watch the Full Conference
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- [2022 Interns](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=2022-interns) - Add Your Heading Text Here Meet Sagamore's Summer 2022 Interns Sagamore is committed to developing the next generation of young leaders with a creative vision to pursue the common good and advance human flourishing. We welcome the following students who share a passion for championing free enterprise, fostering individual opportunity, and expanding democracy. Andrew Bruner
- [2021 Interns](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=2021-interns) - Meet Sagamore's Summer 2021 Interns Ian Ansel • Africa Rising Research Ian Ansel is a rising 2L student at IU-McKinney School of Law. Originally from Colubmus, OH, Ian graduated from Mercyhurst University in 2014 with a degree in Political Science, International Relations concentration. Between undergrad and law school, Ian played professional hockey and moved to
- [ICOC 2022 speaker bios](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2022-speaker-bios) - Senator Todd Young United States Senator for Indiana Senator Todd Young represents Hoosiers in the United States Senate. He currently serves on the Senate Committees on Finance; Foreign Relations; Commerce, Science & Transportation; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Todd is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated with honors
- [ICOC 2022 explore past conferences](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2022-explore-past-conferences) - Kicking the Stigma 2021 Conference Citizenship in Timesof Crisis 2020 Conference Front Porch Citizenry 2019 Conference The New Corporate Responsibility: Social Impact 2018 Conference Centennial Spirit 2017 Conference Indiana's Third Century 2016 Conference Sagamores of the Wabash 2015 Conference Celebrating American Ideas 2010 Conference
- [CTO Our Story](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cto-our-story) - The seedling for what has become the Center for Talent and Opportunity was planted in 2019 when our founding director, Blair Milo, embarked on a journey as an inaugural fellow of the Civil Society Fellowship, a partnership of the Aspen Institute and Anti-Defamation League. This fellowship aims to empower community and civil society leaders, activists
- [CTO Our Team](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cto-our-team) - The Center for Talent and Opportunity serves as an intermediary amongst the variety of organizations to help us maximize our collective impact in growing and serving new majority entrepreneurs. Circle City Broadcasting Circle City Broadcasting was formed in July 2019 with the acquisition of two stations in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the only broadcast television
- [Indiana IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=indiana-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. Center for Talent & Opportunity The Center for Talent and Opportunity is a community resource at Sagamore Institute for closing the wealth
- [Good Community-Resources](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=good-community-resources) - The Good Citizen guide includes over 50 essential Bible references relating to the role of good government and the relevance of defined good character virtues to effective personal and organizational self-governance. The guide provocatively demystifies the thesis of true “dual-citizenship” and provides strong logical arguments and tools for Christians (particularly GEN Y & Z rising
- [Community Development INNOVATIONS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=community-development-innovations) - We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. The Ohio Good Community Project Directed by senior fellow Chip Weiant, this Buckeye project is based on the foundational work of Sagamore President Jay Hein and senior fellow Amy Sherman in demystifying the
- [Good Community-Progress](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=good-community-progress) - In the first six months of the Fetzer Institute supported initiative, The Ohio Good Community project re-edited, branded and published it’s essential resource series, earned the partnership of the Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives as a key statewide advocacy partner, organized and began systematic exchanges among a cohort of 10 practitioning Ohio
- [Minority Entrepreneurship INVESTMENTS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=minority-entrepreneurship-investments) - We believe good business creates a better society. Sagamore operates an impact investing platform called Commonwealth to offer financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [Justice IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=justice-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. More God Less Crime Through years of research, criminologist Byron Johnson has uncovered strong evidence that religion can be a powerful antidote
- [ID IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=id-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. Liberia Rising Liberia was a nation founded by the United States in 1821 as a place to send its newly freed Black
- [Indiana INNOVATIONS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=indiana-innovations) - We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. Enhancing Opportunity in Indianapolis This year, Lilly Endowment took bold action to catalyze good jobs for the 2 in 10 Indianapolis residents struggling in poverty: a $93.6 million initiative to defeat poverty through
- [Health INVESTMENTS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=health-investments) - We believe good business creates a better society. Sagamore operates an impact investing platform called Commonwealth to offer financial services to expand economic opportunity.
- [Health INNOVATIONS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=health-innovations) - We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. Lt. Governor's Mental Health Roundtable Indiana Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch launched the Roundtable in 2021 to address one of the state’s biggest challenges—1 in 5 Hoosiers struggle with mental health issues yet many
- [Health IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=health-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. 2021 Indiana Conference on Citizenshp One in five Hoosiers struggle with mental health issues yet many do not feel safe to seek
- [Energy INNOVATIONS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=energy-innovations) - We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. Common Good Marketplace Common Good Marketplace is transforming the way society measures impact by creating an exchange to register and trade verified social assets. Learn More
- [Energy IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=energy-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. Fellows & Partners Mike HumphreyBoard Member John WatersSenior Fellow
- [Education INNOVATIONS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=education-innovations) - We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. Scholarships for Education Choice SEC awards scholarships to children in low-income families seeking educational alternatives at tuition-based schools. Learn More J-1 Visa Program The J-1 Program exists to provide caring, personalized service to
- [Defense INNOVATIONS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=defense-innovations) - We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. Indiana Defense Network (NCCO) Indiana is playing a major role in strengthening U.S. national security, and the National Center for Complex Operations (NCCO), now the Indiana Defense Network, is a central component of
- [Community Development IDEAS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=community-development-ideas) - As a think tank, ideas are our business. Sagamore built on this foundation by forming an expert network of fellows providing independent and innovative research and analysis to public and private sector leaders. Center on Faith in Communities CFIC is a capacity building initiative for congregations and faith-based and community-based organizations. Its aim is to
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- [Justice INNOVATIONS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=justice-innovations) - We engage in applied research—working alongside innovative practitioners, learning from them, and measuring the impact of ideas and theories put into practice. Prison Entrepreneurship Program The Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) transforms the lives of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men through their In-Prison Leadership Academy and post-release services and support. Their vision is to expand a
- [Energy INVESTMENTS](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=energy-investments) - We believe good business creates a better society. Sagamore operates an impact investing platform called Commonwealth to offer financial services to expand economic opportunity.
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- [Intern - Openings](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=intern-openings) - Policy Center Research Intern Description: Sagamore is looking for interns to support the research activities within our Policy Centers. These interns will conduct research within a Sagamore Policy Center area to produce articles, summaries, and features for distribution on the Sagamore website and additional publications. Areas of research may include criminal justice, community development, education, defense,
- [CFIC Invitation](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cfic-invitation) - Get Involved King Jesus is on a mission to bring hope and renewal to broken places and He invites us to join Him in his transformative work. At the Center on Faith in Communities, we are living into that mission by equipping frontline ministry practitioners, congregational leaders, and Christian philanthropists—and multiplying their effectiveness. You can
- [CFIC Organization](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cfic-organization) - What does CFIC do? CFIC is a “minister to ministries.” We come alongside ministry leaders with practical training, consulting, and “how-to” resources. Our training/consulting empowers ministry leaders for launching or sustaining effective, holistic community ministries that leverage the skills and assets of both the Christ-followers who want to serve and the community members themselves. This
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- [CFIC Leadership](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cfic-leadership) - Meet Dr. Amy Sherman Senior Fellow Amy L. Sherman, Ph.D., directs Sagamore Institute’s Center on Faith in Communities (CFIC). CFIC is a capacity building initiative for congregations and faith-based and community-based organizations. Its aim is to help leaders invest more strategically and effectively in their communities as they address poverty and injustice. Sherman has led
- [CFIC Impact](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cfic-impact) - What progress has CFIC made? Over the past 25 years, CFIC Director Amy Sherman has become a national thought leader in the Christian community on issues of justice, effective community ministry, and faith/work integration. Her voice is heard through publications like Christianity Today, the Christian Century, and World and on stage at national events like
- [CFIC Cause](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cfic-cause) - Why does CFIC exist? Many communities are plagued by poverty and injustice. Our neighbors are hurting.Many churches want to live into Jesus’ call to love their neighbors but aren’t sure how to go about that in ways that bring genuine flourishing. Meanwhile, pastors need help discipling their congregants for joyful, purposeful, whole-life stewardship, where their
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- [Mental Health Ecosystem Map](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=mental-health-ecosystem-map) - Add Your Heading Text Here Mapping Resources The first step to increased mental health awareness is kicking the stigma and feeling safe to reach out. The next step is knowing where to seek help. Sagamore curated the following list of mental health resources by region in Indiana. Browse by general mental health providers or addiction-specific
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- [ICOC 2021 Videos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2021-videos) - Welcoming Remarks Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch Kicking the Stigma Kalen Jackson | Vice Chair, Indianapols Colts Mental Health in Indiana, Part I Jay Chaudhary & Dr. Charles Williams Q&A Session Panelists Celebrating American Ideas Award Kalen Jackson | Presented by Allison Barber Mental Health in Indiana, Part II Michael O'Connor and Dennis Murphy Mental Health
- [ICOC 2021 Speaker Bios](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2021-speaker-bios) - Suzanne Crouch Lieutenant Governor of Indiana As Lt. Governor, Suzanne oversees a portfolio that includes the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, Office of Community and Rural Affairs and Indiana Destination Development Corporation. In addition, she also serves as President of the Indiana Senate, chair of the Indiana Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, chair of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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- [CTO Our Work](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cto-our-work) - Our Work The Center for Talent and Opportunity is a strategic partnership of multiple organizations who bring instant, critical support to grow inclusive startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems. The partnership will deploy efforts that cultivate inclusive startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems and raise collaborative capital to directly invest in new majority founders. Our work will
- [CTO Our Mission](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cto-our-mission) - Our Mission Closing the wealth gap of the new majority through a collaborative capital model that cultivates inclusive startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems. By the decade 2040, the United States’ demographics will have shifted to be majority Black and LatinX. 80% Of venture capital investments have gone to three states; California, New York, and Massachusetts.
- [CTO Our Values](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cto-our-values) - Our Values We believe talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. We put new majority founders first. We give before we get. We intensely love where we are. We intensely love where we are.
- [CTO Our Vision](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=cto-our-vision) - Our Vision Indiana, North Texas, and Florida are premier marketplaces for new majority founders to start or grow any tech or tech-enabled business from bootstrap to exit. Why Entrepreneurship? A Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) study found that the median net worth for Black business owners was 12 times higher than for Black non-business owners.
- [BLAIR FULL BIO](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=blair-full-bio) - Blair Milo Blair Milo is the Director of the Center for Talent & Opportunity at Sagamore Institute. In partnership with the Minority Entrepreneurship Institute and InnoPower, the Center will focus on closing the wealth gap for women and minorities through entrepreneurship. This partnership builds off the exciting momentum Blair produced while serving as the first
- [Our Story 2.0](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=our-story-2-0) - Our Story In early 2004, as Dan Coats was preparing to return to the United States following his service as US Ambassador to Germany, he and Jay Hein determined that America needed a think tank based in the heartland’s values and geography. In contrast to the noise and rancor coming from Washington, D.C., Sagamore Institute
- [Some Books Make Us Free Panel](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=some-books-make-us-free-panel) - Add Your Heading Text Here Some Books Make Us Free Lessons from the law: Civility across Deep Differences Panel Discussion Monday, October 26, 2020 | 7:00-8:30 PM EDT What can practicing law teach us about being civil even (especially!) with those with whom we disagree? Why should we be decent to our opponents, even in
- [2020 Citizenship Art Gallery](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=2020-citizenship-art-gallery) - Add Your Heading Text Here 2020 Citizenship Art Gallery Join us for Opening Night Friday, October 2, 2020 Harrison Center for the Arts Some Books Make Us Free This October, we are building on the success of the Harrison’s first rare books exhibit that took place July 2019. In light of recent events, the theme
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- [More Perfect Union-Native American Justice](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=more-perfect-union-native-american-justice) - Native American Justice The Navajo Code Talkers First Celebrating American Ideas Award Presented to Navajo Code TalkersCode Talking: Intelligence and Bravery Impact Investing The New Trail of Tears: Naomi Schaefer Riley’s Review of U.S. Policy Towards Native AmericansBusting Philanthropy’s Myths about Native Americans
- [ICOC 2020: Recap Videos](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2020-recap-videos) - Welcoming Remarks Jay Hein | President of sagamore Institute Jay Hein explains the purpose of our annual ICOC as well as the importance of this year’s theme: Citizenship in Times of Crisis. 9/11 and the Heart of the Nation John Bridgeland | first Director of USA Freedom Corps John Bridgeland tells us about a US
- [ICOC 2020 Speaker Bios](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=icoc-2020-speaker-bios) - John Bridgeland John Bridgeland is Founder and CEO of Civic, a social enterprise firm in Washington, D.C. He is also Vice Chairman of the Service Year Alliance, an initiative to create a civilian national service counterpart to military service in the United States; Vice Chairman of Malaria No More; Co-Convenor of the GradNation campaign; Co-Chair
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- [Commonwealth Conversations](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=commonwealth-conversations) - On Human Rights and Modern-Day Slavery On June 24, 2013, Sagamore Institute was pleased to host bestselling author Corban Addison and Dr. Amy Sherman for a discussion on human rights and modern-day slavery. Addison’s recent works—A Walk Across the Sun and The Garden of Burning Sand—combine compelling narrative with the realties of human suffering. Joining
- [Citizenship Conversations](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=citizenship-conversations) - On Celebrating American Ideas On March 25, 2010, Sagamore Institute hosted the first annual “Celebrating American Ideas” gala, where the first Celebrating American Ideas award was presented to select members of the Navajo Code Talkers who transformed their ancient language into an indecipherable military code. Watch The Award Ceremony On the essential role of citizens
- [Perpetuate: STUDY](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=perpetuate-study) - Civic Discourse Project | This multi-year project brings together academics, intellectuals, and civic leaders for videotaped public discussions on civic issues.No. 86 | The Federalist Society offers these free courses offering law students different perspectives on legal topics than those typically taught in the classroom.
- [Preserve: LISTEN](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=preserve-listen) - Tocqueville C-SPAN | This docuseries retraces Alexis de Tocqueville’s journey in Democracy in America.History Chicks | This female-driven podcast highlights women in American and Western history.
- [Preserve: TEACH](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=preserve-teach) - CitizIN App | Discover Indiana history-focused civics.Religion in America | From Teaching American History, this resource uses primary sources, art, and architecture to teach the role of religion in American history.The Northwest Ordinance | This lesson plan describes the early settlement of the Northwest Territory.
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- [Preserve: STUDY](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=preserve-study) - Heroes and Villains Curriculum: American Portraits Series | From Bill of Rights Institute, this resource uses American political figures to teach character education.Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement | This short curriculum from National Endowment for the Humanities covers MLK and Malcom X’s vision for civil rights in America.Votes for Women | From BRI,
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- [Establish: STUDY](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=establish-study) - Hillsdale College Online | Enjoy free courses on American constitutional principles, American history, and the Western tradition.Strengthening Democracy in America | From the Center for Civic Education, explore this video curriculum introducing American political system.Free Speech Curriculum | From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, this high school curriculum covers the principles and applications
- [Establish: LISTEN](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=establish-listen) - Originalism | Listen to this Georgetown Law-produced podcast on principles of constitutional originalism and current topics in constitutional law.Civics 101 | This podcast offers civics refreshers for general audiences.60-Second Civics | This Center for Civics Education-produced podcast offers short listens on various civics topics.
- [Establish: TEACH & EXPLORE](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=establish-explore) - Interactive Constitute | From the National Constitution CenterEngaging Congress | Explore Congress with this game produced by IU Center on Representative Government.American Governance | Teach with this packet featuring essays on the philosophical origins, structure, and legacy of the Constitution.First Amendment Explorer | From Jack Miller CenterGreat Thinkers | Browse this database of philosophers and
- [Policy Conversations Template](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=policy-conversations-template) - On Economic Openness On May 17, 2019, London-based think tank Legatum Institute launched their Global Index of Economic Openness (GIEO) at the Chamber of the House of Representatives in the Indiana State Capitol Building. The GIEO ranks 157 countries’ openness to commerce and analyzes what enables or hinders a country’s ability to trade domestically and
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- [3-column Picture buttons](https://sagamoreinstitute.org/?elementor_library=3-column-picture-buttons) - POLICY Heartland Policy Reform COMMONWEALTH Business Solutions to Improve Communities cITIZENSHIP Engaged Citizenry
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