Innovative ideas.
Real results.

A Think Tank, New Ideas, and the American Dream

To mark America's 250th anniversary, Sagamore is producing a book celebrating the ideas and innovations shaping the nation's next quarter-millennium. Drawing on essays from leaders across our network, the book explores what it takes to build a confident, self-governing, and prosperous America — one capable of extending liberty's promise for generations to come. Organized around three lanes of action, it offers a roadmap for renewal rooted in local communities, national strength, and personal citizenship.

Building Better Communities

How real estate, neighborhoods, and human flourishing intersect to renew American towns and cities and enhance opportunity and quality of life for all.

Building the Future of Defense

How the next arsenal of democracy will rise from the Great Lakes region's manufacturing legacy through industry and innovation.

Building Better Citizens

How America can recover the classical and constitutional traditions that shaped our nation's founding and how citizenship, more than any office, remains the most important job in a free society.

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THINK TANK + VENTURE

Sagamore advances its mission across three interlocking lanes of action:

A think tank

to offer thought leadership and policy solutions to help leaders understand challenges more clearly and to identify solutions more creatively.

A social enterprise platform

to accelerate impact investing and other entrepreneurial solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems.

A community of change agents.

who comprise an overlapping network of policy experts, advisors, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and impact investors who form strategic alliances for the greater good of society.

Sagamore is a global think tank that moves upstream to change policy and systems and downstream to implement solutions through business and civic partners. This citizen-centered approach is what America’s founders envisioned for the preservation of democracy and uplift of society. Too many of our citizens are questioning the central truths of Western Civilization, and many in the rising generation doubt that the American Dream is on offer for them. Through dynamic thought leadership and inspiring innovations, Sagamore renews the promise and improves the practice of a better union.

SAGAMORE IN THE CITIES

The Sagamore Network is grown and nurtured through a growing number of city-level efforts to advance innovation through strategic convening, thought leadership, operating partnerships and impact investment. Leading cities include: Indianapolis, Green Bay, New York City, Washington, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh-Durham, Dallas, Tampa, London, and Kigali.

Sagamore's Three Pillars

Sagamore’s policy agenda delivers solutions to each of these great challenges for our generation. Through research, demonstration and impact investment, our work takes aim at increasing economic opportunity for all our neighbors, securing our democratic way of life and strengthening civil society through good citizenship.

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Sagamore Solutions: 2023 Year in Review

From the launch of a statewide workforce initiative to landmark achievements in mental health care to the hundreds of students served by our school choice scholarship, this year Sagamore advanced practical ideas creating more opportunities for everyone to flourish. What Sagamores provides, in a unique way, is connection. We convene problem solvers from different backgrounds and put them in conversation with each other. Suddenly, they’re not working alone anymore, and creative, big picture solutions start to emerge. We invite you to reflect on Sagamore’s contributions in the gallery below.

Indiana Conference on Citizenship Examines the Future of Work, Honors Cook Group for its Community Engagement

On October 17, Sagamore Institute held the annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship. This year’s conference, “The Future of Work: Run Don’t Crawl” focused on the changing nature of work, the workforce, and demographics in Indiana and featured national and state leaders representing key workforce sectors.

At the conference, Sagamore Institute honored Cook Group with the inaugural Jerry Semler Corporate Citizenship Award. Sagamore CEO, Jay Hein, said: “Cook Group’s corporate philanthropy [is] integrated much like Jerry Semler’s life and how he practiced his leadership at OneAmerica. They see their people and place as an essential part of their success story.”

Innovative ideas. Real results.

A Think Tank, New Ideas, and the American Dream

Building Better Communities

Building the Future of Defense

Building Better Citizens

The Latest from Sagamore

Capstones: NATO’s Other Mission—Promoting Economic Freedom

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THINK TANK + VENTURE

Sagamore's Three Pillars

What's New at Sagamore

Sagamore Solutions: 2023 Year in Review

Indiana Conference on Citizenship Examines the Future of Work, Honors Cook Group for its Community Engagement

Sagamore Solutions

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Innovative ideas.
Real results.