Sagamore Ideas - Sagamore Institute

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 century, applies the lessons of history to the challenges of today and seeks to remind the American people that as civilization’s first-responder and last line of defense, the United States is a force for good in the world.

Center for Healthcare Affordability

Mark Jay leads Sagamore Institute’s Center for Healthcare Affordability. Recently launched in 2020, the Center for Healthcare Affordability (CHA) exists to curate strategic solutions to fix America’s broken healthcare system.

Common Good Marketplace

Common Good Marketplace is transforming the way society measures impact by creating an exchange to register and trade verified social assets.

Indiana Conference on 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. Indiana is a place where citizenship is done well. Sagamore hosts the annual Indiana Conference on Citizenship to build even better citizens.

Israeli Palestinian Economic Forum

The Israeli Palestinian Economic Forum is hosted annually by the Integrated Business Roundtable. A unifying conviction among the Roundtable partners is that increased direct investment in high quality business enterprise is the sturdiest pathway to shared prosperity.

Kicking the Stigma (ICOC 2021)

One in five Hoosiers struggle with mental health issues yet many do not feel safe to seek help. That is why Indiana Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch has teamed up with the Indianapolis Colts and other state leaders to kick the stigma.

Measuring Indiana's Wellbeing

Mission Increase

Mission Increase helps ministries grow. By partnering with givers and non-profits we help Christian ministries implement a biblical approach to fundraising

More God Less Crime

Through years of research, criminologist Byron 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.

Project Fortress

Project Fortress explores the intersection between faith, liberty, and security.

Center for Faith in Communities

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.

Center for Talent & Opportunity

The Center for Talent and Opportunity is a community resource at Sagamore Institute for closing the wealth gap of the New Majority by accelerating entrepreneurship and impact investing.

The Crisis in Ukraine

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. Click below to browse a Sagamore-curated list of Dowd's best work related to the crisis in Ukraine.

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.

Jerry Hendrix, Retired Navy Captain

Sagamore fellow Dr. Henry J. “Jerry” Hendrix, PhD is a retired Navy Captain, having served 26 years on active duty following his commissioning through the Navy ROTC program at Purdue University.

Liberia Rising

Liberia was a nation founded by the United States in 1821 as a place to send its newly freed Black slaves. Sagamore senior fellow Donald Cassell leads a portfolio of work to help Liberia achieve its full promise as the nation turns from post-war recovery to a thriving modern society.

MEI B-School Curriculum

MEI believes the only solution to closing the gap is creating a marketplace that provides equitable resources & opportunity. Check out MEI's library of resources in the Founder's Toolkit.

Mission Triangle

Mission Triangle offers nonprofits tools to become proficient in the core competencies needed to be a healthy, sustainable, mature nonprofit.

Pathfinder

Since its founding in 2014, Dowd has led the Sagamore Institute’s Center for American Purpose to reveal the multiple dimensions of how America is a positive force in the world. Pathfinder is the Center’s newest educational resource to help light America’s path ahead.

Reforming Criminal Justice in Indiana

Pursuant to HEA 1006 (2014), the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute is required annually to gather data and analyze the impact of Indiana’s criminal code reform on local units of government, the Department of Correction, and the judicial center. In early 2015, the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute commissioned the Sagamore Institute to conduct the initial report, as well as the second report in 2016.