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3 Reasons Why I Accept Every "Pick Your Brain" Meeting Invite
3 Reasons Why I Accept Every "Pick Your Brain" Meeting Invite
I'm writing this post on the eve of an early morning coffee meeting with a young professional in town whom I have never…
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Steven Shattuck shared thisCongratulations to Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE and Sarah Plimpton on their new book!Steven Shattuck shared thisIt's finally here! Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE and Sarah Plimpton's new book 'A Board Member’s Guide to Capital Campaign Fundraising: How to Raise Game-Changing Money for Your Nonprofit' is now available for purchase! The goal of this book is to help board members feel informed, empowered, and excited about the role they can play in helping their organizations achieve ambitious goals. You can order it (paperback or Kindle) here: https://lnkd.in/e5hEYWBA
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Steven Shattuck shared thisHope you can join us tomorrow! Thanks to BetterUnite for having me.Steven Shattuck shared thisWhat do capital campaigns actually look like in 2026? 📊 New research is out and the data might surprise you. Join BetterUnite Co-founder Leya Simmons and Steven Shattuck, Director of Engagement & Technology at Capital Campaign Pro, for a deep dive into the 2026 State of Capital Campaigns Benchmark Report. ✅ Cut through the myths that hold nonprofits back from major campaigns ✅ Get real benchmarks to compare your organization against ✅ Walk away with data-backed clarity on what successful campaigns look like today 📅 June 2, 2026 | 1:30PM CT 💻 LIVE via Riverside 🎟️ Register for FREE here ➡ https://lnkd.in/dxnBZJFe #nonprofits #501cdrop #fundraising
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Steven Shattuck shared thisThanks to Amanda Day, GPC and Kimberly Hays de Muga, GPC for having me on the Fundraising HayDay podcast! https://lnkd.in/g3KCc8aM
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Steven Shattuck shared thismy little future MGO (maisie gift officer) is loving Simon Scriver's new coloring book! https://lnkd.in/g_AdzCqA
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Steven Shattuck shared thisIf you aren't watching basketball today: Join me for a free webinar where I'll build a nonprofit tech stack specifically for a capital campaign use case. There will be some tools you've probably heard of, but quite a few I bet you haven't. Register here >> https://lnkd.in/ghAgirmf
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Steven Shattuck reposted thisSteven Shattuck reposted thisThe Fund Raising School is looking for a highly-detailed program manager for a really cool project that can help smaller nonprofits in Indiana raise more money. This 16-month project allows for some work from a home office, other work at Indiana University’s Indianapolis campus, and the rest of the work on the road across the Hoosier State. If you have that flexibility, care about the life-changing work of grassroots nonprofits, and are so detailed that you never lose your keys, this could be for you. If interested, please email: billstan@iu.edu
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Steven Shattuck reposted thisSteven Shattuck reposted this👋 Calling all Black-led nonprofits! You do NOT want to miss this amazing opportunity! Today marks the official start to Black Philanthropy Month and while tremendous strides have been made in closing the funding gap that persists for Black-led nonprofits, more work remains. That is why we are proud to share that our friends at BackBlack have secured over $60K in funds and resources exclusively for Black-led nonprofits. Funds are available throughout the month of August—tag your favorite Black-led nonprofit to spread the word and visit backblackmovement.org to get involved today. 🌍🤝💪 Also, I want to give a huge shout-out to the incredible sponsors and supporters for not just talking the talk but walking the walk. In order of how they I appear on the website, I want to say a specific thank you to Every.org GlobalGiving Givebutter Fidelity Charitable® HERitage Giving Fund Neon One Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Giving Gap Fundraise Up Charityvest GivingTuesday @give828 TheShareWay Grapevine If you aren't already involved, check out how you can be: https://lnkd.in/gChKBj5S Lastly, to Floyd Jones the labor of love through which you do you work is something we ALL benefit from. I am so honored to call you a friend and collaborator. You should be so proud of the movement you have birthed and the energy and resources you have mobilized. I love watching you and this initiative SOAR. 🎥: also Floyd Jones 🤗 #BackBlack #SupportBlackNonprofits #BlackPhilanthropyMonth #BPM2024
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Steven Shattuck shared thisMy Boys & Girls Clubs friends should check this out!Steven Shattuck shared thisBoys and Girls Clubs: We ran an experiment earlier this year where I donated $25 to 50 Clubs across the Country. We then tracked what options were available during the gift experience, what the Thank You cadence looks like and then compiled all that information into a Report that you can access for free! This gives us a nice feel for what Clubs are doing well, as well as where a few opportunities to improve exist. Take a look: https://lnkd.in/e5Ria253Boys and Girls Clubs of America Donor Experience ReportBoys and Girls Clubs of America Donor Experience Report
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Steven Shattuck shared thisMy friend Sheri Chaney Jones is looking for a Senior Developer to join her team! SureImpact is one of the coolest products on the market for nonprofits, helping organizations measure the impact of their programs. Check them out >> https://lnkd.in/e4xznA3T #jobs #devjobs #techjobs #softwaredevSteven Shattuck shared thisSureImpact is growing! Do you love software, data, dashboards, and social good? Let's talk. https://lnkd.in/eXq6Jjv #data #software #techforgood #socialimpact
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Steven Shattuck liked thisSteven Shattuck liked thisBACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Ok, well, maybe it's more "Re-done because a bunch of people asked about it"? The Fundraiser's Planner is now available on Amazon! When Veronica Seymour, CFRE and I set out to do this, we had big dreams - not all of them came true, but we did create a planner we were proud of. And we've heard from so many #fundraisers how helpful its been, how much they get from it, and how useful it is. (And we're so grateful!) We sold out of the original print run and had decided not to print anymore. Super expensive, the logistics for shipping, storing, fulfillment were just overwhelming. But enough people asked that we decided to make it available on Amazon. Same great content. Updated and tweaked resources. Comprehensive. Consecutive (no flipping back and forth from month to day to year to . . . whatever). Personal planning as well as fundraising goals. It's everything in one place. And much easier to get! Just in time for year-end and, yes, 2027 planning! Available starting today at: https://a.co/d/0cblRvtO
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Steven Shattuck liked thisIt is a truly wonderful feeling after all this time to finally be able to share MemoryFox 2.0 with everyone. This has been a long year with a lot of building, rebuilding, changing our minds, getting things wrong, fixing them, listening, debating, and pushing to make the product better. Honestly more than anything though, I just feel really grateful. Grateful to our team for their incredible energy and caring so much about getting this right. Grateful to the customers and nonprofit leaders who gave us honest feedback along the way, including plenty of feedback that was not always easy to hear. And grateful to the partners, advisors, friends, and people who have supported us through all of it. I’m really proud of the team and really excited to see what nonprofits do with what we built. If you’ve been part of the MemoryFox journey in any way, thank you. If you know someone in the nonprofit world who might find this useful, I’d be very grateful if you shared this post or sent it their way. Every bit of visibility helps! Want to check it out for free? 👉 Create your free account: https://lnkd.in/gx99TfEiSteven Shattuck liked thisMemoryFox 2.0 is leaving Early Access and is FINALLY here to try for FREE!! 🦊 Every nonprofit has their own special and unique story to share. The organizations that stand out are often the ones that can show their incredible work and impact clearly, consistently, and beautifully. MemoryFox helps your team capture the photos, videos, testimonials, stories, and moments behind your impact, keep them organized, and turn them into fundraising content that moves people. With MemoryFox 2.0, your team can: 📸 Collect photos, videos, testimonials, and stories from staff, volunteers, program participants, donors, alumni, and others in your community �� Keep everything in one redesigned Content Library so your best fundraising and impact material is easy to find ✍️ Use the new Designer (w/ Optional AI Assist!) to turn what you’ve collected into polished stories, social posts, newsletters, and other communications 🎬 Create and edit videos right inside MemoryFox 🤝 Collect custom consent, questionnaire responses, and other important information alongside submissions And for the first time, you can try MemoryFox for FREE for 14 days! (No credit card required!) Create an account, upload a few photos or videos, invite team members to join as Contributors, build something, and see what MemoryFox 2.0 can do for your mission. Thank you to our incredible team and to every customer, partner, advisor, nonprofit leader, tester, and friend who shared feedback, challenged our thinking, and helped shape this over the past year. This has been a long 12-month journey, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who helped bring it to life. We’re so excited to finally share MemoryFox 2.0 with the nonprofit community. Off we go! 👉 Create your free account: www.memoryfox.io
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Steven Shattuck liked thisSteven Shattuck liked thisMemoryFox 2.0 is leaving Early Access and is FINALLY here to try for FREE!! 🦊 Every nonprofit has their own special and unique story to share. The organizations that stand out are often the ones that can show their incredible work and impact clearly, consistently, and beautifully. MemoryFox helps your team capture the photos, videos, testimonials, stories, and moments behind your impact, keep them organized, and turn them into fundraising content that moves people. With MemoryFox 2.0, your team can: 📸 Collect photos, videos, testimonials, and stories from staff, volunteers, program participants, donors, alumni, and others in your community 📚 Keep everything in one redesigned Content Library so your best fundraising and impact material is easy to find ✍️ Use the new Designer (w/ Optional AI Assist!) to turn what you’ve collected into polished stories, social posts, newsletters, and other communications 🎬 Create and edit videos right inside MemoryFox 🤝 Collect custom consent, questionnaire responses, and other important information alongside submissions And for the first time, you can try MemoryFox for FREE for 14 days! (No credit card required!) Create an account, upload a few photos or videos, invite team members to join as Contributors, build something, and see what MemoryFox 2.0 can do for your mission. Thank you to our incredible team and to every customer, partner, advisor, nonprofit leader, tester, and friend who shared feedback, challenged our thinking, and helped shape this over the past year. This has been a long 12-month journey, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who helped bring it to life. We’re so excited to finally share MemoryFox 2.0 with the nonprofit community. Off we go! 👉 Create your free account: www.memoryfox.io
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Steven Shattuck liked thisSteven Shattuck liked thisNYC is buzzing. Ok, to be clear, pretty sure it always is. 😅 But there’s a whole lot of good in the air today. Today is The Spread by Givebutter. Launching a 24 hour virtual hackathon. Tomorrow, we’re coming together to host in person nonprofit hackathons across 5 cities. And the theme tying it all together? CO-CREATE. Dang, if that isn’t the word for it. If you know me, you know I believe community is everything. It’s baked into the DNA of We Are For Good. It’s why we’ve built this work the way we have from day one. And so, when WAFG joined the Givebutter family last year, one of the things that didn’t take long to see is true was how deeply community is baked in deeply here, too. Not community as an audience. Community as a participant. As a voice. As a co-creator. You’ll see some of that story unfold today through a couple familiar faces. My friend Kyle DeGood, who we met as a WAFG community member so early in this journey. His org the The DeGood Foundation (part of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library!) helped shape the product with his voice. And dang if it isn't better because of it. And Sanjay Bindra, one of the most heartwired changemakers (and heart surgeons!) we’ve ever met who also happens to power his nonprofit mission GOSUMEC Foundation USA on Givebutter. His idea sparked a movement. Both have shaped conversations in our community. And both have helped shape what you’ll see today launching at The Spread. Practitioner-led development. What a thing, right? Thousands of conversations. Feedback loops. Ideas from the people actually doing the work. Then building WITH them, not just for them. That’s what we’re celebrating over these next two days. Today, product innovation + launches at The Spread. Tomorrow, we put it all into practice with nonprofit hackathons in NYC, Seattle, LA, Denver + Indianapolis. No stages. No pitches. No judges.Just good people building good things for their missions, together. CO-CREATE feels pretty dang fitting. Won't you join us? 💛🩵 I'll drop the link below, or head to the Givebutter website and click the top banner to join us live! Some BTS from NYC as we get ready. Come join us for The Spread today. And if you’re in one of our five cities, come build with us tomorrow. NYC friends. Grateful for some WAFG community friends who have stepped up to help us bring this vision to their cities too Melissa Hillier, MBA, Rebecca Bernard, Jean Pierre-Louis 🇭🇹 + Kristina Raines 🙏 p.s. I don't want to break the internet but I might not be wearing a black tee today. 🤣 💀
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Steven Shattuck liked thisSteven Shattuck liked this🎙️ New Podcast Episode 🎙️ What if the most valuable part of a feasibility study is the donor conversation your consultant never has? In this episode, Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE and Andrea Kihlstedt challenge a longstanding assumption about capital campaign feasibility studies: that an outside consultant should conduct confidential interviews with your largest donors. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gtp26d-m
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Steven Shattuck liked thisSteven Shattuck liked thisLegendary novelist and essayist George Saunders was interviewed about how he uses AI. His answer is incredible. "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel." h/t to the great Eric Solomon, Ph.D. for forwarding the interview to me.
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Steven Shattuck liked thisSteven Shattuck liked thisCongratulations to Ascension St. Vincent YMCA in Westfield Center Advisory Board Chair Mitch Frazier on his selection as the new president of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. We're thankful to have Mitch's exerience and guidance in the YMCA movement right here in central Indiana. https://lnkd.in/gmxTE-rBMitch Frazier picked to lead Indiana Economic Development Corp.Mitch Frazier picked to lead Indiana Economic Development Corp.
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Steven Shattuck liked thisSteven Shattuck liked thisWe're feeling the joy from our annual Capital Campaign Pro retreat! 😊 As a remote team, we treasure the chance to get together, swap ideas, learn from one another, and share plenty of laughs. We also make time to reflect on what’s working and where we can improve, so we can bring even better guidance and support to our clients. Heading home with fresh ideas, stronger connections, and a few more inside jokes? That’s a pretty good retreat.
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Steven Shattuck liked thisA few years ago we walked into our first BBCON as a startup hoping someone would notice us. This week we walked out as Blackbaud's 2026 Partner of the Year. 🏆 ⭐ Startup Showcase and People's Choice in 2023. ⭐ Rookie of the Year in 2024. ⭐ Marketplace Growth Award in 2025. ⭐ Partner of the Year in 2026. Behind every award is something bigger though. We have a whole team fully dedicated to delivering on our mission of helping fundraising organizations manage and steward their funds with more clarity, so more donor dollars turn into impact. I am SO proud of what our team has accomplished in a few short years. 🥹 Grateful to our team, our customers, and our partners at Blackbaud. 💚 We're just getting going! 🪴Steven Shattuck liked this🏆 Honored to be named the 2026 Blackbaud Partner of the Year ! 🥳 From winning the Startup Showcase in 2023, to Rookie of the Year in 2024, to the Marketplace Growth Award in 2025, and now Partner of the Year in 2026, we’re incredibly grateful for the continued partnership and recognition! Thank you, Blackbaud, for this incredible honor! #BlackbaudPartnerAwards #bbcon #partneringforsuccess Mike Gianoni, Elizabeth Price, Nick Saltzman, Stephen O'Neill
Experience & Education
Volunteer Experience
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Board Member
Hoodox
Arts and Culture
Indiana’s first and only streaming service featuring exclusively nonfiction, Indiana-focused content that’s not only entertaining, but also helps you connect to your community and create positive change.
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Project Work Group
Fundraising Effectiveness Project
Economic Empowerment
In 2006 the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute established the Fundraising Effectiveness Project to conduct research on fundraising effectiveness and help nonprofit organizations increase their fundraising results at a faster pace.
The project goal is to help nonprofit organizations measure, compare, and maximize their annual growth in giving. -
1816 Associate Board Member
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites
Arts and Culture
The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites collect, preserve, interpret and present the material record of Indiana’s art, science and culture while bringing quality museum offerings from around the world to Indiana to encourage people to discover the world and Indiana’s role in it – as it was, as it is and as it can be.
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Marketing/Communications Committee
CICOA, Aging & In-Home Solutions
Social Services
Founded as the Central Indiana Council on Aging, CICOA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to older adults and persons of any age with a disability. CICOA provides a variety of home and community-based services through a network of over 300 organizations.
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Communications Director
The Historic Irvington Halloween Festival
Arts and Culture
For over 60 years, the Historic Irvington Halloween Festival has brought together thousands of residents, dozens of neighborhood organizations, and countless Eastside businesses in a fun-filled celebration of our heritage and community. The festival and its associated events are designed to bring awareness to the community, to bring commerce to local business and sponsors, and to provide fun for the children of Irvington and Indianapolis. The celebration now encompasses a week of events…
For over 60 years, the Historic Irvington Halloween Festival has brought together thousands of residents, dozens of neighborhood organizations, and countless Eastside businesses in a fun-filled celebration of our heritage and community. The festival and its associated events are designed to bring awareness to the community, to bring commerce to local business and sponsors, and to provide fun for the children of Irvington and Indianapolis. The celebration now encompasses a week of events including a 5 mile run, a scholarship pageant, musicians, contests, Halloween-themed movies, storytelling, ghost tours, live theater, roller derby, a haunted puppet show and dozens of other events.
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Documentary Features Committee
Heartland Film Festival
Arts and Culture
Heartland Film Festival, a non-profit organization, was established in 1991 to recognize and honor filmmakers whose work explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life. Each October, Heartland screens Truly Moving Pictures from around the world, ranging from dramas to documentaries to animation during the Heartland Film Festival.
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Organizer
Startup Weekend Indianapolis
Science and Technology
Startup Weekend is a 54 hour startup event that provides networking, resources, and incentives for individuals and teams to go from IDEA to LAUNCH. The participants that attend a Startup Weekend decide what they want to tackle over the weekend and come out at the end with several developed companies or projects. Attendees are responsible for bringing the same desire and passion to the project and walk out of the room with the task at hand, in a short 54 hours. Sound intense? It is.
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Board Member
Masters of Business Online Conference
Science and Technology
The Masters of Business Online is Indianapolis’ largest one-day annual marketing event, created by marketers, for marketers. There are no sales pitches, hidden agendas, or fluff disguised as presentation. For five years, attendees of the Masters of Business Online have received real world examples of tactics and strategies that are actually working. Topics include: social media strategies, search engine optimization, paid search, website usability, web analytics and tracking, email marketing…
The Masters of Business Online is Indianapolis’ largest one-day annual marketing event, created by marketers, for marketers. There are no sales pitches, hidden agendas, or fluff disguised as presentation. For five years, attendees of the Masters of Business Online have received real world examples of tactics and strategies that are actually working. Topics include: social media strategies, search engine optimization, paid search, website usability, web analytics and tracking, email marketing, content management, ecommerce, online video, behavioral targeting, and many more.
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Advisory Council
Art Institute of Indianapolis
Education
The Art Institute of Indianapolis offers a broad range of programs designed to push student talent all the way to real-world career opportunities. It truly is a student-centered environment, from dedicated, supportive staff to the creative community of instructors who stress hands-on learning along with industry-utilized technologies and techniques.
Publications
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Robots Make Bad Fundraisers - How Nonprofits Can Maintain the Heart in the Digital Age
Bold & Bright Media
See publicationIn some ways, we’re in a golden age of fundraising. There have never been more ways to capture attention, rally supporters, generate revenue, and measure fundraising performance than there are today. The accessibility of this technology has also never been greater, even to the smallest charities.
But with all the software, tools, apps and intelligence available to us, why has fundraising performance stagnated? Has technology actually gotten in the way of building a personal connection…In some ways, we’re in a golden age of fundraising. There have never been more ways to capture attention, rally supporters, generate revenue, and measure fundraising performance than there are today. The accessibility of this technology has also never been greater, even to the smallest charities.
But with all the software, tools, apps and intelligence available to us, why has fundraising performance stagnated? Has technology actually gotten in the way of building a personal connection with our supporters?
In this book, we’ll explore ways to apply time-tested principles of philanthropy to the modern technology available to fundraisers — with the goal of keeping the donors we already have, inspiring new donors to give, and maintaining the sanity of our team members. -
Fundraising Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition (Chapters 11 and 12)
Wiley
Fundraising Principles and Practice provides a unique resource for students and professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of fundraising in the current nonprofit environment. Based on emerging research drawn from economics, psychology, social psychology, and sociology, this book provides comprehensive analysis of the nonprofit sector. The discussion delves into donor behavior, decision making, social influences, and models, then uses that context to describe today's fundraising…
Fundraising Principles and Practice provides a unique resource for students and professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of fundraising in the current nonprofit environment. Based on emerging research drawn from economics, psychology, social psychology, and sociology, this book provides comprehensive analysis of the nonprofit sector. The discussion delves into donor behavior, decision making, social influences, and models, then uses that context to describe today's fundraising methods, tools, and practices. A robust planning framework helps you set objectives, formulate strategies, create a budget, schedule, and monitor activities, with in-depth guidance toward assessing and fine-tuning your approach. Coverage includes online fundraising, major gifts, planned giving, direct response, grants, corporate fundraising, and donor retention, with an integrated pedagogical approach that facilitates active learning. Case studies and examples illustrate the theory and principles presented, and the companion website offers additional opportunity to deepen your learning and assess your knowledge.
Fundraising has become a career specialty, and those who are successful at it are among the most in-demand in the nonprofit world. Great fundraisers make an organization's mission possible, and this book covers the essential information you need to help your organization succeed.Other authorsSee publication
Honors & Awards
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Tech 25
Techpoint
The Mira Awards celebrates the broad success in technology across the state of Indiana, and the Tech 25 annually celebrates Indiana’s tech product and company builders. These are the critical, non-C-suite contributors who work the long hours and grind out the products and projects that propel business in Indiana forward. The Tech 25 comprises the people who don’t always get the recognition they deserve. We’re recognizing them now.
These 25 impressive individuals were nominated by…The Mira Awards celebrates the broad success in technology across the state of Indiana, and the Tech 25 annually celebrates Indiana’s tech product and company builders. These are the critical, non-C-suite contributors who work the long hours and grind out the products and projects that propel business in Indiana forward. The Tech 25 comprises the people who don’t always get the recognition they deserve. We’re recognizing them now.
These 25 impressive individuals were nominated by executives within their companies for this honor. Then members of their networks were asked to write letters of recommendation for them. We were blown away by the responses and the strength of this inaugural class of Tech 25.
The class of Tech 25 were selected based their exceptional abilities, contribution to company success and commitment to enhancing their team and our tech community. We solicited candidates in three main categories: tech product builders, sales and marketing and an “other” category. -
Academic Honors
Ball State University
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Honors in Writing
Ball State University
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Thoreau's Rooster - Editor's Prize
Assumption College
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David Letterman Scholarship
Ball State University
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