2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Strategic investment leads to career success
Its mission is “to secure and manage resources to support programs that prepare youth for leadership and careers in the science, business and technology of agriculture.”
Marc D. Allan
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2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Plane Pull supports 4 organizations
Teams must raise a minimum of $2,500 to participate. The winning team gets Republic Airways flight vouchers.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Gibble contribues to community she loves
As president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Hancock County for almost 20 years, she said it’s been “so rewarding to contribute to a community that I love.”
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Moving children ‘out of poverty for life’
The collaboration, which launched in 2024, will serve more than 1,700 students over four years across four partner schools—Lawrence Central High School, Lawrence North High School, Herron-Riverside High School and Irvington Preparatory Academy.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Colts give grants toward mental health
The Kicking the Stigma initiative has raised more than $31 million for mental-health awareness programs and to expand treatment and research.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Collaboration brought community to trials
From June 15-23, 2024, more than 285,000 people attended the trials, which served as the national championships in swimming for the United States and the qualifier for swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Kramer leads Goodwill with vision, courage
And this June, Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana and Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois announced plans to merge.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Volunteer helps to foster a lifelong love of learning
But Sides is still there, every Tuesday night during the school year, helping and motivating students.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Philanthropist set out to help others
Birge, who leads Cornerstone Cos. Inc., one of the nation’s most active medical office building developers, and Birge & Held, a real estate investment and management firm he founded, contributes more than $1.5 million each year to more than 70 nonprofits.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Carrier provides HVAC units, volunteer support
Over 30 years, Carrier has provided Habitat with 736 high-efficiency HVAC systems valued at nearly $5 million and more than $2.1 million in financial contributions.
Fast 25: Inherent Commercial LLC
Inherent, a general contracting and construction management firm, is No. 1 on the Fast 25 for the second consecutive year.
Fast 25: Creative Engineering Solutions Inc.
Charlie Wilson, Dave Jones and Gabe Currier ARE the principals behind the mechanical/engineering/plumbing firm Creative Engineering Solutions Inc.
Fast 25: iSolutions Payments LLC
ISolutions uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a base to build on to create automated accounts receivable products that businesses use to send invoices, collect payments, send payment reminders, check the status of orders and do other tasks.
Fast 25: Northern Lights Locating and Inspection
Northern Lights Location and Inspection, which locates underground electrical, gas, sewer and other utilities to make construction worksites safer, is in the Fast 25 for the second consecutive year.
Fast 25: Your Money Line
You know Peter Dunn as “Pete the Planner,” the financial adviser whose advice appears in IBJ. But he’s also CEO of Your Money Line, which offers financial coaching through employers that hire Dunn’s company to help their employees navigate their finances.
Fast 25: WellBridge Surgical
WellBridge is the brainchild of Dr. Eric Inman, an anesthesiologist who’s been practicing in the Indianapolis area since 2007, and his best friend, Jeff Williams, “a serial entrepreneur.”
Fast 25: RISE Commercial District
When RISE Commercial District made its first appearance on the Fast 25 in 2021, it had eight locations. Today, the co-warehousing space company has 15 locations and three more under construction in Indiana, Ohio and Missouri.
Fast 25: ESG Insurance
ESG Insurance, which goes by the name The Medicare Family, is an insurance brokerage that specializes in Medicare supplemental coverage for people who are new to Medicare.
Fast 25: Resolution Group Inc.
Resolution Group began in 2008 as a niche technical staffing firm, supplying skilled professionals such as field inspectors, computer-aided-design technicians and other technician-level talent to civil engineering firms across Indiana.
Fast 25: Williams Creek Management Corp.
Williams Creek Management Corp. has been in business since 2003, but it wasn’t until 2020 that it implemented a growth plan.