2025 20 in their Twenties: Alexis Martinez
Alexis Martinez said the path to her current role as an associate with Dentons has been a mix of persistence and curiosity.
Marc D. Allan
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2025 20 in their Twenties: Cesar Mendoza
Cesar Mendoza helped launched Indiana University Health’s sustainability department and became its first official employee. He supports the development, implementation, promotion and monitoring of environmental strategies and goals across IU Health.
2025 20 in their Twenties: Whitney Peterson
Whitney Peterson manages legislative strategy for Indiana’s prosecutors—tracking bills, analyzing policy and working with lawmakers to shape public safety legislation.
2025 20 in their Twenties: Blake Pieroni
Blake Pieroni competed in three Olympic games for the United States, won four medals and was the first person to break 1:30 in the 200-yard freestyle. But after retiring from swimming in 2021, he joined Gray Capital and is now head of investor relations.
2025 20 in their Twenties: Bianca Nohely Salas
As the customer experience specialist for the concessions program at the Indianapolis International Airport, Bianca Nohely Salas leads the creative marketing for more than 40 concessions and retail locations, manages communications with both local and corporate business partners and oversees public solicitations that reflect the airport’s commitment to community impact and customer service.
2025 20 in their Twenties: Will Schuler
Will Schuler started Will Power Excavation at age 16 and has built the company “by doing good work for good people” with his team of 85 and counting.
At Amazon’s Greenwood warehouse, humans and robots work side by side
While robots are not taking over warehouses, experts say, they are making processes faster, safer and easier on the workers.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Wheeler Mission offers hope for homeless
But Brian Crispin, Wheeler’s chief marketing and communications officer, will tell you that Wheeler is so much more.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Lutheran empowers, engages Indiana families
LCFS provides the programs in collaboration with a host of community partners, including Community Hospital East, Indianapolis Public Schools and Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, and with funding from the United Way, Lilly Endowment Inc. and Central Indiana Community Foundation.
2025 Nonprofit Excellence Awards: There’s ‘nothing like Dove House in the state’
The expansion is both gratifying and sad.
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.”
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.