Raquel Bahamonde, Author at The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership

Ascend Indiana names new President and CEO and New Board Chair

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-21T08:17:18-05:00December 21, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS – The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and Ascend Indiana announce that Conexus Indiana COO and Chief Talent Officer Brad Rhorer has been named president and CEO of Ascend Indiana, CICP’s talent and workforce development initiative, and will succeed Jason Kloth in January. Concurrently, Board Vice Chair Bridget Boyle, head of people and culture for Roche Diagnostics, has been named chair of the Ascend Board of Directors, succeeding founding chair Mark Hill, who will step down at the beginning of the year. In October, Ascend Indiana announced that President and CEO Jason Kloth would step down on January 1, 2024. Kloth helped to create the talent and workforce development initiative nearly nine years ago and grew it into an organization that received more than $50 million in philanthropic funding since its inception in 2016 and has connected more than 4,700 [...]

IEDC to support TechPoint’s 25th annual ‘Best of Tech’ Mira Awards

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-21T01:04:24-05:00December 19, 2023|

Nominations are open now and tickets are on sale for the gala event at the Old National Centre on April 26 INDIANAPOLIS — TechPoint today announced a partnership with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) for the highly anticipated 25th anniversary Mira Awards gala honoring the “Best of Tech” in Indiana as the first-ever marquee presenter. Leading up to the Mira Awards gala, IEDC is co-sponsoring IDEA Week with TechPoint and the innovation festival’s creator, the University of Notre Dame. The Mira Awards program recognizes excellence and innovation in 18 different award categories that highlight organizations and individuals who represent the best and brightest innovators across the state. Simply being a Mira Award nominee has garnered honorees the attention of investors and potential partners and employees who want to work with exciting enterprises. IEDC’s support will also help Hoosier startup founders [...]

Ascend Indiana collaborates with 14 Indiana colleges and universities to help students enhance their search for jobs and internships statewide

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-14T09:24:29-05:00December 14, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS – Ascend Indiana, the talent and workforce development initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP), formed partnerships with 14 Indiana colleges and universities in 2023 to connect more students to good and promising career opportunities in Indiana. Through the Ascend Network, the initiative’s online job matching platform, students will be able to connect with Indiana jobs and internships that match their skill sets and interests and will receive increased one-on-one career guidance and job search support. In addition, these partnerships provide Indiana’s leading employers with a unique platform for hiring students. The 14 collaborator agreements are with the following Indiana colleges and universities: Ball State University (Muncie) Butler University (Indianapolis) Calumet College (Hammond) Earlham College (Richmond) Goshen College (Goshen) Grace College (Winona Lake) Hanover College (Hanover) Holy Cross College (Notre Dame) Indiana State University (Terre Haute) Indiana Wesleyan [...]

AgriNovus Indiana announces winners of Producer-Led Innovation Challenge, awards over $30K to advance agtech

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-13T14:49:16-05:00December 12, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS — AgriNovus Indiana, a non-profit focused on growing Indiana’s agbioscience economy, announced today that FiberX of Hammond, Ind. has won the Producer-Led Innovation Challenge, awarding them $25,000 to advance commercialization of their solution. In partnership with the Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Indiana Soybean Alliance, the Producer-Led Innovation Challenge tasked companies, entrepreneurs, students and innovators with creating new revenue streams from current on-farm processes to increase efficiency and return on investment for producers’ operations. “Agriculture is the only economy in the world that touches every person on the planet, because it centers on food,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus. “This challenge sought to identify new innovations that enable farmers to generate additional revenue streams while simultaneously meeting the growing global demand for a sustainable food system.” FiberX works with corn growers to source and convert corn [...]

Ball State University partners with Ascend Indiana to assist students with career and internship searches

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-12T08:15:57-05:00December 12, 2023|

MUNCIE, Ind. (Dec. 12, 2023) – Ball State University’s Office of Industry Engagement has partnered with Ascend Indiana to connect more students to promising career opportunities in Indiana. Through the Ascend Network, the initiative’s online job matching platform, Ball State students can connect with Indiana jobs and internships that match their skillsets and interests and receive increased one-on-one career guidance and job search support. The network adds a resource to the University’s robust efforts to help students find jobs and internships that align with their career goals and provides insight into companies and the variety of prospects in the Hoosier State. “We are grateful to form a partnership with Ascend Indiana to help provide more opportunities for our students in Indiana,” said Jeff Eads, director for industry engagement at Ball State. “In addition to the Indiana Connection Lounge and the [...]

CICP and its talent and industry sector initiatives celebrate an impactful 2023

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-06T11:19:01-05:00December 6, 2023|

For CICP and its five talent and industry sector initiatives AgriNovus Indiana, Ascend Indiana, BioCrossroads, Conexus Indiana and TechPoint, 2023 was a big year of growth with many projects and programs helping to drive Indiana's advanced industries forward. Dedication to the region’s prosperity and growth is the mission of CICP and that continued with the impactful work of the organization and the initiatives. Take a look back at some of the major milestones of the past year. [WATCH]

Ascend Indiana receives $2.45 million in grants to advance youth apprenticeships statewide

Raquel Bahamonde2024-01-19T15:48:39-05:00December 4, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS (Dec. 4, 2023) – Ascend Indiana, the talent and workforce development initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP), has received a $1.7 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation and a $750,000 grant from the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA) to scale youth apprenticeship programs across Indiana. Ascend acts as an intermediary, assisting organizations to start youth apprenticeship programs by building capacity, sharing resources, and providing access to state and national partners. The grant from the Walton Family Foundation was awarded to CICP Foundation, Inc. to advance the charitable activity of Ascend Indiana, and will establish a second cohort of five sites statewide that will each receive $25,000 to design their youth apprenticeship pilots. A subset of those sites will be chosen to receive follow-on funding to launch their youth apprenticeship pilots as part of the Indiana [...]

TechPoint launches network designed to lighten the load on state’s tech founders and help them succeed

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-06T11:19:56-05:00November 17, 2023|

Network perks include free co-working space and steep discounts INDIANAPOLIS – Starting a new business, service or product is a daunting task, but inventors, innovators and founders have long been described as courageous, audacious and brave. Less often acknowledged and rarely addressed are other attributes these trailblazers share: loneliness, brutal stress and even fear. In Indiana, that lack of attention on the psychological price of entrepreneurship stops today with the launch of the Indiana Founders Network, an organization supported by but led by members. “No Indiana organization focused on the tech sector has coached more startups than TechPoint’s leadership and venture support teams,” said TechPoint President and CEO Ting Gootee. “And as we discussed how best to execute on new strategies designed to further strengthen Indiana’s digital innovation economy, we realized we couldn’t fully do that if we don’t address [...]

CICP launches See Yourself IN program with webpage, videos, podcast

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-12T08:21:56-05:00November 15, 2023|

The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) is embarking on an exciting new program, See Yourself IN, to make sure that Indiana's Gen Z population is aware of the incredible opportunities for them in Indiana after high school, trade school, or college. The program features a new webpage with videos about cool Indiana companies, jobs, resources, information about the skills young people need to succeed in jobs in the advanced industries and a podcast. Explore and learn more at See Yourself IN.

IU School of Medicine’s Bruce Lamb named BioCrossroads’ 2023 Watanabe Life Sciences Champion

Raquel Bahamonde2023-11-09T16:51:59-05:00November 9, 2023|

Researcher has contributed on a global scale to efforts to overcome Alzheimer’s disease INDIANAPOLIS — The BioCrossroads Board of Directors today named Bruce T. Lamb, PhD, as the recipient of the 2023 August M. Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year Award. Lamb is the executive director of the Stark Neurosciences Research Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine and co-director of the Neurosciences Institute, a partnership between Indiana University Health and IU School of Medicine. The prestigious honor, named in tribute to BioCrossroads’ late Chairman August Watanabe, was given to Lamb at today’s Indiana Life Sciences Summit in recognition of his globally significant research into the causes of and potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease as well as his many years of advocacy to increase research funding and raise awareness for challenges the disease brings to families and caregivers. “As [...]

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