Cicp Foundation

Analytixin, is a strategic initiative of Cicp established to develop a digital community, including a place-focused collaboration hub in indianapolis that will strengthen connections and encourage engagement of academic data science research and development talent with their industry peers to drive sustained innovation within Indiana. The project is intended to drive sustained innovation within the state and enable Indiana companies to grow their digital capabilities and appropriately skilled workforces at all levels. The emphasis is on life sciences and manufacturing, two of Indiana's most important and prolific economic drivers. Cicp serves as project lead, with significant and critical participation from Indiana university, purdue university, and the university of notre dame, each allocated significant analytixin funding as the locus of the project's talent recruitment and development activities. Visit www.analytixindiana.com. A consortium involving Cicp, iu health, the Indiana biobank, the Indiana clinical and translational sciences institute, eli lilly and company, and the Indiana health information exchange is growing a shared health data platform linking consented clinical and genomic patient data. The consortium partnered with the world-renowned broad institute to sequence 35,000 human genomic samples and was accepted as a customer experience spoke within the federal government's arpa-h initiative accessible on a clinico-genomic data platform. This vast repository is both a resource and a gateway to revolutionary precision medicine and patient-centered clinical trials. This initiative is a significant asset in healthcare advancement, further distinguishing Indiana as a leader in medical research and innovation. In 2023, Indiana accelerated the future of manufacturing through dynamic university-industry partnerships. By putting artificial intelligence (ai) and machine learning (ml) to work in new ways, these efforts are helping Indiana's manufacturing industry to adopt smarter processes, unlocking heightened levels of efficiency, sustainability, and quality. This evolution underscores Indiana's commitment to leading smart manufacturing innovation, with analytixin projects already reshaping industry standards. Indiana's premier research universities Indiana university, purdue university and the university of notre dame added to their reputations of data science excellence. In 2023, the number of esteemed faculty analytixin funding helped recruit and retain to Indiana's research universities reached 46, significantly enhancing Indiana's intellectual capital in ai, ml, and advanced analytics. Moreover, the influx of 70 postsecondary and graduate- level data analytics interns into "the common place" underscores analytixin's dedication to nurturing new talent. These interns, from diverse academic backgrounds, engaged in data analytics projects across various industries, demonstrating the initiative's commitment to building Indiana's future digital workforce. Analytixin is primarily enabled by a $36 million grant from lilly endowment Inc. to the Cicp Foundation. Visit www.analytixindiana.com.

Conexus Indiana has been positioning the Hoosier state as the best place for advanced manufacturing and logistics industries to innovate, invest, employ and succeed for more than a decade. By collaborating with industry, academic and public sector partners on a shared vision for an innovative, skilled workforce and stronger business climate, conexus Indiana has helped to create opportunities for advanced manufacturing and logistics companies, prepare hoosiers to succeed in the state's largest industry sectors and maintain Indiana's competitive advantage. Conexus Indiana's charitable and educational activities are funded through Cicp Foundation. Visit www.conexusindiana.com. Indiana schools and industry are collaborating and partnering at unprecedented levels to build the next generation of talent. In 2023, conexus Indiana saw industry engaging like never before while educational leaders met them with flexibility and creativity, as partners in preparing our next-gen workforce for successful careers and futures. In partnership with the Indiana office of career and technical education (octe), conexus Indiana awarded nearly $500,000 in education readiness grants to five high schools to prepare students for an industry 4.0 workplace. In addition to funding curriculum and technology, these grants require schools to partner with a local employer to provide students with a work-based learning experience. Through the conexus Indiana student industries network, conexus Indiana supported 14 high school student-run manufacturing businesses, known as student-based enterprises (sbes). This network provides students and teachers with a forum for idea exchange and a platform to demonstrate problem-solving and technical skills. It also serves as a front door to industry, creating connections between local students and future talent. Conexus Indiana trained more than 340 individuals through its catapult Indiana manufacturing program, providing them the skills and connections with industry partners to succeed and grow in the advanced manufacturing and logistics industries. In fact, 90% of graduates eligible to work received a job offer.

Ascend Indiana is a talent and workforce development initiative committed to making Indiana a place of economic opportunity for all. Ascend connects job seekers to good and promising career opportunities through an innovative job matching platform, the ascend network; catalyzes partnerships and provides consulting services to meet high-demand workforce needs through ascend services; and conducts research through ascend insights to enable systems-level change that positively impacts individuals throughout the state. Ascend Indiana's charitable and educational activities are funded through Cicp Foundation. Visit www.ascendindiana.com. Ascend uses the ascend network to connect individuals to jobs, internships, and work-based learning opportunities, while helping Indiana employers find and hire qualified candidates. Since 2017, ascend has provided nearly 23,000 career navigation activities to students and job seekers through the creation of a network profile or one-on-one meetings with a career mentor. Over 50% of these individuals are individuals of color, from low-income backgrounds, and/or first-generation college students. Altogether, the network has connected over 2,800 individuals with good and promising job opportunities in the state. Ascend continued its work to expand modern youth apprenticeships throughout the state. In 2023, ascend grew its community of practice (cop), which engages more than 100 members and 60 organizations statewide to actively address systemic barriers to scaling modern youth apprenticeships across the state. The cop convened practitioners and system builders including policymakers and state leaders twice throughout the year to share best practices and address barriers to scaling youth work-based learning opportunities. In addition, ascend established a second cohort of the Indiana youth apprenticeship accelerator, selecting five new sites statewide to design a youth apprenticeship pilot for their region. Ascend launched the accelerator in 2021 to expand work-based learning programs and to develop a coordinated education-to-career ecosystem that provides all students across the state, in both urban and rural areas, with additional opportunities to obtain necessary skills for today's workforce. In total, ascend provides funding and technical assistance to nine pilot sites.

Biocrossroads is Indiana's life sciences initiative that fosters public-private collaboration by uniting a diverse range of academic, industry, and philanthropic stakeholders, all collectively focused on advancing Indiana's life sciences sector. Committed to supporting the growth of capital investments and talent development, biocrossroads provides support to both existing and new life sciences enterprises, including the Indiana health information exchange, orthoworx, and the Indiana biosciences research institute. Biocrossroads champions the advancement of cutting-edge research and development, plays a crucial role in building and nurturing a robust talent pipeline, and is dedicated to establishing Indiana as a thriving hub for life sciences manufacturing. Biocrossroads' charitable and educational activities are funded through Cicp Foundation. Visit www.biocrossroads.com. In 2023, biocrossroads worked with teconomy partners and key stakeholders to create a refreshed strategy for Indiana's life sciences industry. To remain competitive and extend sector's leadership position, Indiana's life sciences sector must collectively continue to enhance its efforts toward fostering research and development and innovation; enhancing the state's life sciences manufacturing ecosystem; boosting Indiana's life sciences talent and workforce; and supporting connections and outreach across the sector. Biocrossroads produced several reports illustrating progress across Indiana's life sciences community including: recruiting and retaining talent who make life-saving medicine; Indiana life sciences capital: a summary of 2022 investments; Indiana's role in the alzheimer's battle: meaningful research, clinical interventions, and public health policy; book of data and organizations: a census of major health and health related data, capabilities, and talent in Indiana. The 2023 Indiana life sciences summit provided a unique opportunity to discuss and showcase the impactful and groundbreaking work being done in Indiana to address alzheimer's disease. From cutting-edge research to the development of new drugs and care models, the Indiana life sciences community is making significant strides in this area. Biocrossroads promoted Indiana's life sciences through four frameworx programs: Indiana biosciences research institute: the path forward; building a healthier Indiana; analytixin: healthcare data translated into meaningful insights; the intersection of agbioscience and life sciences in Indiana. Techpoint is the industry-led growth initiative for Indiana's digital innovation economy and overall tech ecosystem focused on expanding the tech talent pipeline, enhancing resource connectivity for enterprise organizations and startups alike, and elevating the industry by activating the community and amplifying stories of success in collaboration with public, private and industry partners. Techpoint's charitable and educational activities are funded through Cicp Foundation. Visit www.techpoint.com. The Indiana tech sector made progress toward its collaborative goal of inclusively adding 41,000 tech workers to the state by 2030 via techpoint's mission41k effort. The intentional work also included growing the number of adult apprenticeships, enhancing skills-based hiring practices and increasing programs aimed at bringing more blacks, hispanics and women into Hoosier tech careers. More than 200 tech leaders are active participants in mission41k. The rate of Indiana's new tech job creation grew from an average of 2 percent in 2022 to 5.6 percent in 2023. Xtern and xplore programs, which focus on tech internships for university and high school students, respectively, showed continued positive outcomes. Xtern participants reported having dramatically better impressions of muncie and indianapolis after completing the programs in those cities. Another record number of students from across the country- nearly 2,500 - applied for the 2024 xtern class. The 2023 xtern class included 183 students from 25 states, 13 foreign countries and 37 u.s. Universities. The pitch was rebranded as xplore for 2023 with a class composed of 93 students. Techpoint spent considerable time and resources revamping its careers in tech web resource to growing Indiana's tech workforce. Launched late in 2023, the new site attracted more than 19,000 impressions and more than 1 million views across multiple platforms, exceeding goals. Techpoint's promotion of adult apprenticeships helped propel increased interest. Partners, such as eli lilly and company, employed more than 35 adult apprentices in 2023, and plan to continue to support the program. Agrinovus Indiana is the state's initiative focused on advancing the agbiosciences sector as a nationally recognized leader through education, research and talent development; strategic collaborations among corporations, industry associations, government and universities; the creation and support of new companies; and branding and targeted promotions to elevate the sector. Agrinovus Indiana's charitable and educational activities are funded through Cicp Foundation. Visit www.agrinovusindiana.com. Agrinovus' podcast agbioscience, in its sixth season, released 70+ episodes of discussions with leaders across food, animal health, plant science and agtech. Presented by Indiana farmers insurance, the podcast was named the top agtech podcast globally by feedspot and was listed in the top 5% of all podcasts worldwide by listennotes. Agrinovus' quarterly event series, quadrant, continued to offer a platform for diverse members of the agbioscience community to engage in speaking, learning and networking opportunities. The four events brought together 440+ members of the community to discuss topics that corresponded with key trends shaping the agbioscience community. Through its online career exploration platform, myfieldatlas.com, and outreach efforts on college campuses statewide, field atlas is designed to educate students about traditional and allied professions in agbioscience. The field atlas online platform is augmented by on-campus, part-time student employees who provide peer guidance on the agbiosciences and help students to connect to industry careers based on their interests. Agrinovus welcomed 12 ambassadors in 2023 representing diversity from campuses across Indiana. Sponsored by Indiana soybean alliance and Indiana corn marketing council, a new field atlas-branded industry tour program welcomed 23 students with diverse backgrounds for two, day-and-a-half programs to tour agbioscience companies and meet mentors. Participants ranged from freshmen to phd candidates and included campuses across Indiana and beyond.