2024 Innovation Fund Grantees

The 2024 Missio Nexus Innovation Fund, offered micro, macro, and collaborative grants opportunities for applications. The fund aims to inspire innovative thinking and practices within the North American Great Commission Community, fostering diverse work and cross-cultural proclamation of the gospel. It seeks
groundbreaking ideas that can transform ministries and reach the unreached, emphasizing empathy,
creativity, and iteration.

Missio Nexus is excited to announce the grantees for the 2024 Innovation Fund in the following categories:

Collaboration

The Collaborative Innovation Grant encourages joint applications from multiple mission ministries, showcasing proven collaboration and a collective approach to innovation, and is awarded
to outstanding alliances demonstrating unity and innovation

SIL Global
Collaborative Partners: SIL Global and Global Media Outreach (GMO)
Project Name: Scaling the Personal: An AI Copilot for Online Missionaries
Categories: Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Missionary Resources

Tentmakers Network (Switchboard)
Collaborative Partners: Switchboard, Pioneers, and Christar
Project Name: Operation Exponential Connection
Categories: Technology, Mobilization

Macro

The Macro Innovation Grant targets ministries with established innovation processes, highlighting iterative attempts and quantifiable end-user impact, with the potential to influence the broader missions landscape.

Micro

The Micro Innovation Grant is tailored for smaller, impactful projects focused on innovation and empathy for ministry impact.

Converge International Ministries

Project Name: Deaf Missionary Preassessment Project
Categories: Mobilization

Go, Live, Serve International, Inc.

Project Name: Middle East – China Talent Pipeline
Categories: Leadership Development, National Church Resources, Training

Partners International (Canada)

Project Name: Studio of Innovation – Leadership Hubs
Categories: Leadership Development, National Church Resources, Training

World Team

Project Name: Planting Coral to Plant Churches
Categories: Technology, National/Indigenous, Word/Deed Holistic Ministry

World Venture (Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society)

Project Name: Evangelism as Discipleship through Business Education and Entrepreneurship in Unreached and Unengaged Communities
Categories: Leadership Development, BAM

Outreach Canada

Project Name: Multiplying Bible Based Trauma Healing Ministry Among Diaspora in Canada and Beyond
Categories: Diaspora, Training

Disciple Makers Increase

Project Name: AI Powered Rapid Translation and Contextualization of\ Proven Online DMM/CPM Training
Categories: National Church Resources, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Training and Media