2024 Innovation Fund Grantees
The 2024 Missio Nexus Innovation Fund offered micro, macro, and collaborative grant 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.
FaithTech
Project Name: FaithTech Hackathon
Categories: Technology, National Church Resources
OneHope
Project Name: Innovation Launch Pad Community
Categories: Leadership Development, Technology, App Development
MTI (Mission Training International)
Project Name: The John Powell Institute
Categories: Member Care
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
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