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The couple accepted an award together, after many years of individual award ceremonies, by the Elevate Prize Foundation. Their work with the Clooney Foundation for Justice was honored with The Elevate Prize Catalyst Award, for “social change.”Fox won this year’s Elevate Prize Catalyst Award, which the “Back to the Future” star plans to use to further his foundation’s work to find treatments for Parkinson’s disease.

The couple accepted an award together, after many years of individual award ceremonies, by the Elevate Prize Foundation. Their work with the Clooney Foundation for Justice was honored with The Elevate Prize Catalyst Award, for “social change.”

Carolina García Jayaram, CEO of the Elevate Prize Foundation, told The Associated Press that she is also set to return to the conference to announce the nonprofit’s next winner of The Elevate Prize Catalyst Award

As we celebrate Pride month and Juneteenth there are so many initiatives and events worth highlighting! See the full list of shoutouts below! 

  • The stars were out to support LGBTQIA+ homeless youth, celebrating Ali Forney’s annual Place at the Table Gala  – so much so that it was even covered in Vogue!

Learn more about the amazing work of 2021 CNN Hero Shirley Raines and her organization Beauty 2 the Streetz. Shirley helps those without a home by administering a little “spiritual C.P.R.”

Her charitable initiative, Lizzo’s Juneteenth Giveback offered $50,00 to the Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI), an organization dedicated to protecting and defending the human rights of BLACK transgender people.

Miami, FloridaCNN — “It’s literally like winning the Academy Award of humanitarian aid work.”

That’s how Mobile Medics International founder Teresa Gray described being honored on the CNN Heroes stage in December.

Top 10 CNN Heroes from 2021 and 2022 gathered at the Elevate Prize Foundation’s Make Good Famous Summit in Miami for nonprofit and leadership training.

Lizzo honored for social justice work with Elevate Prize Catalyst Award