Get Loud

Introducing The Elevate GET LOUD Award!

$10,000 awarded every month to a grassroots organization nominated by YOU.

We are launching this prize to fuel grassroots movements and organizers on the frontlines committed to collective action and building power among communities.

Get Local. Get Organized. Get Loud.

how does it work?

Every month we pick a theme and call out a cause on Instagram.
YOU nominate organizations that inspire you by commenting on the post.
We award one of the nominees $10,000!

who it is for?

Grassroots organizations.
Under 1 million annual budget.

Joe elevate prize founder

“ULTIMATELY, THE GOAL IS TO AWAKEN THE HERO IN ALL OF US, AND IGNITE A CHAIN REACTION OF GIVING AND GOODNESS ON A GLOBAL SCALE.”

-JOSEPH DEITCH
FOUNDER OF THE ELEVATE PRIZE FOUNDATION

GET LOUD for refugee and immigrant communities in Miami

While we have an international focus, the Elevate Prize Foundation is proud to call Miami home. So, for the first time ever, we’ll be focusing this month’s Elevate Prize GET LOUD Award on grassroots organizations based in our vibrant, culturally diverse city — and we need your help!

Head to our Instagram to nominate organizations advocating for refugees and/or immigrants in South Florida. One organization will be awarded $10,000 in unrestricted funding.

Nominations open 4/28 and close 5/1. The recipient will be announced at our in-person Summit event in Miami on 5/19!

Congratulations!

Since we launched the Elevate Prize GET LOUD Award last June, we have been consistently blown away by your response. It’s been an honor to learn about the over 7,000 organizations you’ve nominated (!) and to support grassroots efforts to drive change in YOUR communities.
In January, we put it to you; what topics do you want to see highlighted in future awards? And your response was fantastic. Thank you for your thoughtful ideas – including many suggestions that inspired our Arts + Inclusivity topic this month. We’ll continue to use these ideas for future Elevate Prize GET LOUD Awards!

Previous winners

For Period Poverty, Drawing Dreams Initiative will receive $10k from The Elevate Prize Foundation to continue their work providing menstrual products, and educating and empowering underserved girls and boys in Kenya. We love that Drawing Dreams is community-led and their #RoadTrip4ACause project.

For the Arts + Inclusivity, Touching Land received $10K from The Elevate Prize Foundation to continue the important work of empowering immigrant communities and building cross-cultural connections through the arts. We love their use of clay and the “KNOW YOUR RIGHTS” cards they hand out at every workshop.

For Holiday Season, these four organizations each received a $2,500 donation from The Elevate Prize Foundation to continue the important work of alleviating hardship in their communities.

For Building Power for Indigenous Peoples, Native Conservancy will receive $10,000 to continue it’s work to empower Alaska Native peoples to permanently protect and preserve endangered habitats on their ancestral homelands.

For Education Equity, Yes We Can World Foundation received $10k to support its mission of providing high quality education and building safe spaces for refugees, migrants and children in transit. We love the Yes We Can Mobile Schools program which operates inside or nearby partner shelters in order to create easy and safe access for children to attend classes.

For Climate Justice, The Smile Trust received $10k to support its intersectional mission of addressing climate while providing resources, education, jobs, and housing to combat poverty and homelessness. Our favorite of their grassroots programs – Smile Haven – works to minimize the effects of food deserts by establishing Agrihoods – working with communities to repurpose land, and integrate agriculture. It’s great to see urban spaces in our home city of Miami turn green with crops!

For Reproductive Justice, GENERATION RATIFY received $10,000 to continue it’s work fighting for gender equality and to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. We love Generation Ratify’s intersectional approach to reproductive justice and gender equality, and how they empower young people to start their own chapters across the country. As the young peoples’ feminist movement, they’re a force for change – and we’re inspired by their powerful example of action.

For Pride, The LGBT+ Center Orlando, Inc. received $10K to deepen its work promoting and empowering Orlando’s LGBT community and its allies through information, education, advocacy and support. Founded in 1978 as a community social group and hotline providing counseling and health information, the organization now offers health services and programs for members of the community of all ages. Following the Pulse tragedy, the LGBT+ Center has had a particular focus on helping those impacted connect with resources to assist with healing.

For Public Safety, Paterson Healing Collective received $10K to continue its mission of advocating for an end to and supporting survivors of gun violence. The organization acts as a community based violence intervention strategy, which includes youth mentoring, counseling, mediation, intervention assessment and community forums. Through one of its most impactful programs, interventionists visit people in hospitals to offer support and resources to restore peace.

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So get thinking, get inspired, and get over to Instagram to tell us all about organizations that could turn $10,000 into impact!
@elevateprize

Who can nominate?

ANYONE can make a nomination for this award unless you work for The Elevate Prize Foundation (we think that would be a little too insider-y). Nominate an organization whose work you believe in, or nominate your OWN organization!

How are winners chosen?

Organizations can be nominated infinite times, but that won’t impact judging. Winners will be chosen by the Elevate team regardless of number of nominations, based on their mission, budget, and impact.