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By Women, For Women: Spotlight on winners Sonya Passi and Teresa Njorege 

We can’t think of anything that represents Women’s History Month better than women changemakers dedicated to championing and lifting up other women.  That’s exactly what two of our Elevate Prize winners have dedicated their lives to and are working towards on a daily basis: 2023 winner Teresa Njoroge, founder and CEO of Clean Start Africa, […]
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Celebrating our Elevate Prize winners on a billboard in Times Square! 

“I never dreamed that this would be possible!” That’s what 2024 Elevate Prize winner, Melissa Malzkuhn, Director of Motion Light Lab, an organization advancing sign language fluency and equity through immersive content, said to us as she saw her face on a Times Square billboard announcing our new cohort of winners.  At Elevate, we believe […]
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Meet our 2024 Elevate Prize winners!

Meet our 2024 Elevate Prize winners! 10 incredible people and organizations from across the globe who are — quite literally!— changing the world. From driving representation, to reimagining justice, protecting the environment, championing mental health, improving nutrition, caring for pets and the people who love them, and inspiring the changemakers of the future, they’re making […]
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Celebrating the work of our Elevate community!

As we celebrate Pride month and Juneteenth there are so many initiatives and events worth highlighting! See the full list of shoutouts below!  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.”
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Cultivating Bravery: A Reflection on Art and Healing

  Healing is an act of bravery. It requires us to look deep into the mirror; peeling back layers to reveal the most intimate parts of ourselves that need a bit of grace, care and love. I believe that art plays such a beautiful role in reflecting the nuance that resides within our pursuit to […]
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Congratulations to our 2023 Elevate Prize Winners!

I’m the luckiest guy in the world. Amongst my many blessings, every year I get to welcome a new group of remarkable social entrepreneurs – heroes in the truest sense – into our community. It’s an incredible moment and a singular honor. Our winners and their organizations are truly a global cohort. From Kenya to […]
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Making education fun – and accessible – to children across Africa.

Through TV, radio, and mobile, children in 26.4 million households in 41 countries across Africa watch, listen, and learn from Ubongo’s educational cartoon programs every week. These educational – and fun – shows are designed to improve school readiness – and to provide an education where there is no opportunity for school. Reaching over 24,600,000 […]
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Winner Spotlight: TalkingPoints’ Heejae Lim

When teachers, families and children communicate, the impact is extraordinary. In fact, family engagement is twice as effective in predicting success than a family’s socioeconomic status. However, many families face barriers imposed by language and access to technology that make communication more challenging. And there, in the middle, TalkingPoints can help. “Our mission is to […]
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Elevate Prize Foundations’ Statement on the Overturning of Roe v Wade

Overturning the protection of a woman's right to choose is about more than abortion -- it's about taking away a pivotal personal freedom and threatening to take away others.
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Reflecting on Juneteenth

This year for Juneteenth my team at the Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is reflecting on what true safety means, particularly in light of the horrific violence in recent weeks. We mourn those killed by gunmen who opened fire at a Buffalo grocery store, an elementary school in Uvalde, a hospital in Tulsa, and in countless other shootings.
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More than a shelter, a home for homeless LGBTQ+ youth. 

Though hard-won strides have been made for equality over the last decades, LGBTQ youth are still – and increasingly – under attack. Not only from homophobic and transphobic legislation that’s making it’s way into law in Florida, Georgia and 33 other states, but in their homes, from the people who are supposed to love and […]
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In an era of unprecedented burnout and rising anxiety, how can we make space for our mental health?  

Even as lockdowns around the world start to ease, it’s clear to see that the pandemic has changed all our lives. That’s been a stark reality for Elevate Prize winner Dr. Dixon Chibanda of Friendship Bench, an organization that trains grandmothers to provide talk therapy from benches in the hearts of their communities.
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