Matt Damon, a 2024 Elevate Prize Catalyst Award winner and Carolina García Jayaram CEO of the Elevate Prize Foundation are featured in this article from ABC News.

Sonya Passi, a 2024 Elevate Prize winner and CEO of FreeFrom, is featured in this article from People Magazine. Thank you to People for recognizing the power of Sonya’s work and story, and lifting up our winners!

MIAMI, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Elevate Prize Foundation announced today Matt Damon as the latest recipient of its Elevate Prize Catalyst Award in recognition of his long-standing advocacy and work with Water.org, a global nonprofit working to bring safe water and sanitation to the world. The award was presented to Damon by the Elevate Prize Foundation's founder, Joseph Deitch, and its CEO, Carolina García Jayaram.

Elevate Prize Foundation to Match Donations for Each Top 10 CNN Hero Up to $50K and Present $300K Grant to CNN Hero of the Year.

Kappagantulu says the Elevate Prize armed him with the ability to tell Kheyti’s story effectively across platforms, and understanding the ways it pays dividends. He said that though colleagues “for a while must focus on solving the problem on the ground,” it’s important to learn to “wear both hats.”

The Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute, which honors everyday people who are making extraordinary contributions to help improve the lives of others, returns on Sunday, December 10 at 8pm ET. This Year’s Top Ten CNN Heroes were revealed today by Anderson Cooper on CNN

David Fajgenbaum discovered a repurposed drug to save his own life and is now on a mission with Every Cure Co-Founders Grant Mitchell and Tracey Sikora to repurpose drugs for millions more.

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

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.