The Elevate Prize Foundation

Our Holiday Gift Guide featuring incredible products from Elevate Prize winners (and one fellow!) is live! 💛 From sustainable furniture up-cycled from plastic bags (Sungai Watch Sungai Design), to dog treats supporting veterinary care for families experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability (Dr. Kwane Stewart Project Street Vet), to unique candles made by survivors of gender-based violence (FreeFrom), and much more, including from Nest APOPO & the beelove® café, here's our selection of purposeful gifts. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eiDu5nX6

We're so proud to announce the winner of our special #GiveMiamiDay x GET LOUD Award: Beyond the Bars! Today, live on stage in collaboration with The Miami Foundation and Miami Dade College, we were proud to not only announce them as a winner of our $25,000 award, but also announce a surprise and generous match from the Wolfson Family Foundation. Yes, they actually won $50,000! Deeply embedded in the Miami community, Beyond the Bars is fighting for better working conditions for low-wage, criminalized workers in South Florida. Through education, advocacy, and organizing, they challenge the exploitation of workers with arrest records. After receiving thousands of nominations, 9 Miami-Dade College Changemaking students helped us choose Beyond the Bars as our winner. We all loved their robust resources and how creative they are with their programming, including with poetry and wellness offerings. Overall, we are in awe of them and are so proud to welcome them to the Elevate family! Thank you, Miami Foundation, Miami-Dade College, Randi Wolfson and Miami-Dade college students for the incredible collaboration this month.

Holding Dwyane Wade's words close to our hearts this #TransRemembranceDay. This past May, we were deeply proud to honor NBA Hall of Famer (and Miami legend!) with the Elevate Prize Catalyst Award in recognition of his advocacy for the transgender community. Live on stage at our #MakeGoodFamous Summit, he also announced the launch of Translatable, a safe space for LGBTQIA+ youth to express themselves and a resource hub for our parents, families, and support systems. His tireless dedication to the trans community and racial justice inspires us every day. May we all love our children as Dwyane does!

To everyone working across nonprofits or social impact at large, this is our message to you. 💛

"Why IS Elevate in Miami?" is a question we often get. Here, our CEO Carolina García Jayaram explains why — and why we're proud to be a part of this city's social impact growth.

In 2013, Gayatri Datar traveled to Rwanda from the U.S. with three fellow Stanford University students and was shocked by the significant health problems caused by dirt floors in sub-optimal homes. Together, they founded EarthEnable to improve people’s quality of life — and the Earth —  through affordable solutions. EarthEnable is working towards a world where everyone has access to a safe, affordable, sustainable, and healthy homes. So proud to have Gayatri and EarthEnable in the Elevate family!

"Homelessness affects us ALL.” November is #NationalHomelessnessAwarenessMonth and we’re proud to launch our series on homelessness with 3 incredible leaders in this space who are also crucial to our Elevate community: Dr. Kwane Stewart from Project Street Vet, Nikki Gane-Butler Dignity For Divas  and Mark Horvath from Invisible People, speaking here in this clip. Visit our YouTube for the full conversation.

At Elevate, we VOTE ✌️ 2024 has been a “super year” for elections, with almost half of the entire global population (yes, 3.7 BILLION people!) in over 72 countries voting. This means that, this year, more voters than ever in history will head to the polls. What a monumental moment for communities to make their voices heard! If you’re in the US today, don’t forget to exercise your right to VOTE! 🗳️

Proud to announce our October Elevate Prize GET LOUD Award winner for Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction: Start:Empowerment! A youth BIPOC-led nonprofit at the nexus of climate education, solutions, and environmental justice, Start:Empowerment is based in Texas and has programs across the U.S. They've already reached over 4,000 students with their environmental justice curriculum and are in 13 schools — and the number continues to grow. We LOVE their focus on educating and empowering BIPOC youth to use their voices and their power to change the trajectory of the climate crisis. Welcome to the Elevate family, Start Empowerment and Alexia Leclercq, M.Ed!

We're deeply proud to be collaborating with CNN Heroes again for the third year in a row! Honored to grant the CNN Hero of the Year an additional unrestricted fund of $100,000 and provide the remaining honorees with matching funds up to $50,000 each. All top 5 CNN Heroes will also receive support from Elevate including capacity building and resources to bring visibility to their work AND attend our third annual Make Good Famous Summit in Miami, Florida. 🚀 Congratulations to all Heroes and welcome to the Elevate family! Get to know them and VOTE for the CNN Hero of the Year here: https://lnkd.in/epMddTWf Ron Davis Alvarez Stephen Knight Payton McGriff Rachel Rutter, Esq. Yamilee Toussaint