Key Highlights
- The Elevate Prize Catalyst Award is dedicated to acknowledging figures who use their power and influence to inspire positive global action, providing recipients with $250,000 in unrestricted funding to advance their mission and work.
- Popular on Variety Related Stories John Wilson Challenged Himself to Find Humor From a Boring Topic: Concrete.
- Shooting 140 Hours Helped Him Escape a Personal and Professional Slump Raye Announces Sophomore Album 'This Music May Contain Hope.' Speaking with Variety, Washington said, “It’s so exciting because it’s about turning the spotlight toward organizers and community leaders, and that’s really how I’ve tried to use my platform.
- We have supported local grassroots organizations who know their communities best, and we help their message reach farther.
- We help them tell their story and tell it more effectively and in traditional media and social media, and so this Catalyst Award is really allowing me to continue to direct resources toward leaders and initiatives that strengthen our democracy and making sure that the people who are holding the line for all of us, that they have to see what they need to keep going.” A docuseries by the Elevate Prize Foundation’s storytelling and production arm, the upcoming season of “Nevertheless,” titled “Nevertheless: Democracy Defenders,” will spotlight grassroots leaders, shining a light on those going up against rising polarization, growing threats to civil liberties and democratic backsliding around the world.
