The Elevate Prize
An annual prize to ten social-impact leaders, giving unrestricted funding plus a two-year visibility, growth-strategy and leadership programme. Winners are surfaced by nomination and then invited to apply.
- Indicative award
- $300k (total award)$300,000 per winner: $250,000 to the organisation and $50,000 directly to the individual leader, plus a two-year support programme.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Apr, May, JunNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Published annual cycle: nominations open April-May; eligibility review May-June; application invitations July-August; in-depth evaluation September; finalist interviews October-November; winners selected and announced November-January.
- Who can apply
- Practitioner, Community organisation, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- Applicant must be 18+, serving as Executive Director, CEO, Founder or equivalent of a registered nonprofit in good standing (U.S. 501(c)(3) or international equivalent) with capacity to manage unrestricted funds; organisations with annual budgets of roughly $2M-$10M are the stated target, with exceptions considered. Entry is by nomination followed by an invitation to apply.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- social entrepreneurship · nonprofit leadership · unrestricted funding
- Apply at
- https://elevateprize.org/the-elevate-prize/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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