We are grateful to all our supporters who help to fuel the STRIVE mission. 

Together, we partner with thousands of people as they pursue life-changing careers and achieve sustained economic prosperity for their families and communities.

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Strive thanks many federal, state and local government agencies for their support
 

The below listings represent giving in 2023. STRIVE values gifts of all sizes, including those not featured here.

EMPOWER

Ballmer Group

Blue Meridian Partners

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

Gotham Gives

Robin Hood Foundation

Truist Foundation

THRIVE

Baptist Community Ministries

Suzanne Peck & Brian Friedman

ACHIEVE

Altec Industries

Assured Guaranty

Blackstone Charitable Foundation

The Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation

Regions Foundation

Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation Social Justice Fund

The Wilson Sheehan Foundation

ASPIRE

Alabama Power

Alix & Dick Barthelmes

Annaly Capital Management

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Anonymous Donor

The David R. and Patricia D. Atkinson Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

The Bewtra Charity Fund

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

Brooklyn Communities Collaborative

The Caring Foundation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation

Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham

David Finkelstein

Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Bonnie Howard & Charles Charrow

IPG Mediabrands

Arthur Kokot

LISC Atlanta

The Meera and Ashok Vasudevan Foundation

McCann Worldgroup

Mount Sinai Health System

Tonia O’Connor & Greg Mayes

RBC Capital Markets

The Ready Foundation Ariel Doctoroff & Philip Salinger Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust

MK Reichert Sternlicht Foundation

Mona Sutphen & Clyde Williams

Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

United Way of Greater Atlanta

United Way of Southeast Louisiana

Joanne & Fred Wilson

Alice Young & Neil deGrasse Tyson

Randy Zeno

MENTOR

Accenture

AMC Networks

American Family Insurance

Dreams Foundation

Greg Bauso

BDT & MSD Partners

Elaine & Norman Brodsky

Deloitte

Dentsu Aegis Network

Mary Eastman-Scott & James Maher

Entergy Charitable Foundation

Lisa & Kevin Fleischmann

Foundation for Louisiana

FOX Corporation

Carol Gellos

Charlotte Gesten

Glenn Markman Foundation

Google

Anthony Green

Amy & John Griffin

Harlem CDC

Havas

Hearst Corporation

Dawn Hudson

The Independent Presbyterian Church Foundation

Jobs First NYC

Sonia & Paul Tudor Jones

Judith Favell & Holly Gray Favell

Jacki Kelley

Marcie Klein

Antoinette Leatherberry

Daryl Lee

Helaine Lerner

Wendy & Gary M. Leshgold

Gwen R. Libstag

Kristian Lichtenfels

Judy & Jeffrey McElnea

Meta

Monadnock Construction, Inc.

Liz Neumark

Ogilvy

Anthony O’Haire

Paramount

Yvan-Claude Pierre

The Protective Life Foundation

Prudential Foundation

Joyah Pugh

Responsible Business Initiative for Justice

Alissa Shipper

The Smith Family Benevolent Fund

Sheryl & Tony Steadman

Julia Steele

Jennifer Swanson & Jonathan Prince

Sundaram Tagore

Jennifer & James Thomas

Sharon & Mortimer Tieschmaker

Tanya Rakpraja

H. Thompson Rodman Jr.

Vanderbilt Family Foundation

The William L. and Lesley H. Collins Family Foundation

Zoetis Foundation

Zoetis

OPPORTUNITY

Joshua Albertson & Roslyn Stahl

Amazon Ads

Kenneth Anderson

Anonymous Donor (x2)

Diego Aragon

Ilana Arbeit

David Armstrong

Ryan Ashley

Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency

Sylvia Banderas Coffinet

Shannon & John Bannister

Ester Banque

Shynice Bartell

Maureen & William Barton

Lisa & Alan Berman

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

Carol Boulanger

Alexandra Bowie

Nathan Brown

Richard Brown

Maria & Roy Castro

Alison Cayne

Sean Collins

Evelyn Connally

Gabrielle Cornick

Lucy Dahl

John Di Schiavi

Bonny & Dodge Dorland

Jillian Dunham & Michael Welt

Chelsea Dunlap

Courtney Ek

Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Inc.

Norman & Marlene Feinstein

Gregory Fell

Feuerstein Kulick

Sinead O. Flaherty

Julianna Fricchione

Sue & Paul Gallant

Dr. Cristin Gavin & Greg Garcia – Plan North Partners

Gillian & Michael Goodrich

Nihal Goonewardene

Granite Gives Back

Lia Grigg

Robert Gross

Amber R. Guild

Dipti Gulati

Jennifer Hand & Tom Tierney

Gyasi Headen

Karen Hofstein

Sarah Holloway

Holly Horn

Bradley Inman

Judy Jackson

David Jakubowski

Johnson & Johnson

Alexandra Kaplan

Anne Keane

Eileen Kiernan

Anaka Kobzev

Hilary Koyfman

Jennifer Klopp

Alexandra Krupp

Mitch Kulick

Roxanne Lagano

Christina Langdon

David LeCompte

Anki Leeds

Lynn Lewis

Marla Lewis

Geralyn & Tyler Lucas

James MacPherson

Kamie Maddocks

Eileen Martini

David Mataranglo

Lisa McCarthy

Meridian Risk Management

Philip K. Meyer

Gail Milliken

Matthew Naclerio

NCheng LLP

Elaine Nigam

Vincent Ning

Alex O’Daly

Michelle Oppenheimer

David Peinsipp

Mariama Perry

Sally Preston

River Rainne

Gabrielle Raymond McGee

John Ratzan

RBC Foundation

Nick Reber

Jordan Rednor

Thomas Remien

The Richard Powell Fund

Shaun Roberts

Benjamin Rosenblum

Laurie Rosenfield & Peter Falk

Sacajawea Charitable Foundation

Nicole Sandford

Scott Sayare

Joe Scantlebury

Lisa Sherman

Fallon Shields & William McElnea

Gail & Illan Silberman

Henry Singer

Lauren Singer & Jeremy Phillips

Adrienne Skinner

Lockhart Steele

Marybeth Strobel

Patricia Szabo

Michelle Tang

Sydney Thomashow & Benjamin Gifford

Lorie & Neil Torpey

Binu Varughese

Shannon Washington

Margie & Bruce Warwick

Jamaul Webster

Jessica Donner & Phil Weinberg

Jordan D. Weintraub

Serena Wolfe

Linda Yaccarino

IN-KIND

Janisia Bennett

John Carlucci

Kristina Fibkins

Good+ Foundation

Anita Hattiangadi

Hearst

Dawn Hudson

Jefferies Financial Group, Inc.

Carolyn Jones

MDRC

Suzanne Peck & Brian Friedman

Cynthia Perry

Andrew Reed

Catherine Renderos

Britney Shields

Latisha Smith

Alexandra Vendrell

CORPORATE VOLUNTEERISM

Annaly Capital Management

Ares Management

Assured Guaranty

Deloitte

Hearst Corporation

NYSE

Assured Guaranty

American Family Dreams Foundation

Annaly Capital Management

Benevity

CarMax

GiveLively Foundation

Google

IPG

Zoetis

STRIVE ATLANTA ADVISORY BOARD

Michael Baptiste

Angele Barrow

Ginneh Baugh

Donna Cohen

Tom Cook

Kelly English

Cinda Herndon-King

Shannon James

Amit Khanduri

Mathilda Lambert

Katrina Mitchell

Carl Peoples

Erika Smith

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS COMMITTEE

Katherine Arndt

Edward Chang

Elizabeth Churgin

Jamie Claros

Sean Collins Jr.

Chelsea Dunlap

Ellie Hartman

Margaret Ipp

Kenneth Johnson

Lauren Lenehan

Susan Murphy

Zakiya Noel

Stephanie Rome

Winston Smith