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.

Support the Mission

The below listings represent giving in 2024. 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

ACHIEVE

Baptist Community Ministries
Suzanne Peck & Brian Friedman

THRIVE

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 & 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

STRIVE thanks our federal, state and local government agencies:

Delta Regional Authority
NYC Department of Small Business Services
New York City Council
NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
US Department of Labor

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

MATCHING GIFTS PARTNERS

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