Promoting Community Leadership Networks for Progressive Social Change
Promoting Community Leadership Networks for Progressive Social Change
Our mission
The Elias Foundation seeks to promote a more equitable and progressive society by supporting the development of emerging grassroots leaders and their organizations.
The Elias Foundation and Activist Fellowship Program
Since 1999, the Elias Foundation has worked alongside progressive organizations and community leaders across the Hudson Valley to advance social, political, and economic change. Over time, we shifted our focus closer to the ground — investing directly in the people doing the work.
Today, through the Elias Activist Fellowship Program, we provide five years of direct financial support to emerging grassroots leaders, giving them the freedom and resources to lead on their own terms. Because when individual leaders thrive, the whole movement grows stronger.
The Elias Activist Fellowship Program
Our goal is to strengthen and build the social justice movement by developing potential leaders.
Enlarging the Pool of Leaders
Elias is enlarging the pool and creating a pipeline of emerging activists by consulting active leaders in the community who will nominate members in their network.
We Value
The pursuit of economic equity and social justice
Self-directed change led by the experience and wisdom of local communities
Community advocacy as a fundamental strategy for progressive action
Community leaders as catalysts, guiding and inspiring future generations