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Calling All Young Social Innovators! The Westly Prize is back, offering up to $145K in unrestricted funding to young social innovators in California who are driven to make an impact. If you’re under 28 and have novel solutions to community challenges, this is your moment!

Applications for the Startup Accelerator are open! 🎉 Are you a tech or AI-powered nonprofit founder on a mission to change the world? Know someone who is? Click below! Applications close Monday, September 9. 👇ffwd.org/accelerator

🌟 Proud Moment! 🌟 Birth By Us, the visionary maternal health platform and a 2024 Westly Prize winner featured in AfroTech! We're thrilled to support their groundbreaking and life-saving efforts. afrotech.com/birth-by-us-we… #BirthByUs #MaternalHealth #Innovation #Empowerment

"It's dramatic to see what these young people have done, and my wife and I are just grateful to play a small part." - Steve Westly, Cofounder of the Westly Prize & Westly Foundation

“To be selected as a finalist is an encouraging reaffirmation of the important work we are doing to bridge language barriers in hospitals, local communities, and beyond.” - Jason L., Scott H., Schwinn S.

"The Westly Foundation's mission and its emphasis on young social innovators is not only refreshing, but incredibly encouraging. We’re excited to leverage the experience and network of the Foundation” -Arpad Kovesdy, Mateo Abascal

Congratulations go to 2024 Westly Prize finalist and cofounder of TACO INC. & DopaGE Madeline Hilliard, and past Westly Prize grantee, Heejae Lim of @TalkingPointsEd, for making this year's Forbes' "30 Under 30" list. Onward and upward you go. Cheers to your continued success!

Report finds that See Something, Say Something Anonymous Reporting System serves to prevent school shootings, and other violent acts. Westly Foundation is partnering with Sandy Hook Promise Foundation to expand in Central Valley. cnn.com/2024/01/17/hea… cnn.com/2024/01/17/hea…

“We are so honored and excited to join this amazing community of innovators committed to social change. We are grateful to the Westly Prize for believing in our mission and helping us make pregnancy and postpartum safer for moms and babies everywhere.” Ijeoma Uche, Mercy Oladipo

"Perhaps some day, ten to twenty years down the road, we can watch their success flourish and say, ‘We had a hand in that.’” - Anita Yu, Cofounder of the Westly Foundation & Westly Prize tpgonlinedaily.com/young-ca-innov…

Congrats to the amazing winners of this year's #WestlyPrize: Mateo Abascal & Arpad Kovesdy of @Beamlinkio, Ijeoma Uche & Mercy Oladipo from @birthbyus, & Jason Chen Lin, Schwinn Saereesitthipitak, and Scott Hickmann of Mida.

Karly Hou of @wavelearn leads a 100% free, live, and interactive peer-to-peer learning platform for K-12 students in the U.S. With engaging courses, personalized mentorship, and 24/7 tutoring, it serves 20k+ students, 600 schools/orgs, addressing systemic inequities. #education

Saanvi Arora and Ayaan Moledina of @youthpwrproject, empower youth under 25 to actively participate in policy making at local, state, and federal levels. Bridging the generational gap with impact through their four core pillars: policy, mobilization, engagement, and education.

Madeline Hilliard and Madison Minear of @TACOINC_ help enhances the safety of young adults through comprehensive, data-based drug education, empowering college students to make informed decisions, and be trained in how to respond to a drug overdose. #harmreduction

Next up is Esin Gumustekin and Karan Grishbhai Kataria, leading Brain Exercise Initiative. Their project aims to advance senior health and provide Alzheimer's prevention services through brain exercise programs led by university students in retirement homes. #alzheimersawareness

Jason Lin, Schwinn Saereesitthipitak and Scott Hickmann of Mida, are behind a cutting-edge translation app embraced by 5,000+ users spanning 50+ countries. Through innovative AI technology they deliver precise and culturally sensitive translations. #AI

Gabriel Reyes of @fli_sci empowers first-gen/low-income students of color in science and medicine through research opportunities and strategic partnerships, guiding scholars toward graduate degrees via programs like FLi Sci Scholars. #STEMLeadership

Ijeoma Uche and Mercy Oladipo of @birthbyus are showcasing their innovative app which empowers mothers and birthing people to shape their own birthing experience while giving providers the insights and data to best support their birth. #maternalhealth

Mateo Abascal of Beamlink is up first! Their project is a social venture dedicated to bringing Internet to everyone, everywhere with easily deployable mesh cell networks. #socialimpact #tech4good