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Meet our Grand Innovator and Trailblazer award winners.
2019
Grand Innovator
Strong Girls Inc.
Strong Girls is a free after-school program designed to break the cycle of poverty by providing young girls the skills and support needed to stay focused on learning.
The Inspire305 grant is being used to expand Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to two more Title 1 elementary schools.
Trailblazer
ICU Baby
ICU baby offers financial and emotional support to families with a premature or critically ill baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Holtz Children’s Hospital at UM/Jackson Memorial Medical Center and Baptist Health System’s South Miami Hospital.
The Inspire305 grant is being used to provide transportation stipends to low income families with a baby in the NICU.
2018
Grand Innovator
Code/Art
Founded to inspire more young women to code and to connect girls in Miami who share a love for coding, CodeArt uses art-based coding projects to inspire girls in grades 4-12 to try coding and to show them how creative computer science can be.
They used their Inspire305 grant to almost triple their after school CodeHER club programs.
Trailblazer
Mind&Melody
Mind&Melody provides music enrichment programming to long-term healthcare facility residents with Alzheimer’s. Their programs are designed to go beyond listening to music by engaging participants socially, cognitively, creatively and physically, while also improving their mood.
They used their Inspire305 grant to expand the delivery of intergenerational musical experience to nearly 100 individuals with Alzheimer’s in Miami-Dade.