Ashante Taylorcox of You Are More Than Inc. Founder Awarded a Prestigious 2021 Echoing Green Fellowship
Taylorcox will receive seed funding and strategic support to advance the growth and potential of LGBTQ+ and Black, Indigenous, and people of color survivors of domestic trafficking and exploitation through survivor-centered aftercare support that provides barrier-free access to mental health services, education, and financial stability.
Marlton, NJ — September 09, 2021 — Announced today, You Are More Than Inc’s Founder & Executive Director, Ashante Taylorcox has been selected as a 2021 Echoing Green Fellow. Since 1987, Echoing Green has supported the growth and leadership of emerging social entrepreneurs through its signature fellowship program that equips leaders with access to seed funding, strategic partnerships, and lifelong connections to a global network of leading philanthropists, investors, and entrepreneurs.
Ashante Taylorcox is one of 18 Fellows joining a global community that counts former First Lady Michelle Obama, Last Mile Health co-founder Raj Panjabi, GirlTrek co-founders T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, and Creative Reaction Lab founder Antionette Carroll among its alumni.
“Echoing Green’s support model will equip YAMT in changing the way marginalized adult survivor communities are supported within aftercare services throughout New Jersey and nationally. As a survivor-led organization, it equips survivors with the tools and skills they need to thrive within the mental health, education, and financial wellness sectors of aftercare support.” said Ashante Taylorcox
Selected from a global pool of 1,500 applicants, Ashante Taylorcox joins the inaugural class supported by Echoing Green’s Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund, launched in July 2020 to ensure social innovators are supported to sustain their impact on racial equity around the globe. From creating spaces of affirmation for Black youth in the U.S. to leveraging technology to address gaps in health care for displaced populations in the Middle East and Africa, members of the 2021 class are advancing racial justice worldwide.
“We know that transforming the world requires an intentional, explicit, and long-term focus on advancing racial equity and we are thrilled to support these next-generation innovators who are proximate to the issues and of their communities,” said Echoing Green President and 1992 Fellow Cheryl L. Dorsey, “It is a true privilege to be a part of their journeys as they collectively reimagine the world.”
The 2021 Echoing Green Fellows work in nine different countries and territories (Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Mexico, Myanmar, Oman, Puerto Rico, Somalia, and the United States) and U.S. cities including Nashville, Oakland, Flagstaff, and Washington, D.C. To learn more about the 2021 Fellows visit www.echoinggreen.org/2021-Fellows.
About Echoing Green:
For more than 30 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems, raising up the transformational leaders willing to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo. The organization finds emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible and sets them on a path to lifelong impact. Echoing Green’s community of nearly 1,000 social innovators includes past Fellows like First Lady Michelle Obama and the founders of organizations like Teach For America, Data for Black Lives, and One Acre Fund. Built and refined over three decades, Echoing Green discovers tomorrow’s leaders today and then funds, connects, and supports a new generation of social impact leaders.
About Our Organization: You Are More Than Inc is the first survivor-led, black-led and queer-led nonprofit organization in the state of NJ serving BIPOC and LGBTQ survivors of domestic trafficking and exploitation by planting seeds of emotional wellbeing, educational growth, and pathways to financial freedom.
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