Ben Affleck

So this year on Street You Grow Up On, we're doing something very special.

We're partnering with an organization called the Elevate Prize Foundation, which works to empower change makers all over the world through funding, visibility, tailored support.

They are giving us $10,000 to give to each guest to give to an organization to elevate streets all over the world.

So you get to give this money to a group that's helping to bring light and change to communities that need it most.

Where do you want your money to go?

Well, that is enormously generous.

I would have come on here even absent the bribe, but I think it's – I appreciate it.

I'm grateful.

I found that an organization called the Eastern Congo Initiative about 15 years ago that does a lot of work in a part of Africa that's had a lot of – conflict sort of in large measure foisted on it from outside and does not have a lot of access to traditional NGOs, NGO networks, you know, or we think of as like charities because there's lots of, and now with the dismantling of USAID, there's an even more severe need.

And so we do like Eastern Congo Initiative does advocacy and grant making.

Essentially, we don't, we're not prescriptive.

We believe in like community-based organizations.

Identifying people from those streets who are, you know, present in the area.

So they know what they need.

And they have created and organized this.

because people do this very capably, you know, structures and organizations to address the issues that are affecting their communities.

So we do that grant making, it's often around sexual violence, which unfortunately has happened in some of the war and post-war periods there, and general health, education, and unfortunately now we're doing some work with the Ebola outbreak that is there, which is quite severe, and maybe the most severe outbreak of Ebola ever in africa uh it's it's pretty i'm pretty serious and so that requires obviously support and funding and so your funding is deeply appreciated and thank you very much