Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form<\/p>\n
Organization Name: Elevate Navajo
\nLegal Name (if Different):
\nAlso Known As:
\nMailing Address: PO Box 679
\nCity: Ft Defiance
\nState: Arizona
\nPostal Code: 86504
\nMain Phone: 5052368443
\nMain Fax:
\nOrganization Website: ElevateNavajo.org
\nEmployer ID Number: 86-1644925
\nOrganization Tax Status: 501c3<\/p>\n
Proposal Information<\/p>\n
Today’s Date: 01\/12\/2026
\nRequested Amount: 10000<\/p>\n
Project Title: Elevating Navajo Youth
\nProject Description:<\/p>\n
In Window Rock, Arizona, the heart of the Navajo Nation, Navajo youth grow up carrying both deep cultural strength and the heavy weight of isolation, poverty, and intergenerational trauma. Many students travel long distances to school, lack access to consistent adult support, and struggle to imagine a future beyond survival. Elevate Navajo exists to change that story.<\/p>\n
Elevate Navajo partners directly with local public schools to embed full-time, salaried Teacher-Mentors inside the school day and far beyond it. These Teacher-Mentors are not visitors or short-term program staff. They are trusted adults, often from the same communities as the students they serve, who teach accredited classes focused on leadership, character, and employability skills while building multi-year mentoring relationships that extend after school, on weekends, and through the summer.<\/p>\n
In the classroom, students develop confidence, communication skills, goal-setting habits, and a sense of purpose. Outside the classroom, Teacher-Mentors show up consistently\u2014helping students navigate academic challenges, family responsibilities, grief, and self-doubt. They attend games and ceremonies, meet families, take students on outdoor adventures, and guide them through post-secondary planning, job readiness, and career exploration.<\/p>\n
A unique component of Elevate Navajo is Little Elevate, where high school students practice leadership by mentoring younger students, strengthening responsibility, empathy, and pride in their own community.<\/p>\n
The results are real and measurable. Before Elevate Navajo\u2019s partnership, only 55% of participating students were on track to graduate. After three semesters, 91% are now on track, because someone noticed them, believed in them, and stayed.<\/p>\n
General operating support allows Elevate Navajo to sustain these life-changing relationships, respond flexibly to student needs, and remain a steady presence in a place where consistency can change everything.<\/p>\n
Total Project Budget: 462,000<\/p>\n
Other Funding
\nSources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Individual major donors – committed $120,000<\/p>\n
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\nAge Group To Be Served: <\/p>\n
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