Through its $5,000+ professional development grants, Elevate Collective focuses on boosting the creative careers of disabled writers by alleviating financial challenges, generating mentoring opportunities, and providing coaching. The offerings, supported during various granting rounds by organizations including The Loreen Arbus Foundation, Starz #TaketheLead, and Caring Across Generations can go towards career coaching, script analysis, optioning IP, networking, and work-from-home setups.

As part of its ongoing expansion into new mediums, this branch of Elevate Collective — supported by Spotify — offered eight narrative fiction and non-fiction podcasters professional development grants worth $12,500 to support marketing, equipment, IP licensing, accommodations, and more tied to their audio projects.