Sesame Workshop receives Elevate Prize Catalyst Award as it charts a new path for 'Sesame Street'
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Elmo, Abby Cadabby and the rest of the Sesame Street gang will get some high-profile help as they travel down a new road.The Sesame Workshop founded in 1969 and currently working on its 56th season, but its first not distributed by recent partner HBO received the Elevate Prize Catalyst Award Wednesday, which will provide the nonprofit a $250,000 grant as well as support in promoting its work from the Elevate Prize Foundation. Fox, and NBA great Dwyane Wade.They havent just entertained generations theyve educated, advocated and inspired real change, Elevate Prize Foundation CEO Carolina Garcia Jayaram, said as she presented the award to The Sesame Workshop at the foundations Make Good Famous Summit in Miami Beach, Florida. Theyve created real world programs that bring education, health and hope to millions of children in over 150 countries.Sal Perez, the shows executive producer and a Sesame Workshop vice president, said the organization planned to use the award to let more people know that its nonprofit work extends beyond the TV show.We do a lot of work around the world with direct services, trying to provide content for families that talks about some of those harder to talk about subjects, whether its trauma, whether its homelessness and things of that nature. So this is an opportunity to highlight that kind of work.Perez told The Associated Press in an interview before the ceremony that there would be news about Sesame Workshops future released in the coming days. So the symbolism of us joining forces with a childrens program is to say that even though our leaders are grown adults, its the child in all of us that we need to revive and remember our essential values as humans.Famed roommates Bert and Ernie were on hand to receive the award alongside Perez with their trademark banter.