Expanding Capacity.
Strengthening Communities.
Supporting Ideas That Rise.
Levitate Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that expands access to the tools, training, partnerships, and infrastructure communities and community-serving organizations need to move meaningful ideas into action
Built to Support Organizations That Strengthen Communities
Built to Extend Community Impact
Levitate Institute helps communities and community-serving organizations access high-quality support that may otherwise be out of reach.
Through training, community engagement, research, administrative infrastructure, and strategic partnership, the Institute strengthens organizations and initiatives working to improve opportunity, stability, and quality of life.
The Institute also creates pathways for philanthropic, corporate, public-sector, and community partners to invest in local capacity and long-term community impact.
What We Support
Capacity Building & Training
Helping nonprofits, grassroots leaders, and community-based organizations strengthen governance, operations, compliance, program design, funding readiness, and sustainability.
Community Engagement & Dialogue
Creating spaces for residents, organizations, and local leaders to shape strategies that reflect community priorities and lived experience.
Administrative & Funding Infrastructure
Helping charitable and public-serving initiatives build appropriate administrative structure, resource coordination, and funding pathways so strong ideas can move forward responsibly.
Program Design, Implementation & Learning
Helping partners develop, administer, monitor, evaluate, and improve initiatives that advance public-benefit goals.
Research & Community Learning
Supporting research, educational materials, convenings, and practical analysis that inform programs, partnerships, investment decisions, and public policy.
Our Initiatives
Cradle-to-Career & Economic Mobility Initiative
A City of Birmingham-led, community co-created initiative incubated through Levitate Institute to strengthen the systems, partnerships, and opportunities that support Birmingham young people from birth through career entry.
Birmingham Goes Home
An initiative supported by a $1 million private grant from Community Solutions to reduce homelessness through coordinated housing assistance, supportive services, and partnerships that promote long-term housing stability in Birmingham.
The Levitate Way Training Series
Practical training, tools, and capacity-building support for community-based organizations, nonprofits, and grassroots leaders working to deepen their community impact.
Help strengthen the people and organizations doing important work in our communities.
Levitate Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit expanding access to training, partnerships, and infrastructure that help communities and community-serving organizations move meaningful work forward. EIN: 33-1391159
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.