Overview
- Flink is one of five winners of the 2025 Bezos Courage & Civility Award, which splits a $25 million pool equally after previous rounds reached as high as $100 million.
- The unrestricted grant will be used to scale the Alliance’s peer mentorship model, expand training for student leaders, and pursue growth to more than 2,000 sites by 2028.
- Neurodiversity Alliance began over 25 years ago as a peer-to-peer effort and now operates in more than 600 high schools and colleges nationwide.
- This year’s selection reflects a move from celebrity honorees to grassroots leaders who run programs directly serving communities.
- Reporting ties the gift to strains on federal disability oversight, noting Education Department staffing disruptions and a backlog of civil-rights complaints that advocates say increase demand for private support.