While Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska are quarantined in New York in 2020, they come together over their shared vision of helping disabled creatives achieve financial and creative freedom and destigmatizing disability and mental health via film and television.

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How Inevitable Foundation built a nonprofit to serve Hollywood's biggest underserved creative community

With the establishment of its flagship program, the Accelerate Fellowship (formerly known as the Screenwriting Fellowship), Inevitable delivers its first major artistic and financial investment in disabled writers. The fellowship includes an unrestricted grant, bespoke mentorship, and access to high-touch workshops with industry leaders. With the early financial support of industry entities like Amazon, Netflix and Warner Bros., as well as a later major investment by Netflix that dramatically expanded the program beginning in November 2022, the Accelerate Fellowship — also home to Inevitable’s discussion series, Writers Therapy — quickly grew to a $40,000 grant per fellow.

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Hollywood’s Inevitable Foundation Launches to Mentor and Fund Disabled Screenwriters

The dynamic way Inevitable Foundation serves Hollywood’s disabled creative community earns the nonprofit its first major grant to support disabled writers and their stories, a sizable and ongoing investment from the Ford Foundation. That is followed by a similarly considerable multi-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation, with other major funders from within the nonprofit disability and industry entertainment spaces following suit in support of our general operations, programs, funds, and more, such as Disability Inclusion Fund, Nielsen Foundation’s Data for Good Grant, and a number of major, influential individual donors within the spheres of entertainment, disability and philanthropy.

Led by Inevitable’s own Creative Executive and funded by industry institutions including Disney, Starz and Lionsgate, Inevitable’s curated service features a roster of professional disabled writers, their writing samples, and experience – all made directly available to other creative executives, showrunners, and producers via a personalized, high-touch selection process. Since launching, the Concierge has facilitated more than 700 submissions and 150 networking introductions for disabled creatives on projects with leading studios and streamers.