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The Thrive Together Logo connects people by creating a space where they feel heard. The organization strives to help and open up full opportunities for people with hearing impairments to communicate and participate in society.
Thrive Together began in 1999 as Iowa Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services (IDWAS), founded by four deaf women in Iowa. The organization was created because deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deafblind women across the state struggled to access crisis services, hotlines, and support programs designed mainly for hearing people. The founders created a nonprofit to provide culturally accessible assistance for the deaf community.
From the beginning, IDWAS offered support, education, and peer counseling, with people who shared similar experiences helping others facing difficult situations. One of the organization’s first major projects was a 24-hour crisis line adapted for deaf and hard-of-hearing women in Iowa. At the national level, the organization worked in a similar field to Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services (ADWAS), founded in Seattle in 1986, which developed services for deaf survivors of domestic violence.
In 2004, IDWAS changed its name to Deaf Women of Iowa Against Abuse (DWIAA), reflecting a stronger focus on preventing violence. Later, the name was shortened to Deaf Iowans Against Abuse (DIAA), expanding the organization’s focus beyond women and including the wider deaf community. Over the years, services expanded to include legal assistance, medical support, housing help, and educational programs.
In October 2020, the organization adopted the name Thrive Together to reflect a broader mission of supporting people with hearing loss, regardless of age, gender, or background. After more than two decades of work, the nonprofit expanded its services across all 99 counties of Iowa, continuing programs for deaf individuals and their families.
Meaning and History
What is Thrive Together?
This team strives to remove barriers for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the United States. They help connect the world of silence and sound by offering support, educational programs, and hands-on help in everyday life. The organization’s specialists and volunteers do everything possible to ensure that people with hearing loss can freely communicate, develop, and feel like full-fledged participants in society. All their work is based on one principle: everyone wins when people help each other.
1999 – 2020
The story of the ADWAS organization began with the desire to support people with hearing loss, make their lives easier and more comfortable, and provide contact and support. The logo conveys this core idea and appears friendly.
The emblem features a blue hand on which the organization’s name is displayed. The hand is large, with a soft and calm shape. Between its fingers are four small white palms emerging from the spaces between the larger hand’s fingers. Visually, it conveys a sense of care, support, and interaction. The white palms symbolize contact and readiness to help.
The name “adwas” is located within the blue hand, written in a simple, slightly italicized, light green handwritten font. The letters are sans-serif, rounded, and smooth, with a gentle, soft character.
The logo’s colors complement the general idea: the primary blue is calm, evoking trust and reliability, while the light green suggests freshness and positivity. Together, these elements form an emblem that clearly illustrates ADWAS’s mission.
2020 – today
The name change helped to more clearly indicate who the work is done for and why, supporting diverse people who can grow and achieve their goals together.
Visually, the logo was designed symmetrically and vertically. The upper part is a symbol, and the lower is the name. The symbol is simple and clear: three black figures with raised hands. Above them are green leaves that together form a tree, symbolizing development, growth, and “togetherness.” The leaves vary in size and shape; they are not identical, emphasizing diversity and naturalness.
Below is text arranged in two lines: at the top, the word “THRIVE” is written in large, geometric, strict, and solid black letters. The second word, “TOGETHER,” is slightly thinner and written in green. This word has a distinctive feature: the letters “O” and “G” intertwine to form rings. The symbol conveys unity and solidarity.
The colors were chosen logically: black represents stability, strength, and confidence. Green, a natural, harmonious, and calm hue, communicates the idea of living growth and positive interaction.
The Thrive Together logo represents support, unity, and growth for everyone, without exception.
