Impact100 Martin Launches New Season of Philanthropy with Goal of $500,000 in Grants
Stuart, FL – Impact100 Martin will launch its 2024-25 season of passionate and compassionate philanthropy this November with a high energy kickoff and a challenging goal: increase membership to 500 members and award five $100,000 community impact grants.
“We’re going into our eighth season of making a lasting difference in our community with game-changing grants to local nonprofits,” said Maureen Cotter, President of Impact100 Martin. “Our members have demonstrated how $1,000 from each Impact member can be leveraged into $100,000 grants. By reaching 500 members this year, we could infuse half a million dollars into the community in one year. That’s impactful!”
The keynote speaker for this year’s kickoff is Carrie Morgridge, a prominent philanthropist, author and advocate for education and community improvement, and a founding member of Impact100 Martin. She and her husband John founded the Morgridge Family Foundation in 2008, and their work has evolved over the years, from funding programs that are close to home, to investing in wide-scale solutions that can potentially impact millions of people and animals and improve outcomes for communities and our planet.
Morgridge is the author of three books, including Every Gift Matters: How Your Passion Can Change the World and Courage Money: A Guide to Becoming a Venture Philanthropist. She has twice been invited to speak on the TED stage.
In just seven years, the members of Impact100 Martin have contributed more than $1.8 million in grants in five focus areas that are essential to building strong communities: Arts & Culture, Education, Family, Health & Wellness, and Environment, Preservation & Recreation.
“Part of the power of Impact100,” Cotter said, “is that each member has an opportunity to dig deeply into the projects that our applicants propose and cast a vote for the one she believes is strategic and sustainable, with measurable goals and outcomes. At our grants showcase last spring, we could all see that the decisions we made resulted in meaningful change within our community.”
The kickoff begins at 5 pm at the Kane Center on the campus of the Council on Aging Martin on Salerno Road on Thursday, November 7. For more details about the event, membership opportunities, and successful Impact100 Martin grants, visit info@impact100martin.org.
ABOUT:
Impact100 Martin is a nonprofit organization with a mission of creating positive, lasting change in the community through collective giving. Founded in 2017, it is a chapter of the national Impact100 Movement founded by philanthropist Wendy Steele to transform communities through the power of women’s philanthropy. It is a member-driven organization that awards grants in $100,000 increments each year to local nonprofits in the areas of Arts & Culture; Education; Family; Health & Wellness; and Environment, Preservation & Recreation. Detailed information about membership, grants, and community impact is available at the website www.impact100martin.org or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Impact100MartinFL.