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It’s not too late to introduce your friends to Impact 100!
We are committed to continuing to meet the needs of our community by providing transformational $100,000 grants to nonprofits in our region, and we need your help to do this. Scientists confirm that there's nothing better to pick up your spirits than to be positively engaged in helping others
2016 Grant Recipient – ACI Construction Update!
Constructing a Pathway to Careers. Plans for Cincinnati Public high school students at Woodward Career Technical HS to be involved with a residential building project in Bond Hill community are presently under construction. Through the project management of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati, a three bedroom single
Meet Deepika Andavarapu the first ever Equity Chair of Impact 100!
Who are you as an individual? As many other women in the world, I have a variety of identities, I am a mom, I am a wife, I am a scholar, I am a business owner, I am a very active Impact 100 member, and I am very proud
Mission Moment
Bringing People to “Cincinnati’s Table”
Wave Pool's "The Welcome Project" has been undergoing rapid transformation and expansion since receiving an Impact 100 award in fall of 2018. Guatamalan immigrant and artist Erika Allen has taken on the role of managing the storefront and building connections with refugee and immigrant communities all over the city.
See our Impact! Membership in Action at the AAC!
2018 Grant Recipients Venice on Venice and Welcome House display grant projects at Annual Awards Celebration September 12th. Members & guests attending Impact 100’s Annual Awards Celebration at Music Hall September 12th, will have the opportunity to see our Membership in Action as two of our 2018 Grant Recipients
Our Board Members ROCK!
The premise of Impact 100 is simple: Donations in. Transformational grants out. Impact! Have you ever thought about operating governance, handling ethical dilemmas, who organizes the audit, or researching the digital voting process? Volunteers on the Board of Directors, Terri Abare and Clare O'Brien have! Terri Abare, Focus Area
Nonprofit News
Wave Pool Update!
After months of unexpected permitting and construction delays - the Welcome Project is well on the way to meeting their goals. Rehab the storefront in Camp Washington adjacent to the current Welcome Project space to include a fresh food market and teaching/learning kitchen. The storefront has been rehabbed and
Jefferson Awards: Nominate Today
The Jefferson Awards are presented to those special people in our community who have created a program that serves an unmet need, or a special volunteer who has provided extraordinary service to an organization. Nominations are being accepted from the public from Dec. 6 through Jan. 17, 2020. CLICK
Our 2020 Grant Cycle: Open For Applications
Representatives from area nonprofits joined Impact 100 for two Letter of Intent (LOI) Trainings in October & November to learn about applying to Impact 100 and proposing a transformational funding request that will benefit the tri-state area. Attendees heard from board members, learned about applying, and received important feedback
Impact Update
We Stand in Solidarity
Our soul is crushed, our heart is broken, and our mind is on fire. The death of George Floyd is not an anomaly, it is one of the many black lives lost due to structures that perpetuate these racial biases. We also honor and remember the lives of Breonna Taylor - shot in
The Word of the Year, Nimble – President’s Message
Every year Merriam-Webster publishes a word of the year. This is my formal submission of the word “nimble” for 2020. At Impact 100 (and every other organization on the planet) this is THE word for 2020. Possibly because it is impolite to use other more negative slang terms within the
What Kind of Difference Do You Want to Make? President’s Message
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall Back in 2017, this was the quote that opened the May
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
We Stand in Solidarity
Our soul is crushed, our heart is broken, and our mind is on fire. The death of George Floyd is not an anomaly, it is one of the many black lives lost due to structures that perpetuate these racial biases. We also honor and remember the lives of Breonna Taylor - shot in
Empowered Girl Talk
Join us Friday, June 5, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m., for Empowered Girl Talk, a virtual happy hour hosted by the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. It’s free and open to members and non-members, so forward this to your friends. Impact 100 is committed to creating space for women of
The Impact 100 of My Dreams is….
With the help of facilitator (and new member) Catherine Salzman, the Impact 100 Board spent a large part of our annual retreat imagining what the Impact 100 of our dreams is/does. With the 20th anniversary of our inception just 12 months away, this is the perfect time to dream