Our Community Impact
Each year, 100% of membership dollars fund transformational grants awarded to nonprofits in Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Eastern Indiana in the following focus areas: Culture; Education; Family; Health & Wellness; and Environment, Preservation, & Recreation. This is a list of our nonprofit partners who are the real champions! Please learn about Impact 100 grant recipients, their goals, and outcomes impacting our region below.
Gateway Community & Technical College Foundation
Expand Food for Thought Pantry to three campus locations which will include fresh, nutrient-rich food options by adding storage and refrigeration removing barriers to academic success such as food insecurity and economic instability
New Life Furniture Bank
Expanding capacity to turn empty houses into homes by purchasing new and gently used trucks to furnish more homes for families, thereby increasing dignity, supporting productive lives, and enhancing mental and physical development of children.
Women Helping Women
Ensure survivors in Hamilton County receive immediate trauma-informed care on-scene, disrupting typical barriers and strengthening support to survivors to access services and develop a plan for safety to reduce re-victimization and, ultimately, prevent domestic violence homicide.
Activities Beyond the Classroom/Fourthwall
Help fund the purchase and design of a mobile video truck, enabling ABC/Fourthwall to offer their award-winning filmmaking program to students throughout the Cincinnati area. READ MORE
Changing Gears
Build a fleet of additional leased vehicles to CityLink training graduates starting new jobs, to solve the transportation dilemma of how to get a job without a car, and how to get a car without a job.
Cincinnati Works, Inc.
Workforce Connection offers employers a solution to retention and productivity issues and helps vulnerable employees stay and thrive in the workplace. READ MORE
NEST Community Learning Center
NEST Roots and Wings Expansion project will take its effective and award-winning programs into Clermont County Clermont Northeast School district.READ MORE
St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy
Opened in September 2006, The St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy is the only pharmacy in southwest Ohio dedicated to providing completely free medication and professional pharmaceutical care to people in need from Hamilton, Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties. READ MORE
First Step Home
For 24 years, First Step Home has been assisting women in maintaining sobriety, regaining control of their lives, and living with their children. READ MORE
City Gospel Mission
Project: City Gospel Mission Grant Award: $104,000 Provide a high quality space for playful learning by young children (birth to 5 years) and their
Wave Pool
Project: Wave Pool Grant Award: $104,000 Renovate a space for instruction, handmade product sales, and fresh produce in a food desert while empowering marginalized,
Outdoor Adventure Club
Project: Outdoor Adventure Clubs Grant Award: $104,000 Expand a school based model of involving foster youth in outdoor adventures and apply it to serving
Venice On Vine
Project: Venice On Vine Grant Award: $104,000 Purchase and equip a new food truck to use as a new training facility that will prepare
La Soupe
Project: La Soupe Grant Award: $104,000 Purchase five pieces of vital equipment to expand current capacity and substantially increase the ability to process the
Welcome House of Northern Kentucky
Project: Homeless Street Health & Hygiene Open Door Outreach Grant Award: $104,000 Purchase and equip a customized medical outreach van that provides safe &
Lighthouse Youth & Family Services
Lighthouse Youth & Family Services, Inc. was formed in 1969 and serves 5,000 children and families per year, providing a continuum of services to help them overcome obstacles that hinder self-sufficiency. READ MORE
Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission
Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission (NKCAC) works to transform the lives of at-risk families by helping them develop knowledge and opportunities to achieve self-reliance.READ MORE
Ohio Valley Voices
Ohio Valley Voices (OVV) was formed in 1999 by three local families who wanted their young children who were deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) to speak. READ MORE
Greater Cincinnati Construction Foundation
Greater Cincinnati Construction Foundation’s mission is to expand opportunities for ACI Members to be stronger construction companies by: Advocacy, Education, Networking and Safety.READ MORE
Women’s Crisis Center
Women’s Crisis Center’s mission is to lead our community in the social change needed to end domestic violence, rape, and sexual abuse.READ MORE
Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding & Horsemanship
Through equine assisted therapies and activities, Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding & Horsemanship serves children and adults with disabilities and unique challenges, helping them to achieve greater quality of life.READ MORE
St. Francis Seraph Ministries & Center for Respite Care
St. Francis Seraph Ministries believes every member of the Over-the-Rhine community has the right to enjoy the benefits of good health, prosperity, and well-being and has the capacity to contribute positively to the neighborhood.READ MORE
Activities Beyond the Classroom
Activities Beyond the Classroom, (ABC) was founded in 2004 to increase and enhance extracurricular opportunities in Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS). By 2015, ABC managed and assisted with over 250 programs and activities throughout CPS. READ MORE
Freestore Foodbank
The Freestore Foodbank’s mission to provide food and services, create stability and further self-reliance for people in crisis led them to ideate the Mobile Market as a new initiative that was inspired by the success of a current program, the Mobile Food Pantry. Impact 100’s grant will promote healthy eating through the purchase of a mobile market that will sell fresh produce in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region, reaching families which do not have access to fresh, nutritious foods.READ MORE