Happy New Year from Impact 100!!!!
As 2014 winds down and we begin 2015, I’d like to wish all our members and Non-Profit Partners a Happy & Peaceful New Year!
2014 was a wonderful year for Impact 100! It marked our 13th Anniversary, and the first time ever we awarded THREE grants in one year as we awarded our 23rd, 24th and 25th grants. Following the delightful opportunity to get to know many of our area’s Non-Profits and to review over 100 Letters of Intent, Impact 100 awarded THREE grants of $109,000 each to Community Matters, Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati and Price Hill Will – MYCincinnati. This brings the total grants awarded to the Greater Cincinnati community to over $2.8 Million!!
Another highlight of 2014 was the involvement of many of our members . . . over 100 members participated in Grant Review Committees and CIRC, and many more helped on standing committees. Our hard-working Board developed and implemented a strategy, and worked tirelessly to recruit new members and to strengthen the organization. Finally, Impact 100 continued to strengthen and simplify the Grant Review Process as we used the Letter of Intent for a second year.
That brings us to the exciting year ahead in 2015. We are in the final stages of recruiting our 2015 members, and recruiting has been exceptionally strong. We are tantalizingly close to reaching $400,000 in grant dollars, which would enable Impact 100 to give four $100,000 grants for the first time ever!!! Please join us on January 22nd for our Membership Announcement Event. We invite ALL our members to come to this free event to learn how much money we will be awarding in 2015. If interested in attending, please click here to register.
Since the Grant Review cycle begins early this year, we invite our members to sign up NOW to join a Grant Review Committee. These Committees will begin meeting in January to review Letters of Intent, and will invite members to join again in early April for the review of full grant applications.
Finally, please join me in extending a special welcome to the three new members of the Impact 100 Board. Sarah Buckley, the Not-for-Profit Outreach Coordinator joined the Board a few months ago to ensure a strong succession plan. Joining the Board for the first time in January will be Julie Metzger, our new Communications Co-Chair. And rejoining the Board in the role of Secretary is Yvonne Thomas. These three individuals join the 17 returning Board members – for a very strong 2015 Board.
The 2015 Impact 100 Board Members include:
- Sharon Mitchell, President
- Lisa Kaminski, Vice President Recruiting
- Donna Broderick, Treasurer & President Elect for 2016
- Yvonne Thomas, Secretary
- Marilyn Kinne, Grant Review Coordinator
- Andrea Flora, CIRC Chair
- Angela Otis, Recruiting Co-Chair
- Sandy Greenwald, Communications Chair
- Julie Metzger, Communications Co-Chair
- Becki Meyer, Marketing/PR Chair
- Kelly Mahan, Membership Key Events Chair
- Daniela Neukam, Membership Liaison Chair
- Kim Corrigan, Membership Co-Chair
- Clare Zlatic Blankemeyer, Not-for-Profit Coordinator
- Sarah Buckley, Not-for-Profit Outreach Coordinator
- Erin Arnold, Grant Focus Area Chair
- Susan Cranley, Grant Focus Area Chair
- Kim Watts McMillan, Grant Focus Area Chair
- Jennifer Sheil, Grant Focus Area Chair
- Delane Starliper, Grant Focus Area Chair
Please join me in thanking the 2015 Board in advance for all their hard work. I know you will enjoy working with all of them.
I look forward to seeing all of you at upcoming Impact 100 events in 2015.
Warm Regards,
Sharon Mitchell
President, Impact 100
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