Page 8 - Palm City Spotlight - March '25

Page 8, Palm City Spotlight

NoNprofit News

Impact100 Martin Prepares

To Award $100,000 Grants To
Local Nonprofits In April

Impact100 Martin, a dynamic group of generous women
philanthropists, is preparing to award its $100,000 impact
grants for 2025 to local nonprofits at a grants award
celebration on April 9.
“We’re excited to be in our eighth season of awarding
impact grants,” said Impact100 Martin President Maureen
Cotter. “By the conclusion of the 2025 grant cycle, we will
have invested more than $2.2 million and helped to change
the quality of life and philanthropic landscape in Martin
County.”
Impact100 is built on a simple structure strongly based
on membership involvement. Each member donates $1,000
in one year. The funds are pooled to create grants in the
impactful amount of $100,000 each. The number of grants
awarded each year is dependent on membership numbers.
Local nonprofits propose significant projects or programs, Impact100 Martin members gathered in the spring of 2024 to award four Impact Grants to local nonprofits. Led by President
which are then vetted by the Grants Committee, and the Maureen Cotter, the organization continues to grow its membership and is on track to award five $100,000 Impact Grants
members themselves determine which proposals best address this April at its Grants Award Celebration.
identified needs within the community.
Impact grants are awarded within five categories: arts care deeply about their community and the impact we have Impact100 Martin is a nonprofit organization with a
and culture, education, family, health and wellness, and had over the past seven years. They are prepared to make mission of creating positive, lasting change in the community
environment, preservation and recreation. Season 8 our most impactful ever!” through collective giving. Founded in 2017, it is a chapter of
For 2025, Impact100 Martin received 31 letters of intent Tickets are still available to the Grants Award Celebration the national Impact100 Movement founded by philanthropist
and advanced nine of the projects from Martin County beginning at 4 p.m., on April 9 at Temple Beit HaYam in Wendy Steele to transform communities through the power
nonprofits to the semifinalist stage. They are Banner Lake Stuart. The public is welcome to attend, although only of women’s philanthropy. It is a member-driven organization
Club, Project LIFT, Friends of the Everglades, Kiwanis Club members of Impact100 Martin are eligible to vote. Member that awards grants in $100,000 increments each year to local
of Stuart, Florida Foundation, Boys & Girls Club of Martin tickets are $30; guests, $35. To register for the event, go to nonprofits in the areas of arts and culture; education; family;
County, The Arts Council dba MartinArts, House of Hope, the Impact100 Martin website www.impact100martin.org. health and wellness; and environment, preservation and
Safespace, and NAMI Treasure Coast. To learn more about Impact100 Martin, membership recreation. Detailed information about membership, grants,
At the Grants Award Celebration in April, the finalists from opportunities, and the impact that $1.8 million in women’s and community impact is available at the website www.
this group will present their project to the entire Impact100 philanthropy has already had on Martin County, go to www. impact100martin.org/ or on Facebook at www.facebook.
Martin membership for a vote. impact100martin.org. com/Impact100MartinFL.
“As we grow to 500 members, our impact in the
community continues to grow,” Cotter said. “Our members
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