Impact 100 Palm Beach County seeks to fund projects that are truly transformational, address unmet needs through an innovative approach, greatly impact the beneficiaries, and are sustainable for years to come.
Donor Name: Impact 100 Palm Beach County
State: Florida
County: Palm Beach County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/26/2022
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
Impact 100 Palm Beach County connects, engages, and inspires women to improve their community by collectively funding multiple $100,000 grants to nonprofits that implement high-impact initiatives in southern Palm Beach County.
Impact 100 seeks projects that:
- have a high impact and transformative effect on the organization and/or the community itserves, are new projects, expansions of existing projects, or a collaborative effort of several organizations;
- which foster change that is long-term, positive, and sustainable;
- are well defined and well-structured to impact many beneficiaries or fewer with great focus; and
- produce specific outcomes and measurable results using the entire $100,000 grant within 24 months
Focus Areas
- Arts, Culture, & Historic Preservation
- High-impact projects or initiatives that cultivate, develop, educate, or enhance culture, the arts, or historic preservation in southern Palm Beach County.
- Education
- High-impact projects or initiatives that fourth education or improve access to education for children and/or adults in southern Palm Beach County.
- Environment & Animal Welfare
- High-impact projects or initiatives that restore, preserve, revitalize, or enhance animal welfare or the natural resources of southern Palm Beach County, including those that encourage research, public awareness, education, or conservation
- Family
- High-impact projects or initiatives that strengthen and enhance the lives of children and families living in southern Palm Beach County.
- Health & Wellness
- High-impact projects or initiatives that improve the physical and/or mental health and wellness of people living in southern Palm Beach County.
Qualifications
- Your program must be considered “high-impact,” which means it should:
- Foster change and have a long-term positive impact,
- Be well-structured and well-thought-out,
- Be a new project, expansion, or improvement of an existing project, or a collaborative effort of several organizations,
- Impact many beneficiaries or fewer with great focus (i.e., a scope that is far and wide or narrow and deep) produce specific, measurable results.
- Projects must be implemented in and serve residents of southern Palm Beach County within designated geographical boundaries (i.e., from Lake Worth Road to the Broward County Line).
- Applicants must be tax-exempt 501c3 organizations for 36 months at the closing date of that year’s Letters of Intent.
- Applicants must use the full $100,000 grant within 24 months of the award date.
Criteria
- The proposed project or program must be implemented in and serve the residents of southern Palm Beach County within the boundaries of Lake Worth Road south to the Broward County line, and from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Palm Beach County line.
- The entire $100,000 grant must be used in this geographic area within 24months.
- To qualify for an Impact 100 PBC grant, an applicant must be a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and designated as such for the three-year period prior to October 26, 2022.
- To qualify for an Impact 100 PBC grant, an applicant must be a registered charity with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as of October 26, 2022.
- The project must have a high impact, transformative effect on the organization and/or the community it serves.
- The project may be new, an expansion of an existing program, or a collaborative effort of two or more nonprofit organizations, which fosters change that is long-term, positive, and sustainable.
- Collaborative letters of support are required for any other organizations, governmental agencies, or schools participating in the proposed project. Collaborative letters of support must demonstrate their agreement to participate in the project, in specific ways, with specific data, and/orservices.
- The project must be well-defined and well-structured to impact many beneficiaries or fewer with great focus.
- Organizations must produce specific outcomes and measurable results.
- Recipients of an Impact 100 PBC $100,000 grant are not eligible to reapply for a grant until three grant cycles have passed from the date the grant is awarded. Merit Award winners may reapply the following year.
For more information, visit Impact 100 Palm Beach County.
