Category: Grants

Impact100 South Jersey announced that for 2023 it has recruited 211members, which will allow the group to award $211,000 to local nonprofits.  Since launching in 2017, Impact100 South Jersey has raised $1,035,360 for organizations serving Burlington, Camden, Gloucester & Cumberland Counties. 2023 Members gathered Wednesday, January 11 for The Big Reveal and Celebration at the Camden County Boathouse in Pennsauken, NJ to learn the results of the fall 2022 collective giving membership drive.   “It is an absolute thrill to have raised over $million dollars one member at a time,” said Impact100 South Jersey President Kyle Ruffin, “We are proud to be a catalyst for South Jersey women who want to bring transformative change to local nonprofits addressing needs in the region we all love.” Impact100 grant review volunteers have already begun…

Our Grantees' 2022 Holiday Wish Lists Getting involved with our grantees can go beyond contributing to the collective grants we award. If you're looking for organizations to support this holiday season, consider fulfilling the wish lists of some of our Impact100 grantees. They've told us what they want and here it is! Our grantees are seeking items that range from helping them meet operating needs to make the holiday season brighter for the people they serve. Just click and send, or make arrangements with the organization's contact. Alice Paul Institute [Wish List on Amazon] Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cumberland & Salem Counties [Wish List on Amazon] Cathedral Kitchen [In-Kind and Other Donations] Family Promise of Southwestern NJ [Amazon Wish List] Family Promise of Southwestern NJ [Adopt-A Family Program] Hispanic…

Pinelands alliance and Cedar Run refuge get $50,000 each By MATTHEW SHINKLE August 23, 2022 About five years ago, a small group of South Jersey women had the goal of organizing their own branch of Impact 100, a women’s collective that awards more than $100,000 in grant funds annually to area nonprofits. The initial group of six founding members was able to recruit the necessary number of members to jumpstart Impact100 South Jersey, connecting women across Camden, Gloucester and Burlington counties who were interested in assisting local charities and nonprofits.  The group recently announced awards of $100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Cumberland County and two $50,000 grants to the Pinelands Preservation Alliance and the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge. Total awards from Impact100 South Jersey, have now…

2022 Grantee Farmers Against Hunger Grows Its Impact Despite Challenges  After receiving Impact100 South Jersey’s 2022 $50k General Operating Grant in 2022, Farmers Against Hunger (FAH) increased its capacity to stem hunger through a variety of methods. FAH is a program of the New Jersey Agriculture Society and it focuses on reducing food waste by collecting and redistributing food from food retailers and farmers to organizations that serve people striving to succeed. Executive Director Brooke McMinn shared the many ways the program has grown. Among the things FAH has done since receiving the grant: Expanded the raised garden bed plot and installed new plantings to supplement food donations and serve as resources for local community educational programs.Installed a concrete pad to support food donation deliveries to their storage site where food is…

Congratulations to our 2022 Grant Recipients! This year, we are proud to announce that collectively our members awarded $200,000 in grants to three South Jersey nonprofits at the group’s Annual Meeting held on June 15, 2022, at Maggiano’s Restaurant in Cherry Hill, NJ. A $100,000 Core Mission grant was awarded to the Boys and Girls Club of Cumberland County in Vineland. The grant will be used to extend their current building (a former credit union), more than doubling its existing space and increasing the number of young people they serve.   Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge (Medford, NJ) and the Pinelands Preservation Alliance (Southampton, NJ) will receive $50k general operating grants. "We are thrilled to be able to award these impactful grants throughout the South Jersey community.  When we started five years ago with several…

How Our First Grant Helped Transform The Organization In 2018, Impact100SJ awarded our very first grant of $74,000 to Hopeworks ‘N Camden, a Camden-based organization that provides young people ages 17-26 with training in coding, web development and entrepreneurship. At the time, Hopeworks had been operating for many years out of a row home in Camden, but they had outgrown it. More young people than could fit into its space wanted to participate in its training opportunities. Hopeworks had obtained a larger space but needed funding to fit out and develop the space with desks, learning stations, technology training curriculum and software to better prepare its young people for a range of well-paying jobs. The Impact100 South Jersey grant helped make it happen as Hopeworks was moving to its new…