Category: Grants

Community Health & Well-Being Focus Area aims to increase 2021 Impact100 SJ grant applicant pool. It’s hard to dispute that this year’s events have been ground shaking.   Leading the way were COVID-19 and the cries for racial justice that moved so many to act, including the members of Impact100 South Jersey.  Members reached out looking for ways we could collectively make a meaningful difference in an increasingly complicated world. Every year after the Annual Meeting, the Impact100 South Jersey Leadership Council evaluates our entire program including the Grant process. As a result, we determined the Grants process was the perfect place to start to generate change. With input from some of our members, many of whom are senior non-profit leaders, and from some of our grantees, we reassessed our grant eligibility and guidelines for…

In the spring of 2018, Hopeworks relocated from a cramped row house to an office-like setting in Camden. Our $74,000 grant — the collective contributions of our Charter Members — allowed them to use this space to set up new and much-needed program offerings in academic skills and technology training. This allowed Hopeworks to offer the youth they serve increased opportunities for permanent employment at higher wages.This investment of funds from Impact100 South Jersey has paid off handsomely according to Dan Rhoton, Executive Director. "We have dramatically expanded our services and effectiveness...today, when a young person walks into Hopeworks, they make less than $900 annually. When they walk out, they are making on average over $35,000 a year." Hopeworks Volunteer Wishlist There are still plenty of ways to help Hopeworks…

Impact100 South Jersey awarded $193,500 in grants to 4 South Jersey non-profits at the group’s Annual Meeting held virtually on June 10th at 6PM. A $100,000 core mission grant was awarded to LUCY Outreach in Camden to fund the expansion of Trauma-Informed Care Services and the integration of those principles and practices into their organizational culture.  LUCY Outreach provides multilingual, culturally sensitive services to low-income teens and young adults and their families.   Alice Paul Institute in Mt. Laurel and Family Promise of Southwestern NJ in Glassboro each received general operating grants for $43,000.  Alice Paul applied for a grant to create a Girls Empowerment Project using YouTube to reach girls ages 10 to 17 with content focused on Alice Paul’s story and philosophies from both an historic and contemporary perspective.  Family Promise seeks to…

Photo credit: Andrew Graham Todes Photography Impact100 South Jersey announced that it will award $186,000 in grants to local nonprofits as a result of it’s fall 2019 collective giving membership drive. Members gathered at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Cherry Hill on Wednesday, Jan 8th for the Big Reveal and celebration.  The event was held to share the number of members who joined and the total raised for grantmaking in 2020.  This brings the total funds raised collectively by Impact100 South Jersey members to  $415,000 since 2017. “The goal in our third year was to increase the number of members women over last year when 155 women each contributed $1,000,” said Membership Co-Chair Angela Venti.  “South Jersey women have embraced collective giving and each year, more come together to generate transformative grants for organizations serving our…

Here's how Big Brothers Big Sisters and Hopeworks have been able to meet more needs and support more people with the collective funds we awarded each organization. Our 2019 grantee, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cumberland and Salem Counties, continues to recruit Big Brothers and Big Sisters for the first year of their Mentor2.0 program. It is rolling out with 46 students who attend Vineland High School. The students have a Mentor 2.0 class every Thursday co-taught by a BBBS Mentor 2.0 Program Manager and a Vineland High School teacher. In November, the students started to be matched with their Bigs. Says BBBSCS CEO Donna Bennett, "We have received great support from the school district during this process and everyone involved is excited about the Mentor2.0 program." Our 2018 inaugural grantee, Hopeworks, is…

[ngg src="galleries" ids="1" display="basic_slideshow"] Big Brothers Big Sisters, Hispanic Family Center and Ronald McDonald House Receive Grants In Impact100 South Jersey's Record-Setting Second Year We are please to announce that our $100,000 Impact100 SJ grant will allow Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cumberland and Salem Counties to increase the number of kids they serve through new technology. Mentor 2.0 is a curriculum-based online program model that lets "Big" mentors and "Little" mentees interact weekly through the iMentor program. They anticipate Mentor 2.0 will reduce some of the challenges the organization faces recruiting "Bigs" because of their travel commitments and time limitations. Impact100 South Jersey Core Mission Grants are intended to help local organizations reach the next level and increase access to their services.  Big Brothers Big Sisters' leadership believes that Mentor 2.0 is the best tool to transform…