Check out WIBC’s Coverage of Impact 100!
Check out this great interview that Terri Stacy at WIBC did with Impact 100 president Beth Thomas. Beth and Terri converse about the mission of Impact 100, our past winners, and how to join.
Check out this great interview that Terri Stacy at WIBC did with Impact 100 president Beth Thomas. Beth and Terri converse about the mission of Impact 100, our past winners, and how to join.
The finalists in four Impact 100 focus area categories have been named, and preparations are being made for the annual Impact 100 dinner on June 7 at the Willows on Westfield. At the dinner we will distribute $155,000 to four grantees in arts and culture, education, family and health and wellness. We hope that you…
Donna Oklak, one of the co-founders of Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis, discusses giving circles in Indianapolis in a blog posting on the Lilly School of Philantrhopy website. It is reposted in its entirety here. ‘Giving circles are for the doers’: the creation of Impact 100 and 100 Voices of Hope By Donna Oklak “With every…
September 25th marked the Membership Kickoff for our 2019 Grant Pool. We convened at the Nora Library, where 40 members and guests had a chance to talk one-on-one with our 2018 Change-Makers and Change-Maker Finalists. We were inspired to learn that these agencies have already embarked on changing our community for the better. Each agency…
As the Membership Chair for Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis, I have spent a lot of my time in the last few months working on ways to attract new members. I’ve thought about how I came to know Impact 100 after an organization I supported, Indy Reads, received a grant in 2007. The grant came just…
Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis awarded a $100,000 grant to the IMPACT Program to Curb Runaway and Human Trafficking of Young Girls, a collaboration between Ascent 121 and Lutheran Child & Family Services, at their annual dinner June 7, 2016, at The Willows on Westfield in Indianapolis. The grant winner was announced following presentations by each finalist and…
One in 20 people in our state are addicted to opioid painkillers and a staggering 286,000 Hoosiers report having engaged in non-medical use. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates Indiana exceeded all but eight states in the number of pain prescriptions written per 100 people in 2012, enough for every Hoosier to have…