Invitation to Our Annual Dinner!


One of the most rewarding aspects of being an Impact 100 member is participating on a committee responsible for choosing a finalist in one of our five Focus Areas. If you’d like to be on a committee, it’s important to submit your preferences now, so that committees can be finalized before their first meetings in…
Impact 100 has always been about making a difference – both for the nonprofits to whom they offer grants, and among the Indianapolis community at large. Since 2013 Impact 100 has been making a difference in shaping the philanthropic perspectives of women through its scholarship program, which covers the cost of membership for promising philanthropists….
A dozen women of Impact convened on August 6, 2020, for our August First Thursday Virtual Lunch. Wendy Noe, Executive Director of Dove Recovery House, updated us on the program’s successes and challenges. Wendy has devoted her career to nonprofits, working with The Julian Center, United Way, the Domestic Violence Network, and the Indiana Affiliate of…
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…
We are pleased to announce the list of nonprofits that are advancing from the Letter of Inquiry stage to the Full Application stage. Based on the information provided at the Full Application stage, each Focus Area Committee will determine which organizations with continue to the next phase of the process, which includes a site visit….
Sponsors Help Us Educate and Reach Out to the Community Our Annual Awards Celebration is our premier event. Three hundred people get first-hand knowledge of the work that Impact 100 does and of the ways that our Change Makers improve our community. The cost of the Celebration is covered by ticket sales and by sponsorship…