Key Dates

December 3, 2024, 5:30pm
Holiday Party @ Indianapolis Propylaeum

Join us for the Impact 100 Holiday Party on Giving Tuesday.  Learn how you can help transform our community in 2025 with Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis. This is your chance to join our giving circle, sign up for our grant review committees, and participate in and support our Leaders for the Future Scholarship program.  A guest speaker from Brooke’s Place will explain how they continue to make an impact in our community.  To support them, we will be collecting monetary and in-kind donations.  Monetary donations will be used to help provide pizza for our program night families. Their wish-list for in-kind donations is on the Eventbrite registration. Guests are welcome! Refreshments provided.Doors open at 5:30pm. The program begins at 6:15pm. We will wrap up by 7:30pm.

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December 6, 2024, 5pm: Leaders of the Future Application Deadline

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December 13, 2024,5pm: LOIs for the 2025 Change Maker Grants Deadline

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January: Leaders of the Future Scholarship Recipients to be Announced

Date to be announced.

January 8, 2025: FAC Orientation Session for New & Existing Members

More information to be announced soon.

January 10, 2025: Deadline for 2025 Members to Sign Up for a Focus Area Committe

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March 14, 2025: Full Grant Applications Due

Only nonprofits whose Letter of Intent has been accepted and who have been sent the link to a 2025 Grant Application are to complete an application. Unsolicited applications will be destroyed without review.

May 21, 2025: Big Reveal of Change Maker Finalists to Members

June 17, 2025: 2025 Annual Celebration

This event is currently being planned.

Interested in Coming to a Future Event?

Invitations to our events are sent out a few weeks prior to the event, and each invitation provides a method to RSVP. If an event is open to the public, a link to the RSVP page will be included with the information above. The best way to be on our invitation list is to sign up for our newsletter. To ensure you are on our invitation list for a specific event, or ask questions, please send an email to impact100indy@gmail.com

Annual Calendar

To better understand our program, here is a basic overview of a typical year. It starts with June because that is the both the end and the beginning of our annual grant making.

This is the general calendar. Click here to go to the most current calendar.

June

  • Our Annual Awards Celebration with presentations by the nonprofits competing for our annual $100,000 grant. These presentations are followed by the Membership Vote and the announcement of the grant recipients. Keep an eye on the Annual Celebration page to keep yourself updated on planning for the current event and an overview of the previous one(s).
  • Membership enrollment unofficially begins at the Annual Celebration with prizes to members joining at the Celebration.

July

  • Vacation Month, no activities while the Board and members enjoy the summer.

August

  • Board Orientation
  • Committee Chair transitions

September

  • Official Membership Kickoff Event (location and timing varies)

October

  • Meet the Grant Recipients Event with this year’s grant recipients presenting how they are implementing their grant.
  • Leaders of the Future applications are made available. In 2024, the application form will be available in October. Applications are due December 1, 2023.
  • Our LOI (Letter of Intent) becomes available on our website during October. The form will only be available on this webpage while we are accepting LOIs.

November

  • Educational event featuring one or more past recipients.
  • Nonprofit Workshop for nonprofits interested in learning more about our grants and granting processes. There will be previous grant recipients as well as representatives from Impact 100 providing information and answering questions. Since we are an all-volunteer organization and it is difficult for us to respond quickly to individual questions, it is highly recommended that interested nonprofits attend this short workshop.

December

  • Due date for LOIs is in December. Look at the Grants Calendar for the exact date.
  • Holiday Party, with a method of Giving Back to previous grant recipient(s).
  • Leaders of the Future Recipients are announced.
  • Deadline for LOI (Letter of Intent) from Central Indiana Nonprofits applying for our annual Change Maker Grant. See the current Granting Calendar for more information.
  • Deadline for members to register to serve on a Focus Area Committee (FAC) comes within the first week of December.
  • December 31 is the official deadline for registering for next year’s membership.

January

  • New Member Welcome/Orientation Event
  • First Focus Area Committee meetings to train FAC members and ensure they understand and agree to our Confidentiality and Conflict of Interest policies.

February

  • Second Focus Area Committee meetings to review Letters of Intent (LOIs)
  • Nonprofits notified if their Letter of Intent has been approved by a Focus Area Committee. Those with approved LOIs will be sent a link to the Grant Application form. New Member Welcome/Orientation Event.

March

  • Nonprofits asked to submit a full grant application must do so by the March deadline date. (Note: unsolicited grant applications are destroyed without review). See the current Granting Calendar for more information.

April

May

  • The Big Reveal with Focus Area Committees announcing the nonprofit they have selected to be their applicant for the $100,000 grant. See the current Granting Calendar for more information.
  • Change Maker Finalists Reception where the selected nonprofits learn more about their

June

  • Our Annual Awards Celebration with presentations by the nonprofits competing for our annual $100,000 grant. These presentations are followed by the Membership Vote and the announcement of the grant recipients. Keep an eye on the Annual Celebration page to keep yourself updated on planning for the current event and an overview of the previous one(s).

Interested in more information?

Invitations to our events are sent out a few weeks prior to the event, and each invitation provides a method to RSVP. The best way to be on our invitation list is to sign up for our newsletter. To ensure you are on our invitation list for a specific event, or ask questions, please send an email to impact100indy@gmail.com