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Save the date: June 12th, 2012 is the date for our Grant Award Celebration. Time and place to be announced.
Chicago Lights Urban Farm
for being selected
Impact 100 Chicago's first
$100,000 grant recipient
To learn more about this and the other grant recipients
view Local Impact...
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Grant Award Celebration June 14, 2011
Impact 100 Chicago’s Mission
is to award membership funded transformational grants to local nonprofit organizations while empowering women to improve lives through philanthropy. white text to create buffer for next line
How it Works
- A minimum of 100 women join as members each making a tax-deductible donation of $1000.
- Together we pool our funds to award $100,000 grants to nonprofit organizations in the Chicagoland area. Learn more
We Value
- Ensuring that 100% of membership dollars donated goes directly to fund the awarded grant.
- Awarding high impact grants.
- Funding in five focus areas: Family, Education, Health & Wellness, Environment, and Arts & Culture.
- Providing ways for our members to gain first hand knowledge of the nonprofits in our community.
Nonprofit Organizations
- Letters of Inquiry are due by 12/15/2011 from eligible nonprofit organizations.
- Grant review committees select one finalist from each of the five Focus Areas.
- Finalist organizations present their grant request to Impact 100 Chicago members at the Annual Grant Award Celebration in June.
- Members vote to decide the grant recipient(s). Learn more
