Highlights from the 2024 Grant Year Launch: Impacting the Future with Inclusive and Trust-Based Giving
Highlights from The 2024 Grant Year Launch:Impacting the Future with Inclusive and Trust-Based Giving February 28, 2024By Deb Brackney, Vice President Impact100 Metro Denver On an evening that hinted at spring and was filled with joyful energy, over 80 Impact100 Metro...
Impact100 Metro Denver Strategic Framework 2024-2026
Impact100 Metro Denver Strategic Framework: 2024-2026 [Overarching Goal: To increase our capacity to provide significant funding to a wide range of nonprofits. 1. Infrastructure (funds, technology, staffing) is in place to support growth to 350/400members.2. The...
Our members Will Surprise Us: Jackie Norris
Our members Will Surprise Us: Jackie Norris Impact100 Metro Denver brings together 237 members with an incredibly broad range of life experiences that bring us together in our commitment to collective giving and community impact. From time to time, we will feature an...
Impact Social
Impact Social: It's for everyone! Join us. We hike, visit museums, take urban walks, drink coffee (and adult beverages) and more. This is YOUR group and your opportunity to get together and get to know each other better. If you have a special interest, passion, or...
Dedication, Inspiration and Enthusiasm: Thank you to three Impact100 Metro Denver Members
Thank you, Sandy Cook, Jean Townsend, and Lynn Taylor! Each of you has made a significant impact on us and our community, and we will never forget the time spent working together. Written by Margaret Prentice Three Impact100 Metro Denver Board Members are...
Imagine our Impact in 2023
Imagine our Impact in 2023 On Wednesday, June 7th, 93 Impact100 Metro Denver members gathered, along with guests and nonprofit representatives to Imagine Our Impact and announce our 2023 grant awards. Yolanda Webb, Impact100 Metro Denver President, opened the evening...
Holiday Market Volunteer Opportunity with Project Worthmore
Holiday Market Volunteer Opportunities with Project Worthmore Food packagingVolunteers needed for packing food the second and third Mondays of each month. The November opportunity is posted on our blog, with each opportunity aligned with a separate sign-up link....
Join the Grants Committee
Join the Grants Committee Being a part of Impact100 is being a part of making metro Denver a better place. Deepen your involvement and learn about the amazing organizations that serve our neighbors by joining the Grants Committee. The Grants Committee is an essential...
Frequently Asked Questions: Accelerator Grant
Frequently Asked Questions: Accelerator Grant Expect to find additions to these questions as we proceed. Send your questions to info@impact100metrodenver.org ABOUT THE GRANT: The Fundamentals A pilot multi-year grant, using trust-based principles to support one...
We Don’t Waste event dished out HUGE Success
Impact100 participants in the photo are: Abby Humphrey, Barb Heverly, Patricia Horsch, Marsena Holsopple, Debby Kaufman, Lisa Snead, Joanne Bennett and Alisia Robin. We Don't Waste event dished out HUGE Success We Don’t Waste (WDW) is a 2021 Impact100 grantee. On...
Denver Public Library: Serving Denver Communities
Presentation: How Denver Public Library can Serve Denver Communities Michelle Jeske, Denver City Librarian, received an enthusiastic response from our members at her September 28th presentation on the vital role the Denver Public Library plays in the city’s...
Growing and Giving Together
Growing and Giving Together Written by Yolanda Webb Impact100 Metro Denver is fortunate to have several mother-daughter members who engage with and support Impact100. Throughout the month of May, we will feature interviews with mother-daughter members. As a mother and...
Family Values: Mother-Daughter Duos Make Tremendous Impact
Impact100 Metro Denver is fortunate to have several mother-daughter members who engage with and support Impact100. Throughout the month of May, we will feature interviews with mother-daughter members. An interview with Carrie Morgridge and Michelle Morgridge with...
What is Trust-Based Philanthropy?
The following are excerpts from a brief by Philanthropy Together. Philanthropy Together is a global initiative co-created by giving circle and collective giving network leaders to help start new giving circles and existing circles thrive. In 2021 Impact100 Metro...
Impact100 Metro Denver’s DEI Journey
Join Impact100 Metro Denver in exploring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and their implications for our work as philanthropists.
3 Considerations for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2022
In addition to the Covid-19 pandemic, the last two years brought a reckoning on racial and economic inequality that brought about personal reflection or exhaustion, and changes in the business practices of nearly every industry, philanthropy included. The ensuing...
Grantee Highlights
Supporting our Former Grantees: SWIC
Greetings Impact100 Metro Denver Members! I was honored to be invited to present at your 2024 Grant Year Launch on the evening of February 28th. One thing that continues to ring true for me every time I’m at an Impact100 event, is the extreme value of collective...
Highlights from the 2024 Grant Year Launch: Impacting the Future with Inclusive and Trust-Based Giving
Highlights from The 2024 Grant Year Launch:Impacting the Future with Inclusive and Trust-Based Giving February 28, 2024By Deb Brackney, Vice President Impact100 Metro Denver On an evening that hinted at spring and was filled with joyful energy, over 80 Impact100 Metro...
Grantee Spotlight and Opportunity to Volunteer: Roots Family Center
Get to know Impact100 Metro Denver Grantee, Roots Family Center Roots Family Center, located in southwest Denver, is one of two nonprofits that received our multi-year accelerator grant in 2023. Roots was created in 2017 to respond to a need in the community for...
Grantee Spotlight: TOSA
The Other Side Academy (TOSA) is a 2021 Impact100 grantee. They provide a two-year life skills and vocational training program for men and women who have struggled with addiction, incarceration, and homelessness. TOSA used our grant to create a state-of-the-art...
A Summer to Remember – Free Summer Camp at Mountain Resource Center
A Summer to Remember – Free Summer Camp at Mountain Resource Center By Ashley Boland, Marketing and Development Coordinator Mountain Resource Center is excited to share that we are launching a new, free weekly day camp during June for local children ages 6-10 years...
Grantee Spotlight: Mi Casa Resource Center
Grantee Spotlight: Mi Casa Resource Center 2022 was a year of reorganizing, restructuring, and rebuilding at Mi Casa Resource Center as the world changed around us. We are so grateful for support from Impact100 Metro Denver, which helped us try new things to meet the...
Grantee Spotlight: Maria Droste Counseling Center
Grantee Spotlight: Maria Droste Counseling Center Maria Droste Counseling Center (MDCC) provides mental health services and counseling to underserved and marginalized populations throughout Colorado. Everyone has a right to mental health, regardless of wealth. In...
Grantee Spotlight: Work Options
Grantee Spotlight: Work Options 2022 was a year full of challenge, recovery, creativity and helping 243 people move towards sustained employment. It was a year that started with a COVID resurgence and ended with the launch of our Line Cook Apprenticeship program. In...
Grantee Spotlight: Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado
Grantee Spotlight: Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado Impact100 Metro Denver grantee, Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC), has already begun to put their grant award to good use in 2022. The nonprofit partnered with six community groups to host 16 health and...
We Don’t Waste shares new app and volunteer opportunities
We Don't Waste shares new app and volunteer opportunities We Don’t Waste (WDW) is a 2021 Impact100 grantee and wanted to share some volunteer opportunities for individuals. Our Impact100 grant supported three technology improvements. WDW just launched one of the...
Building our Capacity to Serve Colorado’s Young Adults
Building our Capacity to Serve Colorado’s Young Adults It was through the generosity of Impact100 in 2019 that the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center (RMCLC) truly built our Young Adult Legal Advocacy (YALA) work. Through this program, we provide free legal help for...
The Blue Bench
The Blue Bench The Blue Bench is metro Denver’s only comprehensive sexual assault prevention and survivor support center. Impact100 gave The Blue Bench a grant of $36,100 in 2019. A Blue Bench client recently wrote about the impact the organization has had on her...