Impact 100 Owensboro

How we award Grants

You can download a Grant Application below.

During the first few months of the year, non-profit organizations are encouraged to submit grant applications.

Volunteer committees read the applications, debate the merits of each, perform site visits as necessary and narrow their choices.

Finalists are selected and their applications are presented to the entire membership at the annual meeting for review.

Impact 100 members also have the opportunity to meet with representative from each of the finalist organizations and hear a short presentation by each at the annual meeting.

Each member casts one vote at the annual meeting or by proxy or absentee ballot (via email or the Post Office).

The votes are tabulated and a deserving organization (or organizations) becomes an Impact 100 grant recipient.

Funds are given to the winning organization/s prior to year end in a ceremony in which all members are invited.

Grant Application Deadline - May 21, 2010

The amount of the grant will be announced to members and the media on April 29, 2010 at Old National Bank.

Please contact Barbara St. John, Director of Grants... She can be reached at 270-316-8629 or barbaracstjohn@gmail.com. You may also contact Debbie Nunley, President, at 270-929-2018, or Board@impact100owensboro.org.

Application Process

Please send or deliver five complete copies of your application, including all attachments to:

     Impact 100 – Owensboro Inc.
     1826 Lexington Avenue
     Owensboro, KY 42301

Don't forget to choose a focus area and enter the correct grant amount, to be announced after our March 31st membership deadline. We accept the Common Grant Application as adjusted for processing grant consideration requests. If you need a copy of this application it is available on our web site www.impact.100owensboro.org

Application Guidelines

We are pleased to accept applications that are programmatic, endowment capital, start-up or research oriented. We will accept grant applications that are a collaboration of more than one non-profit agency. We regret that we cannot accept the following types of applications: operating (ie if your agency serves meals, the Impact grant cannot be used for food), partisan, individual church, indigent care subsidy, travel, loans or individuals. Each awarded grant MUST be used with 24 months of being issued. The winning organization will sign a contract with Impact 100 which spells out the agencies' responsibilities.

We accept grant applications from Owensboro area non-profit organizations that serve one or more of our focus areas:

CULTURE ~ EDUCATION ~ ENVIRONMENT, PRESERVATION & RECREATION ~ FAMILY ~ HEALTH & WELLNESS

An Impact 100 member will chair each focus area. That member and a committee of Impact 100 members will request and evaluate proposals from non-profit agencies in the Owensboro area. The agencies will be informed that they are applying for a $100,000 grant (or more, based on the number of members). After research, site visits and other necessary due diligence, each committee will narrow their choice to one deserving agency.

Each focus area's most deserving agency will be represented at our Annual Meeting. At this event, members will listen to presentations from each committee and their chosen non-profit and vote for their choice to receive the $100,000 grant. Each member will have the opportunity to vote preferentially, ranking her first choice as number 1, regardless of her involvement on a specific committee. The agency receiving the highest number of votes will receive the grant for that year. As we grow, we will be able to give more than one $100,000 grant per year.

The idea behind these five focus areas is to allow significant grant making to any worthy non-profit in the Owensboro area.

Chairs for the 2010 focus area are:

Culture:	Connie Ford, Chair
	Connie.Ford@KCTCS.edu
	Beverly McEnroe, Co-Chair
	bmcenroe@roadrunner.com

Education:	Mary Embry, Chair
	mary.embry@edwardjones.com
	Sandy Hallman, Co-Chair
	jshallman@roadrunner.com

Environment:	Suzanne Miles, Chair
Preservation	suzanne1118@bellsouth.net
and Recreation:	Molly Thompson, Co-Chair
	molly2503@hotmail.com

Family:	Mary Beth Hurley, Chair
	Mary.Hurley@Owensboro.kyschool.us
	Peggy Howard, Co-Chair
	Peggy.Howard@KCTCS.edu

Health & Wellness:	Jeannette Ward, Chair
	Jeannette.Ward@KCTCS.edu
	Joanne Masters, Co-Chair
	jwfem4@bellsouth.net