Empowering Local Causes: 307 Women Drive $100K Grants to Three Nonprofit Winners
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) — Impact 100 is an international organization made up of women with charitable intentions who collectively contribute $1,000 each. This collective funding totals $100,000 and is used to award grants worth $100,000 to nonprofit organizations.
On Friday, Impact 100 Gulf Coast awarded grants to three nonprofits.
One visited the Anchorage Children’s Home, an organization offering refuge, therapy, and support to disadvantaged young people and their families.
Another organization was nourishing the Gulf Coast, working to combat food insecurity in the region.
And finally, a third grant went to the Arc Gulf Coast, which supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
” This is going to mean so much for our communities,” said Lori Allen, President of Impact 100 Gulf Coast. “Seeing them with tears in their eyes, knowing the great work they’re going to be able to do with this one-hundred-thousand-dollar grant means the world to us.”
Allen says that she first heard about Impact 100 before Hurricane Michael, but due to the storm and the pandemic, her team had to delay starting the chapter.
She adds that the months of work and recruiting for Impact 100 were well worth it.
“It’s all worth it,” Allen tells News Channel 7. “We get to come here to agencies and award them a substantial gift that will change lives and translate into a lot of hope and healing for people that would have otherwise not been given that.”
Impact 100 hopes to recruit even more members and give away even more grants in 2026.
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