Our Community Impact

Over $1,400,000 in grants awarded in just 6 years!  

It’s amazing what empowered women, working together, can do.

2023 Grants $366,000

Education Foundation of Martin County

$100,000 Impact Grant

Project: Career Exploration Labs for Martins Middle Schools

Environmental Studies Center Council

$100,000 Impact Grant

Project: Environmental Studies Center Wet Lab Revitalization

Martin County Police Athletic League, Inc

$100,000 Impact Grant

Project: Mobile PAL

 

Merit Award | Kiwanis of Stuart

Proposed project: 7-12 Impact Playground

Merit Award: $33,000 grant for general use.

 

 

Merit Award | The Library Foundation of Martin County

Proposed project: 100 Years of Martin County: Bridging Divisions Through History and Storytelling.

Merit Award: $33,000 grant for general use.

 

 

 

 

2022 Grants $340,000

Martin County Healthy Start

$100,000 Impact Grant for the Maternity on (the) Move (MOM) Mobile project. This project will increase accessibility to prenatal care and improve health outcomes by adding a second treatment area within a newly renovated mobile medical vehicle; the Maternity on (the) Move (MOM) Mobile. The MOM Mobile will bring critical services to our most vulnerable pregnant women and children located in our most desolate neighborhoods by traveling directly to them. The targeted areas that the MOM Mobile will travel to are Indiantown including Booker Park, Banner Lake in Hobe Sound, East Stuart, Rio, and Golden Gate.

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Light of the World Charities

$100,000 Impact Grant for the Little Lights Dentistry program. This funding will completely furnish the fourth operatory (the“Impact100 Operatory”) with modern, child-sized equipment including a pediatric dental chair for smaller patients; thus, transforming the practice with the proper equipment and supplies necessary to increase efficiencies and open access to care for our neediest neighbors.

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Project LIFT

$100,000 Impact Grant for Welding on Wheels: The Road to Employment program. This project seeks to bring high quality job training in one of the most in-demand skilled trades directly to Martin County’s underserved populations, via a mobile hands-on training center. A 30-foot mobile trailer will contain an industry standard welding shop, plus a Virtual Reality Welding Simulator and corresponding curriculum.

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Merit Award | Ocean Research & Conservation Assoc. (ORCA)

Merit Award: $40,000 grant for general use.

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2021 Grants $212,000

House of Hope

$100,000 Impact Grant for Feeding Families for Success: The project has improved efficiency, safety, and capacity to grow, prepare and distribute high quality, fresh foods, and meals to nearly 7,000 clients and 24 food partners, at no cost to those served. It created a more productive workspace and automated tasks such as dishwashing and food processing at the Nutrition Center.

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SafeSpace

$100,000 Impact Grant for The SafeSpace Outreach Center: The project allowed SafeSpace to establish an outreach center to expand its outreach services and increase the number of participants served by renovating a garage space located on the emergency shelter property.

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Merit Award | New Horizons of the Treasure Coast

$6,000 grant for general use.

Merit Award | Boys & Girls Club of Martin County

$6,000 grant for general use.

2020 Grants $224,000

Grants to 14 Organizations

Award:

$224,000

Details:

Impact100 Martin is helping local nonprofits during the COVID-19 crisis. Our membership’s overwhelming vote to approve a one-time-only departure from our regular grant award process has allowed us to have an immediate impact on those who need assistance as a result of the pandemic.

COVID-19 Grants awarded to:

ARC of Martin County

Boys & Girls Clubs of Martin County

Council on Aging of Martin County

Helping People Succeed

Hope Rural School

House of Hope

Light of the World Charities

Martin County Healthy Start Coalition

 

Martin County Police Athletic League

SafeSpace

Salvation Army of Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee Counties

The Education Foundation of Martin County

Tykes & Teens

Volunteers in Medicine

2019 Grants $151,000

The Education Foundation of Martin County

$100,000 Impact Grant for EFMC PLAYS Across the District – to expand a current pilot project which uses research-based guided play and leveled books in kindergarten classrooms to promote language, literacy and social interaction with students. The expansion would be to all elementary schools in Martin County and the Hope Center for Autism. Read Program Update

Merit Award | Florida Oceanographic Society

$25,500 grant for expanding shell recycling capacity and building living shoreline at 3 sites in Martin County to improve water quality, restore habitats and protect shorelines from erosion.

Merit Award | Tykes & Teens

Mission: Prioritizing children’s mental health in our families, schools, and communities through prevention, education, and treatment.

$25,500 grant to alleviate capacity issues at its Palm City office by establishing group services using the Positive Action Curriculum.

2018 Grants $107,000

Project Lift

$100,000 Impact Grant for Launch of Pathway Academy of Innovation to provide at-risk teens with an alternative way to obtain a high school diploma as well as vocational skills.

Merit Award | House Of Hope

Mission: To empower Martin County residents to overcome hunger and hardship.

$3,500 grant for general use.

Merit Award | Tykes & Teens

Mission: Prioritizing children’s mental health in our families, schools, and communities through prevention, education, and treatment.

$3,500 grant for general use.