Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Announces Nonprofit Finalists for $405,000 in IN GRANTS

MILWAUKEE – Impact100 Greater Milwaukee, a women’s nonprofit based on a collective philanthropy model replicated nationwide, has announced that five nonprofit organizations have been selected as 2022 finalists for $100,000 grants.

The five 2022 finalists are Advocates of Ozaukee, Benedict Center, Hope Street, Radio Milwaukee, and Victory Garden Initiative.

The organization’s 405 members will vote to select the recipients of four $100,000 grants and a fifth merit grant during its 2022 Annual Awards Celebration, which will take place Wednesday, June 8, at The Pfister Hotel. Networking begins at 5:00 pm with dinner at 6:00 and the program and voting at 7:00 pm culminating in the grant announcements. The event’s lead sponsor is Johnson Financial Group.

Formed in 2015, Impact100 Greater Milwaukee is an organization of women leveraging their collective gifts to award $100,000 grants to nonprofit organizations to strengthen the Greater Milwaukee community. Each member contributes $1,000 annually to the grant pool, which is then awarded to nonprofit recipients through a rigorous grant selection process.  Eligible nonprofit organizations from Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha Counties are invited to apply. Impact100 targets its support to mid-size nonprofit organizations (revenue between $300,000 – $5 million) for which six-figure gifts might otherwise not be attainable.

For the 2022 grant cycle, Impact100 Greater Milwaukee received more than 45 applications from local nonprofits. Five finalists were selected after a thorough review process which involved almost 90 volunteer grant evaluators and included 13 site visits.

Following the June 8 Annual Awards Celebration, Impact100 will have exceeded $2.4 million in cumulative giving to nonprofits since its first grant awards in 2016.  Previous grantees include Operation Dream, NAMI Southeast Wisconsin, Literacy Services of Wisconsin, and Teens Grow Greens (see complete list at https://www.impact100mke.org/grantees).

Impact100 Greater Milwaukee, a registered 501(c)(3) organization, operates as an all-volunteer organization.  Visit http://impact100mke.org for more information.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. It has not been verified for its accuracy or completeness.