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Our Annual Meeting: Eight amazing organizations received funding
Monday evening, June 7, was a happy, action-packed event on Zoom as hundreds of attendees heard live from Impact100's five Core Mission and Operating Grant recipients. We also learned more about the missions and work of the three Community Award recipients. It is thrilling to support the outstanding programs and important missions of these eight organizations named below. We welcome everyone to watch the 42-minute Annual Meeting video.
Since Impact100's goal is to put maximal dollars into our grants, we rely on help to fully fund our technology, administration, and other expenses. Generous extra donations from members, foundations, and corporations are what allow us to carry on.

We are very grateful to our corporate sponsors in 2021, Independence Blue Cross and Bryn Mawr Trust.
Impact's Year In Review

Thanks to member Claudie Williams' work, we are happy to share this Annual Meeting Program and Year in Review.

Click through to see Impact's funding history, a diagram of operating expenses, a list of Full Proposal applicants and organizations we site visited, schematics of our Core Mission funding program and the new Community Awards pilot program.

June 30 marks the end of our fiscal year and the time that some of our Board positions turn over. With the deepest gratitude — and awe at the lasting imprint they will leave on Impact100 Philadelphia — we say goodbye to these leaders whose terms are up:
Co-President Carolyn Ashburn, Past President Madge Rothenberg, Secretary Jennifer Vollmer, Treasurer Pat Bonney, Communications Chair Mary Broach, Founders Fellows Chair Joanne Levy, Grants Co-Chair Renee Applegate and Programs Co-Chair Eve Prensky Roe. Impact100 is a better organization for these women's leadership. Please watch our July newsletter to welcome incoming Board members whose talents and efforts we know will serve Impact very well in the year ahead.

We thank each and every member, applicant, grantee, awardee, and community member who made this year possible.
Founders Fellowship Application is now open!

Kicking off its 8th year, Impact100's Founders Fellowship program is intended to encourage young women to learn about philanthropy and the critical issues that affect the Philadelphia region, and to participate in the work of a collective giving grantmaking organization. Preference will be given to applicants who do not have the financial resources to independently join Impact100 Philadelphia.

The Founders Fellowship is available to women, ages 25-35, who have demonstrated a commitment to improving lives in their communities through work, volunteerism, or study, who are interested in addressing the vital needs of our community through collective giving grantmaking, and who will bring a diverse perspective to Impact100 Philadelphia’s operations. Fellows are chosen through a competitive application process and enjoy membership in Impact100 Philadelphia without having to pay the annual membership fee. Fellows are expected to participate in the proposal review process, attend education programs and events, and are encouraged to take on leadership roles within the organization. In addition, Fellows network with and are mentored by a diverse group of Impact100 Philadelphia members, including our Young Philanthropists, women ages 21-35 who join Impact100 at half the cost.

We are excited to be expanding the program in the coming year and expect to welcome up to 10 new Fellows this fall.
 
The Founders Fellowship criteria and application are available on our website through the link below. Applications are due July 31, 2021. Please feel free to forward this email to young women who would be good candidates for the program, or to contact us at foundersfellowship@impact100philly.org if you have any questions.
Meet our Executive Director
Please join us in welcoming Kimberly Kirn

We are full of anticipation and optimism as we welcome Impact100 Philadelphia's first executive director, Kimberly Kirn. Kim will start July 6 and comes to Impact with 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience and a strong belief in the power and potential of collective giving. Kim shares Impact leaders' long-held desire for continually improving our organization to be the best membership and grantmaking organization we can be.

As we get to know Kim, we want the community to as well! Here are a few questions we discussed with her this week.

What drew you to this leadership role with Impact100?

Oh gosh... what didn’t? Having been at the helm of a nonprofit in Philadelphia [Need In Deed], I got to see a lot of the challenges that face our region and a lot of the elements that impact our region. In my career, I’ve worked in government, nonprofits, a university... I started to feel that philanthropy is a significant way to solve some of the issues we’re facing. There's been a lot of attention on billionaire donors, and what they're doing, and I think in each case, that’s one person’s idea of how to address malaria, improve the quality of K-12 education, etc. With collective giving like Impact100, you have 431 women pooling their money and their minds, thinking about the ways we want to work and to grow. That’s what I want to do. And the way in which it’s being done at Impact100 is what I want to do.

What personal traits do you have that make you well-suited to this role?

I have always worked in women-led organizations and I really believe in the power of women’s leadership — the way that women approach leadership and the values that brings.

At Need In Deed, I was the first executive director who wasn't part of the founding community. Some of what I needed to do was figure out how to position the organization, bring it to have a more city-wide or regional footprint. I think those lessons will be useful at Impact100, since this is the first time the organization has had an executive director.

What are you most looking forward to? Anything you're concerned about?

I'm excited to see what the process has been so far. Actually, Impact has been transparent about its process all along — as a former applicant, I can say it wasn’t a mystery to us how the process would go. But now to see how it happens behind the scenes... I want to soak up all that energy that has been making this happen. It's just exciting.
 
I know that there's been clarity among the membership and leadership that this ED role needs to exist. But what does that look like in the day-to-day? It may take us a while to figure out. But I hope I come to it with some flexibility and some grace. 

You haven't even started, but do you already have some goals for the short-term?

I want to meet everyone, in person if we can! Because the organization has been so successful and because it’s so respected, my first goal is to learn and listen and hear from board chairs, understand what the work has been like, how I can be helpful. If I can start to build a to-do list that’s connected to and supports those things, I will feel like this first phase is a success. And I want to help get more members!
Would you like to join us or tell others about Impact100?

If you'd like to tell others about our organization, please feel free to forward
this newsletter — and we thank you for spreading the word. The top reason for Impact100's growth since 2008 has been members referring other women as members.
Women ages 36 and over join for $1,150; of that total, $1,000 is added to the grants pool for 2022 and the balance supports our operating expenses. Women 35 and under join as Young Philanthropists at half that rate, $575, with $500 going to the grants pool.

Members joining now will help fund the 2022 grants. The deadline to join is November 15.
We welcome anyone — whether a member or not — to contribute to Impact100 Philadelphia's 2022 grant funding and to leverage a personal donation into grants that will benefit nonprofits in the region.

Only members may cast a vote for grantees, but everyone is welcome to add to the funds that will support Impact100's 2022 recipients.
Women Giving As One