It's time to join!
Impact100 Philadelphia's membership deadline is fast approaching — just about a month to go. If you're a woman, age 21 or older, who wants to make a difference in the Philadelphia region, Impact is a great way to do that. The need in our region is immense, and growing greater by the day.
Our members make the case for joining better than we can. Here are a few of their words:
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I was new to the area, and Impact was a great way to plug into the community. This is the best, most smoothly run organization I've ever been part of.
I have learned a lot. With experience, I have learned to read through the proposals and have a good sense of what to look for.
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This is a great way to give back to the city where I live.
I value the process, the learning, the camaraderie, and most of all, funding very worthy organizations in these tough times.
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The beauty of Impact100 Philadelphia is that it gives all of us the opportunity to be major contributors. Few of us have the means to make a substantial individual gift, but collectively we can.
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Our members range in age from their early 20s to late 80s, and represent all walks of life. We'd love to have you join us in collective giving. Together, we can contribute significantly to the Philadelphia region during this time of great change and great need.
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Two announcements about our grants |
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#1: Site visits will be back
Among the many things we had to change last spring, giving up site visits was a loss regretted by members and grant applicants alike. Site visits are one of the best and most important elements of our proposal review.
While we expect that they will need to be virtual, we will absolutely include site visits in Focus Area Committees' work in 2021. We're grateful to our collective giving sister organizations around the country who have conducted virtual site visits in recent months and have shared some tips. Several found that virtual visits worked even better than in-person visits.
#2: A second funding stream of smaller awards
Since last spring, Impact100 Philadelphia's Grants Planning Committee has been exploring changes based on:
- members' feedback,
- our DEI Committee's work around equity and inclusion, and
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the tenets of trust-based philanthropy, a movement that encourages funders to address the power imbalance between themselves and the nonprofit community, in order to be more effective grantmakers.
We're excited to announce a change for 2021: In addition to our $100,000 Core Mission grant program, we will launch a second funding stream. Impact100 Philadelphia's Community Awards will be grants of $5,000 to $25,000 awarded to smaller organizations that may fall outside our Core Mission eligibility requirements yet are doing outstanding work to address critical or unmet needs. Members: Many more details will come as we get closer to the grant cycle.
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New logo — and soon, a new website
We're excited to share our new logo, going public today! And we're equally excited to be nearing completion on a website update, which we expect to launch by early November.
Huge thanks to Impact member Sarah Wimberley for spearheading the new site, and to Creative Repute, the excellent Philly-based graphic design firm we've been working with the past few months.
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Please mark your calendars for these upcoming programs on Zoom.
More details and invitations will follow in the coming weeks.
Programs
Tonight: October 20, 7 pm - Impact100 Info Session
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This informal conversation is an opportunity for women interested in Impact100 membership to ask questions, meet some members, and learn what our organization is all about. Please feel free to invite friends or colleagues. They can register here.
November 5, 1 pm - Grant Applicant Information Session
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This afternoon program is for all prospective applicants who want to learn about Impact100's application process. Register here.
November 10, 12 pm - Fall Education: Youth in the Criminal Justice System
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Please watch for your invitation today to this lunchtime program open to all. Join us to hear about 2019 Core Mission grantee Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project's critically important work with youth in the criminal justice system.
November 17, 6 pm - Impact100 Info Session
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Another informal conversation and opportunity to ask questions, meet members, and learn what our organization is all about. Please feel free to invite friends or colleagues! Register here.
Deadlines
December 1 - Membership closes for the 2021 Grants
December 11 - Application closes for Letters of Inquiry for the 2021 Grants
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Thanks to Impact member Susan Greenbaum for the article below.
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CARIE: Keeping Elders Healthy and Safe
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll on Pennsylvania’s older adults living in long-term care facilities. More than 4,700 residents have died from the virus, representing 69 percent of all deaths in the Commonwealth.
Early in March, as the state ordered nursing homes and assisted living communities to shut down to visitors, staff at CARIE (Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly), a 2018 $100,000 Impact100 Philadelphia grantee, began hearing from worried residents and their loved ones about their inability to communicate with each other.
Diane Menio, CARIE executive director, and her staff were particularly concerned about this growing isolation and loneliness among the elderly. With facilities closed to visitors combined with restrictions on group activities and communal dining, the physical and emotional health of many was seriously suffering. Recent research has shown a 20% increase in deaths among people with Alzheimer’s and dementia due to isolation, stress and lapses in care.
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To address these concerns, CARIE began talks with the Pennsylvania Departments of Health and Aging about how to improve care and prevent further deaths in nursing homes and assisted living communities. In August, along with eight other advocacy groups, CARIE issued an extensive report on how to keep older adults safe during the pandemic. Among the recommendations was that the Commonwealth “develop visitation guidance with the input of residents, families and advocates to outline protocols that support residents and permit visits.”
Last month, Pennsylvania began allowing “compassionate care” visits by family members or loved ones to care for those residents whose health is worsening. The state also is allowing limited visits in long-term care and assisted living communities that have gone several weeks without any COVID-19 cases and are located in communities with low rates of positivity.
Menio says this is all a step in the right direction but it’s not enough. She and her colleagues continue to lobby policymakers to expand visitation guidelines to all facilities by officially considering family members and loved ones as essential caregivers who are treated similarly to staff.
“We’re not saying just open up all the doors as it was before. What we’re saying is allow essential caregivers in. People are dying because they don’t have their family member there. This is serious.”
Among the other recommendations outlined in the August report were protocols and guidelines for testing; transparency around infection prevention; staffing levels; and training and hygiene. In the intervening months, some progress has been made. Every elder living in a long-term care community or nursing facility has been tested once as have staff members. However, the state guidelines for how and when to retest are still unclear.
To improve the overall response efforts in long-term residential care facilities, larger health systems are now contracted to work with facilities to provide personal PPE, best practice infection control, testing and education. Unfortunately, the federal funding for this collaboration runs out in December when the CARES Act expires.
CARIE continues its work around the COVID-19 pandemic and in addition to their advocacy efforts, they provide other important resources for older adults including community education, referral resources and an on-line COVID-19 toolkit.
For more information and to read the August report, visit CARIE.org
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Would you like to join us or tell others about Impact100? |
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Impact100 Philly's growth is due to our members' enthusiasm for collective giving. |
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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.
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If you or a friend or colleague would like to join Impact100, we'd love to have you!
Women ages 36 and over join for $1,150; of that total, $1,000 is added to the grants pool for 2021. Women 35 and under join as Young Philanthropists at half that rate, $575.
The deadline to join and support the 2021 grants is December 1, but members
who join or renew now are much appreciated. Your early support is
tremendously helpful for planning and helps expand our membership
and funding for the coming year.
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We welcome anyone — whether a member or not — to contribute to Impact100 Philadelphia's 2021 grant funding and to leverage a personal donation into large 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 2021 grant recipients.
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