Impact 100 SRQ announces five $114,000 grant finalists
The announcement was made at Aloft Sarasota on Oct. 15.
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Whitney Elfstrom
| 10:48 a.m. October 16, 2019
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Aloft Sarasota was pretty in pink on Tuesday night at the Impact 100 SRQ grant finalists meeting.
The nonprofit announced the five finalists vying for two $114,000 grants in the categories of art and culture, education, environment and recreation, family, and health and wellness.
In its first year, $228,000 was raised from 228 Impact 100 SRQ members. Finalists were chosen from a pool of 84 applications overseen by a committee of the nonprofit's founding members. Finalists will have the chance to present their projects at Impact 101 SRQ's annual meeting on Nov. 3 where the two grant winners will be announced.
Impact 100 was launched in November 2018 with a goal to have 100 women join. Each member must donate $1,000, which goes toward grants that are dispersed in at least $100,000 amounts to local charities.
Susan Orr Henderson and Karen Orr
Elaine Barber and Sirgit Sroka
Denise Saputo and Cindy Balliette
Impact 100 SRQ is made up of more than 200 Sarasota women.
Impact 100 President Jane Watt, Toni Shemmel, Beth Walling, Nancy Claridge and Tonya Getzen-Gowan
Bonnie Hartley and Becca Eldredge represent The Venice Institute for Performing Arts.
Beth Walling and Nancy Claridge
Brad Jones and Alison Thomas represent The Haven.
Char Young, Dorris Berkey and Linda Benedict
Mickey Davis, Sabrina Cummings and Glenn Shipley represent Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast.
Joanna Benante and Nancy Bobbitt
Terry Stottlemyer, Cindy Hammersand and Cheri Devries represent Mothers Helping Mothers, Inc.
Tilly Valls McFadden and Raffie Hamilton
Lori Rogers, Jessica Hays and Mary Ellen Mancin represent Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center, Inc.
Besty Friedman and Morgan Gerhart
Kimberlee Brooks and Tina Grathon
The grant finalists hold up their number cards that announce the order they will present their projects in.
