The Rising Tide of Our Investment
Impact Report
JANUARY 2023 www.impact100pbc.org
From Our President
Dear Members, Sponsors and Nonprofit Partners , In the pages of this report, you will have the opportunity to read about the progress of some recent $100,000 grant projects funded by the members of Impact 100 PBC. Remarkably, these are only a handful of the forty-eight $100,000 grants our members have awarded in our eleven-year history. As you know, an important part of our process is following our grantees after they receive a grant to ensure that their projects are meeting the goals and measurable outcomes that were agreed upon when they were awarded the grant.
Kelly Fleming, President
As you read these updates, I hope that you share with me a sense of incredible pride, knowing that your individual contribution, pooled with those of hundreds of other like-minded women, made these transformative projects a reality. We have collectively touched tens of thousands of lives in southern Palm Beach County and none of it would have been possible without each woman choosing to be a member of this remarkable organization. Get ready to be inspired by what YOU have done! With gratitude,
Kelly Fleming
At Impact 100 PBC, compliance monitoring is a partnership between our chapter and the grantee. The purpose is to ensure that the project begins with a mutual understanding of the results to be achieved, and then to monitor those results on behalf of our members who fund the projects. Most of the women who do our compliance monitoring were grant reviewers and are already familiar with the projects and the intended results. We are grateful to them for the time they devote to working with our grantees and monitoring the impacts of their projects. Documenting the high impacts of our grants is the hallmark of our process. This year’s report presents the results of two completed programs plus updates on new and in-process programs. Some were described previously and will have significant impacts later in their projects. Most school-based grants were severely delayed due to COVID restrictions and are or will be extended in order to complete their programs. All will present results in our next report.
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Mission Statement
Impact 100 Palm Beach County connects, engages, and inspires women to improve our community by collectively funding multiple $100,000 grants to nonprofits that implement high-impact initiatives in southern Palm Beach County.
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From our President
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Measuring Our Impact Matters
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Final Program Results
Interim Program Updates
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Our Impact
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Our Process
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Final Program Results
PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS One Humanity Tour MAY 2019 - DECEMBER 2022
Palm Beach Dramaworks’ “One Humanity Tour” is a multifaceted, arts-based program created to use drama as a tool to present middle school students with ethical dilemmas around social topics. Dramaworks commissioned, cast, and staged a play for 7th graders in southern Palm Beach County to raise awareness of the teen human sex trafficking crisis. It also addressed how social media and digital apps can lead to teen sex trafficking. The play has three unique stories that specifically show how human trafficking might impact students or their classmates. After the play, there is a group discussion to address key messages and what students can do in such situations. Importantly, at the end of the post-test survey, students are asked if they would like to speak with an adult at their school. If a student checks ‘yes,’ the behavioral health specialist is given a copy of the survey in order to follow up with that student.
COVID and scheduling challenges limited the number of performances during the grant period; however, Dramaworks is committed to performing the play annually in perpetuity. Significantly, the National Endowment for the Arts recognized the value of this play with a grant to expand performances into north Palm Beach County.
1,190 students in southern Palm Beach County have seen the play to date.
2,750 students in all of Palm Beach County have seen the play to date.
Program success based on actual student responses:
" I feel much better about myself knowing if that happens then I know to say no.”
“I feel a sense of courage because I know what to do.” “I feel like I learned so much; I would never like to be in this situation, and this is what is really going on out there in the world.”
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Final Program Results
Keep the Music Playing! FAU FOUNDATION DEPT OF MUSIC AUGUST 2020 - AUGUST 2022
Advanced Music Education majors from FAU worked with 195 students in 5 middle schools and 7 high schools in southern Palm Beach County to provide students with focused instruction. The goal was to improve student musical skills, self-esteem, and motivation. An additional goal was to encourage students to remain in school. When in-school instruction by FAU was not possible due to COVID-19, the program was modified to bring hundreds of students from partner schools to FAU’s Boca Raton campus for in-person lessons, clinics and side-by-side performances. This included a February 2022 event with more than 200 KTMP! students on campus over two days. The Keep the Music Playing! program culminated in two week-long band camps on FAU’s Boca Raton campus in June, one for partner middle school students and one for partner high school students. 195 students participated in the camps, taught by a team of 28 FAU music education students, music professors and public school teachers. At the end of each week, the students performed a concert for family, friends and the public in the FAU Auditorium. As of October 2022, retention rates for the students engaged post-pandemic was 100%, with all 195 participants remaining in music programs and in school.
195 students engaged in the program post-pandemic
100% of students remained in music program as of 10/22
100% of students remained in school as of 10/22
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interim program Updates
Youth Training & Wellness Project XCEL MENTORING NETWORK JUNE 2022 - JUNE 2023 Xcel partnered with Families First of Palm Beach County to provide mental health services and has forged partnerships with the Boys & Girls Club, Propel, Cason United Methodist Church, the Department of Juvenile Justice, The Soup Kitchen, Autism After 21, and other organizations to recruit youth and young adults for their mentoring programs with industry professionals, career and character development training, and skilled apprenticeships. All participants receive mental health evaluations and must successfully complete a soft skills program before training in the construction and automotive trades is provided. Mobile Training Units positioned around the county provide the setting for learning skills in carpentry, electric, plumbing, automotive, welding, virtual design, and HVAC.
South County Sings for Healing YOUNG SINGERS OF THE PALM BEACHES MAY 2022 -MAY 2024
Key Impacts 70 Enroll 70 children for upcoming season August 1, 2022 Executed contract for rehearsal space December 2, 2022 16 children sang at Boynton Beach Tree Lighting established groups. Advanced singers can also participate in ensemble performances at community and nonprofit events. Participants will learn musicianship, multi- culturalism, linguistics, life skills, and teamwork while having fun singing with their friends. Children from the program sang at the Boynton Beach Tree Lighting in December 2022. Young Singers will replicate its successful youth performance choirs at the Boynton Beach Cultural Arts Center with 100 children from southern Palm Beach County. The new choirs will produce 2 south county concerts a year, in addition to performing at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts alongside other
Key Impacts
100% of youth participants matched with mentor of participants had passing school grades 100% Remained crime free 95% youth recruited and assessed as of November 2022 18
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Kinship Care & Connections FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN MAY 2022 - MAY 2024 The Friends of Foster Children’s Kinship Care and Connections program provides a series of educational classes for caregivers who suddenly find themselves thrust into raising children. The classes provide kinship caregivers much needed support and help them navigate the confusing child dependency system. This grant also provides funds to expand Foster Parents' Night Out, a program designed so caregivers can enjoy some self-care while the children are engaged with supervised activities and dinner at the center.
Sustainable Agricultural Education Initiative MARINE EDUCATION INITIATIVE
MAY 2022 - MAY 2024
The Initiative’s Sustainable Agriculture Education program will introduce the next generation of learners to sustainable agriculture and aquaponics techniques to inspire them to pursue related careers in the future and help prevent a global food shortage. This grant allowed the project to hire their educator full time to lead groups of up to 15 students, ages 9 to 16, twice per week through the process of testing water quality, discussing water physics, learning fish and plant anatomy, and discussing the nitrification cycle. Each group visits the farm twice, once to initially plant seeds and then again to come back and harvest their planted crops. The food they harvest is then donated to Boca Helping Hands Soup Kitchen, and children leave the program knowing they gave back to their community, as well as with sustainable agriculture knowledge. Marine Education
Key Impacts
25 average number of caregivers completing 4-week curriculum Foster Parents' Night Out 149% of child welfare system 70% increase in children attending increase in caregiver knowledge increase in volunteers working at Foster Parents' Night Out 150%
Students educated through the program Key Impacts
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High school and college volunteers
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SERVING WITH HEART IN SPBC MAY 2022 - MAY 2024 Love Serving Autism
Love Serving Autism provides specialized tennis instruction to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to staff who work with these children. The instruction is at 4 locations in southern Palm Beach County – Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach and Lake Worth – under the direction of a trained professional in both tennis and autism. Tennis is combined with other therapies to help build intrapersonal and interpersonal skills such as communication, eye/hand coordination, team work and ability to follow directions. As a result, this will impact local families and their loved ones with ASD to give them the opportunity to live more productive lives.
Family Navigator Program UNICORN CHILDREN'S
FOUNDATION MAY 2022 - MAY 2024
The Family Navigator Program will create a family-centered, comprehensive system of care that improves access to resources, support systems, and continued learning opportunities for those with special needs. A new Family Navigator Case Manager has been hired to assist disabled youth and their families with navigating their complex journey. Individualized custom success plans will be developed and implemented by the Case Manager to assist at least 50 participants and their families in reaching their full potential. The children and their families will participate in one-on-one Family Navigator coaching sessions and support groups. Participants will also attend specialized educational classes, clubs, and workshops. Assessment tools will focus on life skills, vocational skills, financial literacy, parenting competence, and personal enrichment.
Key Impacts 45 classes being provided average improvement in motor skills coordination 40% youth trained 117 average improvement in communication skills 111%
Key Impacts
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Hired Family Navigator Case Manager Developed Individual and Family Success Tools & Processes Conducted assessments of over 50 special-needs youth
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BOYNTON SCHOOLHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM JUNE 2021 - JUNE 2023 Explore, Play, Learn! This interesting project consists of an environmentally-focused unique exhibit, Mangrove Manor, in the Museum’s newly renovated Water World Gallery. Mangrove Manor will be an interactive climbing structure with multiple entrances for the children (replicating access points for animals to their habitat). As children play, they learn about inhabitants of a coastal mangrove -- how they live within its roots, sea grasses and waters. A foliage-inspired canopy will evoke the experience of being in a mangrove forest with overhead sound domes reproducing the calls of seabirds and other mangrove residents. Successful new environmental awareness and outreach programs have been developed and delivered in anticipation of the new exhibit.
Lift Up THE SOUP KITCHEN MAY 2022 - MAY 2023
Lift Up focuses on 18-25 year olds who are transitioning from foster care to adulthood. This vulnerable population usually has limited resources and life skills and often transitions into homelessness. Lift Up provides a culinary skills curriculum to develop these youths to become meaningful and functional members of our community. Lift Up then provides referrals to the job market. The Soup Kitchen (TSK) is a safe space and safety net for meal service, life skills and job training, and job and housing referrals. Lift Up also provides participants with basic supplies, such as deodorant, toothpaste and fashionable duffle bags, which are often beyond their means. The program provides them with dignity and self-respect.
Results to Date Key Impacts Classes presented by the Museum, Sandoway Discovery Center, and Institute for Regional Conservation Children and 56 adults attended new classes
11 Number of initial participants 9 15 Key Impacts
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Curriculum was set within the first 15 days
"Gator's Lunch" and "Who Lives in Mangrove Forests" are now regular field trip options
Received Certificate in Culinary Skills Training
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L.E.A.P.
Ladies Empowerment & Achievement Program
MILAGRO CENTER JUNE 2021 - JUNE 2023
Milagro Center’s Ladies Empowerment & Achievement Program (L.E.A.P.) was created to strengthen the development of at-risk teenage girls in southern Palm Beach County. L.E.A.P. provides these young ladies with academic support, guidance and positive role models using bi-weekly learning sessions on topics such as academics, self-esteem, positive body image, life skills, personal development, financial literacy, career preparation, entrepreneurship, technology, and cosmetology. L.E.A.P. also arranges career internships and shadowing opportunities for participants. Community support has been tremendous, especially in the form of women volunteers and guest speakers at their bi-weekly meetings. Impact PBC funds have allowed L.E.A.P. to increase their number of participants and chapter sites.
Project Uplift ROOTS AND WINGS JUNE 2020 - JUNE 2023
additional 2nd and 3rd graders participated at 2 Title I schools and will achieve one year's growth in reading proficiency 120 Key Impacts expanded Project Uplift to include struggling readers at two additional Title One schools -- Rolling Green in Boynton Beach and Coral Sunset in Boca Raton -- adding 60 second and third graders to the program at each school. After COVID restrictions were lifted, in-school tutoring began in Fall 2021 with 50 students at both schools. Roots and Wings’ Project Uplift provides intensive after-school reading tutoring to second and third graders to bring them up to grade level reading before they leave third grade. A key feature of the program is grouping children according to skill level to eliminate any stigma from program participation. This grant
at-risk girls served 139 Key Impacts girls in internships or shadowing opportunities 25 80% enrolled in a 2 to 4 year college or university
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Sandoway Marine Park: Artificial Reef Development
COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION OF PBC JUNE 2021 - JUNE 2023
Situated just 1⁄2 mile off southern Palm Beach County‘s coast in Delray is a 31.5 acre dredge area completely devoid of coral and marine life. Impact 100 PBC funds will be utilized to purchase and deploy a steel hulled vessel in this area this spring. The Sandoway Marine Park Artificial Reef will serve as a new home for displaced marine life, revitalize the coral community and protect the Delray shoreline from erosion. In addition, it will provide new educational opportunities for Palm Beach County students and other visitors at Sandoway Discovery Center, cultivating dedicated environmental stewards for the next generation.
Together Fur-Ever
TRI-COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE
JUNE 2021 - JUNE 2023
Tri-County Animal Rescue Together Fur- Ever Program offers low cost veterinary services and a free food bank, enabling low-income families and their pets to stay together, in an effort to reduce the number of pets euthanized. This Impact 100 grant allows the Together Fur-Ever program to offer these low-cost veterinary services including spay and neutering, vaccinations, dental care, microchipping, flea and tick prevention, heartworm medications and emergency surgeries to pets of low-income families in southern Palm Beach County.
Key Impacts
Key Impacts
Purchased a 109 foot steel vessel named "Alois"
366 72 281 750
Annual pet wellness visits
Pets spayed and neutered
Towed to Fort Pierce in December 2022 for cleaning
Animals rescued and saved from euthanasia Pro-bono pet surgeries
Scheduled for deployment in Spring 2023
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The Program prevents children from entering the foster care system by providing individualized, front-end services and housing that provide critical support to vulnerable single mothers and their children. This grant expanded the Residential Program to launch a new Boca Raton campus to serve 6 additional families. Residents are CityHouse Residential building independence, securing childcare, completing job readiness programs, enrolling in trade certification programs, and focusing on their behavioral health. Delays in construction permitting resulted in only 4 apartments being available initially, so the project was extended to allow for 6 families to enter the program and graduate. Home & Hope Project: Boca Raton Campus CITYHOUSE JUNE 2020 - JUNE 2023
Project FACT: Fathers and Children Together BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB JUNE 2021 - JUNE 2023 Through Project Fact, BGCPBC is working with estranged fathers and their children to improve co-parenting skills. Children of single parent, female-headed low-income households generally experience greater life adversity, exhibit more behavioral problems and often poorer academic achievement. Project FACT mobilizes fathers and father figures to become engaged in their children’s lives via annual and monthly community-based events with the 24/7 Dad program. In addition, weekly evidenced based Passport to Manhood sessions bring boys and young men together with fathers or father figures, preparing them for the responsibilities of manhood.
Key Impacts
young men graduated from the Fall 2021 Passport to Manhood class
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apartments renovated for single mothers and their children 6 Key Impacts families completed individualized treatment plans 7 families graduated from the program; 3 more to graduate in 2023 3
40 fathers completed 24/7 Dad program
of male adolescents increased self-esteem
and resiliency 80%
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Operation Phoenix HOW FOUNDATION SEPTEMBER 2021 - SEPTEMBER 2023
Operation Phoenix is a collaboration between the Help Our Wounded (HOW) Foundation and the Grey Team, to help veterans regain their physical and mental health by restoring brain, body and psyche through cutting edge technology and social support networks. Despite some veterans having suicidal ideation prior to enrolling in the program, Operation Phoenix has not lost one veteran to suicide (nor have there been any attempts). All veterans who have completed the program so far report feeling better connected to the community, adopting better habits, and have shown significant improvement in their cognitive functioning and emotional well-being.
PERIOD. GIVT JUNE 2020 - JUNE 2022
Project PERIOD. is a movement to end period poverty in Palm Beach County schools. In southern Palm Beach County, over 28,000 students in Title 1 schools are living at or below the poverty threshold. Feminine hygiene products are not eligible to purchase with government assistance programs often resulting in young women missing school during menstruation. Supplying school nurses with PERIOD. bags for students removes this barrier and contributes to improved self-worth and academic success. This program directly connects students with licensed healthcare providers, on a regular basis, who are equipped to offer additional resources, services, and information. Additional results from this program will become available following the publication of this report.
Key Impacts 25 number of veterans who completed 30-60-90 day wellness plans
Key Impacts
1,224 starter kits delivered to Title I schools 32,592 maxi pads delivered to Title I schools 1,104 refill packs delivered to Title I schools
improved neuropsychological performance evaluations improved cognitive and emotional resilience
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Our Impact
IMPACT 100 PBC'S $100,000 GRANT RECIPIENTS!
Over the past eleven years, we have awarded over $5.2 million to 85 nonprofit programs serving southern Palm Beach County. These grants consisted of the 48 high-impact $100,000 grants listed below and 40 merit grants .
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Alzheimer's Community Care American Association of Caregiving Youth Bound for College (formerly Delray Students First) Camelot Community Care YMCA of South Palm Beach County 2016 Boca Raton Children's Museum Community Partners: San Castle Community Center FAU - Pine Jog Environmental Education Center KidSafe Foundation Miracle League of Palm Beach County 2017
Schoolhouse Children's Museum Coastal Conservation Association Florida Milagro Center Boys and Girls Club Help Our Wounded Foundation Tri-County Animal Rescue 2021 Young Singers of the Palm Beaches Xcel Mentoring Network Marine Education Initiative Friends of Foster Children Unicorn Children's Foundation Love Serving Autism The Soup Kitchen
Best Foot Forward Florida Fishing Academy Pathways to Prosperity The Soup Kitchen 2015
CityHouse Community Greening FAU - Department of Music GIVT Roots and Wings 2020
Equine-Assisted Therapies of South Florida Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program 2013 Achievement Centers for Children and Families Creative City Collaboration dba. The Arts Garage Florence Fuller Child Development Center 2014
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Autism After 21 Center for Child Counseling Institute for Regional Conservation
Palm Beach Dramaworks StreetWaves Corporation
Community Partners: Parent-Child Center 2012
The Symphonia of Boca Raton Delray Beach Children's Garden Genesis Community Health Lake Worth West Resident Planning Group Place of Hope: Leighan & David Rinker Campus 2018
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Our process
1. Membership Each woman donates $1,000 dollars annually. For every 100 women who join, a $100,000 grant will be made to our local community. 2. Grant Review Our Grant Review Committees review Letters of Intent from 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations for local projects and initiatives in five Focus Areas. These Focus Areas are: Arts, Culture, and Historic Preservation; Education; Environment and Animal Welfare; Family; and Health and Wellness. 3. Grant Finalist Presentations Grant Finalists present their projects and initiatives to Members at the annual Grand Awards Celebration. 4. Members Vote At our annual Grand Awards Celebration, Members vote on which projects and initiatives they wish to support. Votes are tallied and the Grand Award Recipients are announced live. 5. Contracts signed Following the Member vote, detailed contracts are signed. These documents lay out clear goals for the nonprofits to achieve with their programs and initiatives. 6. compliance monitored Our Grants Management Committee works closely with the nonprofit organizations that have been awarded $100,000 grants to ensure they meet the specified goals.
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Make checks payable to Impact 100 PBC and mail to: Impact 100 PBC, 261 NW 13th Street, Boca Raton, FL 33432
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Board of Directors 2022 - 2023
Kelly Fleming, President Jeannine Morris, Co-President-Elect Kimberly Boldt, Co-President-Elect
Allison Davis, Treasurer Laura Bull, Secretary
Noreen Payne Molly Reiss Tandy Robinson Carrie Rubin Holly Schuttler Rebecca Scott Marilyn Swillinger
Renee Feder Kathryn Gillespie Donna Glenn JoAnne Greiser Kirstin Jovanovski Ingrid Kennemer Cindy Krebsbach Lisa Mulhall
Kathy Adkins Helen Ballerano Kim Beaumont Michelle Bernardo
Susan Diener Mary Donnell Sarah Doyle Ellen Elam
Impact 100 Palm Beach County 261 NW 13th Street, Boca Raton, FL 33432 www.impact100pbc.org
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