Impact 100 Palm Beach County Marks 15 Years of Collective Giving with 2025-2026 Kickoff
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Joining Impact 100 PBC provides networking advantages with influential women and enhances community standing through direct involvement in awarding transformative $100,000 grants.
Impact 100 PBC operates through collective giving where each member contributes $1,000 to a grant pool that funds nonprofits in education, arts, health, family, and environment.
Impact 100 PBC's collective giving model strengthens the Palm Beach County community by funding nonprofits that create lasting positive change across critical social sectors.
Impact 100 PBC celebrates 15 years of philanthropy with a festive kickoff event featuring cocktails, networking, and inspiring stories from $7.7 million in grant recipients.
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Impact 100 Palm Beach County will commence its 2025-2026 Giving Year with a celebration on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at The Addison in Boca Raton, simultaneously marking the organization's 15th anniversary of transforming philanthropy through collective giving. The event, open and complimentary for both members and prospective members from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., will highlight the power of community-driven impact where each membership directly contributes to larger grants for deserving nonprofits across South Palm Beach County.
Janean Mileusnic, President of Impact 100 PBC, emphasized the organization's core philosophy that philanthropy is stronger when undertaken collectively. Every woman who joins contributes $1,000 to the grant pool, meaning that increased membership directly translates to more transformative grants for local organizations working in education, arts, health, family, and environment sectors. This model has proven remarkably successful over the past 14 years, with members investing $7.7 million through 124 grants, including 73 high-impact $100,000 grants and 51 merit grants, each creating lasting, tangible change in the community.
The anniversary kickoff event will feature cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, networking opportunities, and a special program showcasing success stories from past grantees along with the vision for the year ahead from the organization's original founders. The program begins at 7:00 p.m. at The Addison, located at 2 East Camino Real in Boca Raton, with valet parking available and carpooling encouraged. For more information about the organization's mission and impact, visit https://www.impact100pbc.org.
This milestone year represents significant implications for both the philanthropic community and local nonprofits in South Palm Beach County. The collective giving model demonstrates how individual contributions, when pooled together, can create substantial funding opportunities that might otherwise be inaccessible to many organizations. The $100,000 grants awarded by Impact 100 PBC represent transformative investments that enable nonprofits to scale operations, launch new initiatives, or strengthen existing programs in ways that smaller grants cannot achieve.
The organization's sponsorship support for this year's Fall Kickoff includes The Addison, Neiman Marcus Boca Raton, The Boca Raton Observer, MIG Multi Image Group, and Cristino Fine Chocolates, indicating strong community and business support for this philanthropic model. As Impact 100 PBC enters its fifteenth year, the organization aims to harness this momentum to make the anniversary year its most transformative yet, building on a legacy that has already empowered numerous nonprofits to transform lives and strengthen the community through strategic, substantial funding.
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