Impact100 gives out $337K to Sonoma Valley nonprofits

The organization gave highest number of grants the group has given in a single year.|
REBECCA WOLFF
INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

2023 Grant Recipients

10,000 Degrees: $25,000 to support near-peer-Fellows working with high-school students to expand college access, including a program of twice-annual campus tours.

Cancer Support Sonoma: $25,000 to increase outreach to underserved cancer patients and to provide adjunct treatments not otherwise available in Sonoma Valley.

Farm to Pantry: $9,850 to purchase software supporting gleaning and food-distribution services for households in need.

Food for All (Comida Para Todos): $25,000 to fund the purchase and delivery of healthy, culturally relevant food products and other necessities for underserved families.

Friends in Sonoma Helping (FISH): $25,000 to support ongoing food and rental assistance programs for low-income and elderly clients.

Homeless Action Sonoma (HAS): $23,972 to fund a mental health program at the new Home and Safe Village of 22 tiny houses.

Just1mike: $20,000 to enable free heart-health screening for Sonoma Valley youth, and installation of two automated external defibrillator (AED) stations at Maxwell Farms Regional Park.

LifeWorks of Sonoma County: $20,000 to fund El Puente (The Bridge), a program providing in-home, bilingual mental-health services for at-risk youth and their families.

Redwood Empire Food Bank: $25,000 to continue essential food distribution to everyone needing assistance in Sonoma Valley.

Sebastiani Theatre Foundation: $25,000 to fund an evaluation of the aging stage fly/rigging system that supports essential equipment for live performances.

Sonoma Community Center: $25,000 to fund a bilingual, introductory early childhood music education program for children and their caregivers.

Sonoma Overlook Trail Stewards: $25,000 to fund a professional work crew that will make essential, permanent improvements to the upper trail, ensuring safe public use.

Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $25,000 to fund a wide-ranging series of shared extracurricular activities for adult mentors and youth mentees.

Square Peg Foundation: $19,200 to fund scholarships for economically disadvantaged Sonoma Valley families to access equine therapy programs and services for autistic and trauma-afflicted children.

Unrestricted Partial Grant Recipients

Becoming Independent: $9,689 unrestricted grant

Sonoma Ecology Center: $9,689 unrestricted grant

Impact100 Sonoma, a women’s philanthropic organization, gave a record number of grants totaling $337,400 spread between 16 Sonoma Valley nonprofits at its annual celebration.

On Saturday, April 29, members gathered at Hanna Center to celebrate the annual awarding of grants.

The group awarded 14 full Impetus Grants and two partial grants — the highest number of full grants the group has given in a single year.

Each member donates $1,000, with more than 300 women now active in the group. Grant recipients represented a broad range of nonprofit organizations serving residents of all ages and needs.

Since the group was founded in 2010, it has contributed $3,661,900 to Sonoma Valley.

The organization returned to an alternating funding cycle this year, which doesn’t allow recent recipients to re-apply in the year after they’ve won. For the recent giving cycle, organizations that received two grants in a row in 2021 and 2022 were ineligible to apply for the 2023 cycle.

Applicants submitted their grant proposals in January. Over the winter, Impact100 Sonoma volunteer committees reviewed applications, made site visits and selected the finalists. Those organizations presented their proposals to the full Impact100 membership at the Sebastiani Theatre on April 15, and members voted online for grant recipients through April 23.

A few selected nonprofits were awarded Impetus Grants of up to $25,000. For the third year in a row, the organization used a strategy of disbursing funds widely, as opposed to offering fewer large grants. This process was initiated during the pandemic and is planned to continue long term.

Grant recipients will use the money to sustain their current programs, expand or improve their offerings or better fulfill their core mission.

You can reach Staff Writer Rebecca Wolff at rebecca.wolff@sonomanews.com. On Twitter @bexwolff.

2023 Grant Recipients

10,000 Degrees: $25,000 to support near-peer-Fellows working with high-school students to expand college access, including a program of twice-annual campus tours.

Cancer Support Sonoma: $25,000 to increase outreach to underserved cancer patients and to provide adjunct treatments not otherwise available in Sonoma Valley.

Farm to Pantry: $9,850 to purchase software supporting gleaning and food-distribution services for households in need.

Food for All (Comida Para Todos): $25,000 to fund the purchase and delivery of healthy, culturally relevant food products and other necessities for underserved families.

Friends in Sonoma Helping (FISH): $25,000 to support ongoing food and rental assistance programs for low-income and elderly clients.

Homeless Action Sonoma (HAS): $23,972 to fund a mental health program at the new Home and Safe Village of 22 tiny houses.

Just1mike: $20,000 to enable free heart-health screening for Sonoma Valley youth, and installation of two automated external defibrillator (AED) stations at Maxwell Farms Regional Park.

LifeWorks of Sonoma County: $20,000 to fund El Puente (The Bridge), a program providing in-home, bilingual mental-health services for at-risk youth and their families.

Redwood Empire Food Bank: $25,000 to continue essential food distribution to everyone needing assistance in Sonoma Valley.

Sebastiani Theatre Foundation: $25,000 to fund an evaluation of the aging stage fly/rigging system that supports essential equipment for live performances.

Sonoma Community Center: $25,000 to fund a bilingual, introductory early childhood music education program for children and their caregivers.

Sonoma Overlook Trail Stewards: $25,000 to fund a professional work crew that will make essential, permanent improvements to the upper trail, ensuring safe public use.

Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $25,000 to fund a wide-ranging series of shared extracurricular activities for adult mentors and youth mentees.

Square Peg Foundation: $19,200 to fund scholarships for economically disadvantaged Sonoma Valley families to access equine therapy programs and services for autistic and trauma-afflicted children.

Unrestricted Partial Grant Recipients

Becoming Independent: $9,689 unrestricted grant

Sonoma Ecology Center: $9,689 unrestricted grant

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