Impact 100Women Together, Changing Lives.

COMMON GRANT TRAINING

Mission Statement

Impact 100 empowers women to

dramatically improve lives by collectively

funding significant grants that make a

lasting impact in our community.

Impact 100 Core Model

Note: Grants disbursed in increments of $100,000 +

100+ Women

Each

Donate $1,000

100%

Selected Agency

Founded in 2002 by Wendy Steele

Awarded first grant of $123,000 in 2002

Invested over $2.3M in Regional Tri-State Area Non-Profits in

the past 11 years

Our History

Past Grant Recipients: Our Partners

2013 Total Dollars Available

2 Grants. $108,000 Each

Agencies should develop a budget that utilizes ALL DOLLARS announced at this training.

2013 - New Application Process

Submit LOI

Submit Grant

Application

AAC

Invitation

Finalist

If at any point your project is eliminated from consideration, you’re encouraged to apply in 2014

You made it! You are here

Impact 100 uses the Greater Cincinnati Common Grant Application

A copy of this application can be found on our website in Word and PDF format under “apply for a grant”

AGENCIES MUST SUBMIT IN THE SAME CATEGORY THEY SUBMITTED THEIR LOI

CultureEducation

Environment, Preservation & RecreationFamily

Health & Wellness

Common Grant Applications

2013 Application Checklist1. Designate the focus area you are applying to and complete

the organization data in Section 1 of the Common Grant Application. (Make sure that this has been signed by board president and executive director.)

2. Describe the program/project in Section 2-6 on five single-sided pages or less in 12 font letters . Please describe exactly how the Impact 100 funds will be used and the measureable outcomes that are anticipated

3. Financial Statements to be included for each fiscal yearFiscal years to be included:ｷ Current year to dateｷ 2012ｷ 2011ｷ 2010Type of Financial Statements to be included:ｷ Income Statementｷ Balance Sheetｷ Cash Flow

2013 Application Checklist

4. Agency Budget• Current fiscal/calendar year• Year-to-date status

5. Project Budget• Complete project budget• Next two (2) years pro forma project

budget

6. Agency Governance• Board positions/committees and terms

of service• External employment firm and position

2013 Application Checklist

7. Agency Audit for 2012, 2011, and 2010 If your agency does not do a full audit, other

acceptable documents include:Audit and opinion letter, orNon-Audit review (review, compilation, or

company prepared), orForm 990

8. Signed Terms of Agreement form

Submission Guidelines

Grant Applications must be submitted in two PDF files as follows:

1. First PDF is entire common grant application including all eight sections, required financial statements, agency and project budgets and required non financial statements with the exception of the 501 letter as we already have that on file from your LOI. This PDF should be labeled agency name, 2013 grant application.

2. Second PDF should contain Agency Audits for past three years and signed terms of agreement. This PDF should be labeled agency name, 2013 audit documents.

Please review all PDF files prior to submission to make sure pages are legible and that pages are in standard portrait view.

Submission Guidelines

Grants can be submitted in one of two ways in 2013

Option 1

Submitted via email to administration@impact100.orgDeadline for email submissions is 11:59pm Monday March 18th

Option 2

Submitted on flash drive and mailed or hand delivered to Impact 100 by noon on Monday March 18th. Please note, for mailing of flash drives postmark must be no later than Friday March 15th and flash drive should be received by Monday March 18th

2013 Impact 100 TimelineNovember

Info Sessions for Non ProfitsLOI’s Open for Submission

December Non Profit Panel Discussion

January LOI’s Due

Grant Amount Announced

FebruaryInvitations to Apply

Grant Application Training

March Grant Applications Due

(by invitation)

April – June Impact 100 Committee Reviews & Site Visits

August Committee Finalists

Announced

September Annual Awards Celebration!

Grants Awarded

2013 Grant Application Timeline

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Letter of Intent available at www.impact100.org Information Session #1

9:00-10:30 a.m. Health Foundation

Monday, November 12, 2012 Information Session #29:00-10:30 a.m. Health Foundation

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Non Profit Panel Information Session9:00-10:30 Health Foundation

Monday, January 07, 2013 Letter of Intent DUE by midnight

Thursday, January 10, 2013 Total grant dollars available announced

Monday, February 11, 2013 Agencies invited to submit Grant Applications

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Grant Application Training Session

Monday, March 18, 2013 Grant Applications DUE MIDNIGHTto those invited to submit an application

Monday, July 01, 2013 Agencies not invited for a site visit will be notified

Thursday, July 18, 2013 Agencies that are not finalists will be notified

Week of August 5, 2013 Finalist Announcement