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May 11, 2015 - Girls Giving Grants
On April 29, 2015, Girls Giving Grants (g3) presented Austin Diaper Bank with a $6,000 grant. Executive Director Beverly Hamilton accepted the award on behalf of the organization at the check ceremony.
This year, twenty-five organizations applied for g3’s grant, and after careful analysis, group presentations, and site visits to the finalists, the girls of g3...
May 04, 2015 - Member Spotlight
We caught up with Kali´ Rourke on the run, as usual! We asked her how she heard about Impact Austin and what caused her to join.
“Back in 2004, I read about an upcoming Community Coffee at Grapevine Market in the Statesman! I met these great women there, wrote my check that very night, and have been an involved member ever since.”
What have you done at Impact...
May 01, 2015 - Grants
The bulk of the work is done for the Focus Area Committees at Impact Austin, but the final touches are still ahead as we announce our finalists for 2015.
On June 8th, at the Annual Meeting of Impact Austin, 450 women will have hard choices to make. They will hear one last time from the finalists in the five focus areas and this year's pilot Catalyst Grant and...
April 22, 2015 - Event Recap
On April 16th, 2015, members met to hear from Community Partners in an ongoing Impact Austin Talking Series: “Where Impact Intersects.”
It's hard to live in a house with a faulty foundation.You end up running to patch one thing after another just to keep things together over the years. And that's exactly how non-profits have had to operate; they open their...
April 13, 2015 - Organizational Update
You have given her flowers. You have given her candy. You have given her many heartfelt cards over the years…
What‘s your plan to honor the Impact Austin Mom in your life this year?
We have an idea that will fit the bill perfectly!
The Impact Austin Vintage Daisy Insignia
The Impact Austin Modern Daisy Insignia
The Impact Austin Modern or...
April 01, 2015 - Member Spotlight
Meeta is a truly International woman, with a global perspective in all of the work she does. We caught up with Meeta recently and asked how she heard about, and came to join the women philanthropists of Impact Austin.
“In 2005, Melissa Gray sent me an invitation to a membership coffee in the neighborhood. It couldn’t have come at a better time. I had recently...
March 27, 2015 - Grants
Each year, there is a special rite of spring at Impact Austin. After a winter’s work by the women of the Focus Area Committees (FACs), the site visits are announced and groups of Impact Austin members go out for a trip to the nonprofit applicants they have identified as having the strongest program or project proposal.
Our site visits include interviews with the...
March 23, 2015 - Organizational Update
Dear Members and Friends:
Our fiscal year 2014 was full of important changes at Impact Austin as we started our second decade of grant making in Central Texas. With 500 members, we awarded five $100,000 grants in June. Of our members, 134 of you worked on a Focus Area Committee and fulfilled our commitment to empower women to be philanthropists in their...
March 16, 2015 - IMPACT-edu
Impact Austin is a women’s collective giving group (CGG). Heck, everyone knows that, right?
But do you know what collective giving is, was, and most importantly, what it is becoming?
Collective giving has many levels and many faces, and the exact number of women’s collective giving groups is difficult to parse. CGGs range from a few women gathering together...
March 09, 2015 - Grants
Connie Lawyer is a Founding Member of Impact Austin and over the years, has worn a variety of hats in service to her favorite nonprofit.
“I have been a member on multiple Focus Area Committees (FACs), Co-chair of an FAC for two years, an FAC Coordinator for three years, and am serving in my second year as Chair of the Grants Committee,” Connie says with her...
