Grant Recipients CHOSEN!!!

We are SO excited to announce that we've officially selected two recipients for the ImpactNC 2018 grant!

Michael's Angels Girls Club

Mission: CIA: Converting Idleness to Action by providing Edgecombe County with a sustainable program focused on transforming individual idleness of 2nd to 12th grade females to a sisterhood united through using community service, educational support/enrichment and personal empowerment programs.

Project: To start offering GRASP Summer to MAGC members--GRASP (Grades Raised & Sustained Program) Summer will provide literacy tutoring for elementary members of MAGC who had low DORF (fluency, accuracy and retail) scores, and provide a mentoring opportunity and part-time summer employment for older MAGC members.

Grant Amount: $5,000

Kids Making It:

Mission: To reduce juvenile delinquency and empower youth to grow into responsible citizens through woodworking. The KMI vision is for all KMI youth to stay in school, graduate, and transition successfully into adulthood through college or the workforce.

Project: To ensure that all of the kids KMI serves stay in school, graduate, and go on to be successful adults, through higher education or entry into the workforce, thus helping to break generational cycles of dependence upon others for income and support.

Grant Amount: $5,000

Thank you to all who applied, and congratulations to the recipients! 

-The ImpactNC 2018 Class

ImpactNC Update!!

Our class is entering an exciting stage as we have officially passed the deadline for our RFP, have received all of our grant applications (17 applications!) and are now down to five finalists.  

We have begun more in depth research and are doing phone interviews with the organizations to gather as much information as possible about their proposed plans before making further decisions.

We have been very impressed by the organizations who have applied for a grant from us.  Our focus on educational initiatives was quite broad and some very creative approaches to education have made it into our final review.  We are very excited to continue this review process.

The process of narrowing down the 17 applications to five was extensive.  We read all of the applications, did initial ratings, presented on the top 10 organizations, and then further reviewed and voted.  

Our class has been rather surprisingly in agreement about the voting and decisions to move on in the review process.  We have had mainly unanimous votes so far, which is pretty rare from what we have heard from guest speakers on other foundation boards.  We are very pleased with the final five organizations and are excited to learn more about them and continue this process.

Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we continue towards a final decision!