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Issue 28, 6/4/13
Help Wanted!
If you have ever explored "crowd funding," such as Kickstarter, you know that the person who posts the project facilitates the marketing toward reaching their financial goal. You may also know that in order to receive any funding, the individual must first reach the goal, and then the crowd funding company keeps a percentage of what is raised as a fee for their service.
Impact Grantmaking has a different approach. From the inception of Impact Grantmaking, I envisioned developing a partnership with each nonprofit in Oregon to enhance their outreach and development.
I keep the posting fee as minimal as possible, and we work together as partners to generate funding for their proposals. No matter how much funding is raised, 100% of all donations go directly to the organization without any fees taken out.
If you would like to support this partnership model, here's something you can do that can make a big difference: reach out to your network of friends and colleagues to create awareness of your favorite charity's project posted on the website. This personal engagement is sure to increase the likelihood of support from new and current donors.
It's easy. Just take these five simple steps:
- Go to the Impact Grantmaking website, and click the Giving Opportunities link at the top of the page.
- Locate your favorite proposal and click the "Read more" link; a short summary of the proposal will open.
- Copy the URL (web address) into an email message to your database of friends and colleagues, as well as on your Facebook page or other social media platforms.
- In the body of your email/post, explain what the link is and why it is personally important to you.
- Ask everyone to spread the word by forwarding the link to their friends and colleagues and by sharing it on their Facebook page. Mention that by helping to market this proposal they are making a difference in the community.
Here's what a link looks like:
http://impactgrantmaking.com/giving-opportunities/the-trauma-healing-project-services-to-traumatized-individuals/
A community is a partnership--so on behalf of all nonprofits, thank you for your help!
Best wishes,
Jennifer
Jennifer Durand, Founder
jdurand@impactgrantmaking.com
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Huerto de la Familia
There is a need for Latino immigrants to have a long-term solution to food security. Seeking funding for their Organic Garden Education Program. Impact 60 families and 260 children. Goal: $6,000
Read More
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EarthShare Oregon - Outreach
Programs in the Workplace
Support for outreach programs into the workplace to engage employees in environmental events and "green teams". Goal: $300,000 Read Proposal
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ORCO Arts - Sound Equipment Upgrades
The sound equipment currently used to support our program is outdated, large and too heavy to move easily. Upgrading our equipment so that youth can perform more frequently and with greater ease allowing them to perfect skills both as performers and technical crew. Goal: $3,900 Read Proposal
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Cobb Children's Learning Center
Child Care Furnishings
CCLC provides childcare for low-income families and/or women going through the Crossroad's residential drug/alcohol treatment. CCLC is the only childcare provider in Douglas County offering care to families where parents are in the six-month long residential treatment program. Need funds for toddler tables, shelving, easels and mirrors. Goal: $5,200 Read Proposal
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Rogue Opera - Enhance Marketing
Seeks funds to retain a marketing consulting firm to develop and implement social media strategies, brand awareness advertising in the programs of our cultural partners in the Valley and beyond, and specific marketing campaigns. Goal: Matching challenge grant of $10,000 Read Proposal
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Womenspace, Inc.
Walk-In Advocacy Services
To raise funding to revive their Emergency Walk-In Advocacy Services for intimate partner violence victims. Funding will support a full-time, bilingual advocate to serve survivors.
Goal: $50,000
Read Proposal
Sponsors, Inc. Crisis FundTheir "Crisis Fund" needs funding to pay for bus passes, identification cards, emergency medical assistance, prescriptions for residential clients recently released from correctional institutions. Goal: $10,000 Read Proposal
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Pearl Buck Center
Program/Operating Support
Current focus is on program's quality, efficiency, sustainability, and remaining a valuable community resource for people affected by developmental disabilities. Need general program support rather than restricted funds to allow us the flexibility to adapt quickly, and to allocate support to the areas of greatest need. Goal: $40,000 Read Proposal
ARC of Lane County
Respite Program
To add 12 Saturdays per year for their Take-A Break respite program. Gives parents a break from their child with an intellectual development disability. Goal: $25,000 Read Proposal
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The Trauma Healing Project
The Trauma Healing Project (THP) promotes individual and community health through education, research and direct support for healing. The THP was founded almost ten years ago by a diverse coalition of community members, survivors, and professionals concerned about the negative impact of unresolved violence and trauma on individuals and on our communities.
Since launching our new and expanded Healing Arts Program in October 2012, we have welcomed over 160 people to yoga and Nia classes, a drop-in acupuncture clinic, a youth support group, digital storytelling workshops, and individual bodywork sessions. We currently have 25 volunteers, including licensed practitioners, who provide instruction, facilitation and individual bodywork sessions to over 40 community members per week. We are receiving more than 20 calls per month and at present, have over 15 people on our waiting list for individual bodywork. Word is getting out and the number of people seeking support and services is increasing!
As a community-based organization, we are unique in providing a safe space for survivors of trauma to reconnect their bodies, minds, and spirits, without being given a label or diagnosis, and no matter their ability to pay. In connection with the Healing Arts Program, the THP is working to evaluate the effectiveness of our work on short and long term health and wellness, not only for individual participants, but for the larger community as well.
As one participant said so well, "It is beautiful to witness people believing in themselves". We believe in people and in their capacity to heal, and we're learning more about how to support them in the process every day. With your help this vibrant and vital community resource can thrive, for everyone's benefit.
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Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Santiam - Summer Adventures
The B&G Club seeks funds to provide an enhanced summer program for East Linn County children. The Summer Adventure is designed to engage elementary age children in fun, educational, well-supervised activities that they might not otherwise experience due to lack of affordable care options suitable for this age range, summer learning loss, lack of family resources to pay for "summer fun activities. Goal: $52,786
Little Promises Children's Program - Security System
Seeking to install a comprehensive security system, to ensure that all who enter building are authorized and/or cleared to enter. Exterior cameras will assist in keeping grounds secure from unwanted visitors (as well as the occasional cougar sighted in the area). Goal: $45,237 Read Proposal
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Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah -
Sponsor a Plot!
Want to have a bit of IMPACT for the good of the greater Mt. Pisgah area? Look no further than the Friends' Native Seed Nursery at Buford Park. As a Seed Plot Sponsor, you'll help restore our natural heritage, provide beauty for people and food for wildlife, and create a future filled with flowers instead of weeds in our backyard wilderness! Goal: 89 plots available to sponsor!
- $250 (10' x 10' plot)
- $500 (10' x 40' plot)
- $1000 (10' x 100' plot)
Read Proposal
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Community LendingWorks -
Fund A Farmer or Food Business
Your gift will support a seasonal loan for a farmer or seasonal market vendor through their Market Loan program. Goal: $500 per Farmer Read Proposal
NEDCO - Sprout! Kitchen Supplies
Support for local food by purchasing kitchen supplies for the entrepreneurs who will use the Sprout! Regional Food Hub. Goal: $10 to $500+ Read Proposal and Donate Now
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South Willamette FFA Foundation - Increase Awareness and Expand
The South Willamette FFA Foundation seeks support for raising awareness, garnering public interest and support, building consensus among regional schools, and helping a Creswell High School teacher receive the required endorsement to teach technical assistance and establish an FFA chapter. Goal: $10,000 Read Proposal
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WellMama 24/7 Online Support Project
To expand 24/7 Online Support Program to include bi-lingual volunteer, handle social outreach programs and written materials to increase awareness of services. Goal: $20,400 Read Proposal
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The Trauma Healing Project - Services to Traumatized Individuals
Need funding for trauma sensitive body-based therapies in a safe environment for people who have experienced emotional trauma and are making efforts to heal. Goal: $20,000 Read Proposal
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Parenting Now! (formerly Birth to Three) Program Support
Parenting Now! is close to achieving our goal for the year for funding our Children's Program. Donations and grants of any and all sizes will help provide fun and developmentally appropriate programs for up to 400 children while their parents participate in our critical parenting programs. Revised Goal: $4,500
Eugene Public Library Foundation
The Homework Center & Live Homework Help
Need funding for the Homework Center programs serving students from 4J and Bethel school districts. In 2012, over 6,600 students received help. Goal: $40,000 Read Proposal
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