Our Community Impact
$2,332,000 in grants awarded in just 8 years!
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2025 Impact Grants $510,000
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Impact100 Martin Project: Banner Lake Connections
The Banner Lake Club aspires to end the intergenerational cycle of poverty by meeting the educational and social needs of our community. The aim of the Banner Lake Connect project is to reduce the isolation of low-income, under-served seniors and less-able residents in the communities we serve. This grant from Impact100 will provide the valuable mobility transportation service they need to connect them with essential services like House of Hope. Residents are excited for the opportunity to participate more fully in community events and gain more independence with dignity and respect.
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BuildUp: Empowering Martin County’s Next Generation of Skilled Workers
Project LIFT’s program will empower at-risk young adults with industry-recognized certifications in small equipment operations, filling a critical workforce gap. Local employers have identified a high demand for excavator, skid steer, and forklift operators, especially with the expansion of companies like Amazon and Costco. Integrated into Project LIFT’s proven model, participants receive vocational training alongside mental health support, case management, and job readiness coaching. Graduates leave with the skills, certifications, and employer connections needed for stable careers, transforming their futures and strengthening the local workforce.
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Everglades Edudome Experience – Young Friends of the Everglades
The Everglades Edudome Experience will be the first immersive, virtual tour of the Everglades delivered right to schools. Inside a portable dome, students are surrounded by a breathtaking 360-degree film that brings to life the sights and sounds of the Everglades. Outside the dome, professional educators guide students to explore authentic animal artifacts and travel atop an enormous map of Florida that illustrates Martin County’s connection to the Greater Everglades ecosystem. The Edudome will be shared at community events and with local nonprofits to ensure a far-reaching impact in Martin County.
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Preserving Healthy Food for Our Community
House of Hope is proposing a food preservation program to preserve fresh produce that we grow or receive in bulk donations, as well as healthy meals and sauces that we make in our nutrition center. This program will reduce our food waste, increase healthy food options for our clients and partners, significantly increase the shelf-life of healthy food items we distribute, and offer training for individuals to learn new processes for home or business use. We will sustain this project with public sales of preserved items with House of Hope branding, fees collected from those attending paid training classes, grants and philanthropy, and raising awareness of our mission.
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Security and Safety Upgrades at Martin County Domestic Violence Shelter
This grant will have a transformational impact on SafeSpace’s emergency shelter, located within Martin County. It will greatly improve the security and safety of the women and children who are temporarily residing there. Abusive partners often attempt to locate survivors by stalking them at their place of employment, children’s schools and doctors’ appointments. With this grant, SafeSpace will be able to upgrade the security cameras, monitors and fence at its emergency shelter and make improvements to the kitchen and playground that will significantly impact the security, comfort and independence of survivors of intimate partner violence and their children.
2025 Merit Awards
2024 Impact Grants $422,000
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Impact100 Martin Project: Caring Café: Food from the Heart
The ARC of the Treasure Coast Caring Café is a new, on the job training program for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities featuring employment training and coaching, singly focused on the success of each trainee. Located in Stuart’s Alice’s Restaurant, this social enterprise will offer a training site where individuals with differing abilities can learn all aspects of food service, preparing for a career in a restaurant or similar setting. Trainees will receive support from an ARC job coach and their typical peers who will also benefit from the program through the experience of working in an environment celebrating inclusion.
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Impact100 Martin Project: Elder Care Mobile Outreach Program
Many of our low-income, underserved seniors face social isolation and loneliness. Research has linked social isolation and loneliness to higher risks for a variety of physical and mental conditions: high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and even death. Seniors often suffer silently, and many do not ask for help or know where to go for assistance. Our mobile outreach program is designed to meet seniors in their own neighborhoods, relieving some of the stigma of asking for help and connecting them to resources needed to gain better health outcomes and quality of life.
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Impact100 Martin Project: One Health Fish Monitoring Citizen Science Program
The One Health Fish Monitoring Project is an innovative science-research project that aims to better understand the transfer of pollutants from Martin County waterways to fish commonly consumed by humans.
With the help of citizen scientists and professional collaborators, we will comprehensively assess a variety of harmful pollutants including heavy metals, biotoxins, pharmaceuticals, and forever-chemicals (PFAS) in fish
fillets. The data gathered from this project will help us better understand the potential human health risk exposure to these pollutants has on Martin County residents, as well as arm the community with unbiased data in the fight for clean water.
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Impact100 Martin Project: Walk-In Assessment Center
The request is to be used to implement a pilot program in Martin County for a walk-in behavioral health clinic, serving minors in need of immediate behavioral health appointments. This would serve youth and their families asking for a same day appointment to establish care for mental health needs. The need to provide timely support for behavioral health is missing in Martin County. While planning this pilot program, much has been learned from the challenges and successes of a similar program offered to the youth of Indian River County. There is confidence in the ability to enable the same sustainability in order to continue support for our youth and families.
2024 Merit Awards
2023 Impact Grants $366,000
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Impact100 Martin Project: “Career Exploration Labs in Martin’s Middle Schools” will provide the opportunity for middle school students to explore a variety of careers through authentic learning experiences as students work in teams to complete a diverse assortment of career modules. Students will be engaged with problem-based, real-world technology, and hands-on activities as they learn employability skills, discover their interests and aptitudes, and experience career concentrations in STEM, health science, construction careers and more.
The program will develop youth self-awareness and occupational identity, encourage completion of career pathways, and increase academic engagement/success.
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Impact100 Martin Project: “The Wet Lab revitalization” an innovative project submitted by the Environmental Studies Council. The Environmental Studies Center is owned and operated by the Martin County School District but generously supported by the Council. The plan is to update and modernize the Wet Lab to increase the learning process of our students and community members. The ESC provides over 16,000 community members including students an understanding of the local ecosystems by having them interact with their local critter neighbors. Through this project the ESC will be educating the future of Martin County.
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Impact100 Martin Project: “Mobile PAL” MCPAL exists to develop healthy, productive leaders of the future. Through its Career Exploration Summer Camp, Athletic, Leadership, and Substance Awareness Programs, they transform youth’s lives in Martin County. Without transportation, the least-resourced youth can’t access MCPAL’s programs. The solution?Bring MCPAL to the youth through Mobile PAL, a box truck outfitted with
sporting equipment, leadership programming, substance awareness training, and coaches trained and ready to transform lives. With Mobile PAL,all Martin County youth will have the chance to participate and build
relationships with caring coaches through the Mobile PAL program.
2023 Merit Awards
2022 Impact Grants $340,000
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Impact100 Martin Project: the Maternity on (the) Move (MOM) Mobile.
According to data, a mobile unit can be used to improve both early access to adequate prenatal care as well as birth outcomes such as pre-maturity so the Coalition is increasing accessibility to prenatal care and improving health outcomes by purchasing a mobile medical unit: the MOM Mobile will bring critical services to the most vulnerable pregnant women and children located in the most desolate neighborhoods by traveling directly to them. It will travel to Indiantown including Booker Park, Banner Lake in Hobe Sound, East Stuart, Rio, and Golden Gate. At 38-feet in length, MOM Mobile will be equipped with two exam rooms, ultrasound imaging equipment, lab station, restroom, waiting area, and counseling room. It will be built to clinical standards to ensure sanitary surfaces and patient confidentiality. The Coalition was granted $284,241 through Martin County Government American Rescue Plan Act funding for a mobile unit with one exam room. The additional funding from Impact100 would allow them to build out a unit with two exam rooms. This gives them the added advantage of serving twice as many moms with the option to provide lactation support,mental health services, and pediatric service in the future.
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Impact100 Martin Project: Little Lights Dentistry
This request is for capital funding to expand Little Lights and provide every child with the opportunity for a healthy smile. Funding will furnish the “Impact100 Operatory” with child-sized equipment including a pediatric dental chair, in addition to a nitrous oxide unit, a 1-year supply of PPE, sealants, fluoride, oxygen & nitrous oxide gases, a chairside x-ray, 3-TVs/instructional DVDs, and a children’s mural painted throughout the office. This investment will completely transform our practice and the Impact100 Operatory to increase efficiencies and open access to care for our neediest neighbors.
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Impact100 Martin Project: Welding on Wheels-The Road to Employment. This project seeks to bring high quality job training in one of the most in-demand skilled trades directly to Martin County’s underserved
populations, via a mobile hands-on training center. A 30-foot mobile trailer would contain an industry standard welding shop, plus a Virtual Reality Welding Simulator and corresponding curriculum. The unit will be housed at the Palm City headquarters where it can be used to address capacity issues, allowing them to serve more teens as the waiting list grows. Approximately 15 weeks per year, the unit will travel to partner organizations, many of them in marginalized areas of the county, including East Stuart, Banner Lake Club, House of Hope, and Indiantown, providing a no-cost, intensive, one-week hands-on course in welding designed to spark interest in a career pathway. The program aims to identify teens and young adults ages 17-25 who have the desire and capacity to acquire the skills necessary for a career in welding. These individuals will then be connected to additional training opportunities as well as career counseling and mental health resources.
2022 Merit Awards
2021 Impact Grants $212,000
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Impact100 Martin Project: Feeding Families for Success
The proposed project will improve efficiency, safety and capacity to grow, prepare and distribute high quality, fresh foods and meals to nearly 7,000 clients and 24 food partners, at no cost to those served. It will create a more productive workspace and automate tasks such as dishwashing and food processing at the Nutrition
Center, which produces 1,600 packages of healthy meals and salads for clients and partners every week. At Growing Hope, the project will add a trellis growing system to the main greenhouse,
doubling the current harvesting capacity from 1,400 to 2,800 packages of produce weekly.
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Impact100 Martin Project: The SafeSpace Outreach Center
The proposed project would allow SafeSpace to establish an outreach center to expand its outreach services and increase the number of participants served by renovating a garage space located on the emergency shelter property. They don’t currently have a dedicate space, so advocates use shelter or administrative
office space to provide their services and programs. The project’s goal is to create a safe environment that offers individualized flexible programming while being responsive to the cultural, ethnic, physical, and emotional needs of the program participant. The renovation would also provide space for educational materials, supplies, wi-fi capability, and storage.
2021 Merit Awards
2020 Impact Grants $224,000
Grants to 14 Organizations
Impact100 Martin is helping local nonprofits during the COVID-19 crisis. Our membership’s overwhelming vote to approve a one-time-only departure from our regular grant award process has allowed us to have an immediate impact on those who need assistance as a result of the pandemic.
COVID-19 Grants awarded to:
ARC of Martin County
Boys & Girls Clubs of Martin County
Council on Aging of Martin County
Helping People Succeed
Hope Rural School
House of Hope
Light of the World Charities
Martin County Healthy Start Coalition
Martin County Police Athletic League
SafeSpace
Salvation Army of Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee Counties
The Education Foundation of Martin County
Tykes & Teens
Volunteers in Medicine
2019 Impact Grants $151,000
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Impact Project: EFMC PLAYS Across the District – to expand a current pilot project which uses research-based guided play and leveled books in kindergarten classrooms to promote language, literacy and social interaction with students. The expansion would be to all elementary schools in Martin County.
2019 Merit Awards
2018 Impact Grants $107,000
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Impact Project: Launch of Pathway Academy of Innovation to provide at-risk teens with an alternative way to obtain a high school diploma.
2018 Merit Awards
