Events

Registration is now open!

Don’t miss this opportunity to cast your vote and help select our 2025 Grant Recipients!  

Join fellow members and guests for an early evening presentation of Grant Finalists Impact projects, followed by a wine and light hors d’oeuvres reception. The event will culminate with voting and the announcement of our 2025 Impact Grant recipients.

$30 for members, $35 for guests. Complimentary valet parking will be available, or you can self-park behind the Blake Library. To ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone, security will be on-site and bag checks will be conducted at the entrance. 

Register today to join us in selecting our 2025 Grant recipients!  

Temple Beit HaYam                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The program starts promptly at 4:00 pm, doors open at 3:15 pm.

Calling all Impact100 Martin golfers!

Play golf at Mariner Sands Country Club, a tropical paradise where the sun always shines. Golfers of all levels are welcome to be part of this fun scramble. Invite a guest if you'd like. You may pick one partner to sign up with or sign up individually, and we’ll pair you.

CHECK-IN BEGINS 12:15 PM ON THURSDAY, MAY 1^st, FOR A 1:00 PM SHOTGUN START.

Your entry fee of $125 (Mariner Sands golf members pay $65) includes greens fees, cart, prizes, tee gift and a cocktail reception with wine, soda, and appetizers. Mulligans will be sold for $5 at the event.

Prizes will be awarded at the 19^th hole cocktail reception.

Registration deadline is Friday, April 25^th

If bad weather leads to a cancellation, Mariner Sands will issue a rain check to each golfer for future use. Otherwise, all sales are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, tickets are transferable. Feel free to give your unused ticket to someone else. 

Hosted by Sandy Lappen and Suzanne Pearson

at Mariner Sands Country Club

The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
 
Richmond, Virginia 1811. It’s the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia’s gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city’s only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that’s done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church.

On the night after Christmas, the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third-floor boxes sits newly widowed Sally Henry Campbell, who is glad for any opportunity to relive the happy times she shared with her husband. One floor away, in the colored gallery, Cecily Patterson doesn’t give a whit about the play but is grateful for a four-hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone from bad to worse. Backstage, young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that, if he can impress the theater’s managers, he’ll be offered a permanent job with the company. And on the other side of town, blacksmith Gilbert Hunt dreams of one day being able to bring his wife to the theater, but he’ll have to buy her freedom first.

When the theater goes up in flames in the middle of the performance, Sally, Cecily, Jack, and Gilbert make a series of split-second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire, as news of the disaster spreads across the United States, the paths of these four people will become forever intertwined.

Based on the true story of Richmond’s theater fire, The House Is on Fire is a “stunning” (Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle), “all-consuming exploration” (E! News) that offers proof that sometimes, in the midst of great tragedy, we are offered our most precious—and fleeting—chances at redemption.
 

This is an opportunity to dive deep into a book that inspires, challenges, and leaves a lasting impression. This Impact100 Martin member engagement series brings together women who enjoy reading books that make you think! 

Join moderators Jill Preston and Linda Weiksnar as the group discusses the novelist and the novel.

Please RSVP by May 1, 2025 

Although the event is informal, please ensure you have read the book if you plan to attend. It will be held in the private home of one of our members; the address will be provided to all who RSVP by the deadline. Please bring your beverage.

Welcome Circle: Your Gateway to Impact100 Martin

In this informative session, learn about Impact100 Martin's mission, resources, programs, volunteer opportunities, and events.

Meet other members, get your questions answered, and learn the essential resources to navigate your membership.

The Zoom invitation and link will be provided to those who register before 3 pm on May 19, 2025.

Hosted by Debbie Adams, Dawn Thomas & Maureen Cotter

Welcome Circle: Your Gateway to Impact100 Martin

In this informative session, learn about Impact100 Martin's mission, resources, programs, volunteer opportunities, and events.

Meet other members, get your questions answered, and learn the essential resources to navigate your membership.

The Zoom invitation and link will be provided to those who register before 3 pm on Aug 18, 2025.

Hosted by Debbie Adams, Dawn Thomas & Sue Whittington