Impact 100 Announces Finalists For $1.06 Million Grants

September 17, 2015

IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, a local, philanthropy group, announced Wednesday the 15 grant finalists selected for 2015. Ten of these 15 finalists will receive s grant of $106,000 at the IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area’s Annual Meeting on Sunday, October 18.

The 15 finalists selected by IMPACT 100’s Focus Committees are as follows:

ARTS & CULTURE

Ballet Pensacola, Inc.
Project:  Elevate – 21st Century Productions for Ballet Pensacola

Gulf Coast Kiln Walk Society, Inc.
Project:  Gulf Coast Kiln Walk Historical Center

Pensacola Museum of Art, Inc
Project: Expanding and Protecting the Vaults for PMA’s Fine Art Collections

EDUCATION

AMIkids Pensacola, Inc.
Project:  AMIkids Careers

Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, Inc.
Project:  Field Trip Fun at IHMC

Learn to Read of Northwest Florida, Inc.
Project:  Public Awareness Campaign – The Most Powerful Organization That Nobody’s Heard Of

ENVIRONMENT, RECREATION & PRESERVATION

Coast Watch Alliance, Inc.
Project:  “Research to Restaurant”, Affecting a Sustainable Seafood Resource by Taming Lionfish

University of West Florida Foundation, Inc.
Project:  Identity and Dignity: Preserving Pensacola’s Historic African American Cemeteries

Veterans Memorial Park Foundation of Pensacola, Inc.
Project:  VMP Venue Enhancements and Infrastructure Improvements

FAMILY

Be Ready Alliance Coordinating For Emergencies (BRACE) & BRACE LLC
Project:  Family IMPACT Center

Children’s Home Society of Florida, Inc. collaborating with Escambia Community Clinics, Inc.
Project:   Weis Community School Family Playground

Lutheran Services Florida, Inc.
Project:  Transportation to Healing, Hope and Help

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Bay Area Food Bank
Project:  Northwest Florida Healthy Food Distribution and Milton Warehouse Expansion Project

Escambia Search and Rescue, Inc.
Project:  Enhancement of Search and Rescue Response for Marine Emergencies in the Florida Panhandle

Re-Entry Alliance Pensacola, Inc.
Project:  REAP’s Second Chance Re-Entry Program

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