President’s message: We Did It! Let’s Do It AGAIN!!
Grant Award Night 2022 was the culmination of a year’s worth of generosity, passion, and hard work by the amazing women of Impact San Antonio, non-voting contributors, sponsors, and the non-profit agencies we all love and support.
As we approach this holiday season, I am filled with immense gratitude. I am thankful to our members and board for the selfless contribution of their time, resources and talents to help cultivate a more vibrant community. I am thankful to our contributors and sponsors for supporting the work we do and for helping us spread the word about Impact San Antonio and the wonderful work of our grant recipients. Most importantly, I am thankful to our area nonprofits that see the needs in our community and work hard every day to achieve meaningful change.
Impact San Antonio was started 18 years ago by a small group of women who wanted to give women a platform to make a difference in the community. The goal was to allow women members and non-voting contributors to pool their funds together and award substantial grants that enable area nonprofits to transform lives.
Since its inception, Impact San Antonio has donated over $5.3 million to non-profits in our community. While that goal has not changed, the work we do to reach Grant Award Night has expanded dramatically. Impact SA developed thoughtful grant application, review, and oversight processes to help our teams identify the non-profits whose projects meet high-impact markers and have the ability to successfully implement these projects.
In addition, our processes:
- Educate nonprofit agencies on what information funding organizations need, which can be used in grant applications with other organizations,
- Introduce our membership to the broad spectrum of needs in our communities, as well as the non-profits meeting these needs, which enables them to become advocates, and
- Inform the community of the amazing work that Impact San Antonio and the organizations that have received High Impact and Support Grants are doing.
As we celebrate all that we are thankful for and our wonderful year, I ask you to join me in doing it all again next year. Now, 2023 Impact San Antonio membership registration is open. Let’s make an even BIGGER IMPACT!!
Wishing you and your family a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON!!