Message From The President:
It's not a joke, APRIL is here! It is hard to believe that we have already arrived at the LAST month of our membership drive for 2025. With our deadline of April 30th quickly approaching, we could use your help so that we can give away $500,000 in grants to local nonprofits for this year! We have a super busy month ahead with lots of opportunities to drop off your checks if you have not already done so. These events are also a good way to catch up with fellow members that you may not have seen in a while. Please feel free to invite a friend to any and all of them.
*April 9th from 10am-12pm is a pop-up event @ Main Brew Coffee, Fort Walton Beach. Come and have a cup of coffee, catch up & drop off a check. Feel free to invite a friend as we will have membership items available.
*April 10th from 12pm-4pm J.McLaughlin in Grand Blvd is having a sip n shop to benefit Impact100 NWF. 10% of all sales that day will go towards our Member Sponsorship Fund. It would be a great day to come shop, drop off your checks and catch up with hostess Carol Merkle, our Membership Chair.
*April 17th - Crestview Membership Enrollment Event from 5:30pm-7:30pm @ Blackwater Golf Course, Crestview. See the invite and registration link below. We hope to see some of our north county (Okaloosa & Walton) ladies there and meet some new ones.
*April 22nd - April Membership Enrollment Event from 5:30-7:30pm @ The Beach House, Miramar Beach. This is our FINAL formal membership enrollment event. See the invite and registration link below. Register today to attend & invite a friend. This is a fabulous location with a bird's eye view of the water. You won't want to miss the view or the fabulous food.
*April 23rd - from 5:30pm-7:30pm is a pop-up event @ 3rd Planet Brewing, Niceville. We will be at the brewery having a pint and collecting checks. Come join us for what is sure to be a happy hour (or two).
*April 28th from 9am-11am is a pop-up event at East Pass Coffee, Destin. Come and have a cup of coffee, catch up & drop off a check. Feel free to invite a friend as we will have membership items available.
If none of these events will work for you to drop off your check, please reach out to membership@impactnwf.org. One our of Board Members will be happy to meet you to pick it up. You can also pop it in the mail and send to:
Attn: Finance
PO Box 9281
Miramar Beach, FL 32550
Please help us by spreading the word to your friends, co-workers, and family and we hope to see you at one of our April events. With YOUR help we can get to our goal of 500+ members and fund a grant in each of the 5 nonprofit categories.
With Excitement,
Joni Wallace
PS: Curious about our current number? We are still waiting on roughly 150 of our 2024 members to renew which is pretty typical at this point in the year. Our rough number as of today is a little over 300. We have added a good number of new members this year & have more joining us. I can't wait for you to meet them. Our pop-ups have been a great avenue to introduce new women to Impact100 and we have more of those planned for this month. It's not too late to pull one together if you'd like to. Reach out to us--we are here to help!
2024 ladies--please send those checks in so that we can fund 5 grants this year. The Grants Committee has been busy receiving the Letters of Intent & we have some tremendous projects proposed. In November, we will all be sad if we cannot fund a grant in each category.
