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✨MEET OUR 2023 ARTS & CULTURE FINALIST✨ Michig

✨MEET OUR 2023 ARTS & CULTURE FINALIST✨
Michigan Legacy Art Park

INITIATIVE: Trail and Wayfinding Improvements
Michigan Legacy Art Park (the Art Park) inspires awareness, appreciation, and passion for Michigan’s history, culture, and environment through the arts. The Art Park operates a 30-acre public sculpture forest in Thompsonville, adjacent to Crystal Mountain, and provides programs and services on-site, and in classrooms across northwest Michigan. The Art Park has over 50 sculptures in its permanent collection; poetry inscribed on stones in the natural setting; an amphitheater for concerts and events; a 1⁄4 mile accessible trail and 2-mile natural trail; and a Discovery Grove area for student activities and exploration.

Over 20,000 people are served annually including residents of Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Antrim, Manistee, and Kalkaska Counties in Michigan. This includes over 1000 children in our region who visit the Art Park on field trips that include a guided art hike and an environmental art project. Many of these children live in rural areas, without regular access to the arts.

A recent professional assessment indicated that several specific areas of the trail and wayfinding system should be improved for both safety and visitor experience. The Art Park has met with our facility partners who identified areas of traffic congestion and discussed potential new, alternative sections of trail that would benefit all users. With Impact 100 funding, Art Park will hire professional trail designers to improve the trail system and increase the safety, access, and enjoyment of visitors seeking health and wellness activities.

READ MORE at the link in our bio and register for this year's Annual Meeting on September 27 (link in bio). You do not need to be present at the Annual Meeting to vote, but we hope you can join us! We give all members the option of voting electronically, and those details will be sent via email prior to the Annual Meeting.
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✨MEET OUR 2023 FAMILY FINALIST✨ Freedom Builde

✨MEET OUR 2023 FAMILY FINALIST✨
Freedom Builders of America

INITIATIVE: Warehouse for Storage of Donated Construction Supplies
For over 22 years, Freedom Builders has met critical housing needs in northern Michigan. Utilizing a dedicated group of volunteers of all ages, Freedom Builders facilitates service projects that meet needs and connect struggling families with people who care for them and can help.

Freedom Builders has recently purchased property in Chums Village and is seeking funding to construct a building. The property is the geographical center of the five-county area where the organization serves, and the building will house equipment and materials, make it easier for the organization to receive and store donated materials, improve the organization’s ability to gather and train volunteers, reduce costs and improve efficiency, and more.

All these will directly increase the ability of Freedom Builders to fulfill its mission to “rebuild hope, one home at a time.” The resulting impact on northern Michigan will be the increased improvement of the lives of people in need and those who serve and care for them.

READ MORE at the link in our bio and register for this year's Annual Meeting on September 27 (link in bio). You do not need to be present at the Annual Meeting to vote, but we hope you can join us! We give all members the option of voting electronically, and those details will be sent via email prior to the Annual Meeting.
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✨MEET OUR 2023 HEALTH & WELLNESS FINALIST✨ Uni

✨MEET OUR 2023 HEALTH & WELLNESS FINALIST✨
United Way of Northwest Michigan

INITIATIVE: United We Smile
United We Smile is a free dental center for children, pregnant women, veterans, and those with cognitive or developmental disabilities. Local volunteer dentists oversee dental interns from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and NMC Dental Assisting School while our Community Health Worker oversees Social Work interns from NMC. As part of a mandatory graduation requirement, these dental providers will now learn the skills necessary to be able to treat patients with challenging comorbidities, developmental disabilities, PTSD, and pre-cooperative behavior. With no out-of-pocket costs for patients, a free goods store, and many wrap-around services in collaboration with our community partners, we will begin to see not only a better quality of life for these patients but also a solution to the access to care issue for generations to come.

READ MORE at the link in our bio and register for this year's Annual Meeting on September 27 (link in bio). You do not need to be present at the Annual Meeting to vote, but we hope you can join us! We give all members the option of voting electronically, and those details will be sent via email prior to the Annual Meeting.
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✨MEET OUR 2023 ENVIRONMENT, PRESERVATION, & RECR

✨MEET OUR 2023 ENVIRONMENT, PRESERVATION, & RECREATION FINALIST✨

INITIATIVE: Field of Dreams
Grand Traverse Industries (GTI) provides program services and employment to individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).

GTI’s “Field of Dreams “project is an outdoor recreational park designed specifically for individuals with IDD. The proposed park will have ADA-accessible nature paths, benches, picnic tables, raised garden beds, sound gardens, a wheelchair swing, ADA adult swings, a basketball court, water features, activity and art space, and a memorial garden. This will be impactful because it will allow additional outdoor programming to all of GTI’s team members including those with the most significant disabilities along with other IDD community members.

This project has the ability to positively improve the IDD population’s physical and mental health along with having a beautiful space to honor and remember their friends in the memorial garden. This park would be used in collaboration with other area organizations for the benefit of the IDD population.

READ MORE at the link in our bio and register for this year's Annual Meeting on September 27 (link in bio). You do not need to be present at the Annual Meeting to vote, but we hope you can join us! We give all members the option of voting electronically, and those details will be sent via email prior to the Annual Meeting.
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✨MEET OUR 2023 EDUCATION FINALIST✨ Dolly Parto

✨MEET OUR 2023 EDUCATION FINALIST✨
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library GTR

INITIATIVE: Books from Birth: Building a System for Early Literacy
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and Sunrise Rotary’s Born to Read are working with Munson Medical Center to increase kindergarten readiness across the Grand Traverse Region.

Just 44% of local children start kindergarten with the literacy skills needed to succeed. Research shows the first 3-years of life are critical for brain development. Nurturing interactions, having books in the home, and reading to babies lay the foundation for learning long before children enter school.

We are building a system to educate and invite new parents to enroll their newborn in the Imagination Library before leaving Munson Hospital. The earlier a child enrolls, the greater the effect on school readiness. Every month children will receive an age-appropriate book until age 5, at no cost to families.

With Impact 100’s support, we can transform children’s lives by inspiring a love of reading and delivering books to children across the 5-county region, starting at birth.

READ MORE at the link in our bio and register for this year's Annual Meeting on September 27 (link in bio). You do not need to be present at the Annual Meeting to vote, but we hope you can join us! We give all members the option of voting electronically, and those details will be sent via email prior to the Annual Meeting.
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📣REGISTRATION IS OPEN -> link in bio Our Annual

📣REGISTRATION IS OPEN -> link in bio
Our Annual Meeting is when our five nonprofit finalists will each have 10 minutes to present their transformational grant initiatives to our members.

Impact100 TC's 339 members will then rank vote these initiatives. That night we will award three area nonprofits $113,000 and collectively will have awarded over $1.8 million to our five-county region!

For members that can not attend the Annual Meeting, online voting will be available.

All ballots will be tabulated anonymously and certified by Rehmann, a local CPA firm. The results will be announced and 2023 grants awarded prior to the conclusion of our Annual Meeting on September 27th.

If you cannot attend in person, you can watch the event from our YouTube channel.

We’re so excited for this event and hope you can join us!
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Watch Impact 100 Traverse City, President, Sam Cha

Watch Impact 100 Traverse City, President, Sam Charnes share important updates about our five finalist Annual Meeting registration details, and more!

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Join us at @bluebridgeevents Centre for Impact100

Join us at @bluebridgeevents Centre for Impact100 Traverse City's Annual Meeting!

We will gather to celebrate and hear from our five nonprofit finalists in our focus areas of Environment, Recreation & Preservation, Education, Health & Wellness, Arts & Culture, and Family, placing our votes, and awarding three $113,000 transformational grants to area nonprofits.

❕Register by September 19, 2023: LINK IN BIO

Remember, 100% of each member's $1,000 contribution funds our transformational grants. The registration fee for the Annual Meeting is set to directly offset the costs associated with our annual celebration.

Another reminder: You do not need to attend to cast your member vote! We will once again offer online voting and will share that information with members prior to the meeting.

Doors open at 5:30PM
Event: 6-9PM
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