Membership FAQs

To join, or for more information about joining, visit the Membership page. You may pay by a variety of ways—credit card, check, Donor Advised Fund, stock transfer, Qualified Charitable Distribution, Required Minimum Distribution to name a few. You may pay all at once or via monthly installments. Consult these FAQs for alternative payment methods.  Your membership is good for one year from the date that you joined, and funds the grant for the following year.

In order to join via your Donor Advised Fund, please recommend Impact100 Little Traverse Bay for a $1,000 donation. Our non-profit EIN is 93-4290622. Then to complete your membership registration, contact Lloyann Curtis (417) 230-9942

Yes, we now accept installment payments.  You may sign up anytime, but your full membership fee must be paid by December 31 in order to vote at the Annual Awards Dinner in August of the following year.

Since all of your $1,000 donation directly funds our grant pool, Evergreen Members exemplify going the extra mile by contributing 110%, with the additional $100 covering administration costs. They also commit to keeping a credit card on file to automatically renew their membership every year. We honor our Evergreen Members in our promotional materials with a special acknowledgment.

Each paid-in-full membership donation provides voting membership for the next calendar year. The membership year runs from January to December.  Members who pay after Dec 31 are eligible to participate in all member activities but are not eligible to vote until the following year.

Yes. Impact100 Little Traverse Bay, NFP is a tax exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as recognized by the Internal Revenue Service.

The essential idea of Impact 100 involves a yearly membership: one woman, one vote. 100 memberships at $1000 will yield an impactful grant of $100,000 to a project in the community to be voted upon by the membership. Sponsors, individual or corporate, commit additional dollars or in-kind gifts in support of the operations of the Imapct100 organization. There are several levels of sponsorship, some of which include memberships for women in your organization. Click here to learn more about sponsorship options.

Although additional gifts are always welcome, each member is limited to one vote per person per year. But you can prepay your membership for subsequent years and/or sponsor others to join. There are also sponsorship options which include memberships. Click here to view the sponsorship options.

Yes, you can double your impact. We gratefully accept employer matching gifts. Donations matching your membership contribution play an important role, as they are applied toward program and operating costs. Please submit a matching request for your donation to your or your spouse’s employer. Some employers will also provide matching donations for retirees.