Be part of a giving community

One of the best aspects of our collective giving model is the opportunity to get more involved.

Ways you can get involved:

    • Join us, donate and become a member
    • Meet like minded people
    • Nominate WA Charities that you are passionate about
    • Come to assessment evenings
    • Come on site visits to find out more about WA charities
    • Participate at the Annual Grant Awards Dinner
    • Join a Focus Area assessment group
    • Volunteer with the charities you meet
    • Vote for your preferred charity
    • Follow us on our socials to get updates on events and important dates
    • Sign up for our newsletter to get important announcements

Please feel free to contact us and express your interest.

Volunteering

Many of our applicant charities are actively in need of volunteer time and we can skill match and connect you directly where your input might be most useful.

This could be anything from joining boards, to occasionally helping with budgeting, stock management, strategic planning, mentoring, or being hands on deck for events or program delivery.

Volunteering can be one off, regular, or recurring, and it is a great way to get close to the action as well as being helpful and making purposeful use of free time.

Impact100 WA Focus Area Leads & Assessment Sessions

Our 3 Focus Areas are: Community, Health & Well-Being and Education

The first phase of our assessment process is for applications to be reviewed within their specified Focus Area at a preliminary Focus Area meeting. After that stage, they are measured against each other, regardless of Focus Area.

Every donor has the ability to join Focus Area sessions, Site Visits and Assessment Evenings where they can participate in discussing the merits of applicants or raising concerns and questions to be followed up. At each assessment session, we then vote to select the most eligible, interesting and strong project proposals to go forward to the next round.

  • Focus Area groups meet in late May/early June (all applications received whittled to around 20)
  • The First Assessment Evening is in mid June (around 20 discussed and voted on to achieve a shortlist of around 10)
  • Site visits take place in August to all shortlisted applicants
  • The Second Assessment Evening is in September (shortlist of ten reduced to our 5 Finalists).

Focus Area Leads

We have two Leads per Focus Area, and they are pivotal to the success of how Impact100 WA continues to find, review and support worthy recipients each year.

All Focus Area Leads must be donors.

They are responsible for organising the preliminary assessment meeting for their Focus Area (early June), presenting applications within their Focus Area at the 1st and 2nd Assessment Evenings (late June and mid September), organising and attending site visits for shortlisted applicants within their Focus Area (late August/early Sept) and finally, shepherding any applicants who have made it that far as they navigate the Grant Awards Dinner (late October).

Impact100 WA Sub-Committees

Do you have experience in event management, marketing, web design, PR or social media?

We would love to have extra help shoring up our resources across any of these areas – we can never have enough experience or hands to cover the workload!

Corporate Sponsorship

Imagine if Impact100 WA had 500 members, giving away $500,000 per year with 5 major, game-changing grants – enough for one for each focus area!

We think we can do it BUT we need a little help from our friends! Becoming a corporate sponsor can unleash our potential by enabling funding to go directly into resources such as events, videos, case studies, pr work and social media to bring in new members and keep current members engaged.

Corporate sponsors not only get the feel good factor of aligning and supporting a local, established philanthropic brand, but staff have a platform to engage with, even champion a particular charity with opportunities to volunteer, fundraise etc.

Do you have a Private Ancillary Fund/Giving Fund?

Perfect! PAFs can now donate directly to the Australian Communities Foundation (of which Impact100 WA is a sub-fund) and the Impact100 WA process can be an excellent pipeline to finding organisations and projects that you might want to support separately.

Membership Drive

The best way to grow our number of donors is through organic growth. We love it when our donors want to share their collective giving experience with their network and we can supply speakers (from our committee and/or previous applicants/winners) as well as promotional materials, photos, banners etc for coffee mornings, afternoon teas, evening soirees etc.

Once again, if you are interested in getting involved, please contact us and let us know!