Congratulations to our Grant Award Winners!

2024: Face Addiction Now

Children of pregnant and post-partum mothers (who are in recovery) are completely dependent upon the community's support of these women. Navigation and mentoring support for these mothers is essential to: maintain a sober environment for infants; avoid unnecessary foster care placements; and prevent infant mortality. By providing support to mothers [who themselves are scared of relapsing back into substance use], we can help these moms and their vulnerable infants. Our project provides Pregnancy Peer Navigators (PPN) to pregnant and post-partum women. PPN are women who themselves have struggled in the past with navigating recovery from substance use and pregnancy at the same time. Having lived through this experience, they understand how to be empathetic, can provide relevant resources, can provide emotional support, and can uphold accountability in ways that maintain family unification, the health of the mother, and thereby the health of the child. Funding this project will allow us to hire PPNs, whose work protects children who are not able to protect themselves. It’s our experience that the mothers calling our Crisis Call Center are desperately seeking the support that a PPN could provide. Part of the problem is that many of these women are avoiding prenatal visits. There is a fear that their children may be taken away due to their previous history of substance use. Education, mentoring, transportation, and simply a listening ear provides an essential bridge towards re-engaging these women in critically important health care for the unborn child and themselves. Our project also supports post-partum mothers. Due to a prior history of substance use, one mother recently reported having her newborn child removed from her by Child Protective Services within five (5) minutes after giving birth! You can imagine the emotional state of such a mother. PPN support these women, build trust, navigate through barriers, restore homes, and thereby protect children.

2023: The Rainbow Connection

Our Special Response Program for Macomb County Wish Families will provide emergent needs in the forms of food, clothing, utilities, housing, transportation and other specified needs. Assistance from our Special Response Program gives our wish families peace of mind so they can focus on what’s most important, their child’s health. The Rainbow Connection Wish Coordinators assess our wish families on a case-by-case basis to ensure that these local families can maintain basic household expenses essential for sustaining a safe and appropriate in-home care environment for medically fragile children. Our staff remains in contact with social workers at the hospitals to report outcomes and to assure that there are no duplications of services. Referrals for additional services are tracked to ensure families do not fall between the cracks for service. Detailed documentation will be kept in each family’s file highlighting areas of support needed, along with referral and/or financial support provided.

2022 Winner: Turning Point

Turning Point offers services to individuals who identify as a survivor of
domestic violence, sexual violence, or human trafficking. The Impact100 Macomb grant provided strangulation exams and treatment to victims of intimate partner strangulation (IPS), which by providing these services, will save lives, improve outcomes, and prevent further harm as well as aiding in getting dangerous perpetrators off the streets.

2021 Winner: MCREST

MCREST is a nonprofit helping to provide homeless and displaced individuals the opportunity for successful transition to independence!

2020 Winner: Love for a Child

Love For A Child is an approved and active 501c3 Non-profit Organization servicing Michigan’s foster care, low income, and at-risk communities. Love for a Child is a year round program focusing on areas of mentoring for children, youth and young adults challenged by circumstances of abuse, neglect, and behavioral issues. The program has delivered over a 92% success ratio of children who have reported positive outcomes and outputs improving behaviors, developing life skills and leadership training.

2019 Winner: RSA FOUNDATION

Rising Stars Academy is a school for students ages 18-26 with special needs. They provide a unique curriculum, rooted in the culinary arts, that promotes education, hands-on experience, and personal growth that will help to get students gainfully employed in the future.

2018 Winner: Variety Children’s Charity

Variety Detroit is a children's charity--simply helping kids no matter the need--by providing vital medical and therapeutic services, essential support, and recreational and educational opportunities to children with unique and special needs.

Grant Process

Hear what it’s like to participate in Impact100 Macomb’s grant award night from the perspective of one of our members: