VERO BEACH – Joel Bray, from the Shining Light Garden, one of Impact 100’s recent grant recipients, has won the prestigious national Jefferson Award for outstanding volunteer service.
The annual award is considered by many to be the “Nobel Prize” for volunteerism and public service. Recipients, including Bray, from across the country were honored at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C., recently.
Also honored for the award was the founder of Impact 100, Wendy Steele.
Indian River Impact 100 Grant Chair Suzanne Bertman received this note from Bray:
“This week I was in Washington, D.C., for the Jefferson Awards. Before the time for my speech, the lady who went before me was Wendy Steele who had been nominated for starting the Impact 100 concept. I was then able to acknowledge publicly to her that from her idea Shining Light Garden was a recent winner of an Impact 100 grant that would enable us to purchase needed equipment that would help us to feed more of the needy.
“Talking with her afterward she made the comment that the Indian River Impact group was the most efficient and organized group!”
In the six years since Impact 100 was formed, more than $2 million has been invested into the county, establishing the all-women’s group as a major grantor in the community.
For further information visit Indian River Impact 100 on Facebook or at www.impact100ir.com.
