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Making An Impact Receives Several Grants Totaling Nearly $25,000 Local Area Shows Support for Community Resource Guide Nonprofit Contact Name: Victoria Kasdan Contact Email: administrator@Making-An-Impact.org Contact Phone Number: 941-251-5846 [LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL]. Making An Impact (MAI) received six grants totaling nearly $25,000 to support its programs and initiatives that provide information on essential needs services, including printing and distribution of their Community Connections Resource Guide, enhanced technology for their online Guide, capital equipment, and community outreach efforts. Grants were received from the Bradenton Police Department Florida Contraband Forfeiture Grant Program; Knight Donor Advised Fund of the Manatee Community Foundation, Plantation Community Foundation, Sarasota Police Department Law Enforcement Trust Fund, and William G. & Marie Selby Foundation. Making An Impact has more than 4000 printed resource guides in circulation. Users include most local health and human service nonprofits, law enforcement agencies, and faith-based institutions. Their comprehensive Community Connections Resource Guide, now available in print and online, lists over 250 agencies providing essential need services in Sarasota and Manatee counties. The MAI resource guide has quickly become one of the area's most trusted and widely used references for where to go to get help. For more information about Making An Impact, to view their online resource guide, or support their mission, visit www.Making-An-Impact .org or contact them at info@Making-An-Impact.org. ### About Making An Impact Making An Impact, Inc. is a local 501 (c)(3) nonprofit empowering residents in need with information on local services that can help. Our comprehensive Community Connections Resource Guide, now available in print and online, lists over 250 agencies providing essential need services in Sarasota and Manatee counties. With nearly 4000 printed copies in circulation and thousands of views online, our resource guide has quickly become one of the area's most trusted and widely used references for where to go to get help. Guide users and advocates include most of the areas social service nonprofits, law enforcement agencies, and faith-based institutions. The organization was founded in April 2020 to address disparities that inhibit disadvantaged residents from finding and accessing essential resources in their community. For more information and to view the Making An Impact Community Connections Resource Guide online, visit www.Making-An-Impact.org Media Contact: Victoria Kasdan, RN, M.P.H. Board Chair E: administrator@Making-An-Impact.org W: www.Making-An-Impact.org O: 941.251.5846 C: 612.220.4438