Mini grants support grassroots innovation in Palm Beach County, helping to address critical challenges and opportunities at the local level. They help launch small businesses, support professional growth, and fund solutions to some of our toughest problems — from promoting intergenerational wealth and health, to addressing trauma, family caregiving, and root causes of violence.
This page brings together key information about our mini grant initiatives, highlighting unique projects supported through Healthier Neighbors mini grants and BeWellPBC mini grants. Together, these stories show how small investments can spark big impact and inspire healthier futures for Palm Beach County.
Explore the stories below and see how our community members turned ideas into action.
In addition to reading the narratives below, visuals showing how community members interpreted their narratives are presented in the Data Visuals page.
Local leaders and community members involved in mini-grant projects were given the following prompt:
Share a story about a mini grant experience.
Your story can be something, anything that happened related to a mini-grant. It doesn’t have to prove anything—we are not looking to grade anyone. It can be something rare and meaningful or something that happens every day. The more stories, the more people who tell stories, the better we can represent who you are and what you do.
We hope your stories can help us understand more about mini-grants, how they help, what the challenges are while getting to know the people behind them and connected to them.
The Stories
While personally experiencing the disconnect from family, friends, community and church, I often thought about our Seniors and what they might be going through due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Distancing. In discussing this with others and realizing some Seniors are further restricted by vision, hearing and mobility impairments we felt the need was […]
So far, we have hosted three meetings with key stakeholders in the hospital / medical fields. There is interest in the Self Compassion mini grant. With Covid numbers, the one day retreats will be pushed to Q one 2021. The story is unfolding.