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
Vida Smith sharing her story of survival and struggle from domestic violence and being a homeless mother to a successful PhD candidate truly inspired me — as I listened to her story as part of Family Promise SPBC’s Sharing Survival Stories Saturday. My role at Family Promise is to interview the storyteller and prep them […]
This mini grant was liberating and allowed me to make an impact in a creative way. I had a vision of empowering youth all over the County by shifting mindsets. This vision is not just about planting seeds of purpose, leadership, financial know how, and the like–it is about uprooting generational seeds of poverty and […]