
Bold Goal1: Successful Children
Bold Goal1 projects and programs are working to improve early childhood development and provide youth mentoring opportunities.
Youth Mentoring (Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring, Inc.) • Music, Movement & More (Bucyrus Public Library) • Weekend Backpack Program (Ohio Heartland Community Action Commission) • Supervised Child/Family Access Services (Patchworks House) • Mobile Learning Labs (YWCA Childcare Resource & Referral) • ROX (Ruling Our Experiences (Colonel Crawford Local Schools) • Sara Beegle Child Care Center • Imagination Library • Formula for Impact (Boys & Girls Club of Marion County) • Let’s Read 20 (Marion Public Library) • Youth Mentorship (Marion Mentors) • Safety City of Marion, Ohio • Local Boy & Girl Scout Troops • Changes & Choices (Marion Adolescent Pregnancy Program) • Keeping Kids in School (Legal Aid Society of Columbus (LASC)) • Royal Family Kids for Victims of Neglect & Abuse (Marion FTC) • Marion County Childcare Coalition • GEAR Up (Marion City Schools) • ROX (Ruling Our Experiences) (Carey EVSD) • CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) (CASA of Seneca, Sandusky & Wyandot Counties) • The HUB Afterschool Program (Wyandot Community Connections, Inc.) • Youth Up-Lifting Meals (Y.U.M.) (Wyandot County Family & Children First)

Bold Goal2: Healthy Families
Bold Goal2 projects and programs are working to create healthy vibrant neighborhoods that provide equitable opportunity for every member of the community.
Disaster Response Services & Home Fire Preparedness (American Red Cross Central & Southern Ohio Region) • Home Delivered and Congregate Meals (Crawford County Council on Aging) • Workforce Development & Job Placement (Crawford Works) • RSVP (Retired & Senior Volunteer Program) (Family & Community Services Inc.) • Shelter & Advocacy for Victims of Domestic Violence (Turning Point) • Jericho House & Taylor House (Alpha 12-Step Recovery Program) • Food Pantry & Emergency Utility Assistance (Cooperative Christian Services of Galion) • New Washington Community Food Pantry (St. John’s Lutheran Church) • Community Center for the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing (Catalyst Life Services) • Shelter Program for the Homeless (Marion Shelter Program, Inc.) • 2-1-1 Local Help & Resources (Pathways of Central Ohio) • Crestline Community Center Coalition • Galion Community Garden Project (Family & Community Services Inc.) • Community Health Improvement Plans • Housing Crisis Services (Ohio Heartland Community Action Commission) • Meals-on-Wheels & Congregate Dining (LifeCare Alliance) • Marion Victim Assistance Program • Mobile Meals of Marion County • Marion Housing Coalition (Marion City County Regional Planning Commission) • Changes & Choices (Marion Adolescent Pregnancy Program) • Disaster Response Services & Home Fire Preparedness (American Red Cross Northern Ohio Region) • Programs Addressing Homelessness, Food Insecurity, and More (Open Door Resource Center) • Wyandot Improvement Network

Bold Goal3: Self-Sufficient Residents
Bold Goal3 projects and programs are enhancing workforce development and leadership opportunities.
Workforce Development & Job Placement (Crawford Works) • Job Readiness Program (Marion Goodwill Industries, Inc.) • Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World (Marion Matters, Inc.) • Pay It Forward Project (The Ohio State University – Marion) • Community Opportunity (Wyandot County Office of Economic Development, Inc.) • GEAR Up (Marion City Schools)
CRAWFORD COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECTS & PROGRAMS
The Jericho House | The Taylor House
Alpha 12-Step Recovery Program
The Alpha 12-Step Recovery Program is a non-profit organization helping families, friends, and those suffering any addictions. Jericho House and Taylor House are community recovery residences offering space for healing from drug and alcohol addictions, as well as other out of control behaviors.
American Red Cross Central & Southern Ohio Region
Disaster Cycle Services & Home Fire Preparedness
The American Red Cross Disaster Cycle services prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. Their Home Fire Preparedness campaign saves lives by installing smoke alarms and educating families about home fire safety. United Way of North Central Ohio is proud to support these efforts in Crawford, Wyandot, and Marion counties.
614.253.2740 | | RBA Scorecard
Music, Movement, & More
Bucyrus Public Library
The Music, Movement, & More program at Bucyrus Public Library allows children to experience the joy of music while practicing physical skills, increasing awareness of literacy and language development, and encouraging social-emotional skills.
614.253.2740 | | | RBA Scorecard
Ruling our eXperiences
Colonel Crawford Local Schools
The Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX) program is implemented for middle school and high school girls at Colonel Crawford Local Schools. The program works to equip girls with the knowledge and skills to live healthy, independent, and violence-free lives.
Emergency Food & Utility Assistance
Cooperative Christian Services of Galion
CCSG provides emergency food boxes to supply struggling households with pantry provisions while they are waiting for their next paycheck or assistance allotment. They also provide emergency utility funds for clients in danger of utility shut off. United Way of North Central Ohio is proud to partner with CCSG in supporting this program.
419.462.9305
Home-Delivered & Congregate Meals
Crawford County Council on Aging
The CCCOA Home Delivered Nutrition program provides the delivery of nutritious and safe meals to eligible consumers in a home setting for the purpose of sustaining or improving consumer health. The program also provides participants with regular opportunities for face-to-face contact and conversation, and referral to more services if needed.
419.562.3050 | | | RBA Scorecard
Crawford Works
Crawford Works
United Way supports Crawford Works in their mission to partner with all willing and capable people living in poverty to assist them in advancing to economic self-sufficiency through sustained employment.
419.310.4653 | | | RBA Scorecard
Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Family & Community Services, Inc.
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is one of the largest volunteer networks in the nation for people 55 and over. Volunteers can use the skills and talents they’ve learned over the years, or develop new ones while serving in a variety of volunteer activities within their communities.
567.393.6446 | | | RBA Scorecard
Youth Mentoring
Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring
The Youth Mentor program at Mid-Ohio Youth Mentoring provides young people in Crawford County with mentors who support, encourage, and provide opportunities to develop skills that will help them achieve success in life.
419.525.4618 | | | RBA Scorecard
Supervised Family Visits
Patchworks House
Patchworks House provides services to families to help create plans for safe parenting, including the supervised visitation program. The program’s goal is to expand the safety and comfort for families and children who have experienced conflict or family violence.
419.448.0080
Shelter & Advocacy for Victims of Domestic Violence
Turning Point
Turning Point provides crisis/hotline, shelter, advocacy, information and referral and victims’ rights advocacy to victims of domestic violence in our community.
740.382.8988 | | | RBA Scorecard
Sara Beegle Child Care Center
Sara Beegle Child Care Center provides a quality subsidized child care program for children emphasizing growth and development.
419.468.2363 | RBA Scorecard
New Washington Community Food Pantry
St. John’s Lutheran Church
St. John’s Lutheran Church serves the community of New Washington and its rural environs with a food pantry. Sponsorship by United Way of North Central Ohio helps support the pantry as well as funding for a pavilion that hosts a seasonal community farmers market.
Mobile Learning Labs
YWCA of Northwest Ohio
United Way supports the Mobile Learning Labs operated by YWCA of Northwest Ohio. The Mobile Learning Lab program is designed to improve kindergarten readiness by providing activities that engage families and children while developing early learning skills.
419.241.3235 | | | RBA Scorecard
MARION COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECTS & PROGRAMS
Disaster Cycle Services & Home Fire Preparedness
American Red Cross Central & Southern Ohio Region
The American Red Cross Disaster Cycle services prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. Their Home Fire Preparedness campaign saves lives by installing smoke alarms and educating families about home fire safety. United Way of North Central Ohio is proud to support these efforts in Crawford, Wyandot, and Marion counties.
614.253.2740 | | RBA Scorecard
Formula For Impact
Boys & Girls Club of Marion County
Formula for Impact is a program developed by Boys & Girls Clubs of America to encourage positive youth development through a safe, positive environment; fun; supportive relationships; opportunities and expectations; and recognition. It also incorporates high-yield learning activities, targeted programs and regular attendance.
740.387.3462 | | | RBA Scorecard
Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Family & Community Services, Inc.
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is one of the largest volunteer networks in the nation for people 55 and over. Volunteers can use the skills and talents they’ve learned over the years, or develop new ones while serving in a variety of volunteer activities within their communities.
567.393.6446 | | | RBA Scorecard
Marion County Childcare Coalition
Marion County Childcare Coalition
The Marion County Childcare Coalition includes representatives from United Way of North Central Ohio, YWCA of Northwest Ohio, Boys & Girls Club of Marion County, Marion Community Foundation, Marion County Job & Family Services, Marion Family YMCA, and Marion Matters, and is collaborating to frame child care solutions for Marion County families. See results from the countywide childcare needs survey and read the Coalition’s Executive Summary of the results data here.
Let’s Read 20
Marion Public Library
Forming the habit of reading at a young age is linked to higher performance and achievement throughout life. Let’s Read 20 is a community-wide initiative that promotes early childhood literacy and is attempting to positively impact the culture of our community and the way it values reading, education and academic success.
740.387.0992 | | | RBA Scorecard
Keeping Kids in School | Youth Law Project
Legal Aid Society of Columbus
LASC’s Youth Law Project directly address barriers to high school graduation in our community by identifying recurring themes and challenges experienced by Marion County’s children and creating a community-wide referral network for children and their families.
740.383.2161 | | | RBA Scorecard
Changes & Choices
Marion Adolescent Pregnancy Program
The Changes & Choices program uses an evidence-based curriculum to equip middle and high school students to make good decisions about sexual activity.
740.387.8336 | | RBA Scorecard
Victim Assistance Program
Marion County Victim Assistance
The Victim Assistance Program provides county wide services to victims of any crime. Victim Assistance minimizes the effects of crime in the lives of crime victims, while Victim Advocates offer victims of crime support services which include emergency assistance, emotional support, agency referrals, and assistance with legal filings as well as court orientation and advocacy.
Getting Ahead
Marion Matters
Getting Ahead is a ten week program providing participants with opportunities to use their own experiences in poverty to explore issues in the community impacting poverty, and to put those resources to work as part of their move to self-sufficiency.
740.223.2999 | | | RBA Scorecard
Youth Mentoring
Marion Mentors
The Marion Mentors program works to support the development of one-to-one relationships between a volunteer adult role model and a student. This unique relationship provides support and encouragement, and can help a young person develop the academic, social, personal, and leadership skills to foster success in their future.
740.725.9622×33 | | | RBA Scorecard
Heart of Ohio Homeless Shelter
Marion Shelter Program, Inc.
Shelter program provides individuals and families safe shelter, basic necessities, and a structured opportunity to regain sustainable self-sufficiency.
740.387.4550 | | | RBA Scorecard
Marion Voices In the Schools: K-12 Folklife & Cultural Arts Residency Pilot Program
Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History Program
Collaboration between students and Marion Voices’ culture-keepers and artists introduces local young people to folk and cultural arts traditions in our community, & helps to build culturally-sustaining pedagogy & cultivate reparative pride-in-place in Marion County’s diverse cultural traditions & landscapes.
Mobile Meals
Mobile Meals of Marion County
Mobile Meals delivers a hot, nutritious meal daily, Monday through Friday, to residents in Marion and surrounding communities. Meals are prepared locally and can be tailored for specific dietary needs.
740.382.1818
Housing Crisis
Ohio Heartland Community Action Commission
With support from United Way of North Central Ohio, OHCAC works with a network of housing programs to provide emergency housing for homeless individuals and families in Marion County. OHCAC has a full time staff member dedicated to housing the homeless.
Royal Family KIDS
Royal Family KIDS Marion/FTC
Royal Family KIDS gives local children who have experienced neglect and abuse to enjoy a one-week summer camp experience, with follow-up services and mentorship opportunities.
740.802.3401 | | RBA Scorecard
Safety City
Safety City of Marion Ohio
Safety City uses hands-on role playing to give Marion County kindergarteners knowledge and experience in the 9-1-1 system, fire safety, gun safety, and traffic safety, enabling them to make good choices and help them live long, safe and healthy lives.
740.387.5019 | RBA Scorecard
Terradise Ambient: Environmental Soundscapes Along the Whetstone
Terradise Nature Center
Terradise Ambient mobilizes the tradition of environmental soundscape recording & arts-based environmental sound composition to make the 18 combined acres of Terradise Nature Center & Terradise Nature Preserve along the Whetstone (Olentangy) River near Caledonia more accessible to nature enthusiasts across the region through the construction of a sensory-rich, multi-season soundscape trail & signage at Terradise, & the build-out of a Terradise digital soundmap online to “bring Terradise home” to audiences around the world.
Shelter & Advocacy for Victims of Domestic Violence
Turning Point
Turning Point provides crisis/hotline, shelter, advocacy, information and referral and victims’ rights advocacy to victims of domestic violence in our community.
740.382.8988 | | | RBA Scorecard
Local Boy & Girl Scout Troops
United Way of North Central Ohio serving Marion County
Scouting Scholarships provides funding for a variety of scouting expenses, including troop dues, summer camp fees, patches, national/district events, weekend camping, day camp, and High Adventure. Scholarship applications are available at the UWNCO; funding is provided through the Scouting Committee which meets monthly to review applications.
Mobile Learning Labs
YWCA of Northwest Ohio
United Way supports the Mobile Learning Labs operated by YWCA of Northwest Ohio. The Mobile Learning Lab program is designed to improve kindergarten readiness by providing activities that engage families and children while developing early learning skills.
WYANDOT COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECTS & PROGRAMS
Disaster Cycle Services & Home Fire Preparedness
American Red Cross of North Central Ohio
The American Red Cross Disaster Cycle services prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. Their Home Fire Preparedness campaign saves lives by installing smoke alarms and educating families about home fire safety. United Way of North Central Ohio is proud to support these efforts in Crawford, Wyandot, and Marion counties.
419.422.9322 | | RBA Scorecard
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
CASA of Seneca, Sandusky, & Wyandot Counties
CASA is a volunteer-based organization that trains people to become volunteer advocates for children. CASA of Seneca, Sandusky, and Wyandot Counties is a non-profit agency and has been serving locally abused and neglected children since 1990!
Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Family & Community Services, Inc.
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is one of the largest volunteer networks in the nation for people 55 and over. Volunteers can use the skills and talents they’ve learned over the years, or develop new ones while serving in a variety of volunteer activities within their communities.
419.448.1530 | | | RBA Scorecard
Strong Community Suite of Programs
Open Door Resource Center
Open Door Resource Center is a faith-based organization that opened in 2010 with the goal of connecting families with resources. The Strong Community Suite of Programs operates in three distinct areas of focus: combating food insecurity, improving employment opportunities, and strengthening families.
419.209.6736 | | | RBA Scorecard
The HUB Afterschool Program
Wyandot Community Connections, Inc.
Wyandot Community Connections is a community center located in Wyandot County where our goal is to empower and enrich families and youth academically, socially, and spiritually.
419.731.3249 | | RBA Scorecard
Youth Up-Lifting Meals (Y.U.M.)
Wyandot County Family & Children First
YUM provides hot meals to youth in Wyandot County three days a week through the summer.
419.294.6408
Community Opportunity
Wyandot County Office of Economic Development
Community Opportunity is a county-wide workforce development and talent retention tool, which provides a program creating communication and collaboration between local high school youth, educational institutions, and businesses to enhance local career exploration and awareness, and the retention of viable local talent.