APPROACH

Accelerate and sustain the impact of your charitable gifts.

Holistic Investments: By investing across five Pillars of Prosperity, we ensure that the people of Appalachian Ohio have access to opportunities across all areas essential for well-being. Each investment and success reinforces the next.

Collective Impact: Through intention and partnership, we harness our collective resources to attain greater impact, unleashing the power of high-impact philanthropic collaboration throughout the region.

Evidence-based Approaches: We leverage data, empirical evidence, and local wisdom to guide the work of all changemakers.

Local in Depth, Regional in Reach. We understand that change happens locally. We provide a network for sharing and expanding local innovations across communities, so we can all benefit.

Economies of Scale: By working regionally, we reduce administrative costs, increase returns, achieve greater purchasing power, and access resources out of reach for any single community, enabling our charitable dollars to go further.

Sustainability: In everything we do, we seek to solve challenges at their roots, what we call advancing sustained transformation. We prioritize endowment and other models that enable lasting impact.

Personal: We work with donors to maximize the impact of their charitable gifts on the communities and programmatic areas closest to their hearts.

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The Five Pillars Of Prosperity

I’m A Child of Appalachia ® Fund donor spotlight

Broadband: We helped launch Ohio Transparent

Telecom (OTT): a deeper solution to regional connectivity challenges. This project is making broadband accessible and affordable and to families in our region.

Fund continued to grow as Who Dey and individuals were inspired Super Bowl Run, growing the fund Community Fund, founded in 2020, partnered Appalachia ® Fund to award $10,000 in benefitting African Americans in the Ohio.

Mary Jean Brestle Loveday’s family created an endowed fund through the I’m a Child of Appalachia ® Fund to carry forward Mary Jean’s love of children and reading.

“Given that Mary Jean and I both grew up in eastern Ohio, I felt it was only right that we invest in that region and FAO.” – husband, Amose Loveday

Thanks to the visionary investment from Governor DeWine and our legislators, we have a dollar-for-dollar match opportunity to close the Philanthropy Gap. Every gift to the I’m a Child of Appalachia ® Fund or to local foundations supported by FAO will be doubled— allowing you to make twice the impact while funds last.

ARTS & CULTURE

Through the Mary Jean Brestle Loveday Legacy Fund, the Loveday family made a gift to support our region’s greatest needs and opportunities, today and tomorrow. Learn more at www.AppalachianOhio.org/2021Report.

In 2021 alone, FAO...

SCHOLARSHIPS

$555,643 awarded through 515 scholarship award matching 276 students with opportunities to achieve their dreams.

XX,XXX donors gave and had their gifts matched $X.X million in new philanthropy raised to match the State’s investment

COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Funds

Reached a milestone of working with more than 600 funds to support their charitable goals.

GRANTS

EDUCATION

Community & Economic Development: $4.3 million

2021 Initiatives & Milestones: Exciting and meaningful

$7.1 million awarded through 1,043 grants across our Pillars of Prosperity

HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Mobile Vision Clinic: we launched a mobile vision clinic with Vision To Learn and the Ohio Optometric Association’s iSee program. The clinic travels to provide vision exams and free eyeglasses to children.

Education: $919,367

Environmental Stewardship: $163,853

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

Health & Human Services: $935,883

Youth-led Initiatives: led efforts to prevent among peers

Our match opportunity, Education: Our partnership with First Book helped 30,000 children and their educators access books, supplies and other tools.

Arts & Culture: $304,136

Pillars of Prosperity Fellowship Program: Targeted support to local leaders helping grow their impact from one

Pillar Grants: launch grant program.

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