Sophisticated Giving Charity Register Cincinnati 2023

CHARITY REGISTER 2023

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A human institution serving human needs. Those are the words our founders used to define the new company they formed 135 years ago to provide affordable life insurance to bring peace of mind to hard-working Americans. Western & Southern Financial Group has grown over the years, as have the financial products, services and solutions we offer. We also remain dedicated to making Cincinnati a great community in which to live, work and celebrate life.

Central to this commitment is our dedication to Cincinnati’s nonprofit community. Together with our foundation, our sponsorships, charitable donations and contributions exceeded $100 million over the last 10 years. Through our time, talent and financial resources, we strive not only to strengthen the social foundation of our community in the areas of economic development, human services, health care, education and the arts but to inspire others to get involved and do their part.

Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc., our investment management subsidiary, has been a valued business partner of endowments, foundations and nonprofits for over 30 years. The team at Fort Washington provides collaborative advice with the goal of helping nonprofits maximize their important missions. Through its Private Client Group, Fort Washington also helps individuals and families share their wealth through philanthropic strategies that benefit the nonprofit community and become part of a comprehensive approach to wealth management.

The Sophisticated Giving Cincinnati Charity Register is a valuable resource to start those conversations and one that we hope many in our community will draw upon to learn more about the incredible nonprofit organizations that help make Cincinnati the best city in America.

John F. Barrett Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Western & Southern Financial Group

Maribeth S. Rahe President and Chief Executive Officer Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.

CHARITY REGISTER

62 Head

16 Beech

28 Cancer

32 Cancer

68 LADD

70 Lighthouse

72 Lindner

74 Living

76 Madi’s

78 Magnified

80 Matthew

82 Meals

84 NextUp

86 New

114 Stepping

116 Xavier

ADOPT A CLASS

Who We Are: Adopt A Class is a local nonprofit that connects businesses and civic groups with schools located in underserved communities. By pairing teams with individual classrooms, our adult mentors expose the students to a breadth of life and career experiences to increase their knowledge of career opportunities and expand their horizons with clearer self-vision. For the adopting organizations, this engagement fosters a culture of teamwork and increased knowledge of our community’s needs and the challenges faced by our youth.

What We Do: Our program connects students, K – 8th grade, with caring adult mentors who expose them to a variety of experiences and career opportunities with a focus on college & career pathways, essential employability skills, literacy, and STE(A)M. Our unique program matches corporate and community mentors to a specific classroom for an entire school year. During this time, mentors engage with their students one hour, once per month with monthly group mentoring sessions, field trips and educational activities, while also sharing with the students what makes their individual companies unique in what they do.

Why We’re Important: Our program serves both elementary and junior high schools with the highest concentrations of poverty where currently 97% of students qualify as Federal Title 1 (Free & Reduced Lunch status). Many students throughout Greater Cincinnati find themselves lacking role models and/or a support system. Our mentors can be that positive influence, instilling important values and life skills while introducing critically important career concepts. Our partner organizations have made it possible for us to work with students across Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Middletown.

How We Serve the Community: Whether it’s a lesson on the importance of a proper handshake, a field trip to explore one of the largest corporations in the world, or simple encouragement from a caring individual, our mentors spark inspiration in students to unlock their full potential. Adopt A Class not only benefits students,

but we also impact the adult volunteers too! Our corporate and civic partners experience better employee engagement and retention as mentors build stronger relationships within their teams, find a connection in the community, and provides the opportunity for them to give back in a meaningful and direct way.

How You Can Help: Donate! With your support, we can impact our community in a lasting way. To learn about opportunities to support Adopt A Class, please visit: https://aacmentors.org/donate.

Become a mentor! Start a volunteer team with your company today – it’s only a one hour, once a month commitment. Find connection in the community and give back in a meaningful and direct way. Share your interest with us by emailing Erin Mullen (erin@aacmentors.org) or Alex Folson (alex@aacmentors.org)!

Adopt A Class

4030 Smith Rd. Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45209 513-448-4137

aacmentors.org

www.Facebook.com/AdoptAClass

www.Twitter.com/adoptaclass

www.Linkedin.com/company/Adopt-A-Class-Foundation www.Instagram.com/adoptaclass

Chief Executive Officer: Sonya Fultz Contact (cell): 513-673-9360

Staff: Katie Andress, Courtney Burgtorf, Alex Folson, Erin Mullen, Hannah Rizzi, Kristen Tierney

Board President: Evan Clinkenbeard

Board Members: Bill Burwinkel, Jim Sullivan, Allison Goico, Annie Bogenschutz, Brian Burke, Rich Chouteau, Nina Luckie, Rahiel Michael, Keith Moran, Jason Partin, Tiffany Sieve, Jeff Wellens. Advisory board members: Buddy LaRosa, Darlene Kamine

THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER

Who We Are: Founded in 1976, the Alpaugh Family Economics Center is a leading educational nonprofit focused on delivering economics and personal finance instruction to teachers and students, and unbiased research to a variety of clients in the public and private sectors. While the Center’s original mission focused on teacher training, it’s expanded to include in-school financial education programs, and a free online learning platform called $martPath, used by more than two million students worldwide. Our research offerings serve corporate, nonprofit, and municipal clients and include market analyses, feasibility studies, economic impact projects, and workforce development initiatives.

What We Do: We bring award-winning and inclusive financial and economic education to teachers and students in classrooms across Greater Cincinnati and around the world. Additionally, we deliver unbiased, world-class research to drive better decision-making by clients in the public and private sectors.

Why We’re Important: Our work in training teachers and providing educational opportunities to students around personal finance and financial literacy promises to equip children with the tools to make effective financial decisions. Through our research work, the Center and its clients contribute to the health and vitality of our local, regional, and state economy.

How We Serve the Community: For more than 40 years, the Center has focused on doing #WorkThatMatters. We help create informed outcomes by implementing economic and financial literacy programs for students and teachers and through the unbiased

YouTube: www.youtube.com/SmartPathSnacksFinancialLiteracyforKids

Facebook: www.facebook.com/UCEconomicsCenter

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/economics-center

Twitter: twitter.com/EconomicsCenter

Executive Director: David Mahon, Ph.D.

Email: david.mahon@uc.edu

Development Director: Sue Heilmayer

Email: susan.heilmayer@uc.edu

Board Chair: Diane Altmix

Board Members: diane.l.altmix@accenture.com

THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OUTREACH, INC.

Who We Are: The Apartment Association Outreach, Inc. is a 501(c) 3, non-profit charitable organization. OUTREACH was originally founded in 1991 to provide clothing and household items to families in need. Since 2000, our social service partners and our organization provide assistance to disadvantaged families and individuals within our community. Our partners include: Freestore Foodbank, CAIN (Churches Active in Northside), Jewish Family Service and Santa Maria Community Services.

What We Do: Each year, we organize three fundraising events to support our six programs. In the spring, we host a 5k 4 Rent event with a timed run, and walk through Friendship Park. In the fall, we host A Night Out for Outreach with many industry leaders and our community in attendance. This is a fun night with music, great food, and a short program, highlighting our partners and what we have accomplished together. In December, we enjoy the Holiday Cheers fundraiser. This event includes a rapid raffle, silent auction, and live auction.

Why We’re Important: We fundraise for the community and for those in need of housing, food, and school supplies. We provided emergency assistance of $3,100, educational scholarships of $17,483 and backpack and school supplies in the amount of $14,789, to help deserving children. Outreach has provided $139,000 in Rental Assistance and $100,000 to our twenty Food Pantry Partners. We have made an incredible impact on those in crisis in our community!

How We Serve the Community: We serve the community by funding and offering our six programs:

• Rent Assistance is provided in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.

• Food Pantry donations are sent to twenty food pantries.

• Each year our back to school program donates backpacks and school supplies to more than 1,400 children in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky areas. These supplies are

essential and will be delivered to those in need. This very successful program is in partnership with Santa Maria Community Services.

• Senior events are held at affordable living facilities providing snacks, games and puzzles.

• Scholarships are awarded to candidates currently employed in the apartment industry for the National Apartment Association Education Institute designation programs. Post-secondary scholarships are awarded to college students.

How You Can Help:

• Make a donation to OUTREACH. www.gcnkaoutreach .org. Click on DONATE button.

• Become a Sponsor for one or all of our events.

• Participate in our 5k 4 Rent, attend our A Night Out for Outreach and Holiday Cheers events.

• Sign up for Kroger Community Rewards and select The Apartment Association Outreach as your charity.

• Sign up for the AmazonSmile program and select The Apartment Association Outreach as your charity.

The Apartment Association Outreach, Inc.

7265 Kenwood Rd. Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45236

(513) 407-8612

www.gcnkoutreach.org

www.facebook.com/apartmentassociationoutreach/

Executive Director: Rebecca McLean

Email: rebecca@gcnkaa.org

Development Director: Susan Peck

Email: susan@gcnkaa.org

Board Members: Megan Lawhon, Rebecca McLean, Janie Evans, Emily Howard, Jeff March, Sean Blythe, Tonya Petersen, Jamie Thiel, Jordann Morgan, Justin Seger, Liz Werner and Angela McKinney

ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI

Who We Are: Since 1998, Assistance League has served about than 90,500 women in crisis and children in need. As a non-profit all volunteer organization, we create, direct, and fund our programs from grants, directed campaigns and appeals and generous donations from the donors throughout the community. All funds are raised locally and spent locally on programs developed to meet unmet needs. Awards and Certifications include the BBB Torch Award and the Candid/GuideStar Gold Seal. At the end of fiscal year 2022, 94% of expenses were directed to program service.

What We Do: During 25 years of making an Impact in our Community, about 90,500 adults and children have received help from our programs. Over 61,000 children in nearly 50 public and parochial schools received new school clothes, supplies and books. 3,874 disadvantaged adults were helped with necessary supplies as they entered college. 5,231 relatives or close friends who provide care for foster children received emergency items for children in their care. 18,110 women who experienced domestic violence and entered a shelter and women brought to an ER after sexual abuse received new clothing and hygiene kits. 3,659 women and their children received multiple household items as they left shelters for a life away from their abusers.

Why We Are Important: Our programs are developed locally and created to meet unmet needs of children in need and women in crisis. When we learned of the increased needs of children who are homeless, we saw an opportunity to meet an unmet need. After evaluation and assessment, the name of our Kinship Foster Care program was changed to ALCares4Kids. Distribution plans include children who are homeless and those in kinship and foster care. Essentials include new underwear, socks, diapers, wipes, and hygiene supplies. The Haile Foundation recently awarded a grant to Assistance League to partially fund this expansion. Additional funding is provided by the Elsa Heisel Sule Foundation and other donors.

How We Serve the Community: Multiple reports indicate the poverty rate in Cincinnati at about 28.7%, and more than 26,000 are children living in poverty. Programs developed by Assistance League effectively provide services to children and adults affected by poverty, abuse, homelessness, violence and other family crises. Assistance League member volunteers

strive to meet these unmet needs through our mission and vision statements: Assistance League volunteers transform lives of children and adults through community programs. Essential needs are met in our community and families’ flourish.

How You Can Help:

• Shop online at our eBay store, ALCincy, where 100% of purchases support our community programs.

• Donations for our eBay shop are also welcome. Contact us for donation lists, delivery or drop off details.

• Visit our website www.AssistanceLeagueCincinnati.org for a full description of programs and activities.

• Join and work as a member volunteer.

• Share our story with everyone.

• Invite us to speak at your business or organization to share ways to help meet the growing community needs.

• Make a generous donation of cash.

Assistance League of Greater Cincinnati 1057 Meta Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45237 513-221-4447

algc@fuse.net

www.AssistanceLeagueCincinnati.org

Executive Director: Assistance League of Greater Cincinnati is an allvolunteer organization. We have no paid staff. Our Board of Directors is elected by members from the membership. Our elected board and committees perform the duties and work required of a nonprofit.

President, Leann Kuchenbuch Operations VP, Mary Irish Membership VP, Bonnie Albers

Philanthropic Programs VP, Diane Branche Marketing Communications VP, Audrey Stehle Secretary, Janet Hartman Treasurer, Rosanna Nelson Parliamentarian, Karyn Kern-Lazear

BAYLEY

Who We Are: Founded by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Bayley is a continuum of care Retirement Facility and Community Wellness Center on the west side of Cincinnati. For over thirty years, dedicated staff and volunteers have provided compassion and quality of life to those we serve in a Catholic/Christian-like environment. We strive to help others live “Life In Every Moment” at any stage, regardless of their abilities. Our goal is to promote optimum health and wellbeing for seniors of all faiths who live on our campus and in the greater community through the programs and services we offer.

What We Do: Bayley offers 78 Independent Living cottages, a Fitness Center, an Adult Day Program, Outpatient and Inpatient Rehabilitative Therapy and Assisted Living, Home Services, Memory Support, Skilled Nursing Care, and Pastoral Care. Physical, social, spiritual and emotional needs are addressed by our professional, caring staff. We adhere to the strictest standards of safety and hygiene, with ample PPE and increased staff training during COVID-19. Vaccination is required for employees and our residents and staff are tested regularly based on state and county mandates. Our staff has created safe residents’ relatives quickly become an extension of our Bayley family, often renewing old friendships and creating new memories. In 2022, over 400 seniors called Bayley home. In spring of 2022, we broke ground on our new 80-unit Independent Living apartment homes, Bayley at Green Township.

Why We’re Important: Residents, Adult Day and Fitness Club members participate in a variety of services, classes and programs coordinated by our professional staff. Upholding our reputation as the preferred senior wellness hub in the community and contributing to our five-star rating awarded by the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services, we help seniors where they are today. Expanded residential options and community services are available if care needs increase. Responsive to family concerns as well, the Adult Day Program offers respite to caregivers, and educational dementia trainings are scheduled to enhance communication and understanding of loved ones in need of memory support.

How We Serve the Community: In 2022, we had over 2000 Fitness Center members from the local community. The club has become

the place where friends meet, socialize, work out, and attend outreach programs that encourage safe and healthy lifestyles. In an average year, we hold over 2000 fitness classes, around 50 each week, including classes in balance, yoga, boxing, Pilates, tai chi, water aerobics, belly dancing, cycling, and more. In 2022, Bayley Home Services kept 60 seniors living on campus or in the community safe and independent - on their own, but not alone!™. Over 50 members and their families were assisted by the Bayley Adult Day Program. We also assisted many seniors with their rehabilitation needs, both inpatient and outpatient.

How You Can Help: Bayley’s vision is to continue providing exceptional, compassionate care to seniors for generations to come, but we need additional support to make this happen. We currently have no waiting list for our lovely Assisted Living apartments, and we hope that you will encourage friends and relatives to tour, to see if they would like to call Bayley home! Charitable contributions are welcome and we offer several giving options that include event sponsorships, memorial or tribute donations, society memberships and planned giving opportunities. Volunteers, important members of our Bayley family, add to the circle of friends for our residents and members through their service to others. Whether you’re helping on field trips, delivering mail, knitting prayer shawls or taking time to sit and chat, we invite you to share your talents with us. Visit www.bayleylife.org

Bayley

990 Bayley Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45233 513-347-5500

bayleylife.org

bayleylife (Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram)

Executive Director: Adrienne A. Walsh, President/CEO

Development Director: Steven Breidenich

Email: steven.breidenich@bayleylife.org

Board Chair: Doug H. Bennett, Miller Valentine

BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER

Who We Are: Beech Acres Parenting Center has been serving area parents, families, and children in Greater Cincinnati for more than 170 years. The organization has consistently evolved to meet the everchanging needs of the important adults in a child’s life. The mission is to combine science and compassion to deliver innovative solutions that equip adults to meet children’s needs and cultivate their strengths. We strive each day to reach the vision of a world where every child’s natural strengths are nurtured so they realize their endless potential.

What We Do:

• With All Families: Locally supports loving families that may be facing financial difficulties or raising loved one’s children full time through parenting education, coaching & navigation to resources through the lens of prevention, and trains and matches foster care parents and children for safety & stability.

• Beyond the Classroom™: Allows teachers to focus on academics in more than 20 schools, knowing the mental health of students and family support is being taken care of by a focused team.

• The Character Effect™: Builds social & emotional skills needed for preK-12th grade students and teachers to be successful across the country.

• Parent Connext®: Shares science-backed, non-judgmental ideas & one clear next step on an individual’s parenting journey through content, group education and individual coaching nationally.

Why We’re Important: Challenges facing today’s parents and caregivers are greater than ever before. A few worrisome statistics, Beech Acres is working to improve:

• Pandemic had an adverse impact on parental stress with the APA reporting nearly half of parents (48%) said the level of stress in their life has increased compared to before the pandemic.

• According to the Surgeon General’s report, from 2009 to 2019, the proportion of high school students reporting persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness increased by 40%. Between 2007 and 2018, suicide rates among youth ages 10-24 in the US increased by 57%.

• Over 100,000 children live with a loved one with no parent present in Ohio.

• 800 children need a safe & loving foster care home each day in Hamilton County alone.

How We Serve the Community: All 4 programs share a focus on prevention through the organization’s unique approach, Natural Strength Parenting™. The 3 pillars of intentionality, character strengths & mindfulness leverage the science of positive psychology to improve the daily lives of families today. By moving upstream with coaching and social & emotional learning in schools, the goal is to reduce the need for foster care homes and treatment level mental health.

How You Can Help: Join the Natural Strength Parenting™ movement by signing up for Beech Roots, our parenting newsletter and sharing the mission with other parents you know. You can also get involved by signing up for periodic volunteer opportunities. You can make a powerful difference in the lives of parents, children, and families with a one time or recurring cash gift. You can also create a legacy through planned estate giving or a memorial gift.

Beech Acres Parenting Center

615 Elsinore Place, Suite 500, Cincinnati, OH 45202 513.231.6630

Beechacres.org

Facebook.com/BeechAcresParentingCenter

LinkedIn.com/company/beech-acres-parenting-center YouTube.com/beechacres

President & CEO: Laura Mitchell

Email: lmitchell@beechacres.org

Vice President of Development: Jordan Huizenga

Email: jhuizenga@beechacres.org

Board Chair: Sara M. Cooperrider

BEST POINT EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Who We Are: Best Point provides education and therapeutic treatment for children and their families facing social, behavioral and learning challenges on our campuses and in the community. We also provide autism services, consultation services for parents, and conduct training for caregivers and professionals.

What We Do: Best Point provides education and therapeutic treatment for children and their families facing social, behavioral and learning challenges. Through more than 30 campus and communitybased programs and services, we transform young lives, helping children succeed in their homes, schools and communities.

Why We’re Important: Best Point has become a pillar in our community — particularly at a time when so many are looking for answers to the challenges of mental or behavioral health, poverty, and access to quality health services. We have answered the demand for services in the areas of early childhood education, autism, communitybased mental health, and pharmaceutical support, while advancing a workplace culture that promotes operational excellence by investing in our employees. That investment has earned our agency consecutive recognition as a Cincinnati Enquirer Top Place to Work since 2018 as well as one of the Best Places to Work in Ohio by Ohio Business Magazine and national recognition by The Nonprofit Times as one of the top large nonprofits to work for in the nation.

How We Serve the Community: We are the leader in offering hope, help, and healing through a continuum of health and education services and partnerships. Best Point offers over 30 programs in behavioral health treatment, wellness, therapeutic education,

autism services, and early childhood/school age development. Best Point is the only agency in the area that provides an integrated counseling program for adolescents with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Last year, we provided individualized services to over 18,000 individuals in a variety of life-changing ways.

How You Can Help: We offer various volunteer opportunities throughout the year. We also welcome groups interested in volunteer opportunities. Projects such as landscaping and program supply drives are a great way to bond with fellow co-workers, church members or others while contributing to a worthy cause. For more information visit our website or contact us at volunteer@bestpoint.org.

Best Point Education and Behavioral Health

5050 Madison Road Cincinnati, Ohio, 45227 513-272-2800

www.bestpoint.org

www.facebook.com/bestpointlift

www.instagram.com/bestpointlift

www.linkedin.com/school/bestpointlift

twitter.com/bestpointlift

President and CEO: John Banchy

Chief Operations Officer: Roderick Hinton

Board Chair: Anthony Hobson

www.bestpoint.org/meet-our-boards

BETHANY HOUSE SERVICES, INC.

Who We Are: Bethany House Services has served Cincinnati’s most vulnerable families since 1983. Our mission is to empower homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency. We envision living in a community where all families have a place to call home, and no one spends a night without shelter. With strong community support, Bethany House recently completed a capital campaign for a new facility in Bond Hill to provide comprehensive prevention, shelter, and housing stabilization services more efficiently for families facing homelessness.

What We Do: Bethany House provides comprehensive services to struggling families. Programs provide safety, food, clothing, and all physical necessities. All services are provided by empathetic staff educated in trauma-informed care to meet emotional and mental health needs. Life skills education is provided so that families remain stably housed after the family leaves shelter. Children are enrolled in school or childcare; children with special needs are connected with community service providers. Housing programs help families overcome barriers to obtaining housing.

Why We’re Important: Bethany House is the largest family shelter in Greater Cincinnati and serves more than half of the families who receive shelter services in Hamilton County. We prepare families to achieve and maintain independent housing stability. We provide emergency assistance so families do not become homeless again. We give children a chance to be kids and to be the last in their families to ever experience homelessness. We teach the basic skills families need to contribute to the community and establish connections to the services they will need after leaving shelter. Bethany House not only provides a safe, dignified place for families with housing crises to stay but also supports formerly homeless families on their paths to self-sufficiency.

How We Serve the Community: Bethany House served 717 families with 2,766 individual members—1,853 of whom were children— across its shelter and housing programs in 2022. We provided 50,572 bed nights in its shelter, and more importantly, Bethany House empowered families to improve their situations: over 84.4% of families exited to positive housing solutions and more than 35% increased their income.

Notably, Bethany Houses’s new facility provides on-site medical and mental health care providers, including staff from Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center and Cincinnati Health Network. Furthermore, we are growing our partnerships with outside community partners that will provide job readiness, employment services, and other vital supports for family stability.

How You Can Help: Volunteers have always played a vital role in the success of families served in Bethany House shelters and are even more important in the new facility. There are a variety of individual and group volunteer opportunities available such as serving a meal, providing child respite care, or arranging a donation drive to collect “Bethany Basics.”

Additionally, tax-deductible financial contributions are critical to ensuring that Bethany House can continue to house, feed, and heal families in need. Donations can be made via check, credit card (online), or other forms of giving.

Thank you for considering sharing your time, talent, and treasure with Bethany House families!

Bethany House Services, Inc.

4769 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45237 (513) 921-1131

bethanyhouseservices.org

Facebook/Instagram: @bethanyhouseservices

Twitter: @bethanyhousesvc

LinkedIn: Bethany-house-services

Executive Director: Peg Dierkers

Email: pdierkers@bhsinc.org

Development Director: Daniel Flynn

Email: dflynn@bhsinc.org

Board Chair: Carolyn K. Washburn, Chair

Board Members: Lucy A. Crane, Vice Chair

Nahamani D. Yisrael, Secretary

Sue M. Dyer, Treasurer

BLOC MINISTRIES

Who We Are: BLOC is a faith-based non-profit based in Price Hill. We have 25 years of experience building a support system in a neighborhood where one hasn’t existed. Through our 20+ programs, we seek to combat the weight of generational poverty, violent crime, drug abuse, and human trafficking. BLOC is incredibly unique because we are missional in our approach – our 40+ staff LIVE and WORK in Price Hill. We are here for our neighbors, working to transform our community from the inside out.

What We Do: BLOC Ministries serves our community holistically through 20+ diverse programs. We are available to meet every need, including character training/tutoring/and mentoring for students; live-in, free homes for women coming out of sextrafficking and addiction; youth homes for displaced students; job training; arts/dance/sports training for students; and now equine therapy, and so much more!

We encounter children in need of stable relationships, women chained by addiction forced into prostitution, men stuck in the cycle of incarceration, and other difficult life situations. By ministering to physical needs, relationships are built, and our neighbors begin to hope again. We minister one-to-one to create generational change.

Why We’re Important: Price Hill is Cincinnati’s largest neighborhood and has the highest rates of sex trafficking, overdose, and incarceration. BLOC isn’t deterred by these challenging statistics, we’re spurred by them. Each member of our team heeds a calling to come live and raise their families amidst this darkness and be an agent of change. By entering into the Price Hill community, we have a chance to live life with our neighbors. We build relationships and share hope in brokenness. By sharing hope, we equip our neighbors to break the cycles that would have otherwise consumed them.

afterschool programs, a fitness center for young athletes, a residential recovery home for women exiting the sex trade, jail ministry, a food pantry, community meals, and a coffee shop that serves as a community gathering space as well as a job training platform for our neighbors. Because all our programs are within Price Hill, they are interconnected, allowing our neighbors to utilize multiple programs or services across different stages of their lives. Programs seamlessly integrate allowing us to be available in a myriad of ways.

How You Can Help: In March we will officially open a first-of-itskind program called Horses on the Hill (HOTH.) This includes a six-stall barn and indoor riding arena on seven acres, right in the heart of Price Hill. We estimate HOTH will serve about 300 at-risk urban children, teens and adults as well as those with developmental disabilities through equine-assisted therapy every month. At no cost to the participants this program will aid participants in building life skills -- character, trust, and boundaries (to name a few.) Will you join us in supporting this life-giving project by making a financial contribution today? You can give online at OneBLOC.org or you can mail a check to BLOC Ministries (memo HOTH), 911 W. 8th St. Cincinnati, OH 45203. For more information contact Katie Metz at 513.546.4830 or Katie.Metz@oneBLOC.org.

BLOC Ministries

911 W 8th St, Cincinnati, OH 45203 (513) 250-5722

onebloc.org

facebook.com/blocministries

Instagram: bloc_ministries

Executive Director: Dwight Young

Email: dwight.young@onebloc.org

How

We Serve the

Community: Our programming consists of five pillars: community ministry, student ministry, men's ministry, women’s ministry, and job training. Our programs are as diverse as our community including, but not limited to, children’s

Development Director: Katie Metz

Email: katie.metz@onebloc.org

Board Chair: Jerry Maas

BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE CINCINNATI

Who We Are: The mission of Boys Hope Girls Hope (BHGH) is to nurture and guide motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others. BHGH serves in need youth by providing residential, therapeutic, and educational assistance. BHGH scholars in grades 7-12 are academically capable and motivated to succeed, but lack access to quality education, are living at or below the poverty level and come from socio-economically disadvantaged environments. BHGH scholars live in our residential family-like homes Sunday – Friday evening and return to their families on the weekends. Our staff focuses on our scholar’s academic and collegiate success.

What We Do: While living our BHGH family-like homes, scholars are enrolled in college preparatory schools, participate in extracurricular activities, attend summer camps, and volunteer in the community. Our program provides our scholars with many benefits: access to top parochial schools, academic and extra-curricular support, school uniforms, clothing, shelter, mentoring, tutoring, college visits, activities, cultural and sports outings, summer camps, and therapeutic mental health services. We also provide merit-based scholarships for college and continuing guidance from our Collegian Success Coordinator. Our main objective is to have our scholars successfully complete high school, go on to college and ultimately gain meaningful employment and become leaders in their community. We know that education is the great equalizer and by supporting our scholars on this path, we know they will break the generational cycle of poverty.

Why We’re Important: Most of our scholars are the first in their families to go to college. By supporting our scholars, we are also helping their families financially by covering many of the expenses incurred for their education and daily life. Our scholars show immediate improvements in academic performance, character development, social and emotional strength, cultural fluency, spiritual enrichment, community service and engagement. Our program is a deep investment in their futures as we support our scholars through college.

their potential, and help transform our world. Children create these successes when we remove obstacles, support and believe in them, and provide environments and opportunities that build on their strengths. We are currently accepting applications and referrals for boys and girls in grades 7-9 for the 2023-24 school year. If you know of a child who would benefit from our program, please contact us at bhghcincinnati@bhgh.org.

How You Can Help: There are numerous ways to be a part of our organization and the life-changing programs we offer. We are currently seeking tutors, mentors and volunteers to help in a variety of ways. We always welcome donations of school supplies and personal care items for our scholars. You can visit our Amazon wish list at: https://a.co/fMGm4Zi . Or you can make a monetary donation online at: https://bhghcincinnati.org/donate/. No matter how you choose to help, every contribution makes a difference in the lives of the scholars we serve.

Boys Hope Girls Hope of Cincinnati

2400 Reading Road, Suite 139 | Cincinnati, OH 45202 (513) 721-3380

bhghcincinnati.org

Facebook: @cincinnatibhgh

Instagram: @cincinnatibhgh

Twitter: @cincinnatibhgh

Executive Director: Missy Hendon Deters

Email: mhendondeters@bhgh.org

Board Chair: Steve Arnold

How

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Serve the Community: Boys Hope Girls Hope firmly believes that children have the power to overcome adversity, realize

Board Members: Carl Atkins, Julie Bristow, Melanie Burden, Michael Burke, Mike Caudill (Development Chair), Dave Conway (Nominating Chair), Leon Hampton, Aaron Haslam, Noreen Hayes (Secretary), Michelle Jones, Jean Margello (Program Chair), Graham Mercurio, Keri Mueller, Greg Scruggs, Kelvin Stroupe (Finance Chair), John Succo (Vice Chair), Chris Vollmer, Jr., Dr. Pat White, and Kristin Ostby (President & CEO Boys Hope Girls Hope International)

BRIGHTON CENTER INC.

Who We Are: Brighton Center’s mission is to create opportunities for individuals and families to reach self-sufficiency through family support services, education, employment, and leadership. To us, selfsufficiency is taking responsibility to provide for yourself and your family using available resources to maintain the best quality of life possible. Our vision is to be an innovative leader that strengthens the vitality of the community and engages people as they work and live to achieve their hopes and dreams. We achieve this mission by creating an environment that rewards excellence and innovation, encourages mutual respect, and maximizes resources.

What We Do: Our secret to success in working with families is not only “what” services we provide, but “how” we provide them! Rooted in our core values and guided by our mission, we strive to create an empowering, judgment free atmosphere for individuals and families to create a path toward self-sufficiency. Since 1966, we have grown to provide a comprehensive, holistic range of programs and services which include meeting basic needs, adult and early childhood education, workforce development and training, substance use recovery for women, housing, financial education and asset building, youth services, and neighborhood-based programs. Our comprehensive approach to bundling services allows whole families to move from crisis to stability to long-term self-sufficiency.

Why We’re Important: Offering holistic services to parents and children not only reinforces impact, but also accelerates it as both children and their parents build a solid foundation for the future. We strive to advance integration and holistic programming in a seamless way for families so that there is no wrong door to receiving services. To do this, we bring to life our values, working in partnership with families to build on their strengths, recognizing that they know their situation best, and that they are capable of making decisions that impact their lives. Knowing that issues faced by families and communities are complex, and that making positive changes require multiple services, Brighton Center is truly a community of support. In FY22, we impacted the lives of 28,314 individuals, from infants to older adults through 48 programs across all eight counties of Northern Kentucky, Greater Cincinnati, and beyond.

How We Serve the Community: FY22 Impact

• 5,643 individuals received assistance with food and personal care items.

• 601 children and their parent/guardian participated in our Home Visitation programs.

• 181 youth received crisis intervention services at Homeward Bound Shelter, 37 youth stayed residentially, and 95% of those were able to stay at their home school.

• 457 individuals participated in financial education or coaching services.

• 304 women actively engaged in residential substance use disorder treatment at Brighton Recovery Center for Women.

• 7,510 individuals engaged in career exploration or training opportunities.

• $23,624 is the average wage gain for those who completed our Center for Employment Training and gained employment.

• 1,319 volunteers spent a total of 14,590 hours supporting the organization.

How You Can Help: Brighton Center ensures thousands of families and future generations have the best possible support system as they transform their lives. We invite you to join our Community of Support.

• Donate: financial contributions are critically important to achieve our mission. Donate by check, online, or by becoming a monthly donor!

• Volunteer: we welcome volunteers of all ages and group sizes. From one time, to on-going, we have various opportunities across our 48 programs.

• Support our Wish List: visit our website to view a list of needed items.

• Support our Events: you can support our amazing events by attending or sponsoring.

• Follow us on social media!

Brighton Center, Inc. PO Box 325, Newport, KY 41072 859.491.8303 www.brightoncenter.com facebook.com/brightoncenter twitter.com/brightoncenter instagram.com/brightoncenter linkedin.com/company/brighton-center our handle on all four platforms is @brightoncenter

President & CEO: Wonda Winkler

Email: wwinkler@brightoncenter.com

Development Director: Lauren Copeland

Email: lcopeland@brightoncenter.com

Board Chair: Dan Groneck

Board Members: Board Chair, Dan Groneck; Vice-Chair, Eric Johnson; Secretary, Alicia Townsend; Treasurer, Dave Koeninger

CANCER FAMILY CARE

Who We Are: Cancer Family Care is a local nonprofit organization that helps children and adults cope with the effects of a cancer diagnosis in the family. We are known throughout the region as a force of compassion and strength in the face of cancer-related illness and loss.

What We Do: Cancer Family Care provides individual, couples and family counseling to anyone affected by a cancer diagnosis or loss from the disease. Our therapists are all professionally trained and licensed social workers and counselors. We also offer free wigs, oncology massage and Healing Touch to cancer patients. Our Treehouse Children’s Program includes individual and group therapy in addition to Camp Courage, our day camp for children dealing with cancer or a cancer loss in the family.

Why We’re Important: Our region has incredible medical care for oncology patients. As the awareness and acceptance of the need for mental health care for cancer patients continues to be recognized as critical for whole patient care, we are here to provide the mental and emotional care that patients and their caregivers need. People who have cancer may find the physical, emotional, and social effects of the disease to be stressful. People who are able to use effective coping strategies to deal with stress, such as relaxation and stress management techniques, have been shown to have lower levels of depression, anxiety, and symptoms related to the cancer and its treatment.

How We Serve the Community: Cancer patients and caregivers are eligible for our counseling services. Our programs are available at

five Greater Cincinnati/NKY area offices and via telehealth. Our Treehouse Children’s Program offers both individual and group therapy for children and teens ages 5-18. Treehouse appointments can take place at the child’s school or at one of our offices.

How You Can Help: The number one stressor for those dealing with cancer is finances. Because of our generous donors, we are able to help families deal with the added stress without incurring more financial hardships caused by counseling fees. No one is ever turned away due to a lack of insurance coverage or ability to pay co-payments. Our Treehouse program is always offered at no charge. In addition to financial support, we have volunteer opportunities and in-kind donation needs as well.

Cancer Family Care

4790 Red Bank Expressway, Suite 128, Cincinnati, OH 45227 513-731-3346

www.cancerfamilycare.org

facebook.com/cancerfamilycare

instagram.com/cancerfamilycare

youtube.com/user/CancerFamilyCare

Executive Director: Jill Settlemyre

Email: jsettlemyre@cancerfamilycare.org

Development Director: Kevin Hackman

Email: khackman@cancerfamilycare.org

Board Chair: Brittany Speed

CANCERFREE KIDS

Who We Are: Our mission at CancerFree KIDS is to eradicate cancer as a life-threatening disease in children by funding promising research that might otherwise go unfunded. Before promising new research has the potential to succeed, it must have the resources to begin. We invest in novel, high risk/high reward research that lacks funding elsewhere that may never be tried without our research investment. We do this through the generosity of our supporters who understand that investing in pediatric cancer research is a smart investment in the future, not only for our kids, but for all of us.

What We Do: At CancerFree KIDS, we do one thing. We invest in cutting-edge childhood cancer research. We are the leading funder of early-stage pediatric cancer research at two of the top pediatric cancer hospitals in the country: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (#3) and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (#11), where we identify and invest in research projects that have the highest potential to move the pediatric cancer field forward. Our proven approach is unlike any other pediatric cancer research organization in the region, launching some of the most innovative research projects in the field.

Why We’re Important: Pediatric cancer is the #1 cause of death by disease in children, yet research is desperately underfunded, receiving just 4% of the National Cancer Institute’s budget. More startling, only 35 drugs are approved to treat children’s cancers, compared to hundreds for adults. Drugs that do exist are outdated and harsh on children’s bodies. Since 2002, we’ve invested $8.2 million into 194 pediatric cancer research projects resulting in:

• $ 75.1 million generated in subsequent funding – over 915% return on investment

• 283 scientific publications

• 44 patents

• 20 clinical trials

• 3 start-up companies with origins in our research projects

How We Serve the Community: The impact of CancerFree KIDS goes far beyond our direct investment into research that fuels innovation. Our funding allows early researchers to develop their careers by building capacity and expertise at our partner hospitals, bringing value to both the field and the institutions. We also host four signature events throughout the year to engage the community and the supporters who drive our mission. In everything we do, we strive to create meaningful experiences of celebration and honor for children who have battled cancer and their families.

How You Can Help: There are many ways to get involved with CancerFree KIDS! We invite you to participate or volunteer at one of our four signature events throughout the year: The Butterfly Walk, 100 Mile Challenge, The Celebration of Champions or Night for the Fight. Learn more about ways to get involved at www. cancerfreekids.org/get-involved.

CancerFree KIDS

420 W. Loveland Ave., Loveland, OH 45140 (513) 575-KIDS (5437) www.cancerfreekids.org

Facebook: CancerFree KIDS

Instagram: @cancerfreekids

Executive Director: Jill Brinck

Email: jill@cancerfreekids.org

Development Director): Alicia Lehnert

Email: alicia@cancerfreekids.org

Board Chair: Al Early

Board Members: Kelly Holden, Greg Carroll, Ellen Flannery, Barb Yearout, Margaret Van Gilse, Javier Diaz, Michele Hargis, Rob Reifsnyder, Tom Simpson, Matt Scherocman, Tim O’Neill, Matt Crossin, Kris Karwisch and Andy Cassady

CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY

GREATER CINCINNATI-NORTHERN KENTUCKY (CSC)

Who We Are: No one can, or should, face cancer alone. Cancer Support Community Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky (CSC) is one of over 50 affiliates offering support at more than 175 global locations, the largest professionally led nonprofit network of cancer support worldwide. We are dedicated to ensuring that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. Whether a patient, survivor, loved one, or caregiver, CSC offers a variety of free programs designed to enhance quality of life and strengthen survivorship.

What We Do: Offered in person and virtually, CSC delivers highquality community-based support is at no cost to our participants and includes weekly support groups, healthy lifestyle activities like yoga and meditation, educational presentations, family programs, and social opportunities to connect and reduce isolation. Programs are offered at CSC’s Blue Ash Headquarters and off-site in Northern Kentucky at St. Elizabeth’s Integrative Cancer Center in Edgewood, Eastgate at the Mercy Medical Building and other locations throughout the Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky region.

Why We’re Important: While we have witnessed many significant advances in treating this devastating disease, nothing takes the place of the power, inspiration, companionship, and connection that comes from community. For nearly 30 years, CSC has been enhancing the lives of people in our community through programs designed to improve quality of life and survivorship. Our free emotional and psychosocial support is a critical part of the cancer care continuum. Rooted in evidence, our programs and services support over 4,000 local Greater Cincinnati- Northern Kentucky families & individuals annually. So that no one faces cancer alone.

How We Serve the Community: Backed by evidence that the best cancer care includes psychosocial and emotional support, CSC offers community-based programs and services that are intended

to provide non-medical care to men, women and children with any type or stage of cancer and to their loved ones. The goal is simple: to support a holistic, patient-active approach to wellness. “At the time of my diagnosis I came to the breast cancer support group at CSC. In group I feel understood—truly understood—by people who get where I’m coming from. I’m beyond grateful that this resource is out there for people like me.”

How You Can Help: We believe community is stronger than cancer. Everyone's cancer is unique and their support should be too. Please share our mission with those you love that are impacted by cancer. In addition, CSC 100% through philanthropy, please consider joining our efforts with a contribution, sponsorship, attending an event, volunteering, and more! The impact we have on the lives of those affected by cancer is only as strong as the spirit of those supporting it.

Cancer Support Community

Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky (CSC) 4918 Cooper Road, Cincinnati OH 45242 (513) 791-4060

MyCancerSupportCommunity.org

www.facebook.com/CancerSupportCincinnati/ www.linkedin.com/company/ cancer-support-community-greater-cincinnati-northern-kentucky twitter.com/csccincy

www.instagram.com/cancer_support_cincynky/

Executive Director: Kelly Schoen

Email: kschoen@cancer-support.org

Development Director: Gretchen Ramstetter

Email: gramstetter@cancer-support.org

Board Chair: Joseph A. Cleves, Jr.

CISE CATHOLIC INNER-CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION

Who We Are: For over 40 years CISE (Catholic Inner-city Schools Education) has provided funding to ensure a quality values-based education for children in Cincinnati’s underserved neighborhoods. Founded by three men of different faiths, CISE serves students of all beliefs and backgrounds. CISE supports a variety of innovative operating models to serve our students, as well as focuses on stewardship and accountability in each of the 10 CISE schools. We fundraise for grade school and high school scholarships, as well as support vital wraparound programs. We believe a Catholic education gives young scholars a unique combination of education and values for life.

What We Do: CISE exists to improve the lives of underprivileged children through quality education. Through generous donors, CISE supports 10 Catholic grade schools, 2,300 students (PK8) and over 400 high school scholarship recipients in 13 Catholic high schools. These Catholic schools serve students of all beliefs and backgrounds (66% non-Catholic) with the single mission of educating children out of poverty and into better lives. This mission transforms lives, unlocks possibilities, and rewrites futures - one deserving and determined child at a time. CISE focuses on three key pillars which are vital to changing the cycle of poverty: Excellence in Education, A Safe, Nurturing Environment, and Values for Life.

Why We’re Important: Four in ten children currently live in poverty in our city; this ranks among the highest in the nation. Research substantiates that a quality education is the most effective way to eliminate poverty. CISE schools give students (91% living in poverty) access to a quality, private Catholic education. Many CISE scholars are the among the first in their families to attend college. The formation of critical values such as discipline, responsibility, perseverance, and respect extends far beyond formal education provided in CISE schools.

How We Serve the Community: CISE serves the community by providing access to a solid, values-based education, and a pathway out of poverty to children in Cincinnati’s inner-city. To further support our students (and their families), we provide additional wraparound services such as: school nurses, mental and behavioral health support, family resource referrals, weekend food for food-insecure children, after-school study and sports programs, math intervention, summer engagement, and many other partnership resources. CISE continues educational support to our grade school students by providing scholarship opportunities to Catholic high schools as well as student advocates in each high school that our students attend.

How You Can Help: First, please pray for our schools, our teachers, and our students. The work we are doing is vital. Second, invest in these young lives by giving to CISE. Donations can be made through our website at cisekids.org. If you are an Ohio resident, you can receive a state tax credit ($750 for individuals or $1500 for married couples) by donating to the CISE-SGO (Scholarship Granting Organization). Third, contact our office to learn more about how you can become a part of CISE.

CISE

100 E. 8th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

513-263-3471

www.cisekids.org

www.facebook.com/CISEkids

www.instagram.com/cise_cincinnati

Executive Director: Phil McHugh

Email: pmchugh@cisekids.org

Development Director: Kelly Camm

Email: kcamm@cisekids.org

Board Chair: Donald Mellott, Jr.

CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM

Who We Are: The Cincinnati Art Museum features a diverse, encyclopedic art collection of more than 67,000 works spanning 6,000 years. In addition to displaying its own global, dynamic collection, the museum hosts several exhibitions each year. From Van Gogh to Warhol, from Cincinnati to Africa, the museum tells the story of the history of art.

General admission to the Cincinnati Art Museum is always free. Exhibition pricing may vary. Parking is free. The museum is open Tuesday– Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thursday, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.

What We Do: Through the power of art, the Cincinnati Art Museum contributes to a more vibrant Cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.

We believe that a vibrant city integrates art and design into its civic agenda. Connecting people and art is central to this belief and at the core of all we do. We believe that inspiration, empowerment, education and community building are the highest purposes of museum programs, exhibitions, collecting, conservation, interpretation and scholarship.

Why We’re Important: The Cincinnati Art Museum serves as a hub for the community—a welcoming, beautiful location where families can come together.

We present exhibitions and public programming that empower, educate and build community through culturally rich and diverse experiences.

Founded in 1881 by a group of volunteers on the notion of servicing the public, the museum boldly carries the civic mandate forward to this day. We were one of the first art museums in the westward expansion of our country, and the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum are among the largest and finest in the nation.

How We Serve the Community: In addition to the experiences we provide within our walls, our outreach efforts take us to schools,

community centers, libraries and festivals as we work to bring art to the public. The museum also offers partnership opportunities for specific areas of geographic focus, called Art For Life, as well as lectures, hands-on art-making activities and other programs. We are proud to offer an experience for everyone, including baby tours, docent-led tours, and accessibility tours for visitors with vision and hearing impairments. The Rosenthal Education Center (REC) provides interactive activities for art lovers of all ages.

How You Can Help: There are many ways to make a difference at the museum, including volunteering, donating to the Annual Fund or visiting our collection, exhibitions, programs and events!

Cincinnati Art Museum

953 Eden Park Drive Cincinnati, OH 45202 (513) 721-ARTS (2787)

www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

Facebook: @cincinnatiartmuseum

Instagram: @cincyartmuseum

TikTok: @cincyartmuseum

Executive Director: Cameron Kitchin, Louis and Louise Dieterle Nippert Director

Development Director: Kirby Neumann

Board Leadership: Amy L. Hanson, Chair

Rance G. Duke, President

Bruce Petrie, Jr., Vice President

Andrew B. Quinn, Treasurer

Dr. Anu M. Mitra, Secretary

CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED (CABVI)

Who We Are: Founded in 1911, CABVI provides comprehensive services for people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired. The agency helps more than 4,000 people annually adapt to vision loss in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region. CABVI receives client referrals for services from local eye doctors, hospitals, schools, and other social service agencies in the Greater Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky area. CABVI has two Cincinnati locations: we house our vision rehabilitation services at CABVI on Gilbert Avenue near Eden Park and we provide employment for people with vision loss at the Hornbeck Social Enterprise Center on Kenner Street in the West End.

What We Do: CABVI’s programs include Early Childhood and Youth Services, Social Services, Vision Rehabilitation Therapy, Orientation and Mobility Services, Low Vision Services, Radio Reading Services, Talking Book Machine Services, Personalized Talking Print Services, Volunteer Services, and Access Technology Services. CABVI provides employment opportunities for people with vision loss in our Industries Program and other social enterprises. We sell office and janitorial supplies through www.VIE-Ability.org. CABVI operates a Base Supply Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that employs people who are blind. We also provide employment in contract management services and transportation logistics.

Why We’re Important: CABVI’s mission is “Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with opportunities to seek independence.” CABVI is associated with the National Industries for the Blind (NIB), the National Association for the Employment of People Who are Blind (NAEPB), Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER), International Association of Audio Information Services (IAAIS), Ohio Radio Reading Services (ORRS), and VisionServe Alliance (VSA). CABVI is a Better Business Bureau Accredited Charity. CABVI won the 2018 BBB Torch Award for outstanding ethics and received Redwood’s 2021 Shattering Barriers Award in the Small Business category.

How We Serve the Community: CABVI serves people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired in Greater Cincinnati. Our

service area includes eight counties in Ohio (Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland, and Warren) and three counties in Kentucky (Boone, Campbell, and Kenton). We also serve adjoining counties as needed.

How You Can Help: CABVI welcomes community support through financial donations and volunteer opportunities. Volunteers assist people by: reading on-air for Radio Reading Services; reading newspapers, magazines, or other materials over the telephone for Personalized Talking Print (PTP); providing transportation and serving as sighted guides, and helping with administrative projects and special events. For more information or to make a donation, please call (513) 221-8558 or visit our website at www.cincyblind.org.

Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired (CABVI)

2045 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-221-8558

www.facebook.com/CABVIcincy

www.twitter.com/CABVICincy

www.instagram.com/CABVIcincy

www.youtube.com/channel/UCyo0HR3tJRQ4NQZ6gcf5JGg www.linkedin.com/company/cabvi/

Executive Director: Teri Shirk, President/CEO

Email: teri.shirk@cincyblind.org

Development Director: Aaron Bley, VP of Community Relations/CDO Email: aaron.bley@cincyblind.org

Board Chair: Glen Vogel, Board Chair

Board Members: Dennis W. Dern, Immediate Past Chair; Kim Ravenhall, Vice Chair/Treasurer; Patty Weller-Bresler, Vice Chair/Secretary; Tim Smith, Vice Chair

CINCINNATI CANCER ADVISORS

Who We Are: Cincinnati Cancer Advisors is an oncology consultation practice founded by Dr. William Barrett in 2018 that offers zero-cost second opinion oncology services for nearly 400 patients in the Greater Cincinnati Area. Our team of expert cancer advisors brings more than 30 years of experience consulting with and treating cancer patients.

What We Do:Cincinnati Cancer Advisors exists to improve the care of cancer patients seeking a second opinion so that they walk away with a thorough understanding of their diagnosis and plan of care. We provide world-class consultative and expert genetic counseling services to help mitigate the suffering that often accompanies a cancer diagnosis.

Why We’re Important: We believe that great care begins with a great plan and in doing so we hope to take those feelings of chaos out of a cancer diagnosis by making second opinions more accessible. Our mission is to make Cincinnati one of the best places in the U.S. to be for those facing the adversary of cancer. This is the only program of its kind in the nation and provides patients with several resources to help lessen the burden of an overwhelming process.

How We Serve the Community:We provide expert oncology advice, at no cost to the patient. Cincinnati Cancer Foundation covers all the costs in an altruistic attempt to raise the level of cancer care in the Greater Cincinnati community. Our organization provides services to nearly 400 Greater Cincinnati cancer patients each year.

How You Can Help: There are several ways to get involved with Cincinnati Cancer Advisors: Register as a sponsor or supporter at one of our upcoming events, purchase tickets to the event, make a donation or volunteer your services.

Cincinnati Cancer Advisors

4805 Montgomery Rd, Suite 130, Cincinnati, OH 45212, USA 513-731-2273 (CARE)

www.cincinnaticanceradvisors.org/

www.facebook.com/CincinnatiCancerAdvisors/ Handle: @CincinnatiCancerAdvisors

www.instagram.com/CincinnatiCancerAdvisors/ Handle: @CincinnatiCancerAdvisors

twitter.com/CancerAdvisors Handle: @CancerAdvisors

www.linkedin.com/company/cincinnati-cancer-advisors information@cincinnaticanceradvisors.org

Executive Director:Steve Abbott

steve.abbott@cincinnaticanceradvisors.org

(859) 653-4686

Board Chair: William Barrett, M.D.

Board Members: C. Francis Barrett, J. Kenneth Blackwell, Joyce Elkus, Tim Fogarty, Dr. Thomas Herzog, Lucinda Heekin, Ron Joseph, Florence Koetters, Dr. Neville G. Pinto, John Shepherd, Jim Sowar, Brendan White

CINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH

Who We Are: CGGY provides at-risk children, adolescents, and young adults with a cost-free opportunity to participate in the sport of competitive Olympic-style youth boxing in a safe, supportive, and positive environment, encouraging development of essential physical, psychological, and social skills and competencies.

What We Do:

• Build strong foundation for health and fitness by teaching Olympic-style boxing fundamentals (coordination, mobility, balance, weight management, nutrition)

• Improve mental and emotional health by developing skills necessary for excelling both inside and outside the boxing ring (self-confidence, self-discipline, goal setting, impulse control, self-respect, redirecting anger/aggression)

• Promote pro-social behaviors in a collaborative team training environment (good sportsmanship, coaching/mentoring, sense of direction, self-worth, character, mutual aid and support)

• Continue to develop and maintain team capable of competing in USA Boxing competitions at the local, regional, national, and international levels

Why We’re Important: The Olympic sport of youth amateur boxing is a uniquely effective outreach tool to engage at-risk youth in a positive activity promoting development of physical, psychological, and social skills. We are the only not-for-profit, free youth boxing program in Cincinnati.

How We Serve the Community: CGGY uses the sport of Olympic-style youth boxing as an outreach tool to engage at-risk youth and promote the development of key physical, psychological and social skills. All of our programming and services are provided free of charge, which removes economic

barriers to participating in the sport. Our year-round training sessions are Monday thru Friday from 4 pm until 7 pm. In addition to boxing, we expose at-risk youth to a variety of experiences and growth opportunities for building life skills and core competencies. We address food insecurity by providing healthy snacks and meals to participants. We capitalize on preexisting community and corporate resources by partnering with organizations that can connect participants with social services and targeted developmental opportunities.

How You Can Help: CGGY relies on donations and grants to fund our facilities, staff, and programming.

Cincinnati Golden Gloves for Youth

(boxing gym) 1715 Republic St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 (learning center) 19 W. Elder St., 1st Flr., Cincinnati, OH 45202 (mailing address) 2334 Boudinot Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45238 913-954-7160

www.cincinnatiboxing.org

Instagram @cincinnati_goldengloves

Facebook: Cincinnati Golden Gloves for Youth

Executive Director: Christina LaRosa

Email: christina@cincinnatiboxing.org

Development Director: Marisa LaRosa Arquilla

Email: mlarosa-arquilla@larosas.com

Board Chair: Michael T. LaRosa

Board Members: Donald S. “Buddy” LaRosa – founder; Michael T. LaRosa; Mark A. LaRosa; John Burns; Johnny Burns; Bill Burwinkel; Steve; Caudill; Ryan Ernst; Jonah Neuman; Jan Neumann; Frostee Rucker; Candice Tolbert

CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER

Who We Are: Cincinnati Nature Center is dedicated to Inspiring Conservation through personal experiences, education, and care for the land. Each year, we welcome thousands of nature enthusiasts to explore our 20 miles of award-winning hiking trails, which provide access to our 1,800 acres of forests, prairies, streams, ponds, and wetlands. We offer educational programs, volunteer opportunities, clubs, and events where people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities can engage with nature at their own pace and within their own interests.

What We Do: Through research, education, and proven conservation tactics, we protect land and wildlife while educating people on what they can do to help in their own yards, neighborhoods, and communities. For children, we offer opportunities for nature play, exploration, and discov¬ery in our Nature PlayScape and through programming, school field trips, camps, and our Nature School.

Why We’re Important: Cincinnati Nature Center is a place for everyone! Whether you engage in an educational program, feed turtles at the lake, hike your favorite trail, or rest on a bridge to take in the stream life below, you can experience a diverse ecosystem that thousands of species call home. As more land continues to be developed, protecting natural habitats like those that make up Cincinnati Nature Center is more important than ever.

How We Serve the Community: Cincinnati Nature Center believes that all children should have opportunities to play outside, regardless of economic or geographic barriers. EarthKids is a year-round community outreach program that collaborates with community and social service agencies who serve financially challenged youth and adults/caregivers throughout Greater Cincinnati and Clermont County. Our staff and volunteer naturalists introduce participants to nature through a variety of on‐site, hands-on experiences using an engaging manner that helps alleviate fears and encourages exploration.

How You Can Help:

• Join: Members enjoy free access to Rowe Woods, exclusive access to Long Branch Farm & Trails, and valuable discounts on programs, events, and camps. We offer levels for individuals, couples, and fami¬lies. Membership is also a great gift!

• Donate: As a 501(c)3, we do not receive funding from city or county government entities. We rely on the generous gifts of mem¬bers, corporations, private foundations, and donors to fulfill our mission.

• Volunteer: Teach visitors about nature, steward the land, assist with events, help with office duties.

Cincinnati Nature Center

4949 Tealtown Road, Milford, OH 45150 513-831-1711

www.CincyNature.org

Social Media: @cincynature

Executive Director: Jeff Corney

Email: jcorney@cincynature.org

Development Director: Karen Sieber

Email: ksieber@cincynature.org

Board Chair: David Bohl

Board Members: Scott Aaron, Marge C. Anderson, Sarah Anness Evans, William H. Fry, Meri Johnson, Irwin Simon, Gates M. Moss, Joan Popowics, Jana M. Beal, Kyle Charles Brooks, Victoria W. Carr, EdD; John S. Ficks, Christy Kaeser Holmes, John R. Jarnigo, Peter M. Kwiatkowski, John Lucas, D. Lachlan C. McLean, Lynne M. Miller, Devin Patchell, MD, MPH; Michael Schott, Regina R. Sharp, Erica M. Spitzig, Abby Tuke, Laura Welles Wilson, Anthony Woodward

Who We Are: e Cris Collinsworth ProScan Fund (“CCPF”) is a non-pro t organization in Cincinnati. CCPF was founded in 2002 with a two-pronged mission to raise the bar in improving women’s health, particularly with mammography, and to empower our community’s youth by fostering self-esteem, sportsmanship, and critical thinking through the game of chess.

Who We Are: e Cris Collinsworth ProScan Fund (“CCPF”) is a non-pro t organization in Cincinnati. CCPF was founded in 2002 with a two-pronged mission to raise the bar in improving women’s health, particularly with mammography, and to empower our community’s youth by fostering self-esteem, sportsmanship, and critical thinking through the game of chess.

What We Do: For twenty-two years, CCPF has served women in Greater Cincinnati through our breast cancer programs and has provided support for patients locally and around the country. We provide education, support, and early detection services in a comprehensive approach to the ght against breast cancer. We host a large fundraising event every year to support our e orts called e Pink Ribbon which has become a beloved annual event for the city of Cincinnati. e Queen City Classic Chess Tournament was also started twenty-two years ago as a way to bring children together to play chess. It has grown to become one of the largest youth tournaments in the Midwest and is also an exciting event that the community looks forward to. Our Chess in Schools program was born out of the success of the Queen City Classic and we provide chess instruction to children as a way to mentor and develop important life skills that will help kids succeed.

now draws up to 700 players each year and all proceeds raised from the event funds our Chess in Schools program. Our Chess in Schools program provides chess instruction as part of the school day curculum and a er school chess clubs by placing trained chess instructors in elementary, middle, and high schools throughout Greater Cincinnati to teach the game to local students. We are active in over 50 TriState schools and serve aproximately 2000 children annually. In addition, we o er Chess in the Park, a community summer program providing chess play and instruction at Ziegler Park. We also o er Chessboards for Kids so children can have a board of their own.

How You Can Help:

You can help support our impactful programs!

• Donate. Mail a donation directly to our o ce; visit our website at ccpf.org

• Join us! Attend our annual fundraising events:

now draws up to 700 players each year and all proceeds raised from the event funds our Chess in Schools program. Our Chess in Schools program provides chess instruction as part of the school day curculum and a er school chess clubs by placing trained chess instructors in elementary, middle, and high schools throughout Greater Cincinnati to teach the game to local students. We are active in over 50 TriState schools and serve aproximately 2000 children annually. In addition, we o er Chess in the Park, a community summer program providing chess play and instruction at Ziegler Park. We also o er Chessboards for Kids so children can have a board of their own.

Why We’re Important: rough the Pink Ribbon Programs, we remove barriers for women to access potentially lifesaving early detection in addition to our comprehensive support services. rough the Chess Programs, we provide children of all backgrounds the ability to develop important life skills such as critical and strategic thinking, patience and good sportsmanship through chess instruction and play.

What We Do: For twenty-two years, CCPF has served women in Greater Cincinnati through our breast cancer programs and has provided support for patients locally and around the country. We provide education, support, and early detection services in a comprehensive approach to the ght against breast cancer. We host a large fundraising event every year to support our e orts called e Pink Ribbon which has become a beloved annual event for the city of Cincinnati. e Queen City Classic Chess Tournament was also started twenty-two years ago as a way to bring children together to play chess. It has grown to become one of the largest youth tournaments in the Midwest and is also an exciting event that the community looks forward to. Our Chess in Schools program was born out of the success of the Queen City Classic and we provide chess instruction to children as a way to mentor and develop important life skills that will help kids succeed.

Why We’re Important: rough the Pink Ribbon Programs, we remove barriers for women to access potentially lifesaving early detection in addition to our comprehensive support services. rough the Chess Programs, we provide children of all backgrounds the ability to develop important life skills such as critical and strategic thinking, patience and good sportsmanship through chess instruction and play.

How We Serve the Community: We currently operate two Pink Ribbon Centers located in Tri-County and Red Bank. Our Pink Ribbon Centers provide early detection services with state of the art imaging and are open to all women. e Mammogram Match and Breast MRI Programs provide complimentary scans and breast MRI’s for patients who qualify and when you get your annual scan through a Pink Ribbon Center you help to support this program. Cruisin’ for a Cure provides transportation services to all patients with appointments at the Pink Ribbon Centers. CCPF also provides a beautifully appointed bag lled with educational and emotional support items for newly diagnosed patients through the Pink Ribbon Bag Program. Additionally, the Survivor Circle provides one-on-one support for those going through their breast cancer journey.

e rst Queen City Classic Chess Tournament, held in the spring of 2002, drew 350 students and was a huge success. e event

How We Serve the Community: We currently operate two Pink Ribbon Centers located in Tri-County and Red Bank. Our Pink Ribbon Centers provide early detection services with state of the art imaging and are open to all women. e Mammogram Match and Breast MRI Programs provide complimentary scans and breast MRI’s for patients who qualify and when you get your annual scan through a Pink Ribbon Center you help to support this program. Cruisin’ for a Cure provides transportation services to all patients with appointments at the Pink Ribbon Centers. CCPF also provides a beautifully appointed bag lled with educational and emotional support items for newly diagnosed patients through the Pink Ribbon Bag Program. Additionally, the Survivor Circle provides one-on-one support for those going through their breast cancer journey.

e rst Queen City Classic Chess Tournament, held in the spring of 2002, drew 350 students and was a huge success. e event

How You Can Help:

– e Pink Ribbon Luncheon brings 1500 community members together to support the Pink Ribbon Programs featuring educational speakers and dynamic performers, as well as a live and silent auction.

You can help support our impactful programs!

– e Queen City Classic Chess Tournament hosts 700 children for a day tournament and supports the Chess in Schools Programs with a fundraising event for sponsors on the opening night of tournament weekend.

• Donate. Mail a donation directly to our o ce; visit our website at ccpf.org

• Volunteer. Volunteer power is key to our success. Volunteers help pack Pink Ribbon Bags, work our chess tournament, and make our annual events possible! Please call us at 866.577.7465 or email ccpfevents@proscan.com to learn more.

Cris Collinsworth ProScan Fund

• Join us! Attend our annual fundraising events: – e Pink Ribbon Luncheon brings 1500 community members together to support the Pink Ribbon Programs featuring educational speakers and dynamic performers, as well as a live and silent auction.

5400 Kennedy Avenue, Cincinnati Ohio 45213 866.577.7465

ccpfevents@proscan.com / ccpf.org Text CCPF to 74121 www.facebook.com/criscollinsworthproscanfund www.instagram.com/cris_collinsworth_proscan_fund

– e Queen City Classic Chess Tournament hosts 700 children for a day tournament and supports the Chess in Schools Programs with a fundraising event for sponsors on the opening night of tournament weekend.

Co-founders: Holly Collinsworth and Penny Pomeranz

Executive Director: Brook Drummond Email: bdrummond@proscan.com

Board Members: Troy Blackburn, Robert Brant, Esq., Karen Cassidy, Cris Collinsworth, Holly Collinsworth, Esq., L. omas Hiltz, Esq., Ellen Knue, Penny Pomeranz, Stephen Pomeranz M.D., Gerald Powers, M.D., Mabe Rodriguez Steigerwald, Russell Wilson, Esq.

• Volunteer. Volunteer power is key to our success. Volunteers help pack Pink Ribbon Bags, work our chess tournament, and make our annual events possible! Please call us at 866.577.7465 or email ccpfevents@proscan.com to learn more.

Cris Collinsworth ProScan Fund 5400 Kennedy Avenue, Cincinnati Ohio 45213 866.577.7465

ccpfevents@proscan.com / ccpf.org Text CCPF to 74121 www.facebook.com/criscollinsworthproscanfund www.instagram.com/cris_collinsworth_proscan_fund

Co-founders: Holly Collinsworth and Penny Pomeranz

Executive Director: Brook Drummond Email: bdrummond@proscan.com

Board Members: Troy Blackburn, Robert Brant, Esq., Karen Cassidy, Cris Collinsworth, Holly Collinsworth, Esq., L. omas Hiltz, Esq., Ellen Knue, Penny Pomeranz, Stephen Pomeranz M.D., Gerald Powers, M.D., Mabe Rodriguez Steigerwald, Russell Wilson, Esq.

THE CURE STARTS NOW

Who We Are: The Cure Starts Now started with just one child in 2007. Today, The Cure Starts Now, with headquarters here in Cincinnati, is comprised of over 600 families and 39 chapters around the world dedicated to finding the Homerun Cure™ for all cancers. It begins with a focus on one of the deadliest cancers: Pediatric brain cancer. Experts believe that the lessons we learn from fighting pediatric brain cancer may provide us with the critical first step in winning the battle against all cancers, both pediatric and adult. This revolutionary strategy is about fighting cancer not according to the numbers but based on knowledge and research.

What We Do: The Cure Starts Now actively seeks to create new research collaborations and protocols for pediatric brain cancer that were previously thought to be too ambitious or impossible. To this end, we raise funds in support of innovative and groundbreaking research. We have a yearly grant funding cycle in which our Medical Advisory Council reviews submitted grants to determine their relevance to our research strategy and makes recommendations based on funding abilities determined by our board. When we choose a grant to fund, we make an active effort to be part of the research from the check presentation to the conclusion.

Why We’re Important: Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children with over 11% or 2.9 children per day dying each year. Yet, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) designates less than 6% of its annual research budget to ALL pediatric cancer research. Since 2007, in collaboration with our partners, we have funded over $29.5 million for 132 medical research grants and support. In 2022 alone, we were able to fund 19 grants. We are the team fighting for those that have been or currently in the battle who may be too young to speak for themselves. We like to say, “Family Never Fights Alone”.

How We Serve the Community: The Cure Starts Now supports innovative research and trials that provide treatment to over 3,000 children battling cancer worldwide every year. We are the largest pediatric cancer research foundation resulting in the establishment of The Cure Starts Now Brain Tumor Center, as part of a multi-

million dollar donation to fund pediatric brain cancer research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

How You Can Help: The easiest and most impactful way to support our efforts is simply by donating which can be made online at donate2csn.org/. There are many ways to get more involved:

• Sponsorship of the many events we have in both Cincinnati and across the country.

• Host a school event like “Caps For The Cure” or “Gold Out Game”. Log onto our website for other programs like “My Bake Sale” or “Nerf Cancer”.

• Get your community involved by making your own event/fundraiser. We can provide support with our top-notch events and marketing staff.

• Our events are successful in large part because of the support of volunteers. Donating your time and energy goes a long way and is greatly appreciated. It makes a big difference in raising funds for critical research.

The Cure Starts Now

10280 Chester Road, Cincinnati, OH 45215 (513) 772-4888

Thecurestartsnow.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheCureStartsNow

Facebook lc: www.facebook.com/csncincinnati

Instagram: www.instagram.com/curestartsnow

Twitter: twitter.com/curestartsnow

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/Thecurestartsnowfoundation

YouTube: www.youtube.com/curestartsnow

Executive Director: Brooke Desserich

Email: Brooke@Thecurestartsnow.org

Partnership Director: Jim Getgey | Melissa Fleming

Email: Jim@thecurestartsnow.org

Melissa.fleming@thecurestartsnow.org

Board Chair: Keith Desserich

DEPAUL CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL

Who We Are: DePaul Cristo Rey is Greater Cincinnati’s only Catholic high school exclusively serving young people who want to go to college but whose families lack the financial means to support their college dreams. All students receive financial aid and they work in local businesses earning part of their own education costs through our Corporate Work Study Program. Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, DPCR is one of 38 high schools in the nationwide Cristo Rey Network® which serves 12,300 young people.

What We Do: DePaul Cristo Rey ignites students’ dreams and fuels their potential through education, professional work experience, and intensive support to help them complete high school, enroll in and successfully complete college. In addition to being the only local high school with a Corporate Work Study Program, DPCR is also the only local high school with a full-fledged Graduate Success Program providing human and financial resources to support alumni to college completion. Through the Graduate Success Fund, alumni can apply for microgrants to fill college financial shortfalls such as tuition gaps, books, bus cards, and meal plans.

Why We’re Important: Many young people in our community lack access to quality schools and the opportunity to pursue higher education, but they don’t lack dreams, drive or motivation. Many businesses and organizations in our community seek better ways to improve their pipeline of future talent and demonstrate their commitment to workforce diversity and community engagement. DePaul Cristo Rey is their common thread offering students college-prep, faith-based education; exposure to the professional world; and a Corporate Work Study Program that benefits both students and business partners.

How We Serve the Community: DePaul Cristo Rey students are this region’s future college graduates, professionals, parents,

community leaders, and changemakers. At DPCR, they are prepared, encouraged and supported to embrace their potential, find their voices, enroll in and graduate from college; most of them are the first in their families to go to college. Nationally and locally low-income and minority students have significantly lower college graduation rates than their middle and high-income peers. However, Cristo Rey students are two times more likely to complete a bachelor’s degree by age 24, compared to the total U.S. low-income population.

DePaul Cristo Rey High School

3440 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45225 513-861-0600

www.depaulcristorey.org

Facebook: DePaul-Cristo-Rey-High-School-Cincinnati

Instagram: depaulcristorey

LinkedIn: DePaul Cristo Rey High School

Twitter: @DePaulCristoRey

YouTube: Bruin Mascot

President & CEO: Siobhan Taylor

Email: siobhan.taylor@dpcr.net

Vice President of Advancement: Sparkle Worley

Email: sparkle.worley@dpcr.net

Board Chair: Tim Stautberg

Board Members: John Browner; Tonya F. Carter; Sister Joan Cook, SC; Sister Barbara Davis, SC; Chuma Ekwueme; Richard Haglage; Gretta Heath; Kathleen (Kathy) Hidy, J.D; Cindy Howell; Gail Kist-Kline; Jack Kortekamp; Mona Morrow; Dan Neyer; Jim Price; Cathy Ramstetter, Ph.D.; Nick Reilly; James B. “Rick” Reynolds; Joe Rohs; Julie Ross; Michael Schuster; Siobhan Taylor, ex officio; Sister CJ Willie, SC; George Yund

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THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION

Who We Are: The Dragonfly Foundation (TDF) is a 12-year-old nonprofit that supports the families of pediatric cancer patients in this region. TDF works directly with our partner, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and others, to lend a hand to families during their cancer journey.

What We Do: Dragonfly delivers our mission of support through patient and family events, care packages for newly diagnosed patients, hair loss education and coping, community support and more. We work to enhance the healing process and lessen the emotional and physical toll that is associated with a cancer diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and maintenance. We understand that, even though treatment may end, the post-traumatic stress, the challenges of side effects and the anxiety of recurrence may challenge families for years. We build community to help families connect with others who have or are facing similar experiences.

Why We Are Important: TDF is the first organization in the region to expand into a fully comprehensive cancer patient and family care organization. Dragonfly has shifted the paradigm of patient care into something that is transformative for the patients and their families, and genuinely improves their outlooks. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to deliver on our mission of support.

How We Serve the Community: Dragonfly enhances our partner hospitals’ ability to serve their patients by offering services that complete the patient experience. Furthermore, TDDF has been

able to fill patient and hospital requests that venture far outside the possibilities of other organizations by doing one thing: connecting. We empower our community supporters by bridging the gap between their resources, skills and abilities; and our patients, who at times require assistance outside the scope of most other organizations.

How You Can Help: Everyone has something to offer for the greater good. Financial contributions, gift donations, volunteer hours, celebrity connections, or other skills, abilities and talents are welcome. Please share your heart with families in need. Learn more and donate at dragonfly.org.

The Dragonfly Foundation

506 Oak Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219 513-494-6474

Dragonfly.org

Facebook: The Dragonfly Foundation

Twitter: DragonflyCinci

Instagram: The_Dragonfly_Foundation

Executive Director: Christine Neitzke

Email: c.neitzke@dragonfly.org

Development Director: Greg Vehr

Email: g.vehr@dragonfly.org

Board Chair: Robert Brown, Esq., Graydon Law

THE ERICA J. HOLLOMAN FOUNDATION FOR THE AWARENESS OF TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER

Who We Are: The Erica J. Holloman Foundation For The Awareness Of Triple Negative Breast Cancer is a nonprofit organization founded in 2012 in honor of Dr. Erica J. Holloman. Erica was a young African-American woman diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) at the age of 31. During her cancer fighting journey she saw the need to let others know about this highly aggressive form of breast cancer. Our vision is to educate the community, give hope, and to empower women and men to make proactive decisions regarding their health that will lead to the prevention of TNBC.

What We Do: The Erica J. Holloman Foundation continues to educate through community events within the Cincinnati area and nationwide. We have partnered with one of Greater Cincinnati’s largest health networks to host the first forum on Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Our College Students Against TNBC campaign promotes awareness in our next generation. On October 2nd, college students wear special t-shirts and spread awareness by posting throughout social media. We also strive to meet a special need through our annual Bra Drive where we have donated over 6000 new bras to women’s shelters, back to work programs, and disaster relief initiatives.

Why We’re Important: About 15 to 20 percent of all breast cancer cases are diagnosed as triple-negative. Findings on triple negative breast cancer are very scarce but research indicates that TNBC has one of the greatest mortality rates and the highest risk of death with this type of cancer among women of color. The Erica J. Holloman Foundation has become the necessary bridge to create new conversation about TNBC research, treatments options, breast care, and help mend the health gap that is prevalent between our communities.

How We Serve the Community: The Erica J. Holloman Foundation prides itself on ensuring we are immersed in the community. We believe that the knowledge about this form of cancer is best delivered by personally meeting with the people and leaders in the community. One of our greatest rewards is when we create partnerships between individuals living with TNBC. Every year we give special recognition and a gift basket to a woman newly diagnosed with TNBC and that has undergone a double

mastectomy and reconstruction. We also promote community screenings by organizing mammography vans in neighborhoods that may have less access to quality health care.

How You Can Help:

• DONATE ONLINE OR BY CHECK: visit www. ericajhollomanfoundation.org or mail check to foundation address

• DRIVE AWARENESS: (Ohio Residents) Purchase Ohio’s first TNBC Awareness license plate. Each plate donates $25 to The Foundation.

• ANNUAL BRA DRIVE: Donate NEW BRAS. Monetary donations can be made by check or online and are used to purchase bras.

• K ROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS: Enroll and earn rewards for the Erica J. Holloman Foundation when you use your loyalty card.

• AMAZON SMILES: Sign up for Amazon Smiles and select The Erica J. Holloman Foundation as your charity.

Most importantly, talk about Triple Negative Breast Cancer to everyone you know.

The Erica J. Holloman Foundation for the Awareness of Triple Negative Breast Cancer

P.O. Box 14334, Cincinnati, Ohio 45250-0334

513-541-6110

www.ericajhollomanfoundationince.org

Facebook.com/theericajhollomanfoundation

President: Josie Holloman-Adams

Email: ejhollomanfoundation@yahoo.com

Vice President: Dr. Ebony Griggs-Griffin

Board Members: Ra’Shawn Brown, Mona Jenkins, Gina Jordan, Kelly M. Lane, Dr. McKenzie McNeal III, Kim Moreno-Mays, Sonal Shackelford, Dr. Leesha Thrower

Communications Coordinator: Lakisha Taylor

FREESTORE FOODBANK

Who We Are: Freestore Foodbank’s mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community, and our vision is to create a hunger-free, healthy, and thriving community. To achieve this vision, our objectives are to provide nutritious food, connect to support services and offering a pathway from crisis to stability.

What We Do:Freestore Foodbank is the largest emergency food and services provider to children and families in Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana. The organization distributes 37 million meals annually to low-income individuals and families. The Freestore Foodbank supports 613 community partners in 20 counties throughout Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, including food kitchens, homeless shelters, emergency food pantries, social service centers and program sites.

Why We’re Important: By providing emergency food distribution, Freestore Foodbank responds to the issue of poverty and food insecurity in our community and provides an array of services (emergency clothing, housing services, SNAP assistance, Medicaid outreach, workforce development programs and others) aimed at creating selfreliance. Freestore Foodbank is a member of Feeding America.

How We Serve the Community:

• Provided 37 million meals to our community.

• Provided 11 million pounds of produce and Rescued 7 million pounds of food from local retailers

• 14,446 volunteers served and gave 51,979 hours to Freestore Foodbank

How You Can Help: You can join us in helping to make a difference. With your help, Freestore Foodbank is able to help provide our hungry neighbors in the tristate area.

• D onate: $1 could help provide 3 meals to those in need. Your generosity creates stability and hope for our neighbors facing hunger during these unprecedented time.

• Volunteer: Volunteers are a vital part of Freestore Foodbank’s strategic plan to provide meals to hungry children and

families in our tristate area. Every time you volunteer, you will leave knowing that you have helped to provide Food, Connection and Hope for our neighbors in need. To volunteer with us, please contact volunteer@freestorefoodbank.org or call 513-482-7550

• Host a Virtual Food Drive: What’s a virtual food drive? Our most efficient, impactful food drive to get your friends, coworkers and family engaged to help fight hunger. Instead of going to the grocery store and buying canned food, especially during this uncertain time, we will help you create a link to encourage people to donate to the Freestore Foodbank to purchase food for our neighbors in need. To start a Virtual Food Drive, go to Freestorefoodbank.org/host-a-canned-food-drive

Freestore Foodbank

1141 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-482-4500

www.freestorefoodbank.org

facebook.com/freestorefoodbank twitter.com/freestoreFB

instagram.com/freestorefb

linkedin.com/company/freestorefoodbank

Executive Director: Kurt Reiber (CEO)

Email: kreiber@freestorefoodbank.org

Development Director: Trisha Rayner

Email: trayner@freestorefoodbank.org

Board Chair: Marty Dunn

Damon Allen - Vice Chair Development

Sue Baggott - Vice Chair Governance and Trusteeship

Dwinelva Zachery - Board Secretary

Mike Haught - Treasurer

GIVING VOICE FOUNDATION

Who We Are: The Giving Voice Foundation is a local grassroots nonprofit organization. GVF was formally founded in 2020 after several years of successful fundraising in the community for Alzheimer’s disease support. We are on a mission to inspire cross generational conversations and connection to improve the health of older adults through regional advocacy, education efforts, engagement programs and storytelling. Our work directly impacts quality of life, infrastructure, and organizations that work with older adults every day in the Cincinnati community.

What We Do: We directly serve local older adults with dementia and Alzheimer’s as well as their caregivers. Each week we provide direct programming to encourage connection, to lift them up, to join them hand-in-hand on their sometimes complicated journey, to advocate for their needs, and to engage their loved ones in meaningful ways. We reach this part of our community through our unique programming: Creative connections is an interactive music and movement program for individuals living with dementia during which care partners meet in a creative support group setting to take away strategies for meaningful engagement. The Purposeful Planning Program is a consultative service intended for individuals and families navigating all aspects of the caregiving journey. Our Writing Workshops are an online creative experience for families and caregivers, which empowers them to reflect on their journey through poetry, storytelling, and journaling.

Why We’re Important: Over 120,000 tristate individuals are either living with a form of dementia or caring for a someone who is and this staggering number continues to grow. We started the Giving Voice Foundation because people like you believed in us. We began with nothing and since our founding we have put every dollar entrusted to us back into the community. We are proud to be reaching local older adults on a weekly basis in ways our community had not recently seen. We all know the devastation of dementia and Alzheimer’s, both on the person living with the disease and their loved ones. These members of our community deserve all we can give.

How We Serve the Community: The Giving Voice Foundation serves the community through our unique programming for those living with dementia or Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Reaching individuals in the community who might not otherwise have opportunity for socialization, connection and support is our mission. In addition to our programming, we assembled and run the Giving Voice Collaborative. The Collaborative is a group of 25 dreamers and doers in the aging and health industry and beyond who meet monthly. The collaborative has a vision for a tristate region that values and integrates older adults, and a mission to inspire and enact movement focused on serving our aging community. Together the Collaborative and GVF’s programming make us a unique powerhouse.

How You Can Help: We provide all our services to the community at no charge, and believe in paying our support group facilitators, music and movement coordinators and our staff fairly. Our work is fully supported through the generosity of the community, through our two annual fundraising events and through donors big and small. Our events are annually seeking business and personal sponsors as well as attendees. Our programming does rely on a committed volunteer base and especially those with experience working with individuals living with dementia.

Giving Voice Foundation PO Box 27050 Cincinnati, OH 45227 513-399-6065

www.givingvoicefdn.org

Social Media: @givingvoicefdn on FB and IG

President & Founder: Christian Gausvik, MD

Email: christian@givingvoicefdn.org

Board Chair: Christian Gausvik, MD – President

Board Members: Cody Gausvik; Krista Powers; Kristin Cooley; Aaron Stapleton

GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION

Who We Are: Founded in 1986, the Good Samaritan Foundation is the philanthropic vehicle for Good Samaritan Hospital to improve the health of the Greater Cincinnati community. Since that time, we have grown to also secure and steward philanthropic gifts for Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science and the Good Samaritan Free Health Center.

What We Do: The Good Samaritan Foundation secures philanthropic support for programs and projects that promote exceptional healthcare, preventative initiatives, education, research, and community outreach activities provided by Good Samaritan Hospital and its related entities. Currently, Good Samaritan Foundation is focusing Forever Forward through a new fundraising initiative fueling the transformation of the Good Samaritan Hospital campus. The Forever Forward effort is a relentless commitment to the Good Samaritan way of compassionate care.

Why We’re Important: Forever Forward is about people – about beliefs, community, and resilience. Hamilton County and our surrounding areas suffer from a huge gap in health equity. Social determinants of health, such as economic, educational, environmental, and social constraints, greatly contribute to health disparities. Life expectancy at birth varies by up to 20 years for residents in bordering neighborhoods. Solving this problem will require new, proactive models, partnerships, and prevention. A new center, fueled by Good Samaritan Foundation’s Forever Forward, will recreate an inspired, farreaching, and energized health campus that will comprehensively serve the Cincinnati community well into our future.

How We Serve the Community: Maintaining a strong health campus provides our community with something unique - the ability to access care without the risks and inconvenience of travel. It also does so much more: it provides a learning environment to train the healthcare professionals of tomorrow; it enables collaboration, leading to better outcomes; it assures that the very best talent is recruited and retained; it provides a home for the

best technology and patient-centered environments to exist; it strengthens the local economy and, perhaps more importantly, ensures that the true stakeholders in our community, our neighbors, forever remain the focus of our healing ministry.

How You Can Help: Good Sam will undergo an evolution in the years to come. Motivated by our mission to serve, a modernized, needed state-of-the-art healthcare facility will better meet the evolving needs of our community. Facility advancements and infrastructure will total a $240M investment into the lives we serve. This world-class care campus will become a preferred destination for Cancer, Heart, Advanced Surgical, Neurosciences, and Women’s Services. With centralized diagnostics and a stateof-the-art Emergency Center, every patient will experience the highest-quality, most compassionate care experience and outcomes possible with streamlined access to critical care. Learn more and partner with us at gshfoundation.com/foreverforward.

Good Samaritan Foundation 375 Dixmyth Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220 513.862.3786 gshfoundation.com

President: Mary L. Rafferty Email: Mary_Rafferty@TriHealth.com

Board Chair: Christopher (Kip) Heekin, Bahl & Gaynor Investment Counsel

Board Members: Christopher (Kip) Heekin; Elizabeth Mangan; Robert Schiller; James P. Shanahan, Jr.; Mary L. Rafferty; Phyllis Adams; Fred A. Brink; Robert S. Castellini; Mark C. Clement; Erik Dunki-Jacobs, MD; Jodi M. Geiser; S. Lois Jean Goettke, SC; Seth Isaacs, MD; Shannon Lawson; Jennifer Lykens-Schnacke, DO; Christina Scalo; Neal Schear; Christopher A. Smith; Michael Vassar; Mark Walton; Brendan White

HEAD FOR A CURE

Who We Are: Head for a Cure dba The Brandon C. Gromada Head and Neck Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit organization that funds innovative head and neck cancer (HNC) research and raises public awareness about this sixth most common form of cancer. The foundation was named for Brandon C. Gromada and launched by his parents on June 3, 2012, the day after his death from HNC. We are committed to supporting ground-breaking research that leads to the development of more effective, less-debilitating treatments and to the discovery of cures for HNC. We want no other family to know the sadness of losing a beloved member to HNC.

What We Do: Only research can lead to new treatments and cures. We raise funds for HNC research, administer a grant process, and award funds annually for the most promising research proposals. Brandon’s Foundation also participates in events to raise public awareness of HNC. The foundation’s annual MASKerade is its major fundraising event. (Because of Covid restrictions, MASKerade 2022 will again be held online.) We cheer community businesses that hold fundraising events, and individuals or groups who host product parties or Facebook fundraisers or donate privately. Thanks to these contributions, Brandon’s Foundation has awarded more than $300,000 for groundbreaking HNC research.

Why We’re Important: Brandon’s foundation enables promising, peer-reviewed research projects to get off the ground. Although HNC is the sixth most common cancer worldwide, it is grossly underfunded when it comes to allocation of research dollars. Current treatments often have both immediate and long-term debilitating side effects. Related surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation frequently result in facial disfigurement, loss of oral function with difficulty eating and swallowing requiring an indwelling feeding tube, loss of many or most teeth, speech difficulties, and so on. Mental and emotional effects are common. Only research can drive changes in treatment and discover cures.

How We Serve the Community: Brandon’s foundation has awarded two to three HNC research grants annually since 2014. Because proposals from researchers at the University of Cincinnati

Cancer Center (UCCC) continually ranked in the top two and received funding each year, we entered into an agreement with UCCC in 2018 to provide an annual grant award of $25,000 for a HNC project fitting the foundation’s guidelines. (Last year we co-sponsored a second grant, which also went to a UCCC researcher for a HNC project.) We hope our commitment to UCCC’s HNC research program will be a factor in UCCC achieving National Cancer Institute (NCI) status soon.

How You Can Help: The pandemic continues to present fundraising challenges. In 2022 you can help Brandon’s foundation bring an end to HNC by:

• This year’s MASKerade will be announced soon!

• Participating in The National Exemplar’s April 25th Great Food for a Great Cause, which benefits Brandon’s foundation

• Serving on an event committee or task force

• Hosting an individual fundraiser benefitting Brandon’s foundation

• Contributing regularly to Brandon’s foundation, including through a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD).

Brandon C. Gromada Head & Neck Cancer Foundation

c/o 2510 Grandin Road, Cincinnati, OH 45208

513-325-2550

www.gromadacancerfndn.org

Facebook www.facebook.com

BrandonCGromadaHeadNeckCancerFoundation

Twiiter: @BCG_Cancer_FDN

Executive Director: NA – all volunteer organization; no paid positions at this time

Email: bcg.headneckcafdn@gmail.com

Board Chair: Carey Kuznar

Board Members: Joseph Gromada, MD, Co-Chair; Christina Keuper Gromada, Secretary; Elizabeth Gromada, Treasurer; Carolyn Durstock, Terri Gaughan; Carey Kuznar; Jim McGraw, Jr, Esq; Michael Pardo

HER CINCINNATI

Who We Are: HER Cincinnati (formerly Cincinnati Union Bethel) has been responding to human service needs since 1830, and today our focus is on Housing, Education, and Recovery Services. We believe all women are strong and resilient, but sometimes circumstances and society can create barriers to success. HER Cincinnati fights to dismantle those barriers and operates three programs united in their vision of a community where all women have the skills and confidence to thrive.

What We Do: HER Cincinnati provides affordable housing and comprehensive case management services to Cincinnati’s most vulnerable populations, including survivors of human trafficking; women who are experiencing chronic homelessness; women recovering from substance use disorders; and low-income, singleparent families. Our programs align with our five core values- meeting people where they are; seeing beyond the surface; guiding people to identify their strengths and believe in their potential; celebrating diversity, fighting for equity, embracing inclusion; and assuming the best while holding ourselves and others accountable.

Why We’re Important: Across all three programs, HER Cincinnati recognizes that the people we serve each have unique assets and challenges. To best support each client, our case managers create individual service plans for each participating individual or family, providing direct services and linking them to resources and agencies that can fulfill their unmet needs. Our services are trauma-informed, aware of and sensitive to the past traumas and wounds that have a lasting impact on the women we serve. Finally, we operate from a strengths-based approach and have begun to incorporate the VIA Strengths paradigm in our work with our participants.

How We Serve the Community: HER Cincinnati has long been respected for its deep roots and dedicated service to the Cincinnati community. Founded in 1830, HER Cincinnati is Cincinnati’s longest continuously operating social service agency and has served hundreds of thousands of people with meals, health care, counseling, education, housing, and other critical services throughout the

organization’s history. Today, we tackle the most challenging issues facing our region—Poverty, Addiction, and Human Trafficking. Our professionally delivered social services disrupt these cycles and instead empower women to create a legacy of stability that continues from one generation to the next.

How You Can Help: Join us for our EmpowHer Hour Engagement Series to gain a new perspective on social issues in our community. This series is an opportunity to get to know HER personally through guided activities that will give attendees a personal perspective and deeper understanding of the important issues of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking. You will be motivated and moved as you learn more about these issues affecting our area and how HER Cincinnati empowers women to overcome them. Also, hands-on volunteering opportunities are available including--mentoring, tutoring, and more. For more information contact Jenny Jones at jjones@hercincinnati.org, or visit www.hercincinnati.org.

HER Cincinnati

2401 Reading Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45202

513-768-6900

www.hercincinnati.org

www.facebook.com/hercincinnati

Instagram: hercincinnatinonprofit

CEO & President: Beth Schwartz

Email: bschwartz@hercincinnati.org

Managing Director of Community Relations: Jenny Jones

Email: jjones@hercincinnati.org

Board Members: Shirley Yoshida, Chair; Steve Tosh, Vice Chair/ Treasurer; Susana T. Chamlee, Secretary; Kathryn Haines, Immediate Past Chair; Christian Bradley; Ben Cornist; Shay Craig; Casey Duffy; Dianne Ebbs; Shelly Espich; Renee Harris; Kathleen Kennedy; Nancy Pryor; Maria Sagrati; Shelly Sherman; Charlotte Simons; Lisa Striker; John Topits; Faith Tupman

IMPACT AUTISM

Who We Are: IMPACT Autism™ is an all- volunteer charity that believes that both the quantity and quality of care options for those with autism are horribly deficient, especially for adults. We seek to change that and have formed an organization with the mission, the people and the ideas to move beyond the status quo. We just celebrated our 23rd year raising funds to support innovative programs that change the status quo.

What We Do: IMPACT Autism™ seeks to change the world for people living with autism. How? By raising funds to support innovated solutions that help adults overcome the educational, emotional and social challenges of autism. Our driving vision is to enable adults with autism to be included in environments where they can be enriched, engaged, healthy and productive citizen in a safe vibrant environment.

Why We’re Important: Autism is a complex brain disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to communicate, respond to surroundings, or form relationships with others. First identified more than 50 years ago, autism is now typically diagnosed by the age of two or three. Autism knows no racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic boundaries. Few disorders are more devastating to a child or his or her family. While some people with autism are only mildly affected, most with the condition will require lifelong care and will have significant language impairments. Sadly, many children with autism will never be able to tell their parents they love them.

How We Serve the Community : We support IMPACT INNOVATION(II) - day program based on the University of

Cincinnati campus designed to provide a world class program where participants thrive in a safe environment where they work on communication, social, and job skills every day. During 2020, we were able to move to virtual programming for several months and were able to return to campus with all the safety protocols in place to protect our participants and staff during COVID-19. This program was created to respond to a call from state and federal governments to increase community integrated job opportunities we have funded an on-going program which focuses on employment, health/wellness, and lifelong learning. These campus participants work on job skills every day in new on-campus ventures and in the community. II is open to adults aged 22 or older. In addition to our signature program, we support other important organizations on the forefront of change in our local community. See our website to learn more impactautism.org .

How You Can Help: Join us in raising money to support new and innovative programs that can change the trajectory for a person and a family with autism. Give to Impact Autism or the Impact Fund at the University of Cincinnati CECH School.

Impact Autism

7795 Five Mile Road, Cincinnati, OH 45230

513.699.8845

Impactautism.org

Twitter: @impactautism

Facebook: IMPACT Autism

IMPACT Autism Board: Paul Kitzmiller, Diana O’Brien, Debbie Burgess, Jake Geglein, Kevin Kappes

LADD

Who We Are: Guided by the belief that every person has ability and value, LADD empowers adults with developmental disabilities to live, work and connect. Ladd was founded in 1975 by families of adults with developmental disabilities. Today, LADD supports more than 700 people through housing, life skills, day programs, employment and advocacy. We believe there is strength in a community and culture that welcomes diversity.

What We Do: In addition to the range of services mentioned above, LADD is pioneering a new model of community living with our Smart Living Program, the first in the nation to combine smart home technology and wearables to increase independence, improve affordability of services and support more people. Additionally, this year LADD is opening its first ever age 55+ housing, specializing in the needs of our aging population. LADD is also the organizer of the OTR International Film Festival, bringing films from across the world that celebrate our shared humanity. In 2022 the OTR Film Festival was named one of the top 25 coolest film festivals in the world by Movie Maker Magazine.

Why We’re Important: LADD is one of the Ohio’s largest community integrated service providers for adults with developmental disabilities. Thousands of people with developmental disabilities in Ohio do not have access to community-based housing, programming or employment. At LADD we believe everyone deserves equal opportunity to live a full and meaningful life. And, when people with disabilities are included as employees, neighbors, friends and engaged citizens, our entire community benefits.

How We Serve the Community: We provide safe, affordable and meaningful opportunities to adults with developmental disabilities to live, work and connect in our community. We are also building a more inclusive and just Cincinnati through innovation, the OTR International Film Festival and advocacy. In the past year, LADD has garnered national and international attention for Cincinnati in the areas of technology innovation and film.

How You Can Help: LADD welcomes volunteers, donors and supporter to help realize our mission. To volunteer contact: volunteer@laddinc.org

LADD

3603 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati OH 45229 (513) 861-5233

www.laddinc.org

Social Media: Facebook @laddinc

Twitter @ladd_inc

Instagram @laddinc

CEO: Susan Brownknight

Chief Development Officer: Molly Lyons

Board Chair: Robert M. Zimmerman

Board President: Kush V. Kotecha

LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES

Who We Are: Lighthouse Youth & Family Services provides a wide range of services that support healing and growth to help young people and families succeed. Lighthouse values each person’s unique experiences, recognizing the widespread impact of trauma and understanding potential paths to recovery.

What We Do: Lighthouse serves children, youth, and families when and where they need it most, whether in their communities, homes, schools, or a Lighthouse location. Programs meet the individual needs of each young person, ages 0-24, and focus on their strengths as they work to meet their goals. Lighthouse provides:

• Emergency shelter.

• Foster care and adoption.

• Mental health and behavioral health services.

• OhioRISE, a specialized managed care program for youth with complex behavioral health and multisystem needs.

• Residential treatment.

• Community juvenile justice services.

• Youth housing.

Every night, approximately 400 young people sleep under a Lighthouse roof.

Why We’re Important: Lighthouse knows everyone benefits when our community is a place where every young person has the opportunity to thrive. The Lighthouse team works toward achieving that reality every day. For more than 50 years, the agency has responded and adapted to meet the changing needs of young people and the families that surround them, always focused on doing what’s best for those we serve.

How We Serve the Community: Since 1969, Lighthouse’s commitment to being there for youth in need has never wavered. Whatever the challenge, Lighthouse is ready to support each young person and their family on their unique journey in a safe and welcoming space.

Leading the effort to end youth homelessness in Cincinnati, Lighthouse is the only local agency focused on serving young people experiencing homelessness. The agency also provides the city’s first and only local emergency shelter for children ages 10-17.

How You Can Help: Your support of Lighthouse is important and will make a true difference in the lives of young people and families in our community.

• Donate a meal for the young people at one of our shelters.

• Donate in-kind items throughout the year or during our Happy Holidays Gift Drive.

• Make a financial gift online, by check, through an IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution, or through a gift of stock.

• Leave a legacy by making a planned gift to have a lasting impact on our community.

• Sign up for our email list to receive the latest Lighthouse news, fundraising event information, volunteer opportunities, and more.

Lighthouse Youth & Family Services

401 East McMillan Street, Cincinnati, OH 45206 513-221-3350

lys.org

Facebook: LighthouseYFS

Instagram: lighthouseyfs

Twitter: LighthouseYFS

President and Chief Executive Officer: Paul Haffner

Email: phaffner@lys.org

Vice President, Development and Grants: Jessica Wabler

Email: jwabler@lys.org

Board Chair: Tamie Sullivan

Board Members: Doug Bierer, Steve Campbell, Bobby Cave, Elena Comeaux, Nicole Dowdell, Ken Feldmann, Dawn Green, Ronicole Hyman, Allison Kahn, Kick Lee, Santoshi Mahendra, Byron McCauley, Kareem Moncree-Moffett, Barry Morris, Lisa O’Brien, Kenneth Parker, Stephen Peterson, Bob Rich, Deborah White Richardson, Gregory Rouan, Amber Simpson, Amy Susskind, Bob Zepf

Transforming HOPE for the Future

LINDNER CENTER OF HOPE

Who We Are: The Lindner Center of HOPE is a nonprofit, comprehensive mental health center and global leader offering stateof-the-science diagnosis and treatment of the most pervasive mental illnesses of our time.

• One of the first centers designed as a fully integrated system of care to address deficiencies in mental health care as identified by the Institute of Medicine.

• Innovative inpatient and outpatient programs in partnership with UC Health and Cincinnati Children’s serving over 50,000 patients from around the world.

• A leader in research and collaborations that are advancing the field and positioning Cincinnati as a national leader in mental health care.

What We Do: Lindner Center of HOPE takes a progressive and scientific approach to assessing and treating mental disorders. Research shows that early diagnosis improves patient rate of recovery. That’s why leading mental health experts at Lindner Center of HOPE begin with a complete, onsite diagnostic assessment. Then, since every patient’s need is different, the team recommends and facilitates a tailored treatment plan. Lindner Center of HOPE takes the extra step of formally involving the patient’s family in the diagnostic and treatment process, leading to better long-term outcomes. Lindner Center of HOPE is a leader in diagnosing and treating mental disorders.

Why We’re Important: The Center is at the forefront of the most critical public health issue of our time, providing the region’s most advanced diagnostic and treatment services to people suffering with mental illnesses.

As a founding member, and one of only 22 accredited National Network of Depression Centers, our team of world-class clinician researchers seamlessly connect local patients to the latest proven learnings and treatments available, bringing new hope to community members wanting a better life.

As one patient’s parents said, “Without the Center, it’s doubtful (our son) would be alive today and certainly not the productive young man he is now.”

How We Serve the Community: Mental health remains shrouded in stigma at a time when the need for services for people suffering

is increasing dramatically. The Center continues to offer free, public education programs (online and in-person) that build understanding and acceptance that mental health needs are as common and treatable as other chronic illnesses.

Currently, the demand for services far exceeds the mental health resources in our community. The Lindner Center of HOPE continues to increase access to mental healthcare through an expanded staff and services aligned with critical community needs. This includes addiction services, outpatient programs and telehealth services.

How You Can Help: We are facing the most critical public health issue of our time. It is imperative to invest in mental health for our families, our friends, ourselves. Please join us in transforming lives by making a gift to the Center. Supporting the Center’s programs and services will keep essential mental health services in the Cincinnati area, serving not just this community, but patients and families from the region, country, and world. By giving you are helping expand facilities at Lindner Center of HOPE, increasing the number of patients we serve, and lessen the suffering of people with mental illness. Together we can turn mental illness into mental wellness.

Send your gift of HOPE today to the address listed, or go online at: LindnerCenterofHOPE.org/Donate.

Lindner Center of HOPE

4075 Old Western Row Road, Mason, Ohio 45040

Main: 513-536-HOPE (4673)

Toll free: 1-888-536-HOPE (4673) lindnercenterofhope.org

Find us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter

President and Chief Executive Officer: Paul R. Crosby, MD, MBA

Sr. Development Director: Mary R. Alexander

Email: mary.alexander@lindnercenter.org

Board Chair/Members: S. Craig Lindner, Frances Lindner, Sandra Amoils, MD, William P. Butler, John C. Byrd, MD, Paul R. Crosby, MD, Andrew T. Filak, Jr., MD, Suzette Fisher, Greg Harmeyer, L. Thomas Hiltz, Esq., Paul E. Keck, Jr., MD, Anne S. Kereiakes, Vincent Rinaldi, J. Scott Robertson, Cory D Shaw, Pamela D. Sibcy, Jon Zipperstein

LIVING WITH CHANGE

Who We Are: Founders Chris and Jessica Cicchinelli hope to lead the charge toward a change in perspective and awareness to make our communities a safer, more inclusive place for transgender children. To accomplish this, Living With Change engages with the community to help ensure transgender youth are protected and accepted while working with lawmakers to change existing policies, prevent discriminatory ones, and promote initiatives that help transgender youth thrive in a more inclusive and equitable future.

What We Do: We support transgender youth and their families in their journey through our advocacy and partnerships. LWC is committed to increasing resources for holistic care. The Cicchinellis made a $2 Million donation to the former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital transgender clinic, now the Living With Change Center for Gender Health. We’re providing more funding to hire more workers, like a trans care navigator to help patients and their families. We also partner with Equality Ohio and TransOhio’s Legal Clinic by offering financial support for transgender residents who are engaged in the legal name change process in Ohio.

Why We’re Important: 50% of trans youth will attempt suicide in their lifetime. 1 in 4 trans youth did not go to a health care provider because they feared being mistreated. We know at least 7,400 transgender people live in the Greater Cincinnati area alone. We can make a difference in their mental and physical health by providing care at the LWC Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. A Stanford University study shows that when trans

people get gender-affirming hormone therapy, they are 222% less likely to develop severe psychological distress. We know that by providing these resources, we are saving lives.

How We Serve the Community: Currently there are almost 313 anti-trans proposals in 33 states. LWC fights for the trans community and strives to educate everyone about LBGTQIA+ rights. We also provide funding for the LWC Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which also provides essential health care to trans youth and their families. Last year, we helped dozens with legal fees so that they could change their name to the one that matches their identity.

How You Can Help: Donate to LWC so we can increase the resources for trans youth and their families. It is also extremely important to educate yourself as an ally. LWC posts educational resources on social media.

Living With Change

655 Plum, Cincinnati, OH 45202

livingwithchange.org

Twitter @Living_W_Change

Facebook @LWCorganization

Instagram @lwc_organization

Executive Director: Jessica Cicchinelli

Email: jessica@livingwithchange.org

MADI’S HOUSE

Who We Are: Madi’s House is a mental health hangout for recovering young adults to: Fill Their Time, Find Their People, and Feel Hope.

What We Do: Madi’s House is a free, non-residential community center for young adults who are healing from mental illness or recovery. We offer the missing piece after or during treatment by providing a space and activities to fill empty free time and find likeminded friends. Idle time often leads to isolation, substance abuse while trying to heal or deal with complex trauma, or relapse. We are located on the west side of Cincinnati and provide a safe place to hang out, with time spent in fun, recreational activities and emotional support that fosters ongoing wellness. We offer:

• Arts: Recharge with creative expression such as therapeutic arts.

• Mind, body & soul: Calm the noise with activities such as yoga.

• Relax & hangout: Just be you. Just do you. Decide for you.

• Get active: Fight off negativity indoors & outdoors by fishing or sitting in nature.

• Group meetings: Trauma, AA & NA, family & loved ones support

Why We’re Important: In order to explain why we are important one must hear the heart-breaking facts.

• One in five young adults are struggling with untreated mental illness

• One young Ohioan dies by suicide every 33 hours

• Overdoses are the second leading cause of death in Ohio

• A person struggling with substance abuse is likely to experience a 50-90% relapse rate

Madi's House is bridging the gap between treatment and returning back to everyday life. We are a nonjudgmental, welcoming, bright, and colorful place to simply hang out! Madi’s House is the only one of its kind in the nation.

How We Serve the Community: We give young adults managing mental illness or healing from substance abuse a place of support, a true sense of belonging, and a community. With the levels of untreated mental illness, suicide, and substance abuse growing

at epidemic rates in the tri-state, Madi’s House unique approach fills a need that health professionals say is imperative. There are no other places specializing in mental health management and relapse prevention in Cincinnati.

How You Can Help:

• Donations: We are in need of your financial support so we can continue to provide our services free of charge. Please visit our website at mhcincy.org to donate.

• Volunteer: As we get ready to open our new location in Mt. Airy, we will need more volunteers to welcome members, answer phone calls, help with programming and other areas. Or, join one of our many operations committees like marketing or events. Please visit the volunteer page on our website to sign up to become a volunteer!

• In-Kind donations: Supplies of all kinds are needed in order to make our activities possible. To make an in-kind donation, please email info@mhcincy.org

Madi’s House

Main Office: 2360 Kipling Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45239

The Annex (Current Programming Location): 5081 Glencrossing Way, Cincinnati, OH 45238

513-347-MADI (6234) www.mhcincy.org

info@mhcincy.org

Instagram - @madishousecincy

Facebook: Madi’s House

Director of Business Administration: Tracy Carl, Email: tcarl@mhcincy.org

Board Chair: Julie Raleigh, President & CEO

Board Members: Steve Raleigh, Vice President; Doug Schupp, Treasurer; Patti Brunst, Secretary; Dr. Robin Arthur; Rick Barnett; Patricia A. Collins; Dr. Sarah Hellmann; Leslie Huesman; Amy Maas; Jan Neumann; Marcia Pfiester; Chelsea Raleigh; Sally Snyder; Erinn D. Starcher; John R. Topits; Tammy Ventura

MAGNIFIED GIVING

Who We Are: Magnified Giving is a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit organization founded in 2008 by Roger Grein, a recognized leader in the philanthropic community. Our mission is to educate, inspire and engage students in philanthropy, touch the hearts and minds of teens, lighten the concerns of others, and magnify the impact of philanthropy.

What We Do: At Magnified Giving, we teach youth to be philanthropists through three programs. First, we reach over 5,000 young people each year through our Youth Philanthropy Program by providing philanthropy curriculum and facilitator training to over 130 local schools and youth-based programs. We give each group $1,000 to grant to a local nonprofit after youth engage in a meaningful process of researching social causes and organizations, serving, and advocating. Through our summer camp program, Camp Give, we connect youth with community nonprofits to learn, serve, and grant funds together in a fun, collaborative summer camp environment. Finally, through our Service-Learning by Magnified Giving program, we provide training and resources to infuse our region with service-learning and provide spaces for meaningful reflection and conversations about service.

Why We Are Important: To date, Magnified Giving has worked with over 40,000 youth and countless community partners to grant over $1.3 million to change lives and bolster local nonprofits – all through the hands of young people. Magnified Giving magnifies the impact of our donors’ funds, as we provide

grants through a process that inspires the next generation to become generous engaged problem solvers impacting their communities and their world. By training youth how to give of their time, talent, and treasure, we are securing the future of philanthropy in our community.

How You Can Help: Together, let’s develop young philanthropists at your school or youth-based program! Facilitate a youth philanthropy program or help us connect with your child’s middle or high school to start a program. Please visit www.magnifiedgiving. org/get-involved-1 to learn more and explore other ways to get involved in our mission. We also invite you to magnify your gifts and impact in the community by becoming a Magnified Giving donor or sponsoring a week of Camp Give.

Magnified Giving 9940 Reading Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45241 513-733-9727

www.magnifiedgiving.org

Social Media: @magnifiedgiving

Executive Director: Kelly Collison kelly@magnifiedgiving.org

Director of Advancement: Carey Kuznar carey@magnifiedgiving.org

MATTHEW 25: MINISTRIES

Who We Are: Matthew 25: Ministries is an international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization helping the poorest of the poor and disaster victims in the United States and around the world. Matthew 25: Ministries provides food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothing to the naked, shelter to the homeless, medical care to the ill and humanitarian supplies to those in need. Additionally, Matthew 25: Ministries is committed to educating the public on the conditions and needs of the “least of these” and providing resources for action.

What We Do: For over 30 years, Matthew 25 has served people in need, exhibiting consistent growth, maintaining the highest standards of efficiency and effectiveness, and helping millions of people each year.

By rescuing and reusing products from major corporations, manufacturers, and individuals, Matthew 25: Ministries provides humanitarian supplies and disaster relief domestically and worldwide. In 2022, Matthew 25: Ministries distributed over 26 million pounds of aid, including clothing, medical supplies, personal care items, school supplies, cleaning products, and more—the most we've ever shipped in a single year—helping more than 30 million people.

Why That’s Important: Matthew 25: Ministries plays a vital role in building and strengthening communities by supplying essential products that provide hope, contribute to greater stability and encourage self-sufficiency. Each year, Matthew 25 provides millions of pounds of humanitarian aid to partners throughout the United States and around the world, as well as providing disaster relief to people affected by natural disasters and humanitarian crises. This is especially important with the currently inflated cost of groceries and other living expenses. Families receiving help can then redirect their resources to pay other bills or buy other needed items.

How We Serve the Community: Matthew 25 works with hundreds of local partners including food pantries, homeless shelters, distribution centers, social service agencies, healthcare services, care centers,

support groups, schools, and more. Matthew 25 provides fresh and nonperishable food, clothing, hygiene items, baby products, medical supplies, and more to local partners to supplement the great and essential work they are doing in our community. These supplies help people in need, including those who are elderly, homebound, ill, physically and mentally challenged, poor, homeless, immigrants, at risk children and more.

How You Can Help: Interested donors can support Matthew 25: Ministries in the way that works best for them (visit m25m.org/help for details).

• Donate Finances: Help fund disaster relief and humanitarian aid programs in Greater Cincinnati, throughout the U.S. and around the world.

• Donate Products: Corporations, groups and individuals can donate new and gently used items.

• Donate Time: Volunteer for a hands-on experience that helps sort and prepare products for shipment to those in need.

Matthew 25 is a 4-star nonprofit on Charity Navigator and has earned a Platinum-Level Candid Exchange seal.

Matthew 25: Ministries 11060 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash, OH 45242 513.793.6256

m25m.org

Facebook facebook.com/m25m.org

Instagram instagram.com/M25M_org

Twitter twitter.com/m25m_org

Chief Executive Officer: Tim Mettey

Director of Programs and Community Relations: Joodi Archer

Email: joodi@m25m.org

Board Chair: Michael Brandy, Jr.

MEALS ON WHEELS

Who We Are: Meals on Wheels keeps driving forward: making bold choices, partnering to reduce duplication and always challenging the status quo. We are transforming the way our community shows up for seniors through an approach that marries creativity and rigor, and fosters innovation while honoring tradition. We are change-makers, but some things always stay the same: the unparalleled quality of care given to older adults, including vital nutrition, social connection, and a variety of supportive services. Our organization is a best-practice leader and one of the largest operations in the country, bolstered by caring staff committed to a better future for seniors.

What We Do: Since 1937, our mission has been to deliver essential services promoting the independence of seniors so they may remain in the comfort of their own homes. After recent merges with Cincinnati Area Senior Services and 55 North, we are one of the country’s largest community-based organizations providing direct and critical services to seniors. We serve 10,000 older adults in 11 Ohio & Kentucky counties; providing 1.4 million meals annually through home delivery, group socialization and emergency boxes; pet support; health & wellness; digital connection; birthday celebrations; transportation; independent living assistance; and a full case management program focused on financial management, guardianship and protective payee services.

Why We’re Important: Our country is facing a crisis in aging: a bourgeoning senior population experiencing steadily declining financial resources in the wake of a global pandemic and ongoing economic recession. Older adults are an often-forgotten, at-risk population that experiences unique medical, social, adaptive and nutritional needs. As the region’s leading senior services agency, demand for our help continues to grow rapidly, but we remain focused on striking the balance of appropriate levels of intervention while fostering independence and protecting dignity.

How We Serve the Community: We work alongside seniors, case managers, family members and caregivers to help keep seniors safe and healthy at home. Our in-home visits provide unique opportunities to meet nutritional needs, combat isolation, address safety hazards and provide holistic care. We pilot new concepts to reach underserved seniors; following our equity-focused innovation roadmap, partnering with local non-profits, businesses and bringing our food truck to favorite senior locales.

How You Can Help: We invite you to join us in taking care of our community’s older neighbors. A charitable gift will provide meals, meaningful social connection and so much more for a local senior. We also offer volunteer opportunities to meet schedules of many types for individuals and groups, ranging from preparing meals, packing food boxes and helping deliver birthday surprises.Join us for fundraising events, including the oh-so-delicious Bust a Crust! Fall pie sale and a fun night out at the gala, formerly known as the 55 North Star Soirée.

Meals on Wheels Southwest OH & Northern KY 2091 Radcliff Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45204 513-661-2777

www.muchmorethanameal.org

Instagram: @MuchMoreThanAMeal

Twitter: @MealsPlusMore

Facebook: @MuchMoreThanAMeal

LinkedIn: @meals-on-wheels-of-southwest-ohio-northern-kentucky

Executive Director: Jennifer Steele, Chief Executive Officer

Development Director: Sarah Celenza, Chief Giving Officer

Email: scelenza@muchmorethanameal.org

Board Chair: Daniel Driehaus

NEXTUP CINCINNATI

Who We Are: NextUp exists out of necessity. Our mission is to advance all women, grow business, and transform the workplace through the power of community. Our vision is a professional world where equity has been achieved and women have seats at every table. The NextUp community is thriving more than ever, as women make a substantial impact on their companies’ success and reach their career goals in record time. However, even as gains are made with women in leadership, new challenges emerge and our mission has yet to cross the finish line. When women are learning and leading, they are not leaving. NextUp will make our vision into reality – a world where women have equal opportunities at work and equal opportunity to build their lives and careers exactly the way they want them.

What We Do: NextUp provides a community of professionals to connect members with a leadership development curriculum, preparing for each new challenge. We focus on building skills through educational opportunities for every stage of your career. Hosting in-person and virtual events create meaningful connections and provide inspiration. In 2022, NextUp Cincinnati conducted two in-person events with dynamic speakers: Laura Ling, an American journalist who was held hostage in North Korea for filming refugees entering China and Paula Kerger, CEO of PBS and its longest serving president.

gender identity, ethnicity, age and industry to ensure that everyone feels they belong with NextUp.”

How We Serve the Community: NextUp develops actionable insights and corporate solutions to drive change from the top down and bottom up. Regional Co-Chair Amy Alt, Vice President Sales at Procter & Gamble says, “NextUp Cincinnati is about advancing women, growing business and transforming industry through the power of our community. Cincinnati is a fantastic region to make that happen through our networking programs and events. NextUp Cincinnati has served as a broader platform for me to drive diversity and inclusion in the Consumer Product Industry. It has allowed me to connect and learn from so many leaders outside of my company.”

How You Can Help: Join our community of more than 14,000 leaders, across North America and Canada, who are transforming themselves and their industries. Our NextUp Cincinnati community is stronger than ever as we have virtual and in-person programming. Interested in getting non-profit board experience? NextUp Cincinnati committees consist of volunteers who focus on growth and development of members and sponsors, event programming, college outreach, communications, creating community alliances and mentoring. There are opportunities to join the conversation and share your time and talent at every level!

Why We’re

Important:

WOMEN ARE UNDERREPRESENTED IN CORPORATE LEADERSHIP - Women hold just 7.4% of Fortune 500 CEO roles, despite comprising 50% of the world’s population. GENDER EQUITY IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY AND GOOD FOR BUSINESS - Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity in their executive teams were 21%more likely to have above-average profitability than those in the bottom quartile.“As the world continues to change, our solutions and benefits have adapted to promote allyship, better support the needs of women of color and transform corporate cultures,” SarahAlter, NextUp President and CEO, said. “We are committed to diversifying our community across

NextUp Cincinnati

www.nextupisnow/regions/cincinnati/

Instagram: @nextup_cincinnati

Facebook: NextUp Cincinnati

LinkedIn: NextUp Cincinnati

Email: Cincinnati@nextupisnow.org

President & CEO: Sarah Alter

Executive Co-Chairs: Amy Alt, P & G, Mindy Rector, Kroger

NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK

Who We Are: New Life Furniture Bank is a faith-based nonprofit located in Blue Ash, Ohio, serving the Greater Cincinnati area. The region’s only nationally-registered furniture bank, we collect gently used furniture (mattresses/beds, dressers, tables, chairs, sofas, lamps) from people throughout Greater Cincinnati, inspect and clean it, then deliver the items directly to the homes of families in extreme need. Originally a small ministry of Milford First United Methodist Church founded in 2006, the organization gained 501(C)3 status in 2009. More than a decade later, New Life Furniture Bank partners with over 70 social service agencies to help end the cycle of homelessness.

What We Do: A “furniture bank” collects donations of gently used furniture and provides it to those in need. We deliver up to 15 items, furnishing empty houses of individuals and families overcoming homelessness, escaping domestic abuse, aging out of foster care, or rebuilding after disasters and extreme poverty. Having a furnished space restores dignity, brings pride of ownership, adds confidence, and allows people to stabilize while working toward self-sufficiency. We help get children sleeping on floors into warm, safe beds. For those who have lost everything or have nothing, we turn empty houses into homes.

Why We’re Important: Imagine your children sleeping and eating on cold, bare floors day after day and night after night. This is the harsh reality for thousands of low-income families escaping poverty in Greater Cincinnati. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cincinnati’s child poverty rate is one of the highest in the nation, and the city is consistently ranked in the top poorest cities in our country with a poverty rate almost twice the state’s average. Our goal is for all Greater Cincinnati families to live in furnished homes, relieving suffering, strengthening family units, improving quality of life, and building a better community.

How We Serve the Community: We believe in the healing power of giving and receiving to empower communities to come together and support our most vulnerable populations. In 2022, we delivered 27,274 pieces of furniture to 1,948 households. Those households consisted of 4,424 individuals and nearly 50% were households with children under the age of 18. Speaking of children, we delivered a record 1,866 beds, which helped those children move from the floor

into a warm bed! Nearly 80 % of the families we serve are reported earning less than $12,000 annually. So, when you donate, you can be assured you are helping people with great need. Not to mention you are recycling and helping prevent the over 1.4 million lbs of furniture we collected from ending up in a landfill.

How You Can Help: Our 2023 goal is to furnish more than 2,600 households! There are several ways you can help:

• DONATE FURNITURE: Consider donating gently used items, including: • Clean mattresses, box springs, and frames • Nightstands, dressers, desks, chairs, end tables, coffee tables, small sofas, recliners • Floor & table lamps, blankets, linens, towels, new pillows, and toiletries • Small appliances such as microwaves, coffee makers, toasters, dishes, silverware, cookware, utensils

• CONTRIBUTE FUNDING: Your donation helps extend our reach and fuel our mission. One of the most important ways we invest monetary donations is in purchasing mattresses.

• VOLUNTEER AS A TEAM OR INDIVIDUAL: • Sort, pack household donations • Host a “Fill the Truck” event in your neighborhood • Build/repair/deliver furniture • Organize a pillow or blanket drive • Serve on Board and Event Committees • Volunteer for our “Design with a Heart” program.

• SHOP IN OUR THRIFT STORE: We recently opened a thrift store in Sharonville Plaza called New Life Furniture Thrift Store. Shop in Cincinnati’s only home furnishings-focused thrift store, providing a highly curated shopping experience for our community, and shopping in the thrift store supports New Life Furniture Bank.

New Life Furniture Bank

11335 Reed Hartman Hwy., Unit 134, Cincinnati, Ohio 45241 513-313-0530

nlfurniture.org

Facebook@cincyfurniturebank

YouTube@newlifefurniture

Twitter@nlfbank

Instagram@cincyfurniturebank

Executive Director: Dana Saxton

Email: Dana.Saxton@nlfurniture.org

Board President: Marge Putman

OHIO VALLEY VOICES

Who We Are: Ohio Valley Voices (OVV), founded in 1999, is an early intervention center that teaches children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) to listen and talk through the use of hearing aids and cochlear implants. We serve children and their families from infancy through second grade. After graduating from our program, OVV students go on to attend public or private school alongside their hearing peers. Our curriculum is designed to provide a comfortable, loving environment that fosters confidence and a lifelong love of learning through talking.

What We Do: OVV teaches children who are deaf and hard-ofhearing to speak. Our Family Center gives families an early start on teaching their child how to listen and talk through individualized therapy, parent education, and support during the ages of birth through 3. The Academic Program focuses on giving preschool and early elementary children an education designed to accelerate the learning of spoken language, literacy, and academic subjects, the goal of which is to prepare each child to enter a mainstream school alongside their hearing peers. OVV provides audiological services to our students, alumni, and D/HH children throughout the region at our on-site clinic so that each child can make optimal use of their listening devices.

Why We’re Important: Ohio Valley Voices is one of seven programs in the United States that follows the Moog oral education philosophy and is dedicated to a listening and spoken language curriculum for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing. In fact, families have moved across the country and from around the world to take advantage of our services. Our guiding principle is that every child deserves access to sound and communication. By providing our students with a language-enriched environment and the tools to talk, OVV helps them reach their fullest potential and embark on a bright future.

How We Serve the Community: Since 1999, Ohio Valley Voices has helped over 225 children in the tri-state area learn how to listen and

talk, forever changing their lives, the lives of their families, and our region as a whole. To us, every child and every spoken word is a gift.

How You Can Help: While hearing devices like cochlear implants are typically covered by health insurance, OVV’s highly specialized services are not. We depend on the support and partnership of community members like you to ensure that our services remain accessible to all children. Over a third of our budget comes from financial contributions from individuals and foundations. We also rely on the generosity of our volunteers to keep our school programs running. Visit our website to learn more about our volunteer opportunities and to donate to our programs.

Ohio Valley Voices

6642 Branch Hill-Guinea Pike, Loveland, OH 45140 513.791.1458

ohiovalleyvoices.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ohiovalleyvoices, LinkedIn: Ohio Valley Voices Instagram: @ohiovalleyvoices

Executive Director: Maria Sentelik

Email: maria.sentelik@ohiovalleyvoices.org

Development Director: Jeanne Jentsch

Email: jjentsch@ohiovalleyvoices.org

Board Chair: Jon Westerman

Board Members: Nancy Creaghead (VP) – University of Cincinnati; Thomas Fischer (Secretary) - Physician (Retired); Valerie Bogdan-Powers – Horan Associates; Jody Johnson – Proctor & Gamble; V. Ruth Klette - Klette, Klette, & Mauntel, Attorneys at Law; Kathy Lutz –Integra Group; Anjali Narayanan - Proctor & Gamble; Lydia Ritze - Cassady, Schiller & Associates, Inc.; Jackie Sweeney; John Wild - Hilltop Research (Former); Barb Molloy

PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY (PWC)

Who We Are: Incorporated in 1975, People Working Cooperatively (PWC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving low-income homeowners, seniors, people living with disabilities, veterans and families with children in 20 counties of southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeast Indiana. PWC is supported by a robust group of 110 licensed, professionally trained staff members and administrative personnel. In addition, PWC boasts a dedicated corps of 3,000-plus volunteers, making it one of the largest volunteer organizations in the region. Every year, PWC volunteers and skilled staff assist nearly 6,000 individuals in more than 3,500 homes in its 20 county territory.

What We Do: For more than 48 years, People Working Cooperatively has been strengthening our communities by providing critical home repairs, energy conservation, and accessibility modification services in an effort to help residents remain independent and healthy in their homes. Proudly performing more than 9,400 services for eligible homeowners each year, from repairing leaky sinks to installing ramps to restoring heat, PWC’s services keep neighbors in need safely in their homes. PWC’s staff of licensed, trained employees and dedicated corps of 3,000 volunteers have assisted more than 320,000 individuals since 1975, saving homes and restoring pride.

Why We’re Important: PWC’s mission of keeping people safe and healthy in their own homes has never been more. Imagine living in a home where there is no heat, no running water, electricity or a ramp to get in and out of your home if you have a mobility disability — or trying to make these repairs with an income of $14,000 or less. PWC’s ability to provide critical home repairs 24/7/365 days a year with its professional staff can help our neighbors in need remain safe and healthy in their own homes.

How We Serve the Community: People Working Cooperatively serves the community by not only helping to keep our lower-income residents safe and healthy in their own homes through essential home repairs and other services, but also helps to maintain our communities’ housing stock with the help of employees, volunteers, donors and sponsors. Outside of day-to-day direct services for our clients, PWC hosts two annual community-wide volunteer events. During Repair Affair in June, hundreds of skilled volunteers complete home repairs for more than 50 local homeowners. During Prepare Affair in November, thousands of volunteers rake leaves and clean gutters for nearly 1,000 local homeowners.

How You Can Help: People Working Cooperatively could not continue this important work without the community’s support. You can help by signing up to volunteer to provide direct services for our clients, lend your time and talent on a PWC committee, sponsor a PWC event or make a monetary donation online at www.pwchomerepairs.org.

People Working Cooperatively

4612 Paddock Road, Cincinnati OH 45229

513-351-7921

www.pwchomerepairs.org

Facebook.com/PeopleWorkingCooperatively

Twitter: @PWCCincy

Instagram: @pwccincy

PWC President: Jock Pitts

VP of Development: Christine Owens

Email: owensc@pwchomerepairs.org

Board Chair: Matthew Buddenberg, Messer Construction

Board Members:

Treasurer - Teresa Huxel, Macy’s

Secretary - Steve Ringel, CareSource

Dan Cahill, HSD Metrics

Paul Colbert, Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp.

Tom Colvin, Gallagher (retired)

Mike Dennemann, Hawthorn, PNC Family Wealth

David Faulk, Macy’s (retired)

Charles Gerhardt, III, Government Strategies Group, LLC

Russell Hairston, Avondale Development Corporation

Irene Hamrick, MD, U.C. College of Medicine

Zachary Kuznar, Duke Energy

Stephanie Lambers, TriHealth

Anne McKinney, Procter & Gamble (retired)

Steve Mombach, TriHealth

Dave Neyer, STNL Development

Greg Shumate, Frost Brown Todd LLC

Mike Viox, Omnia360 Facility Solutions

John Westrup, Danis Construction (retired)

PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY (PAWS) ADOPTION CENTER

Who We Are: The Progressive Animal Welfare Society, now better known as PAWS Adoption Center, was originally formed by a small group of concerned animal lovers in 1980. Our goal is to establish a dog and cat adoption center that does not utilize euthanasia. PAWS is proud to say we’ve found homes for over 13,000 pets, enriching the lives of both the animals and their new owners!

What We Do: The PAWS mission is to address the issue of pet overpopulation by providing a no-kill shelter for dogs and cats dedicated to the reduction of homeless pets by promoting adoption, spay/neuter, and responsible pet ownership.

Why We’re Important: PAWS serves animals and families in the Butler, Warren and surrounding counties. 95% of the animals coming to PAWS are pulled from kill-shelters locally and from Pendleton and Estill counties in Kentucky. PAWS has developed strong relationships with these animal shelters to save as many adoptable pets as possible. The other 5% are brought in as owner-surrendered animals that are in danger of being euthanized at the county shelter as their last option.

How We Serve the Community: Our long-term goal is to continue to find forever homes for lovable, adoptable pets. We also want to increase our impact on the communities we serve to provide educational avenues for responsible pet ownership.

How You Can Help: PAWS is 100% dependent on the generosity of animal lovers like yourself. We are a 501(c)3 charity and receive no

tax support of any kind. Generosity takes many forms—sometimes the form is cash donations through animal sponsorships, recurring payments, or animal bequests, other times it takes the form of donated supplies or services. Another form is from the hours our volunteers spend helping out at the adoption center through landscaping, facility care, administrative support, kennel and feline care, or animal socialization. All these forms come together to allow PAWS to find loving, forever homes for neglected, abused, and homeless pets.

Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Adoption Center

6302 Crossings Blvd., Monroe, OH 45050 513-539-7297

pawsadoptioncenter.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/PAWSAdoptionCenterOH

Instagram: www.instagram.com/paws_adoption_center_/?hl=en TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@paws_adoption_center

Operations Manager: Kathy Teller

Board Chair: Gail Corrill, President

Board Members: Colleen Lear, Vice-President; Jill McIntosh, Treasurer; Peggy Johnson, Secretary; Jessie Long, Assistant Treasurer; Juli Nimitz, Board Member; Tina Hollenbeck, Board Member; Sharon Porter, Board Member; James Hard, Board Member; Brittany Heitkamp, Board Member

PROKIDS

Who We Are: ProKids vision is a safe, permanent and nurturing home for every child in Hamilton County. For the past 40 years we have mobilized our community to break the vicious cycle of child abuse and neglect. We recruit, train, and support community volunteers to speak up for children who have been abused and neglected and help guide them into safe environments where they can thrive. These volunteers, backed by our generous donors, create a new cycle of growing up safe and secure, fundamentally changing the future for our children and our entire community.

What We Do: Known as CASA Volunteers, Court Appointed Special Advocates are community members who advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children. CASA Volunteers are trained and supported so that they can get to know the child and everyone in the child’s life. These volunteers then advise Hamilton County Juvenile Court, which ultimately decides who will raise the child and give them a safe, permanent, nurturing home. In about 10 hours a month, CASA Volunteers help children heal from trauma and move on to a brighter future.

Why We’re Important: Childhood trauma casts a long shadow over a child’s life. Vulnerable families, already stretched thin by the COVID19 pandemic, are even more strained today by a crippled economy and soaring prices, putting children at increased risk for abuse and neglect. These traumatized children are more likely to drop out of school, become homeless, experience teenage pregnancy, develop substance addictions, be unemployed, or abuse their own children. When ProKids is involved, 99% of our children are safe from abuse and neglect. Thanks to our donors and volunteers, ProKids changes the lives of children and the future of our Hamilton County community.

How We Serve the Community: There is nothing more fundamental than a home for a child. But when a child’s home is unstable or violent, they can be removed from their family and become part of the child protection system, a governmental safety net that is overwhelmed by the number of Hamilton County children in need. ProKids collaborates within this system to directly advocate for individual children, thanks to dedicated volunteers who are backed

by a passionate ProKids staff. This is all possible because of generous community donors who are behind the recruitment, training and support of ProKids volunteers.

How You Can Help: You can help ProKids children by becoming a part of our mobilized community. Your one-time contribution or sustaining, ongoing gift at www.prokids.org/donate-invest enables our volunteers to directly advocate for our children. Your gift can honor someone you care about or mark an important date. You can make your gift online with your credit card, by check, through a gift of stock, as a Qualified Charitable Distribution through your IRA and/or in your estate plan. We also welcome your help as a CASA Volunteer to work directly with abused and neglected children at www.prokids.org/ volunteer.

ProKids

2605 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45219 513-281-2000

www.prokids.org

Facebook: @ProKidsCASA

Instagram: prokidscasa

Executive Director: Tracy Cook

Email: info@prokids.org

Development Director: Jennifer McKettrick

Email: jmckettrick@prokids.org

Board Officers: (current board will change 3/23/2023)

President: JoAnn G. Hagopian

Immediate Past President: Robert A. McMahon

President Elect: MacKenzie Chavez

Treasurer: Stephen Brown

Secretary: Mike Hines

Presidents Emeriti: Jeb H. Head

T.D. Hughes

RIDE CINCINNATI

Who We Are: Ride Cincinnati is a grassroots bike tour that raises money for life-saving cancer research and care. Participants are treated to a two-day event, which includes a kickoff celebration, the ride itself and after-party at Sawyer point. Multiple route options are available to appeal to all levels of cycling abilities and spectators are encouraged to show their support as the city unites against cancer.

What We Do: Born in 2007, Ride Cincinnati’s objective is to become the leading grassroots organization funding cancer research and care in Greater Cincinnati. 100% of every riderraised dollar goes directly to life-saving cancer research and care.

Why We’re Important: Ride Cincinnati Dollars support clinical trials, provide seed funding for novel ideas and enable large studies that can track and understand the health of Cincinnatians.

How We Serve the Community: Ride Cincinnati is committed to elevating cancer research and care in the Greater Cincinnati area. To accomplish this goal, every rider commits to fundraising a minimum amount specific to the route selected. To date, Ride

Cincinnati has funded 69 research grants benefiting local patients living with cancer.

How You Can Help: There are several opportunities to support the mission of Ride Cincinnati and to get involved. As a participant, you can register and commit to fundraising for the cause; as a supporter, you can support a rider’s fundraising campaign; and, as a volunteer, you can help make Ride Cincinnati Weekend run smoothly for the participants.

RIDE CINCINNATI

PO Box 862, Mason, OH 45040

513-235-3452

ridecincinnati.org

www.facebook.com/RideCincinnati/ Handle: @RideCincinnati

www.instagram.com/ride_cincinnati/ Handle: @Ride_Cincinnati

twitter.com/ridecincinnati Handle: @RideCincinnati

www.linkedin.com/company/ride-cincinnati-foundation

Development Director: Miles McDowell

Email: Miles@ridecincinnati.org

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI

Who We Are: Cincinnati’s Ronald McDonald House keeps families with sick children together and near the care and resources they need. While the children are receiving treatment, we surround each family with hope and support and bring joy and a sense of normalcy to children as they heal. Our 177-bedroom House is the largest Ronald McDonald House in the world.

What We Do: Our House offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.

Why We’re Important: Our House is built on the simple idea that nothing else should matter when a family is focused on healing their child – not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head at night to rest. We allow families to face the weight of illness together and to focus on the health of their child.

How We Serve the Community: Every year, thousands of families travel from around the world to Cincinnati seeking critical medical care for their children. During this stressful time, they turn to Cincinnati’s Ronald McDonald House for a place to call “home” while in our city. Some stay for just a few days while others are here for months or more. It is because of the generosity of thousands of

volunteers and donors from our community that each guest family feels supported and cared for while they are here. They help us represent our city to people from around the globe.

How You Can Help: There are many ways to support our House. Financial donations enable us to support families when they need it most. We also welcome corporate and social groups to prepare and serve a meal for our families through our Taste of Hope program. We also have regular and single-day volunteer opportunities available. Attendance/sponsorship at our fundraising events is also a popular way to support our House while having a great time! Please check our website for the latest information.

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati 341 Erkenbrecher Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229

513-559-4600

www.rmhcincinnati.org

rmhcincinnati on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn

Chief Executive Officer: Jennifer Loeb

Email: jloeb@rmhouse.org

Chief Development Officer: Michelle Steed

Email: msteed@rmhouse.org

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI

Who We Are: Service is our reason for being. Professional growth and nurturing ethical, effective leaders is our commitment to members and the community. Through networking, professional development and leadership programs, mentoring and hands-on service projects The Rotary Club of Cincinnati brings together professionals of all ages and experience to make a real difference in the community. As the charitable arm of the Rotary Club of Cincinnati, The Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati harnesses the funding, hearts and hands of the close to 300 Rotary Club of Cincinnati members under the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self.”

What We Do: Rotary is known for identifying needs and meeting them with creative solutions - from creating a ‘Fruit Bowl” project to provide fresh fruit for families in the West End to school programs building public speaking and leadership, to meeting needs of children and adults with disabilities. In 2022, we launched Cincinnati Rotary Do Days – a two-day community-wide volunteer blitz that provided more than 200 volunteers and 800 hours of service for local nonprofits. It will grow to three days this year. As part of our global mission, we are active in Rotary International’s war to eradicate polio worldwide. Our club is a key funder for projects bringing solar power and clean water to rural Uganda and Madagascar. Weekly member lunches feature locally and nationally known speakers from industry, the arts, sports, government and service.

Why We’re Important: Rotary magnifies and focuses individual efforts of business and community leaders to meet community needs. Too often, organizations that work with struggling families and severely challenged children operate in a different world from business, government and community leaders. We bring those worlds together, educating and building relationships that strengthen the future for us all. Our mentoring and professional development programs for members promote ethics, understanding and generous involvement. Youth programs include public speaking, mentoring and leadership. Rotary is especially effective because it is part of a 1.2 million-person organization with 35,000 clubs throughout the world, all promoting selfless service.

support to organizations serving children and families. In 1920, we created Cincinnati’s first school for children with disabilities. Those early hospital-based classes became today’s Roselawn Condon School for children with significant challenges – a legacy we continue to support. Our Camp Allyn in Batavia provides critical recreational and independence-building opportunities for children and adults with disabilities. We just completed a $1 million expansion and renovation at the camp.

Since July 1, 2021, we have donated more than $130,000 to local non-profits; we sent over 500 schoolbooks, 500 desks, and 15,000 pairs of sunglasses to schools and community members in Ghana. Members logged over 750 hours on community projects including clean-up days at Camp Allyn, Loveland Bike Trail and Mill Creek Alliance, and volunteering at Ronald McDonald House, WCET Action Auction, Tikkun Farm Greenhouse and Matthew 25 Ministries.

How You Can Help: Join The Rotary Club of Cincinnati: We have special membership levels for students, young professionals and corporations as well as for career professionals. Membership criteria and information is available on the web site. Volunteer at Cincinnati Rotary Do Days, a three-day community-wide volunteer project Oct. 26-28.

The Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati

441 Vine Street, Suite 4192, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-421-1080

www.cincinnatirotary.org

Facebook: facebook.com/RotaryClubCincinnati

Twitter: CincyRotary

Instagram: Rotaryclubofcincinnati

Rotary Foundation President: Owen Wrassman

Rotary Foundation President elect: Jim Brooks

Rotary Club President: Steve King

Rotary Club President Elect: Doug Bolton

How

We Serve the Community:

The Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati has a long history of meeting needs and providing critical

Executive Director: Sara Pattison

Email: spattison@cincinnatirotary.org

Photos opposite page: left, from top: Banner at Camp Allyn Centennial, Roger Grein receives Jefferson Award for community impact at Rotary ceremony, Cincinnati Rotary Do Days volunteers, annual Rotary party for students with disabilities, Bengal fever at Rotary lunch meeting.

THE SALVATION ARMY IN GREATER CINCINNATI AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY

Who We Are: The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. Locally, The Salvation Army has been serving the Cincinnati community for more than 135 years.

As a religious and charitable organization, we are concerned with the needs of all humanity, and we work to help meet these needs for all who come to us, without discrimination. In Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, we operate five place-based Corps Community Centers in Over-the-Rhine, Center Hill, West Side, Batavia and Northern Kentucky (Covington), serving all of Hamilton, Clermont, Campbell and Kenton Counties.

What We Do: Every day The Salvation Army helps hundreds of people throughout the Greater Cincinnati region. We offer unique, local services designed to meet specific local needs. Our social services range from providing food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, efforts to end human trafficking, clothing and shelter to the homeless, support to veterans and opportunities for underprivileged children to attend after school, academic enrichment, summer enrichment programs and summer activities at Camp SWONEKY. Spiritual and emotional care complement our services, remaining a critical component to encourage stability, healing and lasting hope.

Why We’re Important: The Salvation Army’s resolve is unconditional; we are here for everyone in need no matter how tough life gets. Our service is rooted in “love thy neighbor”. When life serves up uncertainty and fear, The Salvation Army serves up assistance, along with love and hope. While we are known for our iconic red kettles, we demonstrate #LoveBeyond all year round. Below are just a few of the many ways we served the community:

• Provided more than 131,000 meals to those in need.

• Fielded 3,700 calls to the 24-hour Anti Human Trafficking Victim hotline.

• Housed more than 700 low-income seniors at our Booth Residence and Catherine Booth Residence apartment facilities.

• Provided 2,300 children with after-school and summer programs including music art and performing arts classes.

• Distributed $176,000 in Christmas gifts through the Adopt-a-Family and Toy Shop programs

• Helped 181 individuals at the Adult Rehabilitation Center

• Served 319 children at the West Side Learning Center

How We Serve the Community: Greater Cincinnati is full of loving and compassionate neighbors who believe in each other and work together when things get tough. The Salvation Army is committed to showing that same kind of love, serving all those around us without exception. We focus on addressing our neighbors’ immediate and physical needs and then continue to see them through the process of holistic recovery. Whether it be food, clothing, transportation, rental assistance, re-housing or our utility assistance, we work to provide programs that will set them on the road to achieving long-term stability and life transformation.

How You Can Help: Donate a monetary gift or learn more about current volunteer opportunities by visiting SalvationArmyCincinnati.org or call 513-762-5639.

The Salvation Army

114 E Central Pkwy, Cincinnati, OH 45202 (513) 762-5600

SalvationArmyCincinnati.org

Facebook: @SalvationArmyCincinnaty

Twitter: @salarmycincy

Instagram: @salarmycincy

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/salarmycincy

Executive Director: Major Linda B. López, Director of Operations, Greater Cincinnati

Divisional Director of Development: Julie C. Budden, CFRE, CFRM Email: Julie.Budden@use.salvationarmy.org

Board Chair: Mona Morrow, WCPO

THE SISTER ACCORD® FOUNDATION

Who We Are: The Sister Accord® Foundation (thesisteraccordfoundation.org) is a 501c3 organization with three global areas of focus: educating girls and women, enlightening girls and women of the power of Sisterhood, and eradicating bullying and violence against girls and women. The Foundation is focused on developing leaders via programming that inspires healthy, positive relationships. The mission is to have one billion girls and women understand their value and worth that leads to living a fulfilled life. The organization has now established chapters in Africa.

What We Do: The Sister Accord ® Foundation is dedicated to empowering girls and women, with the mission of teaching one billion girls and women how to love themselves and each other. The Foundation and its work are centered around three key pillars: to – through self-awareness and leadership development – educate girls and women, enlighten them of the power of Sisterhood, and eradicate the bullying and violence they face. The Foundation’s initiatives include programs, grants, scholarships and financial aid. Its most recent initiative, The Sister Accord® Accelerator, helps female entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses through a combination of grants, education, and mentorship.

Why We’re Important: “We are living in very challenging times, and the need for true Sisterhood has never been stronger. The Sister Accord® Foundation celebrates the power of Sisterhood in its many forms. Through our numerous initiatives and programs, we work to make a difference in girls and women’s lives by teaching love, kindness and respect. From helping female students finish college, to grants and mentorship furthering female entrepreneurs, we work to keep the human in humanity. Together, we celebrate

each other and address the love deficit the world is currently experiencing,” said Jackson Myles.

How We Serve the Community: The Sister A.C.C.O.R.D. Leadership Development Program was used to launch the Cincinnati Public Schools’ Girls 2 Women Program in 2016. The curriculum focuses on building confidence and self-esteem. Presentations of The Sister Accord®’s principles have been given across the greater Cincinnati area. In 2013, the City of Cincinnati proclaimed August 31st as The Sister Accord ® Day. Since then, people around the world celebrate Sisterhood on this day by performing random acts of kindness towards girls and women in their communities. The Sister Accord® LLC’s ‘Sisterhood & Brotherhood in The Workplace’ platform has been used successfully in corporate America.

How You Can Help: The Sister Accord® Foundation is supported through both personal and corporate grants. These funds support the many initiatives, programs, scholarships and financial aid that the Foundation disburses throughout the year. In addition to financial support, you can become involved through mentorship and volunteering for the many programs the Foundation presents throughout the year.

The Sister Accord® Foundation PO Box 348, Mason, OH 45040 513.815.1660

thesisteraccordfoundation.org

thesisteraccord (Instagram)

Executive Director: Sonia Jackson Myles

SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME de NAMUR

Who We Are: The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur are an international congregation of women religious serving in the U.S. as well as Belgium, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Great Britain, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur came to Cincinnati in 1840 after they were asked by Bishop Purcell to establish schools for newly arrived immigrants in Cincinnati and surrounding towns. Following the call of Jesus, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur live simply in the footsteps of their foundress, St. Julie Billiart.

What We Do: Today, the educational focus of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur continues, as do many of the institutions we established, including Summit Country Day School, Mount Notre Dame High School and Corryville Catholic Elementary School in Cincinnati; and Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. Today, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur serve in the inner-city providing job readiness and job training. They provide citizenship classes for recent immigrants. They operate a photovoltaic learning lab on their convent grounds for high school students studying STEMM. They also provide solar power and clean drinking water for villages in Africa, and microenterprises for people in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Why We’re Important: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur change lives by making known God’s goodness throughout the world. They are committed to education and take a stand with poor people, especially women and children living in the most abandoned places.

How We Serve the Community: Since our beginnings in Cincinnati

180 years ago, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur have sought to uplift people who are, or who are in danger of becoming, marginalized. In the 1840s, our work was with impoverished immigrants. Later it was with freed slaves. Still later, it was with people who were hearingimpaired. To this day, we continue to serve the community by working with those least among us, those with few skills or little education, who are battling addiction, or who are homeless — to give them what they need for life — and to show them the goodness of God.

How You Can Help: The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, through their Live the Good Volunteers, sponsor activities throughout the year in service to those who are poor. For more information, contact Holly Schlaack (schlaack@snden.org). Financial gifts can also be made for the Sisters’ work in Cincinnati and overseas and for the care of our oldest Sisters, most of whom spent upward of sixty years in the classroom. For more information, contact Kevin Manley (kmanley@ ohsnd.org). To learn more about our Clean Water for Life Project, providing clean, life-saving water to the children our Sisters serve in Africa, contact Angie Weisgerber (aweisgerber@ohsnd.org).

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 701 E. Columbia Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45215 513-761-7636

sndohio.org

YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/SistersofNotreDamedeNamur Facebook: facebook.com/SistersOfNotreDamedeNamurOhio Twitter: twitter.com/SNDdeNOhio

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/ sisters-of-notre-dame-de-namur Instagram: instagram.com/sndohio

Provincial Leader: Sister Kathleen Harmon, SNDdeN Email: kathleen.harmon@sndden.org

Development Director: Kevin Manley

Email: kmanley@ohsnd.org

Development Advisory Board Chair: Michael S. Caudill

Development Advisory Board Members: Phyllis M. Adams; Timothy E. Beischel; T. Brian Brockhoff; Thomas J. Compton, III; Michael J. Conaton, Board Member Emeritus; Todd L. Cooper; Rose Ann Fleming, SNDdeN; Thomas A. Joseph; Robert Kissel; Bradley D. McPeek; Timothy A. Michel; Maribeth S. Rahe; Gretchen J. Schmidt; Maria H. Topken

SPCA CINCINNATI

Who We Are: The SPCA Cincinnati is Greater Cincinnati’s Hometown Humane Society and has been since 1873. This year, the shelter celebrates 150 years of humane service in the region! The organization began as The Ohio State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals. The SPCA Cincinnati operates with the Mission at the forefront of everything we do. We envision a community that embodies humane treatment for all animals. Therefore, the SPCA Cincinnati strives to establish a positive animal welfare community, provide humane education to the public, eliminate pet overpopulation, and strengthen the human-animal bond. We believe that how we treat animals is a reflection of how we treat each other.

What We Do: The SPCA Cincinnati’s main goal is to improve animal welfare in the Greater Cincinnati area. The SPCA Cincinnati offers a variety of services that make saving lives a community effort: adoptions, fostering, volunteering, obedience training, and humane education. These services enable pets to remain safe and achieve a better quality of life, with a touchpoint of positive human interaction at every turn. Nurturing, rehabilitating, and socializing each animal every day is of high importance to our team. The SPCA Cincinnati is a member of the Pet Coalition of Greater Cincinnati, a united pet resource for our community!

Why We’re Important: The SPCA Cincinnati saves lives as an open admission animal shelter, operated by appointment only to uphold state level COVID-19 mandates. Vital services:

• 100% of ado ptable dogs receive a rabies vaccination and heartworm preventative medication

• 100% of dogs and cats receive flea/tick prevention and microchips

• Reduced fees have dramatically increased the number of adoptions

• We provide dog training, a behavior hotline, and communicate with every adopter to ensure that health and behavior are sound

• Regional partner in animal welfare rescue efforts

How We Serve the Community: The SPCA Cincinnati continues to build a culture of trust within our community by demonstrating

our expertise and leadership. Our organization positively affects the lives of countless homeless pets and pet parents each year, tens of thousands of animals in the last decade alone. We develop key relationships with adopters, rescues, foster homes, and animal experts, which further our desire to make lives of our pets the best possible. In 2023, as the organization celebrates a milestone anniversary, the public can anticipate programming and events which will pay tribute to accomplishments while looking ahead to an even brighter future in animal welfare for our local community.

How You Can Help: Please consider making a donation of your time, talent, and treasure to help our adoptable pets at the SPCA Cincinnati. Your financial contribution, volunteer time, and personal adoption of a new furry family member will contribute to making the lives of all our pets… better.

SPCA Cincinnati

11900 Conrey Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 513-541-6100

www.spcacincinnati.org

Social Media: @spcacincinnati

President & CEO: Mike Retzlaff

Email: MRetzlaff@spcacincinnati.org

Vice President, Donor Relations: Maria Miller

Email: MMiller@spcacincinnati.org

Board Chair: Thomas W. Chatham, Chair

Board Members: Peter A. Alpaugh, David Bauman, DVM, Julie Bissinger, Barbara Boat, PhD., Thom Brennaman, Marie Catanzaro, Michael Catanzaro, Sean Gibson, Jo Goodman, DVM, Anita Harney, Jamie Horn, Shannah Morris, Peter J. Kambelos, M. D., Karen Martin, Joelle Ragland, Judy Recker, Joseph Sanfillipo III, Thomas R. Schiff, and Chris Zimmerman

SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER

Who We Are: Springer School and Center’s mission is to empower students with learning disabilities to lead successful lives. This is achieved through directly educating students at the Springer School and providing training and support to parents and educational professionals via Springer Center. Springer is the only school in the region devoted entirely to the education of children with learning disabilities (LD). The school serves 200 students in grades 1-9, with a staff-to-student ratio of 1:6, and features research-based curriculum specially designed for children with LD. Through Springer Center’s outreach programs parents and professionals develop an understanding of learning differences and the most effective means to address them.

What We Do: Springer School provides a comprehensive academic program using evidence-based curriculum for students with learning differences, including technology tools and co- and extra-curricular programs at every level. Springer Center provides programming for students, parents and professionals that reflects evidence-based practices the field of learning disabilities and the education of those with learning differences and ADHD. Each year, the Center hosts nationally renowned experts to address parents and professionals, conducts several in-person workshops, and offers online learning opportunities. The Center’s Adventures in Summer Learning offers a five-week summer day camp built around academic programing as well as activities to increase selfesteem and social-emotional skills.

Why We’re Important: Research indicates that one in five students may struggle with learning and/or attentional issues. In a typical classroom, LD and ADHD cause students to fall behind their peers in school and eventually may face poorer outcomes throughout life. Educated by expert teachers and equipped with the knowledge of their own learning profile, students at Springer learn and practice strategies to help them advance academically and ready them for further education and life beyond school. The Center serves as an important resource for equipping parents, educators, and other professionals to properly support their children with LD/ADHD to help them achieve successful outcomes.

How We Serve the Community: Students with LD find success at Springer, where they gain knowledge of their own learning profile and benefit from the individualized attention and support from our highly educated teachers. The Center's professional development

programs raise awareness among educators and equip them to better serve the needs of their students. The Center also offers parents referrals, consulting services and classes that build understanding of the learning process and offer strategies for managing their children's learning difficulties. Addressing LD in children improves their chances at success in school and in life, making an impact on the lives of children, their families and the larger community.

How You Can Help: With the generous support of donors, Springer offered more than $1,100,000 in need-based financial aid to 54 percent of our students this year. You can help by making a donation to Springer's Annual Fund or attending our annual fundraising dinner, A Springer Celebration!, on April 20, 2023. For more information, visit Springer-LD.org/giving. Your support will help make School and Center programming available to more children and equip parents and teachers in the region to empower the children in their lives through effective education.

Springer School and Center

2121 Madison Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208 (513) 871-6080

www.Springer-LD.org

Facebook.com/SpringerLD

pinterest.com/SpringerLD

twitter.com/SpringerLD

Instagram.com/SpringerLD

President: Brett Marcoux

Email: bmarcoux@springer-ld.org

Vice President of Institutional Advancement: Kirstin Eismin Email: keismin@springer-ld.org

Board Officers: Matthew F. Gockerman, President; Gina Goings, Senior Vice President; Mike S. Wright, Vice President; Thomas C. Leugers, Treasurer; Kate Nourse Walker, Secretary

Board Members: Battino L. Batts Jr., Ph.D; Matthew C. Blickensderfer; Casey M. Boland; Jamelle R. Bowers, MD, FHM; Wendy Bonomo; Penelope R. Dinsmore; Cecily Fassler, PhD; Thomas L. Finn, CFA; Peter M. Frey; Jessica Hall; Anna Hogan; Stephen T. MacConnell; Peter Niehoff, PhD; Jeffrey M. Reichard; Tammy Riddle; John J. Schiff III

ST. FRANCIS SERAPH MINISTRIES

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console;

To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

–Prayer of St. Francis

Who We Are: St. Francis Seraph Ministries builds on the legacy of the Franciscan Friars of the Province of St. John the Baptist in serving individuals who are homeless or low income. In 2017, we partnered with several other nonprofit organizations also committed to serving the poor and marginalized in Over-theRhine and began operating out of the St. Anthony Center.

What We Do: Our mission is to nourish and nurture people in need, especially individuals in Over-the-Rhine and nearby neighborhoods who are homeless. Our programs include the Mother Teresa of Calcutta Dining Room and Bag Lunch program; Sarah Center program (sewing and jewelry-making courses); and the Foot Care for the Souls program.

Why We're Important:The staff and volunteers at St. Francis Seraph Ministries give hope, compassion, and acceptance to those who visit us. We are Franciscans at heart, which means everyone is welcomed and loved.

How We Serve the Community: Currently, we are serving 100-150 individuals for breakfast and again for dinner. In Foot Care for the Souls, clients are receiving care for their feet as well as new shoes and socks. Graduates of our #Stitched# and jewelry-making classes are utilizing their skills in professional or personal endeavors.

How You Can Help: We could not fulfill our mission without our volunteers. We need volunteers for our Mother Teresa of Calcutta Dining Room program and Foot Care for the Souls program. We also appreciate financial gifts of any size.

St. Francis Seraph Ministries

1615 Republic Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-549-0542

www.sfsministries.org

Executive Director: Mary Pat Raupach Email: mpraupach@sfsministries.org

Board Chair: Thomas Gruber

STEPPING STONES, INC.

Who We Are: Stepping Stones is an impact organization you can trust to meet the needs of Greater Cincinnati’s children, teens and adults with disabilities and their families. Stepping Stones has a 60-year history of excellence and received the Better Business Bureau’s Torch Award in 2016, recognizing exceptional ethics in dealings with the community, participants and staff. Our mission is to increase independence, improve lives and promote inclusion for children and adults with disabilities.

What We Do: Stepping Stones creates pathways to independence for people with disabilities. Programs include Greater Cincinnati’s oldest Summer Day Camp for children with disabilities, Respites and overnight Staycations for teens and adults, Saturday Kids/ Young Adults Clubs providing extracurricular activities, Adult Day Services focusing on health, active lifestyle, social interaction, and independence and Step-Up alternative education for students with autism. Program sites are in Batavia, Indian Hill, Norwood and Western Hills.

Why We’re Important: Stepping Stones programs serve children, teens and adults who have disabilities and their families. At Stepping Stones, people with disabilities learn to identify and celebrate their abilities as they build confidence and greater independence. Our programs constantly reach through the disability to find the abilities that everyone has. Families find critical resources as well as a desperately needed break from constant care. Stepping Stones’ programs are a community resource that builds stronger families and stronger futures.

How We Serve the Community: Stepping Stones’ programs are a huge community resource, but the impact extends far beyond the families and individuals who use the programs. For instance, the Stepping Stones volunteer program has changed lives and strengthened the community for nearly six decades. Former volunteers tell us the Stepping Stones experience led to careers in special education, physical therapy, medicine and other

disabilities-related fields. Learn more and apply to volunteer at SteppingStonesVolunteer.org.

How You Can Help:

• Give your time: Volunteer with trained staff in programs or in projects ranging from landscaping and camp prep to special events.

• Donate: One-time or annual donations make our programs possible.

• Leave a Legacy: Planned giving through a will or trust creates a legacy of support and care.

• Attend an Event: Join supporters at the Open Your Heart dinner in February, the Golf Classic in June, the end-of-summer Bloom party in September or the Sporting Clays Tournament in October.

• Share the News: Tell someone else about Stepping Stones. You could be the reason a family or a new supporter finds us.

Stepping Stones, Inc.

5650 Given Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45243 513-831-4660

SteppingStonesOhio.org

Facebook.com/steppingstonesohio

Twitter.com/ssohioinc

Instagram.com/steppingstonesohio

LinkedIn.com/company/stepping-stones-ohio/

CEO: Mr. Chris Adams

Email: Chris.Adams@steppingstonesohio.org

Development Director: Mrs. Kelly Crow

Email: Kelly.Crow@steppingstonesohio.org

Board Chair: Deb Caley, President

Board Members:Matt Hemberger, Vice President

Rob Etherington, Treasurer

Leo Dalle Molle, Secretary

XAVIER JESUIT ACADEMY

Who We Are: Xavier Jesuit Academy is a newly established Catholic and Jesuit 3rd through 8th grade all male elementary school in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, which plans to open in the fall of 2024 on site of the Church of the Resurrection in the former St. Agnes School building. The Jesuits serve youth across the country, lifting economically challenged families by providing excellent faith-based education and changing the learning trajectory of students from communities suffering cultural divestment. Xavier Jesuit Academy is the newest Jesuit education mission in Cincinnati, joining St. Xavier High School and Xavier University.

What We Do: Xavier Jesuit Academy's mission is “Preparing young males to be leaders and ‘Men for Others’ through disciplined academic preparation for life, in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition, while enriching their families and communities.” The Academy is committed to establishing a solid learning model grounded in the Catholic, Jesuit tradition, upheld by Gospel values, academic excellence and self-discipline, preparing graduates to thrive in high school, college, employment, and life. The Academy will strive to form young men who are faith-filled, loving, strive for intellectual excellence, are committed to justice, and open to growth.

Why We’re Important: Xavier Jesuit Academy will address education and formation needs of young males as desired by their communities in a safe and nurturing environment. Through formation in the Jesuit education tradition, The Academy will cultivate healthy male relationships, provide positive role models, engage community-based learning, care for the whole person, and instill faith that leads to service. The Academy strives to become a tangible catalyst of love and a hope-filled future for the students, their families, and networks of care, expanding secondary education options and life opportunities.

How We Serve the Community: Xavier Jesuit Academy aims to be a neighborhood school, serving young males in the heart of

Bond Hill, accessible for nearby neighborhoods. The Academy collaborates with neighbors who are working for economic and education equity and opportunity, especially for young African American males. The site will provide a beautiful and welcoming contemporary learning campus. The Academy’s location on site of the Church of the Resurrection will add another hub of positive activity for youth, families, and neighbors, while supporting outreach efforts serving the community.

How You Can Help: Xavier Jesuit Academy will be financially accessible for all qualifying families, relying on Ohio EdChoice Scholarships and philanthropic giving to reach the full cost of educating each student. Keeping a small student-to-teacher ratio, small class sizes, and substantial student wellness services are essential to deliver the educational model. Significant renovation is planned and underway to transform an unused Catholic school building into a welcoming contemporary education space and learning oriented campus.

• Spiritual support: Pray for the staff, future students, and families

• Financial support: Give to capital projects, operations start-up, and student financial aid

• Time / talent support: Professional educators, finance, networking

Xavier Jesuit Academy

1625 Carolina Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45237

www.xavierja.org

Facebook: Xavier Jesuit Academy

Instagram: xavierjesuitcincy

Twitter: @Xavier_Jesuit

President: Rev. Nathan Wendt, S.J.

Email: nwendt@xavierja.org

Board Chair: Michael K. Keating

March

April

May

July

August

TBD Emery Federal Credit Union Annual Charity Golf Outing

TBD

September

October

November

TBD Brighton Center’s FriendsGiving

TBD Cancer Family Care 43rd Annual Wine Tasting & Auction. Manor House.

All Month Meals On Wheels Bust a Crust! Thanksgiving Pie Fundraiser.

10 Adopt A Class Gala

11 Cincinnati Association for The Blind and Visually Impaired Dining in the Dark Gala. Hard Rock Casino

14 The Cure Starts Now Giving First Event

16 Brighton Center Friendsgiving

17 PAWS Adoption Center Pictures with Santa

17 Cancer Support Community Stronger than Cancer Celebration

23 Western & Southern Thanksgiving Day Race Walk & Run

23-25 The Salvation Army National Red Kettle Season

December

9 The Cure Starts Now SantaCon

8-1/1 Crib of the Nativity at Krohn Conservatory benefiting The Salvation Army

CHARITY DIRECTORY

Adopt A Class

4030 Smith Rd. Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45209 513-448-4137

aacmentors.org

Executive Director: Sonya Fultz

Email: sonya@aacmentors.org

Alpaugh Family Economics Center

225 Calhoun Street, Suite 370, Cincinnati, OH 45219-0223 513-556-2948

www.economicscenter.org

Executive Director: David Mahon

Email: David.mahon@uc.edu

The Apartment Association Outreach, Inc.

7265 Kenwood Rd. Suite 100, Cincinnati, OH 45236 513-407-8612

www.gcnkoutreach.org

Executive Director: Rebecca McLean

Email: rebecca@gcnkaa.org

Assistance League of Greater Cincinnati

1057 Meta Drive, Cincinnati OH 45237 513-221-4447

AssistanceLeagueCincinnati.org

Executive Director: NA – all volunteer organization

Email: algc@fuse.net

Bayley

990 Bayley Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45233 513-347-5500

bayleylife.org

Executive Director: Adrienne A. Walsh

Email: Adrienne.Walsh@BayleyLife.org

Beech Acres Parenting Center 615 Elsinore Place Suite 500, Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-231-6630

beechacres.org

President and CEO: Laura Mitchell

Email: lmitchell@beechacres.org

Best Point Education and Behavioral Health 5050 Madison Road, Cincinnati OH, 45227 513-272-2800

www.bestpoint.org

President and CEO: John Banchy

Bethany House Services, Inc. 4769 Reading Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45237 513-921-1131

bethanyhouseservices.org

Executive Director: Peg Dierkers

Email: pdierkers@bhsinc.org

BLOC Ministries

911 W 8th St, Cincinnati, OH 45203 513-250-5722

onebloc.org

Executive Director: Dwight Young

Email: dwight.young@onebloc.org

Boys Hope Girls Hope Cincinnati 2400 Reading Road, Suite 139 Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-721-3380

bhghcincinnati.org

Executive Director: Missy Hendon Deters

Email: mhendondeters@bhgh.org

Brighton Center Inc. PO Box 325, Newport KY 41072 859-491-8303

www.brightoncenter.com

President & CEO: Wonda Winkler

Email: wwinkler@brightoncenter.com

Cancer Family Care

4790 Red Bank Expressway, Suite 128, Cincinnati, OH 45227 513-731-3346

www.cancerfamilycare.org

Executive Director: Jill Settlemyre

Email: jsettlemyre@cancerfamilycare.org

CancerFree KIDS

420 W. Loveland Ave., Loveland, OH 45140 513-575-5437 (KIDS)

www.cancerfreekids.org

Executive Director: Jill Brinck

Email: jill@cancerfreekids.org

Cancer Support Community

Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky (CSC) 4918 Cooper Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242 513-791-4060

MyCancerSupportCommunity.org

Executive Director: Kelly Schoen

Email: kschoen@cancer-support.org

CHARITY DIRECTORY

CISE (Catholic Inner-city Schools Education)

100 E. 8th Street, Cincinnati,m OH 45202 513-263-3471

www.cisekids.org

Executive Director: Phil McHugh

Email: pmchugh@cisekids.org

Cincinnati Art Museum

953 Eden Park Drive Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-721-2787

www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

Executive Director: Cameron Kitchin

Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired (CABVI)

2045 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-221-8558

www.cincyblind.org

President/CEO: Teri Shirk

Email: teri.shirk@cincyblind.org

Cincinnati Cancer Advisors

4805 Montgomery Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45212, USA

513-731-2273

www.cincinnaticanceradvisors.org/

Executive Director: Steve Abbott

Email: steve.abbott@cincinnaticanceradvisors.org

Cincinnati Golden Gloves for Youth (boxing gym) 1715 Republic St. Cincinnati, OH 45202 (learning center) 19 W. Elder St., 1st Flr. Cincinnati, OH 45202 (mailing address) 2334 Boudinot Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45238

913-954-7190

www.cincinnatiboxing.org

Executive Director: Christina LaRosa

Email: christina@cincinnatiboxing.org

Cincinnati Nature Center 4949 Tealtown Road, Milford, OH 45150 513-831-1711

www.cincynature.org

Executive Director: Jeff Corney

Email: jcorney@cincynature.org

Cris Collinsworth ProScan Fund

5400 Kennedy Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45213

866-577-7465

Executive Director: Brook Drummond

Email: bdrummond@proscan.com

The Cure Starts Now 10280 Chester Road, Cincinnati, OH 45215 513-772-4888

thecurestartsnow.org

Executive Director: Brooke Desserich

Email: brooke@thecurestartsnow.org

DePaul Cristo Rey High School

3440 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45225 513-861-0600

www.depaulcristorey.org

President/CEO: Siobhan Taylor

Email: siobhan.taylor@dpcr.net

The Dragonfly Foundation 506 Oak Street, Cincinnati, OH 45219 513-494-6474

Dragonfly.org

Executive Director: Christine Neitzke

Email: c.neitzke@dragonfly.org

The Erica J. Holloman Foundation for the Awareness of Triple Negative Breast Cancer

P.O. Box 14334, Cincinnati, Ohio 45250-0334 513-541-6110

www.ericajhollomanfoundationinc.org

President: Josie Holloman-Adams

Email: ejhollomanfoundation@yahoo.com

Freestore Foodbank

1141 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-482-4500

www.freestorefoodbank.org

CEO: Kurt Reiber

Email: kreiber@freestorefoodbank.org

Giving Voice Foundation

PO Box 27050 Cincinnati, OH 45227 513-399-6065

www.givingvoicefdn.org

President and Founder: Christian Gausvik, MD

Email: christian@givingvoicefdn.org

Good Samaritan Foundation 375 Dixmyth Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45220 513-862-3786

gshfoundation.com

Executive Director: Mary Rafferty

Email: Mary_Rafferty@TriHealth.com

CHARITY DIRECTORY

Head For A Cure Foundation

c/o 2510 Grandin Road, Cincinnati, OH 45208 513-325-2550

www.gromadacancerfndn.org

Executive Director: NA – all volunteer organization

Email: bcg.headneckcafdn@gmail.com

HER Cincinnati

2401 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-768-6900

www.hercincinnati.org

President & CEO: Beth Schwartz

Email: bschwartz@hercincinnati.org

Impact Autism

7795 Five Mile Road, Cincinnati, OH 45230 513-699-8845

Impactautism.org

Executive Director: NA – all volunteer organization

Email: pkitzmiller@core-1.com

LADD

3603 Victory Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45229 513-861-5233

www.laddinc.org

Executive Director: Susan Brownknight

Email: SBrownknight@laddinc.org

Lighthouse Youth & Family Services

401 East McMillan Street, Cincinnati, OH 45206 513-221-3350

lys.org

President and Chief Executive Officer: Paul Haffner

Email: phaffner@lys.org

Lindner Center of HOPE

4075 Old Western Row Road, Mason, Ohio 45040

Main: 513-536-HOPE (4673)

Toll free: 1-888-536-HOPE (4673) lindnercenterofhope.org

Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Paul Crosby

Email: paul.crosby@lindnercenter.org

Living With Change

655 Plum Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202 livingwithchange.org

Executive Director: Jessica Cicchinelli

Email: jessica@livingwithchange.org

Madi’s House

“The Annex” - 5081 Glencrossing Way Cincinnati, OH 45238

Madi’s House – 2360 Kipling Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45239

513-347-6234 mhcincy.org

Founder & President: Julie Leis Raleigh

Email: jraleigh@mhcincy.org

Magnified Giving 9940 Reading Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45241 513-733-9727

www.magnifiedgiving.org

Executive Director: Kelly Collison

Email: kelly@magnifiedgiving.org

Matthew 25: Ministries

11060 Kenwood Road, Blue Ash, OH 45242 513-793-6256 m25m.org

Executive Director: Tim Mettey, CEO

Email: Email: info@m25m.org

Meals on Wheels of Southwest OH & Northern KY 2091 Radcliff Drive, Cincinnati Ohio 45209 513-661-2777

www.muchmorethanameal.org

Executive Director: Jennifer Steele, CEO

Email: jsteele@muchmorethanameal.org

NextUp Cincinnati -Cincinnati Region

www.nextupisnow.org/region/cincinnati/

Email: Cincinnati@nextupisnow.org

Executive Co-Chairs: Amy Alt, P & G, Mindy Rector, Kroger

New Life Furniture Bank

11335 Reed Hartman Highway, Ste. 134, Cincinnati, OH 45241 513-313-0530

nlfurniture.org

Executive Director: Dana Saxton

Email: dana@nlfurniture.org

Ohio Valley Voices

6642 Branch Hill-Guinea Pike, Loveland, OH 45140 513-791-1458

www.ohiovalleyvoices.org

Executive Director: Maria Sentelik

Email: msentelik@ohiovalleyvoices.org

CHARITY DIRECTORY

People Working Cooperatively

4612 Paddock Road, Cincinnati OH 45229 513-351-7921

www.pwchomerepairs.org

President: Jock Pitts

Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Adoption Center

6302 Crossings Blvd. Monroe, OH 45050

513-539-7297

Pawsadoptioncenter.org

Operations Manager: Kathy Teller

ProKids

2605 Burnet Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45219 513-281-2000

www.prokids.org

Executive Director: Tracy Cook

Email: info@prokids.org

Ride Cincinnati PO Box 862, Mason, OH 45040

513-235-3452

ridecincinnati.org

Development Director: Miles McDowell

Email: miles@ridecincinnati.org

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati 341 Erkenbrecher Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229

513-559-4600

www.rmhcincinnati.org

Chief Executive Officer: Jennifer Loeb

Email: jloeb@rmhouse.org

The Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati 441 Vine Street, Suite 4192, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-421-1080

www.cincinnatirotary.org

Executive Director: Sara Pattison

Email: spattison@cincinnatirotary.org

The Salvation Army in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

114 E Central Pkwy #400, Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-762-5660

SalvationArmyCincinnati.org

Executive Director: Major Linda Lopez

Email: Julie.Budden@use.salvationarmy.org

Sister Accord Foundation PO Box 348, Mason, OH 45040 513.815.1660

https://thesisteraccordfoundation.org

Executive Director: Sonia Jackson Myles

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 701 E. Columbia Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45215 513-761-7636

sndohio.org

Provincial Leader: Sister Kathleen Harmon, SNDdeN Email: kathleen.harmon@sndden.org

SPCA Cincinnati

11900 Conrey Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 513-541-6100

www.spcacincinnati.org

Executive Director: Mike Retzlaff, President & CEO

Email: MRetzlaff@spcacincinnati.org

Springer School and Center 2121 Madison Rd. Cincinnati OH 45208

513-871-6080

Springer-LD.org

Executive Director: Brett Marcoux

Email: bmarcoux@springer-ld.org

St. Francis Seraph Ministries

1615 Republic Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513-549-0542

www.sfsministries.org

Executive Director: Mary Pat Raupach

Email: mpraupach@sfsministries.org

Stepping Stones, Inc. 5650 Given Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45243 513-831-4660

SteppingStonesOhio.org

Executive Director: Mr. Chris Adams

Email: Chris.Adams@steppingstonesohio.org

Xavier Jesuit Academy

1625 Carolina Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45237 www.xavierja.org

President: Rev. Nathan Wendt, S.J.

Email: nwendt@xavierja.org