FUNDED AGENCIES
Agencies and Programs Funded
We envision a strong community and one of our most important resources is our community partners. Through strategic partnerships, collaborative work, the dedication of volunteers and the support of hundreds through our annual campaign, we are achieving measurable results.
American Red Cross
- Disaster Relief & Service to Armed Forces
Provides disaster relief ranging from home fires to earthquakes to hurricanes. In these events they provide shelter, food, health, and mental health services to help families and entire communities get back on their feet. They also support military members, veterans, and their families to prepare for, cope with, and respond to the challenges of military service.
Big Brothers Big Sisters provides Community and School Based Mentors. These trusted adults deliver mentoring services to children age 6 to 18 through two core services, in which a screened, trained volunteer meets 1:1 with a child.
Boy Scouts of America: Simon Kenton Council
Mentoring and Life Skills preparing youth to become responsible, participating citizens and leaders who are guided by the Scout Oath and Scout Law through character development and outdoor education.
Canal Winchester Human Services / Food Pantry
Canal Winchester Human Services provides a variety of social services through the Community Outreach, Senior Transportation, and Community Food Pantry Programs.
Fairfield Center for Independence
Fairfield Center for Independence Adult Day Services & Transportation provides transportation to medical appointments, adult day services, ramps/home modifications and consumer advocacy for nearly 70 years.
Fairfield County TeenWorks is a youth work program that identifies and helps talented and dedicated youth, between the ages of 16 and 24 discover and experience the world of work. Through objective assessments, they provide youth with the academic enrichment, work experience, pre-employment work maturity skills, career counseling and life skills necessary to be successful in their careers and personal lives.
FAIRHOPE Hospice & Palliative Care
Fairhope Hospice & Palliative Care provides compassionate end-of-life and palliative care to patients and families in Fairfield, Perry, and Hocking counties. Based in Lancaster, Ohio, Fairhope offers medical care, grief support, and holistic services through its inpatient facility, The Pickering House.
Foundation Dinners provides a free meal program that serves impoverished and homeless people with 3 hot meals a day every day of the year. They also help individuals find jobs and housing.
The Foundation Shelters is a faith-based nonprofit offering safe, free overnight shelter for up to 25 individuals in need. Partnering with Foundation Dinners, it also provides daily meals and support. Rooted in Matthew 25, the mission invites the community to serve those experiencing homelessness with compassion and dignity.
Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland
Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland provides mentoring and life skills and builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Harcum House Child Advocacy Center helps to reduce trauma experienced by child victims of violent crime. They provide an array of evidence based trauma informed services.
Hardbarger Impact Ministries is a faith-based nonprofit founded in 2018 with a mission to serve God by serving people. Focused on breaking the cycle of poverty, their outreach began with Bed Brigade in 2016 and has expanded to include new initiatives like God’s Garage and HIM Homes—each designed to meet practical needs and uplift the community through love and service.
Information and Referral 2-1-1
Information and Referral 2-1-1 is the social services referral source and serves as the connection between the people in need and the resource available to assist them.
Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency
The Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency (LFCAA) is a nonprofit organization serving Fairfield County, Ohio, dedicated to helping low- and moderate-income individuals and families achieve self-sufficiency. Established in 1965, LFCAA offers programs in food assistance, housing, early childhood education, energy support, employment services, and environmental sustainability.
The Lighthouse Domestic Violence Shelter provides protective shelter, counseling, advocacy, prevention and case management services to victims of domestic violence and their children.
Lutheran Social Services’ Homeless Shelter & Food Pantry provides basic needs and services that revitalize lives through innovative food pantries, homeless shelters, affordable senior housing, and disaster recovery assistance.
Maywood Mission Daycare & Day Camp helps the needy including daycare, latch-key, summer camp, food pantry, thrift store, medical clinic and chapel services.
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services’ Therapeutic Mentoring Program was established to provide quality mental health services to residents in Fairfield County and surrounding areas.
New Horizons Mental Health Services
New Horizons Mental Health Services’ Signs of Suicide Program seeks to improve the health and well-being of individuals, families and community through quality mental health care and effective community partnerships.
PB & Joy ensures our county's most vulnerable, our children, aren't without food. We support the hunger needs of children by putting together a package of food every month during the school year for the students in need that can be prepared by a child such as fruits, veggies, canned pasta, soup, and cereal. PB & Joy is a weekend meal program provided to eight schools in Fairfield County. This program is not based on income and the only eligibility requirement is to be a student in one of the eight schools in Fairfield County.
Pickerington Food Pantry provides emergency food to people who reside within the Pickerington Local School District earning 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Pickerington Schools WISE program is a Junior High tutoring program where each student who participates receives direct intervention from a coach in a small group setting on a daily basis.
Robert K Fox Family Y Day Camp & Preschool Programs puts Christian principles into practice through programs that promote healthy body, mind and spirit for all.
Salvation Army / Adult Day Services
Salvation Army Adult Day Services for seniors and developmentally challenged adults who cannot care for themselves, providing support with the aim of delaying placement in a care facility.
