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.
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 one-on-one with a child.
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 Adult Day Services & Transportation provides transportation to medical appointments, adult day services, ramps and home modifications, and consumer advocacy — for nearly 70 years.
Family Health Services provides reproductive health and wellness along with STI testing.
Foundation Dinners provides a free meal program that serves impoverished and homeless people lunch and dinner 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 provides mentoring and life skills and builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Habitat for Humanity brings local families, individuals, businesses, and organizations together to build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter.
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 is the social services referral source and serves as the connection between people in need and the resources available to assist them.
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.
OhioGuidestone offers services for mental health, substance use disorder, family care, foster care, juvenile justice, residential treatment, home-based counseling, job training and more.
Pickerington Food Pantry provides emergency food to people who reside within the Pickerington Local School District earning 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
The mission of the Pickerington Senior Center is to promote healthy aging, independence and the well-being of adults aged 50 and above through health, wellness, educational, cultural, and recreational programs and services.
The 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 put Christian principles into practice through programs that promote healthy body, mind and spirit for all.
Salvation Army Adult Day Services supports seniors and developmentally challenged adults who cannot care for themselves, with the aim of delaying placement in a care facility.
Applications for program funding open each November for the following fiscal year.