Together Ohio Community Engagement Partnership Project
Providing faith-based and other community based organizations with the knowledge and skills needed to build and maintain strong collaborations
Melissa Ross, Director
Project Overview
The Together Ohio Community Engagement Partnership Project brings together the traditional service system providers participating in county Family and Children First (FCF) Councils and faith-based and other non-profit organizations to achieve a greater impact by fostering sustainable public-private partnerships.
Strategies
- Partnering with Family and Children First and Family Comes First to organize and engage community leaders
- Assessing the needs and readiness of community organizations
- Aligning the goals of county Family and Children First Councils, faith-based and other non-profit organizations making the case for relevance and acceptance to create a greater impact in Ohio communities
- Facilitating a regional advisory team designed to help develop a strategic plan by utilizing the resources, solutions and strategies generated by the community
- Offering six free regional capacity building trainings to strengthen Ohio communities
- Promoting the Governor’s Call to Action, a community engagement effort that recruits mentors, foster and adoptive parents, prison and reentry volunteers and establishes financial education programs, Ohio Benefit Bank sites and summer food programs
- Providing technical assistance through face to face coaching, phone, email
*Toolkit*: Non-Profit Development and Sustainability Toolkit
This Toolkit provides resources for faith-based and community non-profits to build capacity. Topics include development and management, measurement and evaluation, collaboration and partnerships, ethics and accountability, communications and marketing, and fund development and management. The Toolkit resources can be found HERE. The videos from past workshops that supplement the Toolkit resources can be found HERE.
100 Connections in 100 Days
Join the campaign to make intentional connections with other faith-based and community non-profit organizations so as to move the work you do from good to great. Help reach the goal of 100 connections in 100 days. Share your connection story by emailing Maria at melliott@ehe.osu.edu.
To view Central Region Connections made so far, click here.
To view North Central Region Connections made so far, click here.
Regional Advisory Group
The purpose of the Regional Advisory Community Partnership is to serve as a link between local effort and the Together Ohio initiative. They will review need assessment documents and hear from their peers to help chart the course of the project. Their experience will be invaluable to the success of the project. Because the project motto is “community solutions to community problems” it is important that key leaders in each county be identified to represent not only their organizations but their county.A full calendar of the advisory meetings and the documents that were distributed at past events can be found here.
Sponsor
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services through a grant managed by the Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
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