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Athens County Appalachia Project |
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Athens County Appalachia Project is a charitable feeding organization helping SE Ohio families meet their basic food, clothing and hygiene needs. Contact: Jacques Angelino |
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B.R.E.A.D (Building Responsibility, Equality, and Dignity) is a consortium of more than 50 Central Ohio multi-faith congregations united to apply non-partisan political pressure to improve housing, health care, employment, education, and other poverty-related problems in central Ohio. Contact: Alice Rathburn. B.R.E.A.D Website |
Buckeye Forest Council is a statewide, nonprofit preservation organization working to protect Ohio’s 20 state forests and the Wayne National Forest. The council holds quarterly hikes, works in the state legislature and has volunteers who take responsibility for monitoring specific forests to assure that management techniques do not lend to destruction of our public lands. Contact: David Maywhoor
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CRC (The Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center) |
CRC (The Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center) serves North Columbus residents in need. Volunteers are needed for various center activities. Contact: Marge Lynd
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Empty Bowls is an annual November project sponsored by the Columbus Dept. of Recreation and Parks and area churches. Features great soup, music and homemade bowls. Proceeds go to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. Contact: Sherri Stubbs
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Equality Ohio serves as an advocate for fair treatment and equal opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens. It envisions an Ohio where everyone feels at home and where equality, diversity and inclusiveness are universally valued. Contact: Caroline Rayner Equality Ohio website |
Fair Trade Coffee is an Economic Globalization project with volunteers selling fair trade coffees, teas, nuts and chocolate every 3rd Sunday. Contact: Kathleen Boston
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Faith Mission Dinners cooks and serves meals twice monthly for those in need at Faith Mission and the Pater Noster House. Contacts: cooking:Tom Dodge; serving: Donna Greenman
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FCCFGG (Franklin County Consortium for Good Government) sponsors candidates’ nights in neighborhood settings for local political races. Contact: Cathy Elkins
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Heifer International is a nonprofit, interfaith organization working to end hunger and poverty while caring for the earth. Heifer provides animals and training to help impoverished families in more than 125 countries become more self-reliant. Contact: Jacques Angelino
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MWA (Mid-Ohio Workers Association), is an association for service, in-home, and domestic workers, as well as the unemployed and those on fixed incomes in central Ohio. It provides emergency food, dental and medical care, legal advice, self-help programs and education. Contact: Steve Molk
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NAICCO (Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio) provides services to Native Americans. Volunteers help with Center activities, powwows and donations for holiday food baskets. Contact: Jackie Angelino
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NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Foundation |
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NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Foundation supports and protects a woman’s right to make personal decisions regarding a full range of reproductive choices. These choices include preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children and choosing safe, legal abortion. Contact: Jane Larson
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Ohio RCRC (Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice) brings the moral power of religious communities to bear to ensure reproductive choice through education and advocacy. Contact: Barb Avery
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OTSE (Ohioans to Stop Executions), works to repeal the Ohio death penalty, through vigils, education, and lobbying. Contact: Bill Fullarton
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RESULTS is a grassroots advocacy group committed to creating the political will to end poverty. Become an effective voice for those who have no voice. Meets 2nd Saturday of month at noon. Contact: Ginnie Vogts
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SPAN Ohio (Single-Payer Action Network Ohio) advocates Universal Health Care under a single-payer model. Contact: Alice Faryna
See more details on www.spanohio.org
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The UUJEC (Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community) is a national group of independent UU’s whose mission is to “engage, educate and activate UU’s to work for economic justice, recognizing that as people of faith in the struggle for justice, we are supporting and renewing our spiritual lives.” Contact: Michael Greenman
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Unitarian Universalist Service Committee |
 UUSC (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee) is our denominational development and human rights organization. It supports a range of non-sectarian projects to and works with local grassroots organizations to empower poor and disenfranchised people throughout the world. UUSC works in four areas: economic justice, human rights, environmental justice, and emergency relief. Programs include Guest at Your Table during the Thanksgiving/Christmas season and Justice Sunday in the spring.
Find out about UUSC's work and become a member at www.uusc.org.
Contact: Marge Lynd |
UUSC (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee) is our denominational development and human rights organization. It supports a range of non-sectarian projects to and works with local grassroots organizations to empower poor and disenfranchised people throughout the world. UUSC works in four areas: economic justice, human rights, environmental justice, and emergency relief. Programs include Guest at Your Table during the Thanksgiving/Christmas season and Justice Sunday in the spring.
Find out about UUSC's work and become a member at www.uusc.org.
Contact: Marge Lynd
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The YWCA Family Center provides transitional housing and needed services to families with the goal of enabling them to become self-sufficient. First UU provides a taco bar at the Center each 4th Friday. Contact: Cathy McCutcheon
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