Local Organizations Need Your Support
These non-profit organizations have funds at the Wayne County Community Foundation. Anyone can make a tax-deductible donation of any amount to support these organizations.
To make an online donation, click on the fund name below. If you would like to mail us a check, please make your donation payable to the Wayne County Community Foundation and list the agency fund name on your check memo line. If it is a non-cash donation (stocks, bonds, securities, property, life insurance, etc.), please contact Ferenc M. Relle, Jr. at 330-262-3877 to discuss how best to transfer your gift.
Agency Funds
Apple Creek/East Union Historical Society & Community Learning Center Fund
Agency Vision: The Apple Creek Historical Society will provide the facilities, with libraries & programs, to promote a community learning center focused on the history of the East Union Township area.
Purpose: To provide financial support toward the construction of the Apple Creek Community Learning Center & programs that support the organization's mission statement.
Agency Website: www.applecreekhs.org
Fund Purpose: A partnership between Wayne Center for the Arts and the Tri-County Educational Service Center to enhance the quality of arts education in the public schools of Wayne County.
Agency Website: www.wayneartscenter.org, www.youresc.k12.oh.us
Boys’ Village Foundation – G.A.R. Fund
Agency Mission: To promote responsible living and positive change in troubled children through partnerships with families and communities.
Agency Website: www.thevillagenetwork.org
Camp Nuhop: Jerry Dunlap Memorial Endowment Fund
Fund Purpose: To honor the memory of Jerry Dunlap, one of the Founders and Executive Director of Camp Nuhop, this endowment provides support to the organization.
Agency Mission: To provide a safe, nurturing, dynamic learning environment where people are empowered to succeed.
Agency Website: www.campnuhop.org
Central American Medical Outreach Fund
Agency Mission: To improve the lives of people by strengthening health care systems and promoting sustainable community development.
Agency Website: www.camo.org
Central Christian Church Endowment Fund
Agency Website: www.cccwooster.org
Central Christian Church: Ralph R. and Grace B. Jones Fund
Fund Purpose: To provide support to the ministries of Central Christian Church.
Agency Website: www.cccwooster.org
Chippewa Excellence for Education Foundation Fund
Fund Purpose: To benefit the Chippewa Local School District, this fund is used to support general enrichment programs, staff development grants, community awareness programs, students with special needs, the fine and performing arts and scholarships for further education.
Agency Website: www.chippewa.k12.oh.us
Christian Children’s Home of Ohio: Faye Lytle Memorial Endowment Fund
Fund Purpose: To support the pet therapy program at the Christian Children's Home of Ohio, Inc.
Agency Mission: To bring healing to hurting children and families.
Agency Website: www.ccho.org
Christian Children’s Home of Ohio: Gary and Bobbie Porter Permanent Endowment Fund
Fund Purpose: To support the activities and programs of the Christian Children's Home of Ohio, Inc., including operations, capital improvements and additions.
Agency Website: www.ccho.org
Congress Community Church Fund
Fund Purpose: To provide scholarships for students attending Congress Community Church.
Counseling Center Fund for Children and Families
Fund Purpose: To promote excellence in mental health services for children and families by investing in specialized training, equipment, facilities, and program development.
Agency Mission: Dedicated to enhancing the mental health of individuals, families, and groups through a comprehensive range of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services, designed to meet individual needs.
Agency Website: www.ccwhc.org
County Line Historical Society Fund
Agency Mission: To discover, collect, and preserve materials, structures and landmarks which may help to establish, illustrate and arouse interest in the historical record of the founding and development of the com-munities adjacent to the County Line of Wayne and Holmes Counties.
Agency Website: www.shreveohio.com/clhs
Creston Presbyterian Church: Keck Permanent Endowment Fund
Fund Purpose: To provide funds for the Creston Presbyterian Church.
Every Woman's House Endowment Fund
Agency Mission: To promote the healing of individuals and families who experience the impact of domestic violence or sexual assault. They are committed to the prevention of these crimes.
Agency Website: www.everywomanshouse.org
Every Woman's House Stop Family Violence Fund
Fund Purpose: To support and enhance current programs and new initiatives of Every Woman’s House.
Agency Website: www.everywomanshouse.org
Goodwill Industries of Wayne and Holmes Counties, Inc. Endowment Fund
Agency Mission: To help people reach their highest level of independence and success through training and employment related services.
Agency Website: www.woostergoodwill.org
Green Local Schools Performing Arts Center Fund
Fund Purpose: To provide funds to construct, equip and operate a performing arts center for Green Local Schools.
Agency Website: www.green-local.k12.oh.us
Hospice & Palliative Care of Greater Wayne County Endowment Fund
Agency Mission: To enhance the quality of life for patients and their families by providing them with compassionate care, support, and grief resources during times of serious illness and loss.
Agency Website: www.wchospice.org
Kidron Community Park Maintenance Fund
Fund Purpose: To provide financial support to the Kidron Community Park, Inc. to maintain Kidron Community Park, located in Kidron, Ohio.
Mt. Eaton Care Center Inc. Fund
Agency Purpose: A freestanding Amish birthing center, where Amish women can deliver their children in a home like environment.
Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club Facilities and Fixtures Fund
Fund Purpose: To enhance facilities and fixtures.
Agency Mission: To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Agency Website: www.oabgc.com
Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club General Fund
Fund Purpose: For operational support.
Agency Website: www.oabgc.com
Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club Lamont Shultzman Scholarship Fund
Fund Purpose: To award the Shultzman Scholarship.
Agency Website: www.oabgc.com
Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club Teen Supreme Fund
Fund Purpose: To support the Teen Supreme program.
Agency Website: www.oabgc.com
Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club Eugene Workman Scholarship Endowment Fund
Fund Purpose: To support Eugene Workman Scholarship awards.
Agency Website: www.oabgc.com
Orrville City Schools Endowment Fund
Fund Purpose: To support and enhance special Orrville City Schools sponsored activities.
Agency Website: www.orrville.k12.oh.us
Orrville Public Library Legacy Fund
Agency Mission: To provide contemporary high-interest materials, supply information for lifelong learning, offer a gateway to outside resources, stimulate young children’s interest in reading and learning, and supplement the educational needs of school-aged children.
Agency Website: www.orrville.lib.oh.us
Orrville YMCA Fund
Agency Mission: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Agency Website: www.orrvilledalton-ymca.org
Parent to Parent Fund
Fund Purpose: To provide support for the activities and programs of Parent to Parent.
People to People Ministries Endowment Fund
Agency Mission: To provide emergency assistance to individuals in need.
Agency Website: www.peopletopeopleministries-waynecty.org
Smithville Community Historical Society Fund
Agency Mission: To do all within its power to discover and collect all the available historical material connected with the history of the Smithville, Ohio community and carefully preserve the same.
Agency Website: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohschs/
Fund Purpose: To provide support for the maintenance of the Smithville Community Historical Society facilities.
Agency Website: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohschs/
STEPS at Liberty Center, Inc. Fund
Agency Mission: To prevent and treat chemical dependency and abuse through strategies that meet the needs of individuals, families and communities.
Agency Website: www.stepsatlibertycenter.org
Triway Excellence for Education Fund
Fund Purpose: To support curricular and co-curricular activities, programs and facilities of the Triway Local School District.
Agency Website: www.triway.k12.oh.us
United Way Fund
Agency Mission: Uniting people and resources in a community-wide effort to improve lives.
Agency Website: www.uwwayneholmes.org
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Counties, Inc. Endowment Fund
Agency Mission: Uniting people and resources in a community-wide effort to improve lives.
Agency Website: www.uwwayneholmes.org
Wayne Center for the Arts Fund
Agency Mission: To strengthen the community by enriching people’s lives through the arts.
Agency Website: www.wayneartscenter.org
Fund Purpose: To provide support to the Wayne County Board of Developmental Disabilities.
Agency Mission: To provide choice and options based on individual and family preferences enabling a quality of life satisfying to the individual in learning, living, working, and participation in the community.
Agency Website: www.waynedd.org
Wayne County Committee for Crippled Children & Adults Endowment Fund
Agency Mission: To provide medical help for handicapped.
Agency Website: www.wcccca.org
Wayne County Fire & Rescue Association Regional Training Facility Fund
Agency Mission: To promote fellowship among its members; cooperation between various Fire Departments and/or Emergency Squads; to provide educational programs on fire fighting; fire prevention, emergency squad and rescue work; to operate and maintain the WCFRA Regional Training Facility; to aid other like organizations of the state of Ohio and to promote the passing of laws beneficial to the Fire and/or Rescue Service.
Agency Website: www.wcfra.com
Wayne County Historical Society Permanent General Endowment Fund
Agency Mission: To preserve Wayne County’s heritage and share that heritage with its citizens.
Agency Website: www.waynehistorical.org
Wayne County Humane Society Endowment Fund
Agency Mission: To provide compassion to the animals entrusted to their care, to measurably reduce companion animal overpopulation and to take a leadership role in educating and promoting humane values.
Agency Website: www.wchs.org
Wayne County Law Library Association Fund
Agency Mission: To acquire and maintain a library of legal books and periodicals for the use and benefit of the Wayne County Judges, officials, and members of the Wayne County Bar Association.
Agency Website: www.waynelawlibrary.org
Agency Mission: To connect people with nature, educate people of all ages, conserve natural resources, and practice environmental stewardship.
Agency Website: www.wildernesscenter.org
Women's Committee for the Wooster Symphony Orchestra Fund
Organization Mission: To continue the tradition of keeping music alive in the community.
Fund Purpose: To provide support for the Women's Committee for the Wooster Symphony Orchestra in memory of Judy Nihlen for her support, energy, and encouragement of talented musicians.
Organization Mission: To continue the tradition of keeping music alive in the community.
Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals Fund
Fund Purpose: To provide continuing education scholarships to young professionals in the Wooster area that work for or own a business that is a member of the Wooster Chamber of Commerce. The fund may also be used to provide community charitable support.
Agency Mission: The Young Professionals Group gives business professionals between the ages of 21 and 40 a venue in which to meet, share ideas and plan future projects to enrich our area.
Agency Website: www.woosterchamber.com or www.woosteryp.com
Purpose: To provide tuition assistance for students and then to provide financial assistance to Wooster Christian School.
Agency Website: www.woosterchristianschool.com
Wooster Rotary Foundation, Inc. Fund
Organization Mission: To provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
Organization Website: www.woosterrotary.org
YMCA of Wooster At-Risk Youth Fund
Fund Purpose: To support at-risk youth programs at the YMCA.
Agency Mission: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. At every stage of life, YMCAs are there to help children, families and individuals reach their full potential.
Agency Website: www.woosterymca.org
Your Human Resource Center Fund
Agency Mission: To decrease substance abuse and improve mental health by providing professional and affordable prevention, intervention and treatment services to people in our community.
Agency Website: www.yhrc.org
Your Human Resource Center: Jill Kauffman Memorial Fund for Special Services for Youth Fund
Fund Purpose: For the benefit of Your Human Resource Center, to strengthen "at risk" youth, by providing services not normally funded by other sources. Such services may include, but not be limited to: school & work, clothing, music or art lessons, college application costs, or dental and optical expenses.
Agency Website: www.yhrc.org
Designated Funds
Designated For: A new hospice care facility
Purpose: To support Hospice & Palliative Care of Greater Wayne County in the design, property acquisition, and construction of a hospice care facility named "A Place Like Home" to be located in Wooster on State Route 585, approximately one mile south of the intersection of Back Orrville Road and State Route 585.
Agency Website: www.wchospice.org
Agricultural Success Team Fund
Designated For: Small Farm Institute
Purpose: To facilitate economic development of local agriculture.
Agency Website: www.smallfarminstitute.org
Robert A. Anderson Fund
Designated For: Salvation Army and People to People Ministries
Agency Website: www.salvationarmyusa.org
Thomas Lewis Cairnie Memorial Fund
Designated For: Nick Amster Sheltered Workshop, Inc.
Purpose: To provide assistance to mentally disabled or handicapped persons.
Agency Website: www.nickamster.com
Central Christian School Endowment Fund
Designated For: Central Christian Schools
Agency Website: www.centralchristian.k12.oh.us
Designated For: City of Wooster Parks and Recreation Dept. for operations and maintenance of the Christmas Run Pool.
Agency Website: www.woosteroh.com
Carl E. Congdon, Jr. and Susanna Congdon McIntyre Orrville Area Boys & Girls Club Fund
Designated For: Orrville Area Boys & Girls Club
Agency Mission: To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Agency Website: www.oabgc.com
Congdon Fund for the Orrville Historical Society
Designated For: Orrville Historical Museum
Agency Website: www.orrvillehistory.org
Dalton Local Facility Improvement Fund
Designated For: Dalton Local Schools
Purpose: Constructing, renovating, remodeling, rehabilitating, adding to, furnishing, equipping and otherwise improving school district buildings, facilities, and grounds of the Dalton Local Schools.
Agency Website: www.dalton.k12.oh.us
Dixon Fund
Designated For: Parent to Parent
Agency Website: www.waynedd.org
Designated For: City of Wooster to enhance downtown Wooster.
Agency Website: www.woosteroh.com
Charles W. Follis Memorial Fund
Designated For: The memorial to Charles W. Follis at the entrance to Follis Field at Wooster High School.
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Friendsville Residential Home, Inc. Fund
Designated For: Friendsville Residential Home, Inc.
Purpose: For operating expenses at the residential group home for adults with mental or developmental disabilities.
Erma S. Gates Memorial Fund
Designated For: STEPS at Liberty Center
Agency Website: www.libertycenterconnections.org
Green Township Historic Preservation Society Fund
Designated For: Green Township Historic Preservation Society
Agency Website: www.gthps.org
John Hamel Memorial Endowment Fund
Designated For: Rails to Trails of Wayne County
Agency Website: www.waynecountytrails.org
Heinbuch Memorial Fund
Designated For: Holmes County Education Foundation and St. John’s Church of Millerburg in Millersburg, Ohio
Purpose: To provide scholarships to West Holmes High School seniors and St. John Church members and also for capital improvements to St. John’s Church.
Agency Websites: www.hcef.net; www.stjohnscovenantchurch.org; www.westholmes.k12.oh.us
H.O.P.E. (Helping Others Prepare for Employment) Fund
Designated For: Wayne County Common Good, Inc.
Purpose: To increase retention by meeting the needs of students, clients and employees who are participating in Common Good member programs to obtain or upgrade employment.
Agency Website: www.hopefundwayne.org
Alice M. Horn Designated Fund
Designated For: Salvation Army (Wooster), Viola Startzman Free Clinic (Wooster), & Epilepsy Foundation (Landover, Maryland).
Agency Websites: www.SalvationArmyOhio.org/Wooster; www.startzmanfreeclinic.org; www.epilepsyfoundation.org
International Baccalaureate Diploma Fund
Designated For: Tri-County Educational Service Center
Purpose: To provide operating financial assistance for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program for Ashland, Holmes, and Wayne Counties.
Agency Website: www.youresc.k12.oh.us
Kristen Jackson Memorial Fund
Designated For: The Victim Witness Assistance Program of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office; the Band Program at Northwestern High School; the Youth Program of the Parkview Church of Christ; and this fund was used to establish the Kristen Jackson Memorial Terrace at OARDC and a scholarship fund for Northwestern High School band students.
Agency Websites: www.northwestern-wayne.k12.oh.us, www.pccwooster.org, www.secrest.osu.edu
John Kaylor Charitable Fund
Designated For: Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club
Agency Website: www.oabgc.com
Killbuck Watershed Land Trust Brinkhaven Fund
Designated For: Killbuck Watershed Land Trust
Purpose: For maintenance, development, and the promoting of the Brinkhaven Oak Barrens Preserve, in Holmes County, Ohio.
Agency Website: www.killbucklandtrust.org
Killbuck Watershed Land Trust Defense Fund
Designated For: Killbuck Watershed Land Trust
Purpose: For defense of conservation easements held by the Killbuck Watershed Land Trust.
Agency Website: www.killbucklandtrust.org
Designated For: Knesseth Israel Temple
Agency Website: www.kitemple.net
Hazel Knight and Sarah Henthorne Memorial Fund
Designated For: Orrville Public Library
Purpose: For materials, equipment, and/or services, but not to include any capital projects, building, and/or renovations.
Agency Website: www.orrville.lib.oh.us
Paul Ladd/Rotary Jason Project Fund
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: To purchase equipment for the long distance learning lab at Wooster High School (The Jason Project).
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Paul Ladd/Rotary Library Media Center Fund
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: To purchase materials for the Library/Media Center at Wooster High School.
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Roy Lockett Memorial Fund
Designated For: The Spot
Edward, Arlene and Kaye Maibach Fund
Designated For:
- Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, www.akronchildrens.org
- Habitat for Humanity of Wayne County, www.waynehabitat.org
- Haven of Rest Ministries, www.havenofrest.org
- Lodi Hospital, www.akrongeneral.org
- Milton Twp./Wayne County to benefit the Sterling Fire Department, firedepartment.miltonsterling.com
- North Central & Northwestern Weekday for religious education
- Norwayne Local School District for the Norwayne Elementary Library, www.norwaynelocal.k12.oh.us
- People to People Ministries, www.peopletopeopleministries-waynecty.org
- Rittman Historical Society
- Sterling United Methodist Church for an improvement project for the church, www.umc.org
- Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital, www.summahealth.org/locations/Hospitals/wadsworth
- Wayne County Fire & Rescue Association for the Training Facility, www.wcfra.com
- Wayne County Historical Society, www.waynehistorical.org
- Wayne County Schools Career Center for traditional student programs, www.wayne-jvs.k12.oh.us
Charles W. & Mary K. Mohler Memorial Ohio Wildlife Fund
Designated For: Ohio Dept of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife
Purpose: to acquire and manage natural areas in Wayne and Holmes Counties.
Agency Website: www.dnr.state.oh.us
Montessori Student Assistance Fund
Designated For: Montessori School of Wooster
Purpose: To provide financial assistance to families attending Montessori for tuition through scholarships.
Agency Website: www.montessorischoolofwooster.com
Designated For: Oak Hill Park, part of the City of Wooster Parks.
Purpose: For designing, developing, and maintaining the Park.
Agency Website: www.woosteroh.com/parks
Orrville High School Alumni Class of 1957
Designated For: Orrville City School District Purpose: to provide charitable assistance with priority given to Orrville High School.
Agency Website: www.orrville.k12.oh.us
Rittman Recreation Center Fund
Designated For: Rittman Recreation Center
Purpose: To assist in the operation and maintenance of the Rittman Recreation Center.
Agency Website: www.rittmanrecreation.com
Charles F. Rogers Memorial Fund
Designated For: Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana
Agency Website: www.earlham.edu
Catherine Seifried Memorial Fund
Designated For: Orrville Area Boys and Girls Club
Purpose: To support the building’s maintenance and facility repairs, including equipment purchases, capital improvements and additions.
Agency Website: www.oabgc.com
Smithville 12th Man / Booster Club Athletic Improvement Fund
Designated For: Smithville All Sports Booster Club
Purpose: For the construction and improvement in equipping Green Local Schools athletic facilities.
Agency Website: www.green-local.k12.oh.us
John G. Streeter Music Fund
Designated For: First Presbyterian Church, in Wooster, Ohio
Purpose: To provide for and foster the music programs of the church.
Agency Website: www.fpc-wooster.org
Village of Fredericksburg Fund
Designated For: Village of Fredericksburg
Viola Startzman Free Clinic Permanent Endowment Fund
Designated For: Viola Startzman Free Clinic
Agency Website: www.startzmanfreeclinic.org
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: To purchase books and other library items for Edgewood Junior High School.
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Wayne County Public Library Liberty Street Library Permanent Endowment Fund
Designated For: The Liberty Street Library of the Wayne County Public Library
Purpose: To provide funding for new services to the public or to help provide services, at the Liberty Street Library facility, that traditionally would not be possible with local and state tax revenue.
Agency Website: www.wayne.lib.oh.us
Wayne County Public Library System Permanent Endowment Fund
Designated For: The Wayne County Public Library
Purpose: To provide funding for general library services or any other use that supports the mission of the public library within the County Library District, located in Wooster, Ohio.
Agency Website: www.wayne.lib.oh.us
Wayne County Schools Career Center Fund
Designated For: Wayne County Schools Career Center
Purpose: For equipment at the Wayne County Schools Career Center.
Agency Website: www.wayne-jvs.k12.oh.us
Wayne Growth Partnership -- FFEF Fund
Designated For: Fund for Our Economic Future (FFEF)
Purpose: For the support of regional economic development efforts benefiting Wayne County.
Agency Website: www.futurefundneo.org
Wooster City Schools Athletic Scholarship Fund
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: Pay to Participate Scholarships for Wooster High School students
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Wooster City Schools General Scholarship Fund
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: Pay to Participate Scholarships for Wooster High School students
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Wooster City Schools Music Scholarship Fund
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: Pay to Participate Scholarships for Wooster High School students
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Wooster Community Pool Fund
Designated For: YMCA of Wooster
Purpose: For the operation and further enhancement of the Ellen Shapiro Natatorium at Wooster High School.
Agency Websites: www.woosterymca.org; www.woostercityschools.org
Wooster Community Recreation and Fitness Center Fund
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: For operating costs at the Gault Recreation Center at Wooster High School.
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Wooster High School Music Parents Endowment Fund
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: For the benefit of Wooster High School Music Programs.
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Wooster High School Speech & Debate Endowment Fund
Designated For: Wooster City Schools
Purpose: To support the Wooster High School Speech and Debate programs.
Agency Website: www.woostercityschools.org
Wooster Memorial Parks Foundation Fund
Designated For: City of Wooster Parks & Recreation Department
Purpose: Capital improvements to Wooster City Parks.
Agency Website: www.woosteroh.com/parks
Wooster Uniformed Services Fund
Designated For: City of Wooster
Purpose: For the benefit of members of the Wooster Police and Fire Departments who are critically injured or disabled in the line of duty, or for the benefit of their dependents.
Agency Website: www.woosteroh.com
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