Your parking meter change funds local charities.
Just six organizations are designated each year to receive proceeds from the parking meters at Easton Town Center. Awards are based on each organization’s ability to provide meaningful support for youth and families in central Ohio.
Each quarter spent in a meter and each ticket paid helps fund the current two-month period's featured local charity.
The Change for Charity Meter Program is one of the most recognizable components of the Easton Community Foundation due to the direct relationship that exists between your parking meter and ticket payments and local charities.
Since the program’s inception in 1999, Easton's meters have funded over $700,000 through the Change for Charity program.
In addition to direct support, recipients also receive the benefit of signage and other exposure around Easton, as well as the opportunity to schedule use of the Community Booth during the months of their partnership.
The Easton Community Foundation is pleased to partner with the following Change for Charity recipients in 2010:
Lutheran Social Services (January/February) – Since 1912, Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio (LSS) has fulfilled its mission of “creating a better world by serving people in need” by focusing on hunger, housing, healing and hope. LSS programs, including food pantries, homeless shelters, senior living and affordable housing communities, assist thousands of people in need each day. Last year, the LSS food pantries provided more than 1.5 million meals by distributing nearly 4 million pounds of food in central and southeast Ohio. www.lssco.org
YWCA Columbus (March/April) – The mission of YWCA Columbus is to eliminate racism and empower women. In 2005, the YWCA opened its Family Center, providing food and emergency shelter for up to 50 families a night, 365 days a year. The center helps families break down barriers to independent housing and a stable life for their children. Volunteers are essential to ensuring that no baby or child goes without safe housing and food. www.ywcacolumbus.org
The James Cancer Hospital (May/June) – The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute is one of only 40 Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States designated by the National Cancer Institute. Ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top 20 cancer hospitals in the nation, The James is the 180-bed adult patient-care component of the cancer program at The Ohio State University. The OSUCCC-James is one of only five centers in the country approved by the NCI to conduct both Phase I and Phase II clinical trials. www.jamesline.com
The Salvation Army (July/August) – Since 1885, The Salvation Army has served central Ohioans year-round through holistic ministries and programs that offer long-term solutions to spiritual, physical, emotional and social needs. Programs include food pantries, tutoring, job training, emotional support, addiction treatment, housing placement and casework services. The Salvation Army serves without discrimination. By putting money to maximum use, the Salvation Army provides measurable, life-enhancing results. www.salvationarmycolumbus.org
Southside Settlement House (September/October) – was founded in 1899 to help people maximize their potential through individual and collective education, socialization and enrichment activities. Focused on social and economic justice, SSSH is an inter-racial, non-sectarian, social agency related affiliated with the United Methodist Church and the United Way of Central Ohio. SSSH provides hot meals, showers, social enrichment activities for children, youth, and mature adults, as well as preschool and Triple S camp, the only residential summer camp owned by a settlement house in Columbus, Ohio. www.southsidesettlement.org
St. Stephen’s Community House (November/December) – a faith-based settlement house, has been brightening lives in Columbus since 1919. Since 1965, St. Stephen's has served the Greater Linden area neighborhood of 24,000 persons. Serving all regardless of religious affiliation, St. Stephen’s nurtures children with day care and education; strengthens families with social services and after school programs; cares for senior citizens; and provides neighbors with the basic needs of food, housing assistance, clothing and health care. www.saintstephensch.org
In addition to direct support from the Easton Community Foundation, recipients receive the benefit of exposure around Easton Town Center, as well as the opportunity to schedule use of the Community Booth during their designated months.
The Community Booth is available year round to qualifying organizations on a first-come, first-served application basis.
Applications for Change for Charity
Applications for the Change for Charity program are accepted through October 1st of the year preceding disbursement. After the New Year, recipients are announced to the public. Groups interested in applying for 2011 consideration should download the Change for Charity Request form and return it with development materials to Easton Town Center's Management Office at their earliest convenience.
Past recipients of the Change for Charity program include:
• A Special Wish Foundation
• Adventures for Wish Kids
• Amethyst, Inc.
• ArtSafe
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Columbus
• Buckeye Ranch
• CASA of Franklin County
• Center for New Direction
• Central Community House
• Childhood League Center
• Children’s Hunger Alliance
• City Year Columbus
• Columbus Cancer Clinic
• Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence
• Columbus Literacy Council
• Columbus Metropolitan Library
• Communities in Schools
• Community Shelter Board
• COSI Columbus
• Directions for Youth & Families
• Franklin Park Conservatory
• Girl Scouts of Ohio's Heartland Council
• Habitat for Humanity
• Homeless Families Foundation
• Hope Street Kids
• I Know I Can
• Jewish Family Services
• Junior Achievement of Central Ohio
• Kids n' Kamp
• King Arts Complex
• Life Care Alliance
• MAP Furniture Bank
• Mid-Ohio Foodbank
• Rosemont Center
• Salesian Boys & Girls Club of Columbus
• Salvation Army
• St. Stephen’s Community House
• St. Vincent Family Centers
• The Center for Child & Family Advocacy
• The James Cancer Hospital
• The YMCA of Central Ohio
• The YWCA of Central Ohio