• Community Research Partners
• KnowledgeWorks Foundation

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• The Joyce Foundation
• The Ford Foundation
• United Way of: Central Ohio,
  Greater Cincinnati, Greater Cleveland, and Greater Toledo
• John Glenn School of Public Affairs

• National Working Poor Families Project
• Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing
• The Center for Community Solutions
• WIRE-Net

• Ohio Learning Network
• Ohio Association of Community Colleges
• Policy Matters Ohio
• Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio
• Ohio Association for Career and Technical Education
• The Ohio Tuition Trust Authority

Community Research Partners (CRP) provides leadership and expertise in research, community data, and evaluation to inform positive change in communities within and outside of central Ohio. CRP's work supports public, nonprofit, and philanthropic organizations engaged in human services, education, health, employment, and community development policy and programs. The organization was formed in 2000 as a unique nonprofit partnership of United Way of Central Ohio, the City of Columbus, and The John Glenn Institute at The Ohio State University. CRP is the lead Ohio organization for the Ohio Working Poor Families Project and the author of the 2004 report Average Isn’t Enough: Advancing Working Families to Create an Outstanding Ohio Economy.

KnowledgeWorks Foundation is Ohio ’s largest public education philanthropy. KnowledgeWorks Foundation provides funding and leadership for education initiatives throughout the state and is focused on creating and improving educational opportunities. The Foundation is committed to sharing knowledge gained and lessons learned with others in Ohio and across the nation to help inform public policy. The Foundation is breaking down the individual, institutional, and policy barriers standing in the way of college access for all, through its adult learning adult learning initiatives, which include the Ohio Bridges to Opportunity Initiative and Career Pathways.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. The Foundation was established in 1948 by Jim Casey, one of the founders of UPS, and his siblings, who named the Foundation in honor of their mother. Through its Family Economic Success Initiative, the Foundation makes investments, creates partnerships, and undertakes a variety of community-based strategies to help low-income working families build strong financial futures in strong neighborhoods.

The Joyce Foundation supports efforts to protect the natural environment of the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure that its people have access to good schools, decent jobs, and a diverse and thriving culture. We are especially interested in improving public policies, because public systems such as education and welfare directly affect the lives of so many people, and because public policies help shape private sector decisions about jobs, the environment, and the health of our communities. To ensure that public policies truly reflect public rather than private interests, we support efforts to reform the system of financing election campaigns.

The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. The Foundation’s goals are to: strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. The Economic Development unit’s Work-Force Development area supports organizations that help improve the ways low-income people develop marketable job skills and acquire and retain reliable employment that provides livable wages

United Ways across the country bring diverse people and resources together to address the most urgent issues their communities face. Through unique partnerships and approaches, United Ways mobilize resources beyond the dollars that are pledged through their fund-raising efforts. Community partners include schools, government policy makers, businesses, organized labor, financial institutions, voluntary and neighborhood associations, community development corporations, and the faith community.

The John Glenn School of Public Affairs was formed through a merger of The Ohio State University School of Public Policy and Management and the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy. The Glenn Schoolintegrates the university's public policy research, teaching and service programs to improve educational opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and executive education students and provide policy outreach, scholarship, and service excellence.