Appalachian Ohio charities

A volunteer-driven nonprofit providing low-cost spay/neuter clinics, animal adoption/fostering, cruelty investigations, and Trap-Neuter-Return programs for feral cats in Athens County since 1910.

An all-volunteer 501(c)(3) food pantry in Nelsonville that has served Athens County residents since 1989, giving more than 600 families a month a 3-day supply of groceries in Ohio's Appalachian southeast.

A volunteer-run nonprofit fighting food insecurity in Athens County since 1980, bolstered by the Joe Burrow Hunger Relief Fund endowment.

A community action agency empowering Hocking, Athens, and Perry counties through the SE Ohio Foodbank (serving 10 counties), Head Start early childhood education, energy assistance, housing, and transportation.

A membership-based nonprofit in The Plains that has worked since 1991 to build a healthier economy and environment across Appalachian Ohio through sustainable agriculture, forestry, watershed restoration, zero-waste initiatives and environmental education.

Since 1999, has supported at-risk young people in Appalachian Ohio through foster care, emergency youth shelters, YouthBuild job-readiness training and academic help, and the Sojo Resiliency Center in Athens, a drop-in space for ages 12–21.

Provides comprehensive behavioral health services — counseling, youth residential programs, housing assistance, school-based services, and recovery support — across 21 counties in southeastern and central Ohio, serving 15,000+ individuals annually.

Since 1981, has worked alongside people facing homelessness and poverty in rural southeast Ohio, running the Timothy House — which it calls the only shelter for adults and children in eight rural counties — plus kids' programs and about 21,000 meals a year.

A domestic violence agency empowering survivors and their families through emergency shelter, a 24/7 crisis hotline, outreach counseling, court advocacy, housing support, and the My Sister's Paws pet safety program in SE Ohio.