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Share your story or event with Athens County Foundation.
We invite community partners to submit events and stories that highlight collaboration, connection, and belonging across Athens County. If your work brings people together or shows what becomes possible when we pull up a chair, we’d love to hear from you.
Newsletter Content Guidelines
For Community Partners Submitting Events and Stories
Athens County Foundation welcomes event listings and stories from community partners that reflect collaboration, participation, and belonging across Athens County. These guidelines help ensure submissions are clear, timely, and aligned with our shared values.
What We’re Looking For
We prioritize content that:
- Highlights collaboration between organizations, residents, or sectors
- Shows how people are invited to participate or feel a sense of belonging
- Centers community impact rather than promotion
- Reflects shared leadership and partnership
Think: Who pulled up a chair? Who was invited in? What changed because people worked together?
Submission Timing
- Events: Submit at least 2–3 weeks before the event date
- Stories: Submit at least 3 weeks before the intended newsletter issue
Early submissions increase the likelihood of inclusion.
Nonprofit Newsletters are sent bi-monthly January, March, May, July, September, and November
How to Submit
Fill out the google form: https://forms.gle/75isLgyhFF1KDoVm7
or
send submissions to:
info@athensfoundation.org
Include:
- Subject line: Newsletter Submission – Event or Newsletter Submission – Story
- Contact name and organization
- Preferred publication date, if applicable
A Final Lens
Before submitting, ask:
- Does this invite people in?
- Does it reflect collaboration or shared effort?
- Does it show belonging in action?
If yes, we want to hear it.
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Annual Business Meeting
The Athens County Foundation (ACF) invites you to our Annual Business Meeting on January 29, 2026. This event is our opportunity to reflect on the business achievements and milestones accomplished during Fiscal Year 2025 and share our plans for the year ahead.
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Tax Law Update
We want to share with you this useful article from Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio which includes a summary of IRS rules, sample written acknowledgments, and helpful links.
Click on 02 for Pro Bono article
Civic Experiment Grant
Civic Experiments are local projects introducing new, sometimes unexpected or informal, civic opportunities in our communities. Civic Experiment grants are small (5,000-$15,000), 1-year programmatic grants. All Civic Experiments must be conducted in Athens County. Portal is open now-January 30
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Strengths + Strengths
Strengths+Strengths is a special initiative designed to provide nonprofit organizations throughout Athens County with access to professional resources, expert insights, and leading best practices. The goal is to help those who do good do even better. Join us February 11 at noon at the Athens Public Library for the nonprofit Leaders Lunch
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