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Make your 2024 Buckeyes for Charity pledge today!

Buckeyes for Charity is your opportunity to donate to community organizations and make a difference. This years campaign includes more than 850 nonprofits from across Ohio, giving us a chance to make an impact throughout the state. You can donate to a meaningful cause via credit card, check, cash or payroll deduction and choose to make a one-time or recurring donation. Donate by Nov. 1.

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Apply now for the University Outreach and Engagement Awards

Ohio State is seeking nominations of scholars, practitioners and graduate students for the 2025 University Outreach and Engagement Awards, which honor faculty, staff and students for outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact. Awards will be given in three categories: Community Engaged Scholar, Community Engaged Practitioner (for staff) and Community Engaged Graduate Student. The deadline to apply is Dec. 15.

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Call for proposals: Programs of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship

To support and promote high-impact engaged scholarship, the Office of Outreach and Engagement has instituted a process to certify programs of excellence in engaged scholarship. The certification process seeks to identify and certify up to 20 projects annually that demonstrate excellence in community-engaged scholarship and meet the criteria of high-impact engaged scholarship. Proposals are due Dec. 15.

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Ohio State Engages November Newsletter

Don't miss the November Ohio State Engages newsletter. This issue features information about the University Outreach and Engagement Awards, Programs of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship, the Engaged Scholar Q&A with Townsand Price-Spratlen and more!

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Applications open for the Schweitzer Fellows Program

The application for the 2025-26 cohort of Columbus-Athens Albert Schweitzer Fellows is now open. The Schweitzer Fellows program supports and trains emerging health-focused graduate and professional students in creating and carrying out service projects to address unmet community needs. Applications are due Feb. 3, 2025.

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    August 11, 2012 — News

    Faith Mission Outreach Eye Clinic

    Life can be scary when you cant get the help you need because of your past. The pain of needing to explain yourself over and over again to different people is often worse than receiving a difficult diagnosis. Until she came to the Faith Mission Outreach Eye Clinic, that was exactly the case for a recent patient. She came to the clinic, which is run by Ohio States College of Optometry, with complaints of severe headaches as well as a recent weight gain and a whooshing sound in her ears. But because the patient was a past drug addict, the three emergency rooms she had visited all thought she was just seeking drugs for her habit.

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    February 10, 2012 — News

    Engineeering Outreach in Honduras

    Engineering students have been travelling to Honduras to visit the Montaa de Luz orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS every spring since 2005. Including this years journey, more than 100 students have taken part in the initiative, which has produced a broad range of projects, including water system improvements and a computer lab for the orphanage.

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    October 3, 2011 — News

    Students Studying Abroad in Brazil

    Over the summer, Destiny Jackson, a senior majoring in Sociology and Film Studies, took part in Ohio States Global Gateway Study Abroad program in Brazil. The program is open to students of any major who are interested in learning about the global significance of Brazil. Destiny received a grant from the Office of Outreach and Engagement to help fund her month-long experience abroad. During the trip she went to the cities of Sao Paulo and Araraquara in the southeast, and Salvador in the northeast of Brazil.

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