The Ohio Children's Foundation is a grant-making charity that has awarded more than $8 million to hundreds of organizations working to enhance the lives of children and their families.

We believe it is important that children be allowed to be children during their early, formative years. They deserve to be loved and nurtured by their families, in their schools, and by the communities in which they live. Children should be free from poverty, hunger, fear, and violence. Childhood should be a time to learn how to make good choices, to explore life's many pathways, and to understand and appreciate diversity in others.

The Foundation supports only those organizations that share and promote these values. This policy may eliminate some grant-seekers from consideration, since the Foundation will not support organizations that tolerate any type of violence toward children, including spanking and corporal punishment; those that provide poor role models for children by adult use of alcohol or tobacco products when children are present; or those whose ideology leads to divisiveness, rather than inclusion.

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