Volunteer Projects

At each of its Spring and Fall Conferences, magistrates give back to the communities where the conferences are held by volunteering at local non-profits and/or collecting donations. These rewarding activities have benefitted the following organizations:

2025 Spring:

The charity selected to benefit from the spring conference is The Gathering Place in Athens, Ohio . We will be recognizing the charity at a BINGO Night at the hotel on Thursday night at the Spring Conference, a member-operated, non-residential, peer recovery organization that serves adults who experienced trauma, or are experiencing a mental health issue or a co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder. They provide peer support, linkage services, advocacy, mental health education, recreational and wellness activities, opportunities to affordable housing, access to healthy food, and community integration opportunities. “The Gathering Place” was started in 1976 by patients released from the state psychiatric hospital (during de-institutionalization) and concerned community members.

2024 Fall:

The charity selected to benefit from the fall conference is People In Need, Inc. of Delaware County Ohio (PIN), a private,
not-for-profit 501(C)(3) social services agency dedicated to providing emergency assistance to Delaware County residents. For more than 40 years, PIN has provided families and individuals with a nutritious, well-balanced diet during their time of need.

2024 Spring :

The charity selected to benefit from the conference is the Community Cup Classic Foundation; it was created to
improve adult engagement in all facets of a young person’s development. Their work creates avenues where youth are shown
appreciation by those within their community, their social groups and most importantly by those that reside in their homes.”

Fall 2023: Walk/Run to support A Kid Again. A Kid Again is a wonderful non-profit fostering hope, happiness and healing

for families raising children with life-threatening conditions by providing ongoing, cost-free, group activities for children and their families to remember what it was to live carefree, create fun-filled memories, and give illness a time out to be what every child deserves…

Spring 2023: Walk/Run to Support UpSpring: OAM members once again walked, ran and/or donated over $4,500.00 to this great charity.

Fall 2022: Walk/Run to Support Kincaid’s Kindred Spirits: OAM Members walked, ran and/or donated over $6,000.00 to this great charity that raises funds to combat Sickle Cell Anemia.

Spring 2022: Fundraising Appeal to Support OhioCan: OAM Members donated another record $3,500.00 to this great charity.

Fall 2021: Fundraising Appeal to Support Local Matters of Columbus: OAM Members donated another record $7,000.00 to this great charity.

Spring 2021: Fundraising Appeal to Support Dayton’s Good Neighbor House. OAM Members donated a record $6,500.00 to this important charity.

Fall 2020: Fundraising Appeal to Support the Columbus Diaper Bank. OAM Members donated over $4,100.00 to this wonderful organization that works to improve the lives of Central Ohio families by providing diapers to the families in need and to increase community awareness of the need for diapers.

Fall 2019: The OAM’s 3rd Annual Run/Walk benefitted the Columbus Chill Youth Hockey Association Special Hockey Program which serves children and young adults (ages 4-21) with developmental disabilities. The OAM donated $2,020.oo to this great cause

Spring 2019: $945.00 was raised to benefit the Fisher House Foundation which serves military and veterans’ families

Fall 2018: 2nd Annual Charity Walk/Run to benefit PB and J Connections, a Central Ohio organization that provides behavioral health therapy for children, adults and families through horses, counseling and nature.

Spring 2018: A Game Night to benefit CASA for KIDS of Geauga County

Fall 2017: Charity Run/Walk to benefit Girls on the Run

Spring 2017

Fall 2016: Columbus Dress for Success Program and Westerville Area Resource Ministry (WARM)

Spring 2016: Crossroads Homeless Services Center (Sandusky Regional Office of Volunteers of America)

Fall 2015: Worthington Resource Pantry

Spring 2015: Created Community Garden and donated 665 books for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library

Fall 2014: Olentangy Trail Clean-Up