Ohio Benefit Bank in Schools - Outreach

Attention school staff and volunteers!  Want to help your students and their families connect to public benefits like food assistance or Medicaid, and tax credits like the EITC?  View the brief presentation below to get an idea of what the Benefit Bank is.

Interested?  Contact Sarah Olinger to discuss further how you can use this tool, or go ahead and register as an OBB site HERE.  See a recent press release on our efforts HERE.

To view this Prezi, click on the gray arrow at the bottom of the box and keep clicking to view each step.  You can also view it in another window by clicking the "OBB in Schools" link beneath the box.

OBB in Schools on Prezi

You can also view a more comprehensive and detailed look at the Ohio Benefit Bank via a webinar I created on YouTube here:

2010 Tax Guide Available

Tax Counselors, many of you have been wondering about the new 2010 Tax Guide. It is now available! To access the guide, simply log in to your counselor account on www.ohiobenefits.org then visit the training tab. Under the training tab you will see a Guides section. The OH 2010 Tax Guide is located there!
Thank you for all of your hard work!

New Site: Hard Hatted Women

Welcome to a new Central Ohio OBB site with state-wide reach!  They have a site here in Columbus, as well as a new site in Cleveland.  

The Hard Hatted Women are working here in Columbus out of the offices of one of their partners, the Institute on Women: http://instituteonwomen.org/ . 

Their website is located at http://www.hardhattedwomen.org. Their mission is "To empower women to achieve economic independence by creating workplace diversity in trade and technical careers."  They also include that "Because the vast majority of women we assist are unemployed or low income women in "dead end" jobs, a major result of our work is to assist women and their families to escape the cycle of poverty."  

 We salute your efforts and welcome you to the OBB network.