Outreach (new)

Outreach is the door; civic engagement is what happens inside. At Ohio State Marion, we’re a good neighbor with a great university behind us, investing in Marion’s people and ideas, co-creating rather than prescribing, playing as seriously as we plan, and letting Marion change us, too.
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Downtown Engagement

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For Youth & Families

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For Everyone

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How We Show Up

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For Schools & Teachers

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About Our Approach

Tell Us What You're Working On

If you run a nonprofit, a business, a congregation, a school, a city department, or a group of neighbors with an idea, and you think Ohio State Marion might be useful to it, this is where you start. You don't need a formal proposal. You don't need funding lined up. You don't need to already know what you're asking for.

Email us at and tell us what you're working on and what's in your way. Someone from our team will follow up to learn more. From there, one of a few things happens: we connect you with faculty or students whose work fits, we host or convene something with you, we help you think the problem through, or we tell you honestly that we're not the right partner and help connect you to someone who is.

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