Meet Our Partners
Thanks to these Safelite employees, who visited
our workshop to make fleece blankets.
We are blessed to have the support of many organizations and businesses. The photos on this page show just a few of the many volunteers who have contributed. These faithful groups of people provide financial support, countless volunteer hours, and blankets for thousands of children in foster care! Many thanks!
Our faithful shipping partners
We are so grateful for our partnership with UnitedHealth Care Community Plan for consistent and generous help with our shipping needs. They help us get blankets into the hands of children in foster care, AND they help us get blanket kits to people outside Central Ohio who want to make our “no-sew” fleece blankets to deliver to children in care in their areas. So helpful! We are so grateful and SO THANKFUL!
RR Donnelley
RR Donnelley is our essential shipping partner, providing warehouse space, packing and shipping for blanket kits all over the U.S. at no cost to MVOB.
RR Donnelley is our essential shipping partner, providing warehouse space, packing and shipping for blanket kits all over the U.S. at no cost to MVOB.
Our workshop is enhanced by the beautiful white shelving units provided by Closets by Design - Columbus, Ohio.
Many thanks to owner Chris Marth for this generous donation that makes our work easier and our space more functional and attractive.
Closets by Design, 671 Kinter Parkway, Sunbury OH 43074
Many thanks to owner Chris Marth for this generous donation that makes our work easier and our space more functional and attractive.
Closets by Design, 671 Kinter Parkway, Sunbury OH 43074
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Status Solutions Network was one of the sponsors of Tech Takeover Tuesday, fundraising for MVOB, and also provided a generous donation for our work. We are very grateful for this partnership.
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We are very grateful for the support of Crowe LLP. On their first-ever Crowe Cares Day in August 2023, 62 employees gathered in Sacramento, CA to make blankets to be donated to children in foster care in their area. In addition, the Crowe Foundation generously donated $200 for each employee who volunteered.
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Bake a Difference
We are very grateful for the support of Bake a Difference, creators of gourmet cupcakes and cakes in Westerville. The owners of Bake A Difference want people to think about what they can do to make this world a little sweeter. Each month Bake A Difference donates 5% of the online and pop up shop sales to a local non-profit. Dean, Co-Owner of Bake a Difference, delivering donations to our workshop
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United Parcel Service
UPS employees at a blanket-making event
UPS employees at a blanket-making event
And thanks to UPS for helping with our deliveries.
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Many thanks to Adtalem Global Education for providing volunteers during the Adtalem Month of Service and for their subsequent generous donation.
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Enterprise Holdings Foundation
We are very grateful to Enterprise Holdings Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Enterprise Holdings, for their grants in support of our mission. The most recent grant was $3,500, received in July 2023.
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Many thanks to the American Fundraising Foundation for their Golden Pear Grant. |
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THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION
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We are grateful to The Columbus Foundation for awarding us a Better Together grant. |
Automated Call Answering Service
No More Phone Tag has provided phone answering service for MVOB for nearly 20 years.
No More Phone Tag has provided phone answering service for MVOB for nearly 20 years.
Rotary Clubs in Ohio Rotary Clubs all over Ohio have created thousands of handmade blankets for children in foster care in their areas of the state. Rotary members have also donated funds to support blankets that are made by our friends in senior communities and in organizations serving adults with developmental disabilities. |
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Whitehall Bexley Rotary Club
Members of the Whitehall Bexley Rotary Club posed with Jessica Rudolph and the blankets they made as a service project in April 2024.
Westerville Noon Rotary – Tying of the Fleece
May 2024.
The Westerville Noon Rotary Club recently completed their fifth annual service project for the benefit of My Very Own Blanket. The group completed 157 handmade blankets for children and teens in foster care, bringing their 5-year total to almost 600 blankets! The Rotarians receive strong financial support for this project from members, family and friends as well as foundations and businesses. They conclude the project by tying the remaining blankets at a club meeting/social event called “The Tying of the Fleece.” The club looks forward to continuing to support MVOB for years to come.
May 2024.
The Westerville Noon Rotary Club recently completed their fifth annual service project for the benefit of My Very Own Blanket. The group completed 157 handmade blankets for children and teens in foster care, bringing their 5-year total to almost 600 blankets! The Rotarians receive strong financial support for this project from members, family and friends as well as foundations and businesses. They conclude the project by tying the remaining blankets at a club meeting/social event called “The Tying of the Fleece.” The club looks forward to continuing to support MVOB for years to come.
Envisage Wealth
Our partners at Envisage Wealth bought no-sew fleece blanket kits and offered them to their clients to make at home and return to Envisage. At the end of their service event, clients and employees had made 755 blankets! Below is a link to a fun video they made and posted on Facebook showing the process. Thanks, Envisage!
CLICK TO SEE THEIR VIDEO ON FACEBOOK
Our partners at Envisage Wealth bought no-sew fleece blanket kits and offered them to their clients to make at home and return to Envisage. At the end of their service event, clients and employees had made 755 blankets! Below is a link to a fun video they made and posted on Facebook showing the process. Thanks, Envisage!
CLICK TO SEE THEIR VIDEO ON FACEBOOK
KOHL'S
Local Kohl's employees volunteer their time regularly at our workshop, making blankets and performing other essential tasks. We are grateful for their faithful long-term service.
Local Kohl's employees volunteer their time regularly at our workshop, making blankets and performing other essential tasks. We are grateful for their faithful long-term service.
Northwoods Foundation
We were thrilled to spend time in October 2022 with our friends from Team Northwoods! Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support!
We were thrilled to spend time in October 2022 with our friends from Team Northwoods! Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support!
Victoria’s Secret & Co. Asset Protection Team hosted a blanket-making event on March 6 when 85 participants completed 127 blankets. The event was part of a three-day training event for team members from all over the U.S.
The Woodlands at Hocking Hills offers volunteer opportunities to their guests staying in group cabins. One way their guests can volunteer is making blankets for My Very Own Blanket. We are very pleased that The Woodlands' owners have created a way for vacationers to support children living in foster care as they enjoy time away.
https://www.thewoodlandsathockinghills.com/
https://www.thewoodlandsathockinghills.com/
Volunteers from IGS Energy spent the day in our workshop in April 2024, making blankets and packing completed blankets for shipment. We were very happy to host another group of volunteers from IGS.
Big Walnut Area Realty Associates
Thank you to Big Walnut Area Realty Associates and Casey Ganger for partnering AGAIN in 2023 with My Very Own Blanket with a Realtor Care Day donation that will help us bring love and hope to 42 children living in foster care!!
Thank you to Big Walnut Area Realty Associates and Casey Ganger for partnering AGAIN in 2023 with My Very Own Blanket with a Realtor Care Day donation that will help us bring love and hope to 42 children living in foster care!!
JP Morgan Chase employees drop off blankets they have made to The Children's Village, an organization that works in partnership with families to help society’s most vulnerable children so that they become educationally proficient, economically productive, and socially responsible members of their communities.
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In April 2024, we were honored to be included in the JPMorgan Chase Charity Event at their Polaris location in Columbus. Volunteer hosts Staci, Barb and Robyn represented MVOB at the event. (left and center photos below)
Also in April, JPMorgan Chase team member Jennifer Hughes hosted a blanket-making event for her colleagues. (far right photo) Her group completed 16 blankets for children in foster care. Jennifer told us that she had many new volunteers who made blankets and are excited to make more in the future.
We are very thankful for all of our volunteers and all their support.
Health and Safety Consultants for Central Ohio Businesses
Safex employees like the ones shown below have supported us by making blankets for the past several years.
Safex employees like the ones shown below have supported us by making blankets for the past several years.
Ohio Health employees, like the ones shown below enjoying a blanket-making event, have joined together to create blankets for children in foster care in Central Ohio.
The Ohio State University
Fisher College of Business
International Students Community Service
Puerto Rican Student Association at OSU
Spring Forward Program
Fisher College of Business
International Students Community Service
Puerto Rican Student Association at OSU
Spring Forward Program
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Bank of America employee groups in several cities have hosted blanket-making events that provided hundreds of fleece blankets to children in foster care in their areas.
Local BOA employees, like the ones pictured here, donate their time in our workshop, making blankets and doing other jobs needed to produce and distribute them. |
Bank of America - Practice Solutions
Thank you to these Bank of America - Practice Solutions employees whose volunteer hours provided blankets for 15 children living in foster care while sitting down together to get to know people they only knew by name but not by face.
COLUMBUS STATE
Community College
Community College
Nationwide employees in five states -- Ohio, Iowa, Arizona, Texas and California -- made blankets on Nationwide's Day of Caring in October 2019 and donated them to social service agencies in their own areas. |
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State Farm Local Agencies
Safe Auto Insurance Company Local Agencies
Service with a Social Twist
Many thanks to Columbus Gives Back for their monthly blanket-making events scheduled in 2023, both at our workshop and at local restaurants! |
Columbus Gives Back members got together to have fun and make 40 blankets at Crooked Can in Hilliard in August 2023.
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Junior League of Columbus
We are pleased to be one of the 2022-2023 Community Partners of the Junior League of Columbus. JLC members are shown below at a blanket-making event.
Columbus Young Professionals Club
Columbus CPCU Society Chapter
Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters
Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters
Urgent Care Association (UCA) is recognized as the largest, most notable trade and professional association in urgent care, representing urgent care clinical and business professionals. This employee group got together to make blankets for children in foster care in their area.
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The Hybrid Group is comprised of association, meeting and convention management associates that bring nearly 100 years of combined experience to the table for their clients.
They helped to organize and facilitate a blanket-making event at a convention in Texas. |
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Craft Breweries - Blankets & Brew Hosts
Antiques on High, Columbus
BrewDog, Columbus
The Draft Room, Westerville
Endeavor Brewing Company, Columbus
High Bank Distillery, Columbus
Ill Mannered Brewing Company, Powell
Land-Grant Brewing Company, Columbus
Lineage Brewing, Clintonville
Nocterra Brewing Company, Powell
North High Brewing Co., Columbus
Olentangy River Brewing Company, Lewis Center
Parsons North Brewing Company, Columbus
Random Precision Brewing Company, Linworth
Seventh Son Brewing Company, Columbus
Warped Wing Brewing Company, Dayton
Wolf's Ridge Brewing, Columbus
Zaftig Brewing, Worthington
BrewDog, Columbus
The Draft Room, Westerville
Endeavor Brewing Company, Columbus
High Bank Distillery, Columbus
Ill Mannered Brewing Company, Powell
Land-Grant Brewing Company, Columbus
Lineage Brewing, Clintonville
Nocterra Brewing Company, Powell
North High Brewing Co., Columbus
Olentangy River Brewing Company, Lewis Center
Parsons North Brewing Company, Columbus
Random Precision Brewing Company, Linworth
Seventh Son Brewing Company, Columbus
Warped Wing Brewing Company, Dayton
Wolf's Ridge Brewing, Columbus
Zaftig Brewing, Worthington
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Thank you for your donation to support MVOB's mission to provide handmade blankets to children in foster care and children in need.
No goods or services are provided in exchange for contributions to My Very Own Blanket.
Thank you for your donation to support MVOB's mission to provide handmade blankets to children in foster care and children in need.
No goods or services are provided in exchange for contributions to My Very Own Blanket.
