Earmarks: Ohio

Here are the earmarks identified for Ohio, which total $33,645,000. Check out the earmarks for your state and then call your congressman and ask if he or she sponsored any of your state's earmarks. If the answer is yes, ask why the congressman's name isn't on the earmark. If you recognize the institution designated to receive the earmarked tax dollars, call them and ask them what they intend to do with your money.

Then email us at info@examiner.com with the subject line "Earmarks" and tell us what you found out.

Amount City Description
$1,750,000 Columbus Columbus Children's Research Institute, for facilities and equipment
$1,000,000 Medina Medina General Hospital for expansion of its Emergency Department
$1,000,000 Cleveland Case Western Reserve University, for the National Center for Regenerative Medicine
$800,000 North Canton Stark State College of Technology for facilities and equipment
$750,000 Cleveland St. Vincent Charity Hospital for facilities and equipment
$750,000 Canton YMCA of Central Stark County for facilities
$700,000 Canton Malone College for facilities and equipment
$700,000 North Canton Walsh University for facilities
$700,000 Akron University or Akron for the Medina University Campus for facilities
$700,000 Wooster Ohio State University Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center for facilities
$700,000 Columbus Ohio State University for facilities and equipment for the Comprehensive Cancer Center
$700,000 Canton Mercy Medical Center for facilities
$700,000 Canton Aultman Health Foundation for equipment for the Aultman Hospice Center
$700,000 Alliance Mount Union College for facilities
$500,000 East Cleveland Huron Hospital, for facilities
$500,000 Cincinnati Cincinnati Museum Center for website development
$500,000 Ashtabula Kent State University's Ashtabula Campus, for facilities and equipment for the Health and Science Center
$500,000 Cleveland Cleveland Clinic Foundation, for facilities and the Medical Institutes Pavilion
$500,000 Rootstown Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy for facilities
$500,000 New Carlisle Tecumseh YMCA for facilities and equipment for physical and occupational therapy, wellness programs and health education
$400,000 Springfield Rocking Horse Children's Health Center for facilities and equipment
$400,000 Akron Summa Health System for facilities and equipment
$400,000 Bowling Green EduNet24, for educational software for Spanish speaking students for the Tecumseh YMCA in New Carlisle, OH
$350,000 Dayton Mary Scott Nursing Home for facilities and equipment
$350,000 Youngstown Paula and Anthony Rich Center for the Study and Treatment of Autism for distance learning technology and programs
$350,000 Portsmouth Shawnee State University for purchase of equipment at the Motion Capture Facility
$300,000 Columbus Battelle for Kids, for the value-added student assessment program
$300,000 Toledo Caldwell Community Center, for after school academic and enrichment activities for children and youth in North Toledo
$300,000 Elyria Lorain County Community College for its Learning Technology Center
$300,000 Cincinnati Xavier University for technology upgrades
$300,000 Cincinnati Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, for the Sound Discoveries Program for K-12 students
$300,000 Cleveland Westside Industrial Retention and Expansion Network (WIRE-Net) for a manufacturing workforce development and job placement
$300,000 Cleveland Visiting Nurses Association Healthcare Partners of Ohio for equipment for the VNA CareWatch program in Northwest Ohio
$300,000 Findlay University of Findlay for facilities and equipment for the Actual Learning Environment Response Training (ALERT) Center
$300,000 Cleveland University Hospitals Health System for facilities
$300,000 Hiram Hiram College for curriculum development and equipment for the Carbon Conversion Initiative
$300,000 Zanesville Genesis Healthcare System, for facilities and equipment for mobile intensive care
$250,000 Cincinnati HealthCare Connection, Inc., for an electronic medical and dental records system
$250,000 Springfield Clark State Community College for the Connecting our Students to the Future Project
$250,000 Yellow Springs Antioch University McGregor for technology equipment
$250,000 Cleveland Vocational Guidance Services for equipment and technology in order to increase employment for persons with disabilities
$250,000 Cincinnati Knowledge Works Intermediary, LLC., for the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative
$250,000 Powell Columbus Zoon and Aquarium, for the Columbus Zoo High School
$250,000 Columbus Prevent Blindness Ohio, for the Ohio Senior Eye project
$250,000 Mt. Vernon Knox Community Hospital, for facilities and equipment
$250,000 Lancaster Fairfield Medical Center, for facilities and equipment
$250,000 Columbus Ohio Hospice and Palliative Care Organization for the End of Life Resource Center
$250,000 Mentor Lakeland Community College, for a Regional Healthcare Workforce Department Project
$250,000 Dayton AIDS Resource Center for treatment services
$250,000 Cleveland Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services for an electronic health records system
$250,000 Orrville Orrville Hospital Foundation for Dunlap Memorial Hospital for equipment
$250,000 Toledo Owens Community College for initiatives to improve nurse education and training in cooperation with the Medical University of Ohio hospital and other health care institutions
$250,000 Steubenville Valley Hospice for facilities and equipment for a hospice in Wheeling, WV
$250,000 Columbus Columbus Children's Research Institute for activities at the Injury Research Center
$250,000 Toledo Toledo Public Schools for a nutrition demonstration program linked to locally provided food
$250,000 Steubenville Jefferson Behavioral Health System for mental health services at Beacon House
$250,000 Cincinnati University of Cincinnati for the Teacher Quality Partnership Project
$225,000 Cleveland Hospice of the Western Reserve, for equipment
$200,000 Akron Akron General Medical Center, for equipment for an ambulatory medical record system
$200,000 Columbus Goodwill, Columbus, for facilities and equipment for the Health and Wellness Center
$200,000 Cleveland Cleveland State University, for equipment
$200,000 Smithfield Boys' Village, for facilities
$200,000 Cleveland JumpStart, Inc. for technical assistance job training
$200,000 Lima Joint Systems Manufacturing Center for job training in manufacturing technologies
$200,000 Dennison Twin City Hospital for facilities and equipment
$200,000 Milford Southern Ohio Health Services Network for information technology equipment
$200,000 Cincinnati Project One Youth Education Program, for after school instruction for economically disadvantaged youth
$200,000 Bellefontaine Mary Rutan Hospital for facilities and equipment
$200,000 Columbus Ohio department of Education, for Charter Colleges of Education
$200,000 Kent Kent State University for education programs for scientists collaborating at the Oak Clinic for Multiple Sclerosis
$200,000 Columbus Ohio Board of Regents for the School for Computational Science
$200,000 Cincinnati Taft Museum of Art for exhibitions and outreach
$200,000 Dayton Grandview Hospital, for facilities and equipment
$175,000 Columbus Community Shelter Board for a National Model to House Homeless Families
$150,000 Cincinnati Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, for the Project SEARCH job training for people with disabilities
$150,000 Ashland Elderly health care delivery demonstration at the Good Shepherd Home
$150,000 Ashland Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center, for the Northeast Central Ohio Bioscience Consortium's creation of a customized, tiered training model in the biosciences
$115,000 Mentor United Way of Lake County for the Lake County Drop-in Center
$100,000 Mansfield Visiting Nurses Association Healthcare partners of Ohio for CareWatch
$100,000 Massillon AHEAD Foundation, Inc., for after school programs, CARE TEAMS and its Collaborative Community Network
$100,000 Canton Canton City School District, for the PE 4 Life project
$100,000 Canton Canton Symphony Orchestra Association, for implementation of the Northeast Ohio Arts Education Collaborative
$100,000 Cleveland Cleveland Orchestra, for education programs
$100,000 Ottawa Project MORE, Putnam County Educational Service Center, for reading programs for students with disabilities
$100,000 Toledo Toledo Jazz Society for music education initiatives for youth and teachers
$100,000 Wooster Tri-County Educational Service Center for technology education
$100,000 Beachwood Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, for human services programs for children and families
$100,000 Columbus I KNOW I CAN for a student recruitment and retention initiative
$100,000 Wooster Tri-County Educational Service Center for a pilot project of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
$100,000 Kent Kent State University for the GED Scholars program
$100,000 Perrysburg Township Owens Community College for Third Frontier Network and Emergency Preparedness Training & Equipment Initiative
$100,000 Defiance Defiance College for the McMaster Citizen-Leader program
$100,000 Fremont Terra State Community College for equipment
$100,000 Alliance YWCA of Alliance for the Alliance Neighborhood Center Apple Seed Project
$100,000 Columbus Nutrition and obesity education program at the Children's Hunger Alliance
$100,000 Cincinnati University of Cincinnati for the Teacher Quality Partnership Project
$100,000 Cleveland MetroHealth System for the Northeast Ohio Senior Health and Wellness Center
$100,000 Cleveland Visiting Nurses Association Healthcare Partners of Ohio for the CareWatch program in Stark, Wayne, Medina and Ashland counties
$100,000 Medina Medina County Schools Educational Service Center for the Workforce Initiative program
$100,000 West Union Adams County Hospital for facilities and equipment
$100,000 Bellevue Bellevue Hospital and Bellevue Senior Neighborhood Corporation, for facilities and equipment
$100,000 Bryan Community Hospital and Wellness Center, for equipment and technology
$100,000 Fremont Defiance Regional Medical Center, for the Breast Cancer Detection Technology project
$100,000 Norwalk Fisher-Titus Medical Center, for facilities and equipment
$100,000 Fremont Fremont Memorial Hospital, for the electronic health records and equipment project
$100,000 Canton Prescription assistance to the uninsured at the Stark Prescription Assistance Network, Inc.
$100,000 Ashland Hospice of North Central Ohio, for equipment for the Hospice Inpatient Center
$100,000 Shaker Heights Ohio Alcohol and Drug Workforce Development Project for the Ohio Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
$100,000 Dayton Community Blood and Tissue Center, for an electronic data format
$75,000 Coshocton Kno-Ho-Co-Ashland Community Action Commission, for a dental health protection program provided through a mobile dental unit
$75,000 Cadiz Harrison Community Hospital, for facilities and equipment
$75,000 Canton Stark Education Partnership to implement the P-16 model
$50,000 Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art for technology
$50,000 Cleveland Cleveland Institute of Art for expansion of programs
$50,000 Apple Creek Apple Creek Historical Society for the Community Learning Center
$50,000 Youngstown? Youngstown City School District for a Pathways to Building Trades Program in the Youngstown and Warren, OH school districts
$50,000 Youngstown? Youngstown Symphony Society, Inc. for educational programs
$50,000 Cleveland Harbor Heritage Society for exhibits at the William G. Mather Maritime Museum
$50,000 Massillon Massillion Museum for technology and digitization of collections
$50,000 Canton Stark County Park District for exhibits at the Canalway Learning Center
$50,000 Cleveland Western Reserve Historical Society for education programs
$50,000 Ashland Ashland County Oral Health Services for facilities
$50,000 Canton McKinley Museum for exhibits
$50,000 Canton Heartbeats to the City, for education mentoring programs
$50,000 Canton Early Childhood Resource Center, for early childhood teacher training
$50,000 Cleveland Cleveland Institute of Music, for distance learning
$50,000 Medina Camp Fire USA Northeast Ohio Council, for the Young Leaders Serving Ohio program
$50,000 Cleveland Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau, for education programs
$50,000 Canton Voyager Program Inc, for domestic violence prevention
$50,000 Akron East Akron Community House, for youth services programs
$50,000 Mt. Vernon Hospice of Knox County, for facilities and equipment
$50,000 Medina Medina County Office of Workforce Development for the Building Careers in Healthcare Initiative
$50,000 Medina Medina County Office of Workforce Development for the Building Careers in the Building Trades Initiative
$50,000 Stark County Community Mediation Center, for a conflict resolution program
$30,000 Oxford Miami University for digitization
$25,000 Akron Expand educational methods of the Responsible Social Values program and to update technology for Abstinence the Better Choice, Inc.

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