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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: April 2025 Expires: April 2027

PreventionFIRST!

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards
Accreditation seal
(800) 788-7254
2100 Sherman Ave Ste 102
Cincinnati, OH, 45212-2775
https://www.prevention-first.org/
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Standards For Charity Accountability

Governance

  1. Board Oversight
  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

Fundraising & Info

  1. Truthful Materials
  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
  4. Donor Privacy
  5. Cause Marketing Disclosures
  6. Complaints

PreventionFIRST! meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
PreventionFIRST! implements best practice strategies to reduce the risk of behavioral health disorders.

Year, State Incorporated:
1996, OH

Center for Prevention Action - The purpose of this program is to provide a comprehensive approach to substance abuse prevention requiring coordination of all programs, best practices, and policies across
multiple community sectors related to the identified local conditions that are targeted for change. Activities include logic models for each identified substance use/misuse problem; environmental strategies that provide information, education and support as well as modify access, consequences, physical design, and policy; and evaluating the effectiveness of Action Team strategies.

Center for Community Engagement- The purpose of this program is to build and strengthen the capacity of local neighborhoods to engage in prevention. This is done primarily through training, technical
assistance and mini-grants. Activities included assessing and monitoring the level of development among member coalitions across the region, building awareness, readiness and capacity of community
constituents to participate in a local neighborhood anti-drug coalition, identifying and pursuing opportunities to address the identified gaps in development among member coalitions, leveraging state and national resources for use on the regional level and through the local member coalitions, and evaluating the effectiveness of local member coalitions to impact community change.

Center for Prevention Science - The purpose of this program is to increase data driven decision making for effective prevention programs. Activities included review of comprehensive assessments of youth
substance use/misuse in the region, monitoring biennial PreventionFIRST! Student Survey process and findings, review of evaluation on the effectiveness of PreventionFIRST! to bring about community level change related to the identified youth substance use/misuse problems, and identifying and supporting research and publication opportunities related to longitudinal PreventionFIRST! Student Survey data.

Workforce Development focuses on an expanded infrastructure of coaching and mentoring. It is designed to increase workforce capacity which will lead to an increased use of evidence based practice and ensure that populations have equitable access to culturally competent prevention services.

For the year ended June 30, 2024, PreventionFIRST!'s program expenses were:

Workforce Development $2,004,900
Prevention Action $366,558
Community Engagement $283,440
Prevention Science $153,227
Total Program Expenses $2,808,125

Chief Executive
Nicole Schiesler, President/CEO

Chair of the Board
Marc Dizard, Board Chairperson

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation

Board Size
16

Paid Staff Size
11

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Invitations to fund raising events, Grant proposals, Internet, Cause-related marketing (affinity credit cards, consumer product sales, etc.), Appeals via Social Media (Facebook, etc.)

% of Related Contributions on Fundraising: 3.13%

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on PreventionFIRST!'s audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2024.

Source of Funds
Expand & Diversify Ohio's Prevention Workforce grant $540,573
SPF Rx grant $462,920
CARES prevention grant $357,563
State Coalition grant $260,116
OCAM Workforce Development grant $250,272
GEERS prevention grant $248,755
State Opioid Response grants $164,302
Foundation grants $125,000
OJJDP grant $90,890
Behavioral wellness coordinator grant $64,549
Marijuana Youth prevention grant $62,328
Product sales and training $58,990
County levy $52,104
CCIM4C grant $48,171
Other (state) $47,406
STOP grant $46,936
Contributed services $45,000
Other donations and grants $24,097
Special events $23,828
Miscellaneous $23,375
Faith Based Stigma Reduction Expansion grant $18,776
Problem gambling grant $17,113
Supplemental funds $15,760
Youth led prevention grant $665
Other (county) $491
Total Income $3,049,980

Programs: 93% Fundraising: 3% Administrative: 4%

Total Income $3,049,980
Total expenses: $3,022,826
  Program expenses $2,808,125
  Fundraising expenses $89,876
  Administrative expenses $124,825
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $27,154
Beginning Net Assets $827,313
Other Changes In Net Assets $0
Ending Net Assets $854,467
Total Liabilities $520,120
Total Assets $1,374,587

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