Partner With OBCA

Ohio has extraordinary expertise and resources across healthcare, education, workforce development, business, research, public policy and community life. Partnership can help connect those strengths around a shared goal: building healthier brains, stronger minds and greater human potential across the state.

Brain Capital Crosses Every Sector

Brain health and brain skills shape how people learn, work, adapt, connect and contribute. The conditions that strengthen them are influenced by many systems and organizations, which means no single field or institution can address the opportunity alone.

OBCA works across traditional boundaries to help people find shared language, connect knowledge and resources, and identify opportunities for coordinated action. Partners make that work more informed, relevant and capable of reaching people across Ohio.

A Place for Many Kinds of Organizations

A prospective partner may be a statewide institution, regional organization, local employer, community group or professional network. What matters most is meaningful alignment with the work and a willingness to explore how the organization can contribute.

Healthcare and behavioral-health organizations
Schools, colleges, universities, libraries and lifelong-learning organizations
Employers, workforce-development organizations and business networks
Research institutions, data partners and subject-matter experts
State and local government, policymakers and civic organizations
Arts, cultural, philanthropic and community-based organizations

Bring the Strengths Your Organization Already Has

Partnership does not need to look the same for every organization. Together, we can identify a role that reflects your priorities, expertise, reach and capacity.

Contribute Knowledge or Data

Share relevant expertise, research, de-identified data or high-level insight that can help OBCA understand needs, assets and opportunities more clearly.

Participate in an Initiative

Help shape, test, host, extend or evaluate a public-education effort, convening or other initiative aligned with shared priorities.

Connect People and Communities

Bring together relevant leaders, introduce OBCA to new networks or help an initiative reach the Ohioans it is intended to serve.

Advance Brain Positive Practices

Explore how your organization's decisions, policies, environments and programs could better protect and strengthen brain health and brain skills.

Support a Specific Opportunity

Organizations interested in sponsoring an initiative, convening or event can explore current and future opportunities through Support OBCA.

A Shared Framework and a Cross-Sector View

OBCA brings a statewide brain-capital perspective to work that often happens within separate fields, regions and systems. Our role is to translate research, educate the public, connect partners and help promising ideas move toward coordinated action.

We also aim to create opportunities for partners to learn from one another and see how their work contributes to a larger picture of human flourishing and statewide prosperity.

Start With a Conversation

You do not need a fully formed proposal before reaching out. A partnership conversation can begin with an idea, a shared priority, a question or a capability your organization may be able to contribute.

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Connect

Tell us about your organization, the issues you care about and what prompted your interest.

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Identify Alignment

We will explore where your goals, capabilities and communities may align with OBCA's current initiatives or future direction.

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Define a Practical Role

If there is a fit, we will clarify the purpose, responsibilities and next steps appropriate to the opportunity.

A Future Way to Affirm Shared Principles

OBCA is developing a voluntary Partner Pledge for organizations that want to affirm the importance of brain capital and the value of collaboration across disciplines and regions. The pledge is intended to express shared principles rather than create a legal or financial obligation.

Details about eligibility, recognition, participation and any ongoing expectations will be added after the pledge, and its supporting process are finalized.