Mission of the Centerville Noon Optimist Club
As a friend of youth, our mission is to provide positive programs and activities to benefit youth in the local and surrounding communities to help them grow and prosper as future leaders
Is My Organization Eligible for a Donation?
Please take a moment to review the following eligibility qualifications and guidelines to determine whether or not your request is eligible for a donation from the Centerville Noon Optimist Club.
We award funds to a full spectrum of organizations and educators that serve the youth in our community. The programs we consider for discretionary support are located primarily in Centerville-Washington Township and surrounding areas, but we will also consider requests for needs in surrounding counties and townships.
If your organization’s mission doesn’t fit ours or serve our locality please see this page for other service organizations.
Donation recipients should:
- Fit our mission statement
- Fit one of these categories:
- Organization that is recognized as a tax-exempt or non-profit.
- Educator with a project benefitting students.
- Individual with a community project, such as a student needing help to fund their Eagle Scout project.
- Benefit the youth local to Centerville-Washington Township or surrounding communities
We generally do not provide donations for:
- General organizational operations and ongoing programs, operational deficits, or reduced or lost funding.
- Individuals (exceptions would be a teacher requesting supplies for their classroom, or student requesting money for a project to benefit their school or community)
- Fundraising drives for individuals
- Political activities
- Endowment funds
- Publications, scientific, medical, or academic research projects, or research papers
- In addition, multi-year commitments are rarely considered
Steps to Apply
- Ensure that you and/or your organization are eligible to apply (see above)
- Review CNO’s Guidelines for Donation Requests (see above)
- Submit an online Donation Request Form using the button below. The Form provides CNO with an overview of your funding request and the documents needed to support that request.
Submission Deadlines
- Donation requests must be submitted by 8 PM on the first Saturday of each month. Requests received by this deadline will be reviewed for vetting and considered at the Board meeting on the third Monday of that month.
- Please note: There is no December meeting. Any request submitted after 8 PM on the first Saturday of November will not be reviewed until the third Monday of January.
Upcoming deadlines for the 2025-2026 club year are:
- Saturday, October 4, 2025 (Board meeting: Monday, October 20, 2025)
- Saturday, November 1, 2025 (Board meeting: Monday, November 17, 2025)
- No December deadline – no meeting is held in December
- Saturday, January 3, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, January 19, 2026)
- Saturday, February 7, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, February 16, 2026)
- Saturday, March 7, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, March 16, 2026)
- Saturday, April 4, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, April 20, 2026)
- Saturday, May 2, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, May 18, 2026)
- Saturday, June 6, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, June 15, 2026)
- Saturday, July 4, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, July 20, 2026)
- Saturday, August 1, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, August 17, 2026)
- Saturday, September 5, 2026 (Board meeting: Monday, September 21, 2026)