Mansfield Noon Optimist Foundation Inc

The Mansfield Noon Optimist is a local service organization servicing the youth of Richland County and Celebrated our 100th anniversary in 2023!!

Mission: By providing hope and positive vision, Optimists bring out the best in youth, our communities and ourselves.

Vision: The Mansfield Noon Optimist is recognized as the premier volunteer organization that values all children and helps them develop to their full potential. 

Purposes: To develop optimism as a philosophy of life utilizing the tenets of the Optimist Creed; to promote an active interest in good government and civic affairs; to inspire respect for the law; to promote patriotism and work for international accord and friendship among all people; to aid and encourage the development of youth, in the belief that the giving of one's self in service to others will advance the well-being of humankind, community life and the world. 

The funds raised for our Foundation will be supporting our Adopt-A-Child program where we will help over 30 children to give them a better Christmas by buying them clothes, shoes, boots, and other items that they need, our Clubs Scholarship Program where we will be donating over $5000 in college scholarships to local students, our Optimist Club Park located behind the Buckeye Imagination Museum, projects for the Ohio Bird Sanctuary and their children's programs, among many other programs and projects that service our community.

Other Activities and Programs our Club participates in are: 

-Malabar Family Fun on the Farm Festival

-Veterans "Silent Watch"

-Richland Carousel "Free" Ride Days

-Miss Ohio Scholarship 

-Buckeye Imagination Museum

-Richland 4-H Program

-Richland Academy of the Arts

-Coats for Kids Donations

-And many more....