About
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership has been serving the northwest Ohio area for more than 50 years. We began in 1965 as WSOS Community Action Commission following the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which helped create hundreds of community action agencies throughout the United States. Our letters stood for the core counties we served — Wood, Sandusky, Ottawa, and Seneca. Since then, we have progressively expanded the scope of our services, adding other counties, states and even countries to our service area.
Organization Information
Our new name — Great Lakes Community Action Partnership — reflects not only the expansion of our service region, but also our approach. Our programs educate young children to prepare them for school, provide meals to homebound elderly, offer rides to those without transportation, and give housing to those without homes. We help low-income residents afford utility bills, homeowners make vital repairs, and communities better maintain infrastructure. Though our programs are successful because of our staff's dedication, they are also successful because of the partnerships we form with other organizations and people, whether these are businesses, local governments, schools, or the people whom we serve.
For the people and communities we serve, Great Lakes Community Action Partnership sees itself not as the cause of their successes, but as partners in their successes.
This belief is best stated in our mission:
We create partnerships and opportunities to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Annual reports and financial information
IRS 990 *
2017-2018 Head Start Annual Report *
2017-2018 EHS-CCP Annual Report *
2017-2018 EHS-CCP Expansion Report *
*as WSOS Community Action Commission
Leadership
Board Members Wood County
Carmen Beltran
County Commissioners' Appointee
Joined: September 2011
Term: January - December 2019
Bill Donnelly
County Commissioners' Appointee
Joined: January 2016
Term: January - December 2019
Greg Kegler
United Way of Wood County
Joined: January 2015
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Dean King
Economic Development Commission
Joined: May 2010
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Anna Wilkerson
Low-Income Representative
Joined: January 2019
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Jane Wengel
Low-Income Representative
Joined: September 2015
Term: January 2018 - December 2019
Board Members Sandusky County
Russ Zimmerman
County Commissioner
Joined: January 2019
Term: January - December 2019
Crystal Walker
County Commissioner Designated Appointee
Joined: March 2018
Term: January - December 2019
Madeleine Corbo
ProMedica Memorial Hospital
Joined: November 2018
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Jim Fails
NAACP
Joined: January 2011
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Amanda Garner
Low-Income Representative
Joined: January 2017
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Peg Rettig
Low-Income Representative
Joined: January 2018
Term: January 2018 - December 2019
Board Members Ottawa County
Jo Ellen Regal
County Commissioners' Appointee
Joined: January 2013
Term: January - December 2019
Molly Sass
County Commissioners' Appointee
Joined: June 2015
Term: January - December 2019
Mike Barr
Commodore Perry Federal Credit Union
Joined: May 2019
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Gaye Winterfield — Vice Chairperson
Ottawa County Improvement Corporation
Joined: February 2015
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Jennifer Buxton
Low-Income Representative
Joined: January 2007
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Pat Keys
Low-Income Representative
Joined: January 2016
Term: January 2018 - December 2019
Board Members Seneca County
Mike Kerschner — Secretary/Treasurer
County Commissioner
Joined: January 2015
Term: January - December 2019
Greg Edinger
County Commissioners’ Appointee
Joined: March 2019
Term: January 2019-December 2020
Dr. Cory Stine — Board Chairperson
Terra State Commmunity College
Joined: May 2016
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
David Zak
Tiffin-Seneca Economic Partnership
Joined: March 2014
Term: January 2019-December 2020
Carol Kern
Low-Income Representative
Joined: September 2017
Term: January 2019 - December 2020
Bev Hemmerly
Low-Income Representative
Joined: May 2014
Term: January 2018 - December 2019