About Us

Story About Us!

We are committed to providing Ohio's students and parents educational resources and assistance for college, career planning, and long-term financial education. To help achieve their goals, students are offered college positioning resources, career guidance, and scholarships. In addition, opportunities in mentoring, shadowing, and community service are also provided. For parents, workshops and resources are available to create strategies for minimizing college expense and developing a long-term financial strategy.

Our Mission

Plan the Way Foundation is dedicated to the scholastic and personal development of Ohio's public and private school students, and their parents. With a focus in college guidance, financial literacy and career definition, our program begins in grades seven and eight and is designed to guide students and their parents through high school, college, and career planning.

Our Vision

To provide Ohio's students as well as their parents, programs and resources to empower them to make informed decisions about their education and career. To subsidize the cost cost of the program through grants and donations, giving families an equal chance to educate themselves and the opportunity to go to college.

Our Values

Leadership

Challenging students to look outside the box at opportunities to further build their character and to become role models for future generations.

Integrity

Being honest about one's strengths and weaknesses in dealing with peers, teachers, parents, and others.

Teamwork

Sharing ideas with others and understanding the importance of being open to different perspectives when working together to accomplish a common goal in school, business, and life.

Respect

Fostering behavior to treat everything and everyone with respect, including themselves, and to speak up when injustices occur.

Responsibility

Becoming engaged in the college process, developing time and money management skills, and accepting the consequences for one's actions.

Our Objectives

- To provide the program at little or no cost to all students in Ohio by subsidizing the expense through grants and donations.


- To provide families free one-on-one consultations to discuss their specific situation as well as potential opportunities to lower college expense and maximize financial aid eligibility.


- To provide the program to all parents and students in Ohio in order to strengthen the bond between them and their community.


- To align individuals with other organizations that share a common interest in providing educational resources and opportunities to students and parents to better prepare them for their college and career experiences.