Create Our Future is a 501c3 non-profit created in 2021 in order to provide, promote, plan and support economic and community development in the Appalachian region of Ohio. We, as residents of Appalachian Ohio, can create the communities we want by helping existing businesses and helping new entrepreneurs. We can help ourselves!

We know we have talented friends and family who live here, who make up our communities, who already own businesses, who want to start businesses, and who want to improve their communities. Create Our Future is here to support those economic and community development initiatives.

We are led by a seven-member board and operate by volunteers. We partner with the Community Improvement Corporation of Belmont County, Ohio, (CIC) and groups like the Bellaire Business Alliance to fulfill our mission. Donations to Create Our Future enable us and our partners to implement projects helping businesses, entrepreneurs, and communities.

Look to the future - and then create it!

Create Our Future

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