Our Mission

Northern Ohioans for Budget Legislation Equality (NOBLE) is a community-based organization whose mission and purpose is to raise the local community’s voice in the state of Ohio’s biennium budget legislative process.  NOBLE seeks to protect and expand health, human services and other critical needs through educating and mobilizing impacted residents to provide a citizen voice at the state and county levels. 

NOBLE was born out of the need for a direct community response in 2003 when then-Governor Taft proposed cuts that would have devastated health and human services in that biennium budget. Community education, engagement, and organizing began in January 2003 with thousands of northern Ohioans traveling down to Columbus to save critical needs in Ohio. The state budget was passed in June 2003. Our efforts, along with those of others, helped save millions of dollars for health and human services in that state budget.

At the conclusion of the campaign in 2003, NOBLE leaders realized that it was important for impacted citizens to remain engaged and active in creating state budget priorities.  NOBLE has been involved in each of the biennium budget cycles since then, effectively bringing together organizations and low-income Ohioans who are directly affected by state budget decisions in northern Ohio.

Working together with other organizations, NOBLE participants work on issues surrounding the constant attack on state funding for Health and Human Services, Public Transportation, Education, and Local Governments. NOBLE works  on grassroots efforts to push state representatives and senators to reform the tax system so that vital programs on which our communities depend are not cut or eliminated in order to reduce taxes for the wealthy.