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REAL PEOPLE. REAL PATHS. A BRIGHTER TOMORROW.WHEREVER YOU ARE TODAY, THERE IS A PATH FORWARD.
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Grassroots partner beta

Build your presence.
Help Ohioans move forward.

Claim and correct your organization profile for free. Upgrade only when enhanced tools, visibility, verification, and marketplace participation make sense for your organization.

Ready Set Onward is currently in beta. Ready Set Onward Partners receive deeper workflow access, reporting, and support while helping shape the platform. Learner referral volume is not guaranteed.
Create or claim a profile for free. Schools and organizations can establish a Basic Profile, correct essential information, and remain discoverable without paying. Upgrade later only if premium tools create value.
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Premium Partner benefit

Receive learner-approved Onward Readiness Reports.

An Onward Learner Readiness Report is a permission-based handoff created from the learner’s Journey and Support Map. It can summarize the learner’s goal, education status, career interests, strengths, schedule/learning fit, immediate priority, selected support needs, confidence, and completed readiness steps before your first conversation.

The learner chooses the organization and authorizes every send. Sensitive private notes—such as detailed home-life information, legal/court notes, and personal encouragement messages—are excluded by default. Premium Partners receive context, not a purchased contact list.

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Transparent participation

Start free. Upgrade without pressure.

The free option stays easy to keep. Paid tiers fund richer profiles, tools, analytics, and clearly identified visibility—not favorable quality ratings.

Hover or focus the information icon beside a feature for a plain-language explanation of what that feature means for your organization.

Basic Profile

FreeAlways

Claim and correct your essential organization information at no cost.

  • Verify ownership
  • Correct organization name
  • Update address, phone, website, and contacts
  • Select organization type
  • Add a short description
  • Remain visible in the marketplace
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Ready Set Onward Presence

$399per year · OnwardCity included

Specialized education, workforce and pathway visibility with deeper program details and referral opportunities. All Onward Presence is $649/year for both specialized networks.

  • OnwardCity presence included
  • Expanded profile and multiple programs
  • Eligibility, ages, schedule, and delivery options
  • Transportation and childcare details
  • Career pathways and credentials
  • Photos, logo, enrollment links, and social links
  • Enhanced search presentation
  • Annual accuracy review
  • Referral and pathway-discovery opportunities
  • Eligible for one-profile network distribution
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Ready Set Onward Partner

$3,950per year · subscription only

Deeper referral, lead-management, reporting and staff workflows. Combined RSO + Families Partner is $6,699/year.

  • Everything in Premium
  • Referral dashboard and lead pipeline
  • Permission-based introductions
  • Staff workflow tools
  • Response and outcome reporting
  • Advanced operational reporting
  • Priority support
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Ohio growth packages

Pricing for organizations, employers, and school networks.

These annual packages support larger partner relationships without selling learner lists. Every introduction remains learner-selected and permission-based.

Ready Set Onward Institutional

$8,500per year · subscription only

Schools, training providers, nonprofits and workforce institutions

  • Everything in Partner
  • Institution administration
  • Advanced reporting
  • Expanded permissions
  • Operational controls
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All Onward Institutional

$13,999per year · RSO + Families

Institutions serving both pathway and family audiences

  • Institutional capability in both products
  • Free OnwardCity presence
  • One master organization identity
  • Combined reporting and administration
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All Onward Network

From $35,999per year · RSO + Families

Multi-location organizations needing both specialized networks

  • Network capability in both products
  • Free OnwardCity presence
  • Shared organization identity
  • Cross-network administration and analytics
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What you are actually buying

Partner features in common-sense language.

Paid participation should solve an operational problem—not just give you a badge.

Onward Verified

Help people trust the information they are reading.

You get a richer profile and program-level detail so learners can understand eligibility, schedule, delivery, credentials, transportation, childcare, and how to take the next step before they call your staff.

Featured Partner

Help more of the right people notice your programs—and see what they do next.

You add clearly labeled visibility plus analytics around real marketplace behavior. The goal is better discovery and better decisions, not paid influence over independent fit or quality scores.

Founding Partner

Build a working learner pipeline, not just a profile.

You receive deeper onboarding, early access to learner-selected introductions when available, referral-stage tracking, priority beta support, and a closer role in shaping the platform.

Learner-approved connections

Receive context only after the learner chooses you.

Onward does not sell a student list. Eligible partners can receive a learner-approved Plan Snapshot and referral so staff can begin with a more informed first conversation.

Performance intelligence

Know whether visibility becomes action.

Where data exists, Onward can track requests, contacts, applications, enrollments, starts, response speed, clicks, and other privacy-safe signals so you can judge whether participation is producing meaningful movement.

Program clarity

Reduce unnecessary calls and bad-fit applications.

Clear program profiles answer common questions up front. That can help staff spend more time with people who understand what you offer and less time correcting basic misunderstandings.

How claiming works

Five clear steps. No dark patterns.

1

Find your organization

Search for your school, program, nonprofit, training provider, employer, or community organization.

2

Submit a free claim

Provide your name, role, work email, phone, and relationship to the organization.

3

Verify ownership

Use an official-domain email when possible, or enter a fair manual review process.

4

Correct basic information

Update essential facts without paying. Accurate information benefits everyone.

5

Choose whether to upgrade

Compare all four tiers. Keeping the Basic Profile is always available.

Marketplace trust rule

Partnership status and quality evaluation are separate.

Organizations can pay for enhanced tools, visibility, verification of profile information, analytics, and marketplace participation. They cannot pay for a better independent quality score.

A paid partnership never creates a higher Onward Score, Onward Quality Reviewed status, better quality rating, or favorable review.

How the Onward Score works
Partner FAQ

Questions partners should ask before joining.

Pricing, referrals, privacy, minors, verification, analytics, quality scoring, program data, and what Onward does—and does not—promise.

Ready when you are

Make your organization easier to understand and trust.

Connect with learners who choose to hear from your organization as Ready Set Onward grows.

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Two sides. One movement.

Find support—or help someone find it.

Ready Set Onward connects people whose education was interrupted with real next steps, while giving schools, workforce programs, employers, and community organizations a trusted way to participate.

Learners & families

I need a path forward.

Tell us what you need, what is getting in the way, and what you want next. We will help organize education, training, work, and local support options around your life.

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Organizations

We want to join the movement.

Claim your organization, verify programs, help learners understand what you offer, and become part of a growing Ohio re-engagement and opportunity network.

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