Five bands will take the stage at Springfield's State Theater Saturday for a concert built around a simple local partnership: a disaster-relief crew that clears fallen trees for free, and a bed-building charity that makes sure no child in town sleeps on the floor. The Harmony for Hope concert opens doors at 2 p.m. and kicks off at 3 p.m., with general admission priced at $25 at the door.
The event will raise funds for the operational costs of Ohio Hope Builders and the Clark County chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, according to the Springfield News-Sun. The two Springfield-based nonprofits joined forces in 2025, connecting Ohio Hope Builders' disaster relief and family-support work with Sleep in Heavenly Peace's mission of building and delivering beds to kids who lack one. The concert will feature the Matt Clarkson Band, Allison Road, The Weekend Effect, Rob Edwards and Ryan Fyffe Music, alongside food vendors and raffles, per the same report.
New Country Mornings co-hosts Aaron “Woody” Woods and Nancy Wilson of K99.1FM will emcee the show. Wilson was born in Springfield and raised in nearby South Charleston before building her regional broadcasting career, according to K99.1FM.
From Tornado Cleanup Trips to a Formal Nonprofit
Ohio Hope Builders is a Springfield-based nonprofit focused on disaster relief, community outreach and helping families in crisis, the station's report notes. Founder Casey Tingley, who also serves as vice president of the Clark County chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace, has mobilized locally to help with cleanup efforts following recent storms. The organization was originally inspired by disaster relief volunteer trips to Mayfield, Kentucky, following a devastating December 2021 tornado, where organizers delivered multiple semi-trailers of relief supplies before formally incorporating as a 501(c)(3) in 2024.
Tingley's community profile grew further in 2024, when the Miami Valley “Jeff's Heroes” initiative named him its winner for mobilizing more than 250 local volunteers for tornado cleanup and community assistance, earning a new vehicle and $10,000 in cash. In 2025 the Springfield City Commission honored Ohio Hope Builders with a proclamation, presented by Rob Rue. Volunteer crews from the organization have since fanned out across Clark County, clearing storm debris and fallen trees free of charge for elderly, disabled and low-income homeowners after severe weather in July 2025 and again in August 2026.
34 Beds Delivered in a Single Week
Sleep in Heavenly Peace is a national nonprofit with a simple mission: no kid sleeps on the floor in our town. Local chapters build and deliver beds to children who lack a safe, proper one. The Clark County chapter launched as a new chapter in early 2026, held its first fundraising event that April, made its inaugural bed delivery in late July, and reached a milestone of delivering 34 beds to local children in a single week in August, according to reporting cited in the dossier of local coverage tracking the chapter's growth.
National figures from Sleep in Heavenly Peace show the scale of the need behind that work: an estimated 2% to 3% of American children lack a bed of their own, with more than 82% of applicant families earning under $52,000 annually and 62.4% living in single-parent households in 2025. Academic research cited by the American Sleep Association has linked childhood bedlessness and sleep deprivation to harm in concentration, memory and emotional balance, while consistent quality sleep has been shown to improve student performance in reading and math.
Why Springfield's Numbers Make the Case
The economic backdrop in Clark County helps explain why both organizations exist. U.S. Census Bureau estimates put the county's overall poverty rate at 15.2% and its child poverty rate at 21.5% in 2024, according to USAFacts — a level of hardship above Ohio's statewide average. Those figures underscore why something as basic as a twin bed frame or a free tree-removal crew can be out of reach for many local families.
Ohio Hope Builders and Sleep in Heavenly Peace now share headquarters at 23 W. Pleasant St. in Springfield, a 15,346-square-foot commercial building constructed in 1920 that serves as their operational workshop. Volunteers there sand, stain and assemble twin bed frames while staging disaster supplies, and the facility is used for planning and mobilizing by the team and volunteers on both fronts.
A Historic Downtown Stage for the Fundraiser
The concert itself unfolds in a building with its own second-act story. Built in 1927 as a 924-seat movie palace, the State Theater at 19 S. Fountain St. operated until 1990 before sitting vacant for years, until local developers acquired and renovated it starting in late 2021 into an active multi-use performance venue with upgraded HVAC, lighting and sound, according to Hub Springfield.
Organizers say volunteers are always needed and welcomed, per Tingley, and both nonprofits are seeking community members willing to pitch in as volunteer supply has been in short supply recently. Supporters who can't make the concert can still make a financial gift at Park National Bank locations, or through Venmo or Cash App. More information on the two groups is available at ohiohopebuilder.org and shpbeds.org/chapter/oh-clark-co.
