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Six local nonprofits were awarded $80,000+ in grants from Columbus Youth Foundation at the Triple-A Baseball Homerun Derby!
Six local nonprofits were awarded more than $80,000 in grants from Columbus Youth Foundation at the Triple-A Baseball Homerun Derby!
The recipient organizations range in their individual missions, but all promote health and wellness in central Ohio youth through recreation and sports.
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Join The Big Table to create a strong and connected community on August 29!
Thousands of central Ohioans have started the "heart work" of listening to and learning from each other at The Big Table over the last two years.
Join us this year to continue creating a strong and connected community on August 29!
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Join Columbus Metropolitan Library and the 60,000 children, teens, and adults who participate in the Summer Reading Challenge to get your re…
Join Columbus Metropolitan Library and the 60,000 children, teens, and adults who participate in the Summer Reading Challenge to get your read on!
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Our Donor Services & Development Team toured Grant Medical Center to learn about the center's ongoing initiative and explore what the hospit…
Our Donor Services & Development Team toured Grant Medical Center to learn about the center's ongoing initiative and explore what the hospital's plans may look like in the future.
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Your support in a Better Together project last fall has provided a cheerful space for our community's seniors.
Last fall, you helped support a Better Together project to build a cheerful room for our community's seniors at Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center.
Today, that space is open and serves as a social gathering space for new friends and helpful programming. Thank you for making it possible!
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Girls on the Run is doing just as its name applies—joining young girls together and running for it!
Girls on the Run is doing just as its name applies—joining young girls together and running for it! Read how this organization is teaching wellness of the mind, body, and spirit in the latest issue of NEXUS.
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COSI is bringing a massive, four-day science fair to central Ohio to continue building the future of STEM leaders.
An epic science experiment for an epic announcement! COSI is bringing a massive, four-day science fair to central Ohio to continue building the future of STEM leaders. Coming 2019!
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Jubilee Market and Cafe is now open—providing Franklinton residents with fresh food!
Jubilee Market and Cafe is now open! This grocery store, operated by Lower Lights Christian Health Center, will provide Franklinton residents much-needed access to affordable, healthy food after years without a grocery store in the neighborhood.
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Announcing $1.4 million in grants to support 51 arts organizations serving central Ohio!
Recent grants will support 51 arts organizations serving central Ohio!
The Columbus Foundation supports arts organizations in two categories: major arts organizations and through the Community Arts Fund. View the full list of organizations.
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Check out the latest issue of NEXUS, our newsletter!
We're talking girl power with Girls on the Run, books that inspire us, and how Franklinton Cycle Works is on a roll inspiring and connecting bicyclists in our community in the latest issue of NEXUS.
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The Foundation's Matthew Martin, and Carter Stewart, Managing Director of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, participated in a Q&A with Foun…
The Foundation's Matthew Martin, and Carter Stewart, Managing Director of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, participated in a Q&A with Foundation staff after a screening of the film "Free to Ride."
The documentary, produced by Martin and The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, seeks to address the question of whether or not public transportation is a civil rights issue.