Top Ten Reasons to Get Involved with Columbus Gives Back in April Spring Activities Abound! We have an Earth Day Cleanup, Tree Planting at Mock Park, The Aids Walk of Central Ohio, and many more great warm(er) weather volunteer activities to enjoy. Because we set a record for most events in a month ever! We have 32 events […]
Listen below to Amanda Shafer and Caleb Miller share with Yaves Ellis on Radio One about our Columbus Gives Back mission and how our organization began!
Hello fellow volunteers, It has been a busy year so far, and we are only in March! Where does the time go?… Oh yeah, it goes to volunteering. So much is going on, so much is happening! I am ecstatic about it and so should you be! We just recently added 3 new event leaders […]
Hello friends of CGB! Today begins the second month of 2018, and here at Columbus Gives Back, we’re already in full swing for the year ahead. Who’s with us? It’s been a very eventful January chock-full of 18 volunteer events – some old, some new, all fun – it’s true. One of our favorite memories we made this month was […]
By Allison Ward The Columbus Dispatch Posted Jan 29, 2018 at 1:00 PM When a Columbus-area organization collected handmade Valentine’s Day cards to deliver to area nursing homes, members of Columbus Gives Back pulled out their markers, glue sticks and glitter and got to work. When Meals on Wheels dinners needed to be packed, food at area shelters needed to […]
Columbus, OH, January 16, 2018 – Columbus Gives Back (CGB) announced that its 1,000th volunteer event took place at the Ronald McDonald House on December 19, 2017. To celebrate this milestone and recognize some of the organization’s partners from 2017, CGB will host a special happy hour at Seventh Son Brewing on Wednesday, January 24 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. […]
Greetings, Friends! Happy New Year! Welcome to 2018; those born during the Millennium are now eligible to buy lottery tickets this year. 18 years ago, Backstreet Boys released the album “Millennium” and I think we still want it that way. 🙂 2017 was a very special year for Columbus Gives Back. (Watch our year in […]
1,000 events. When I first started volunteering with Columbus Gives Back, I never could have imagined how much this organization would mean to me. The people, the experiences, the difference we make with each event, it all has made my life so much more complete. So to experience meeting a milestone like the 1,000th event […]
Happy November! The time of year is upon us where everyone starts to reflect on the things that they are thankful for. As an organization, Columbus Gives Back has a lot to be thankful for as well. First and foremost, I wanted to share that we recently got our 501c3 status, which officially makes us […]
Ten. Good things come in tens. There’s ten digits in a phone number. Ten yards to a first down. Ten pins to a bowling strike. Ten seasons of Friends. Ten kilometers in a long-distance road running competition. Ten hotdogs to a pack (but only 6 hot dog buns to a bag? A forever mystery.) And […]
