a coordinated, community effort
Working relentlessly with our community until everyone has a place to call home
Donations Matched Through June 30
Your gift will go twice as far to provide safe shelter, supportive services, and a path to stable housing for our neighbors in need.
Donate before June 30 and double your impact thanks to our generous Under One Roof sponsors Bath & Body Works Foundation and American Electric Power - AEP Foundation.
Historic $2 Million Contribution
The Columbus Foundation investment helps fill critical gap for crisis response system amid public funding reductions
At a time of growing community need and shrinking public funding, The Columbus Foundation’s leadership addresses an urgent funding gap.
2025 Point-In-Time Count Results
Conducted by Community Shelter Board (CSB) in partnership with the Continuum of Care.
Point-in-Time Counts are conducted nationwide and serve as a critical tool for understanding the scope and nature of homelessness in local communities and informing system-level planning and resource allocation.
Homeless? Need shelter?
Call the homeless hotline
The homeless hotline is open 24 hours a day. Use the button below to call.
We CREATE COLLABORATION
to rebuild the lives of the homeless in Columbus & Franklin County
Bringing together diverse organizations to work together as an efficient system that provides safe shelter and quick access to housing for men, women and families experiencing homelessness.
Annual Report FY2024
Hope is not just an emotion—it is a call to action
Help turn our vision into reality and ensure that everyone in our community has a place to call home.
We lead a coordinated, community effort to make sure everyone has a place to call home.
We bring together 16 agencies across Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio to work together as a cohesive system for change, driving:
- Strategy – to prioritize and position innovative solutions in alignment with planning efforts by federal, state, and local agencies
- Accountability – through data and compliance monitoring for all public funding from federal, state, and local levels, as well as private sector funding
- Collaboration – within the homeless system, between other systems of care, and across the community
- Resources – from federal, state, and local levels in both the public and private sectors
We maximize effective and efficient use of resources to achieve the best possible collective impact for Columbus and Franklin County. With the support of a compassionate community, our system of care served over 15,950 people last year with homelessness prevention, shelter, street outreach, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing.
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