Open Door Community House

Mathews Promise Academy provides after-school and full-day summer programs of reading development, math tutoring, academic enrichment, arts, crafts, sports, recreation, and Kids Caf provided by Feeding the Valley Food Bank.

The Virginia D. Jackson Home for Women is a 12-bed facility for homeless women where residents may live for up to one year. Each resident must be employed, actively seeking employment, or attending school. The goal of the program is for each woman to obtain sustainable income and permanent housing. The Pastorial Institute provides individual and group counseling for the residents.

Circles in Columbus is an initiative for persons living below the federal poverty guideline to work individually and as a group to develop personal and community plans to move out of poverty and become economically self-sufficient. Those who complete the 20-week program move into Circles in Columbus, a city-wide initiative to end poverty, which is housed at the Organization. These Circle Leaders (persons of poverty) are matched with 2-3 Allies (volunteers from the community) and together they work to implement the Circle Leaders plan to end poverty. The matched Circles meet for 18 months as a circle of 3-4 people, and as a larger circle where all Circle Leaders and Allies meet together each month. In addition, Big View is a meeting held each month by the Big View Team of Circles in Columbus to address systemic issues in Columbus that help keep people in poverty, an example of which might be the lack of transportation for third-shift employment. A second training site is provided at St. Marys Road UMC.