“Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”

Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States

A Message From Our Chapter President

Greetings!

Thank you for visiting the website of the Columbus (OH) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. The Links, Incorporated is an international not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. It is one of the oldest and largest volunteer service organizations committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African-Americans and other people of African ancestry.

Our chapter was founded in 1950 and as friends, we have a legacy of service to the Columbus community. Individually, we may be legislative policy makers, physicians, educators, attorneys, media professionals, domestic engineers, accountants, entrepreneurs or corporate executives, but collectively, we are women connected in friendship working boldly to serve others. The strength of our diversity and historical legacy allows us to focus on our mission of transforming communities through friendship and service.

Service programming is supported by the structure of our five facets, which include Services to Youth, The Arts, National Trends and Services, International Trends and Services, and Health and Human Services. We have been actively involved in efforts to support literacy education for elementary school children, collegiate scholarship, health and wellness, non-partisan voting initiatives and so much more.

Today, the Columbus (OH) Chapter is focused on our signature program, Project LEAD High Expectations, with the goal of reducing the devastating effects of the opioid crisis. We are also actively engaged in Link Up the Vote, a program designed to provide timely and accurate information to promote voter engagement and education.

We are proud members of the Central Area of The Links, Incorporated and stand poised alongside the other 299 international Chapters with more than 17,000 active members worldwide. While membership in this organization is by invitation only, there are many ways you can support our mission with donations for programming and community events.

Wishing you peace and progress,
Shari Hicks Graham, MD, FAAD
Columbus (OH) Chapter President
The Links, Incorporated