Columbus Dads Group Celebrates 1st Anniversary with Support Network

Congratulations on its recent first anniversary to our nearly 100-member Columbus Dads Group, one of the first to join City Dads Group even before we officially became a national organization.

Organizer Ryan Gross started the group shortly after his family relocated to the Ohio city from New York, where he was a member of our flagship NYC Dads Group. “I knew the benefits of having a group of dads to hang out with,” he said recently. “The NYC Dads Group was pivotal for me during the brief two years that my family and I spent in the city. I am hoping to continue to develop the Columbus Dads Group to provide that same experience to dads in central Ohio.”

The Columbus Dads Group at a March Madness Viewing Party at Chammps Americana in spring 2014.

Ryan said the Columbus Dads Group has grown pretty rapidly. While it has a core group of at-home dads who like to hit up the Columbus Zoo and parks around the city, many of the members are full-time working fathers. “It’s no surprise that our ‘Dad’s Nights Out’ are some of our most popular meetups,” he said. “We have started a local brewery tour of Columbus which has been a lot of fun and taken us to places we didn’t even know existed!”

Find the Columbus Dads Group on:

• Meetup (go here to join)
• Facebook
• Twitter

Members of the Columbus Dads Group braving the rain at the Columbus Zoo to celebrate International Babywearing Week in October 2014.

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