Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Friday, February 21, 2025

Program Year

2025

Achievement

2025

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City of Columbus

Columbus, OH

Andrew Ginther

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Columbus is Ohio’s capital and largest city with a population of 913,175 and covers 226 square miles. Columbus Recreation and Parks Department has over 400 parks and many pollinator habitats of varying sizes. Columbus is committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators by signing the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge. Columbus continues its resident engagement through the city in promoting pollinator habitats that benefit the monarch butterfly. Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, Franklin Park Conservatory, Franklin Soil and Water Conservation District, and Sustainable Columbus are spearheading Pollinator Conservation in Columbus along with the help of many local nonprofits.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening ▸

Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Host or support a monarch butterfly festival that is accessible to all residents in the community and promotes monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition.
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Andrew Ginther	2026	2/23/2026		View Pledge
Mayor Andrew Ginther	2025	2/21/2025	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Andrew Ginther	2024	3/29/2024	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Mayor Andrew J. Ginther	2023	2/6/2023	Signatories	View Pledge
Mr. Andrew Ginther	2022	12/23/2021	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Andrew J. Ginther	2021	2/4/2021	Signatories	View Pledge