It started with a few students who were dissatisfied.

Our mission

To provide essential services for the homeless and disadvantaged segments of Cincinnati.

Project Downtown is a nationwide initiative that began with a few students who were dissatisfied — with the plight of homeless and needy individuals in cities across the nation, with the blind eye society had turned toward them, and with their own lack of contribution to the betterment of their communities.

So they turned their dissatisfaction into action. They gathered what little resources they had and passed them out in the heart of Downtown Miami, Florida. The students kept returning every Friday to visit their friends, offering whatever modest, unconditional gifts they could.

Beyond the physical support, Project Downtown volunteers are there every week to remember people who have been forgotten, to lend an empathetic ear, and to offer words of emotional support.

“When other people come here they feed us like we are animals. But when you come, we feel the love. We feel that you truly care.”

2008

Project Downtown comes to Cincinnati

In 2008, Project Downtown Cincinnati was created. Since then it has distributed tens of thousands of meals to Cincinnati residents in need. The organization is largely guided by one verse of the Holy Qur’an, applied to Cincinnati, Ohio.

“We feed you for the sake of God alone, no reward do we seek, nor thanks.”

Holy Qur’an, 76:9

Help us keep showing up for our neighbors.