The Mission of the Columbus Metropolitan Club is to connect people and ideas through community conversation. CMC achieves this mission by planning and implementing 50-60 public forums each year featuring nearly 200 speakers, panelists, debaters and moderators on a wide variety of topics. Forums always include ample time for unsolicited, random questions from the audience. The organization prides itself in being a credible source of information about current affairs – the organization to which Columbus citizens look to provide a platform for a discussion of social, political, economic and cultural issues of concern to the community.