Columbia Urban League Offers Career Development Opportunities for Teens

This summer, the Columbia Urban League (Columbia, SC) is giving students ages 14 through 19 the chance to develop and expand their career skills.

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A Helping Hand: Urban League Hosts Annual Summer Food Drive

Cars by the dozens lined the parking lot of the University Preparatory Academy in West Palm Beach on Saturday morning (June 22nd) as area residents waited to collect free food.

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Urban League Releases State of Black Cincinnati Report, Summarizing a Decade of Research

Cincinnati has seen big wins in its pursuit for equity over the last decade. But the city still has much further to go, according to a newly released report from the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati, OH). 

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Intuit Expands IDEAS Program and its Partnership with the LA Urban League and Other ULs

Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), the global financial technology platform that makes  Intuit Turbo Tax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, in partnership with the Los Angeles Urban League (Los Angeles, CA) announced the expansion of the Intuit IDEAS (Invest, Develop, Empower, Accelerate, and Scale) Program.

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Urban League Hosts Luncheon to Encourage Affordable Housing Development

The Urban League of Middle Tennessee (Nashville, TN) hosted an inaugural luncheon as part of a series of events aimed at promoting more affordable housing development in the region.

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Urban League Looks to Develop Another Major Project on Madison’s South Park Street

The Urban League of Greater Madison (Madison, WI) wants to partner with Madison’s Community Development Authority to build on the “South Madison Renaissance,” an effort led by people of color to remake and redevelop parts of the south side with a community focus and without displacing the families that currently live there. 

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Darlene Marlin, VP of Education, Received MENTOR's Lifetime Achievement Award

Darlene H. Marlin, Vice President of Education Access and Opportunity (NUL), has received MENTOR's Lifetime Achievement Award for her dedication to supporting youth through mentoring programs. 

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Urban League of Hartford Awarded $150k KeyBank Grant for STEAM

The Urban League of Greater Hartford (Hartford, CT) has received a $150,000 charitable grant from KeyBank Foundation payable over two years to support the agency's Project Ready program, a signature national youth development direct service.

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Urban League Launches 'Slow Down St. Louis' to Combat Reckless and Speeding Drivers

 In February, a Chicago mom and her daughter were visiting St. Louis when police say a speeding driver sideswiped another car and then hit the two, killing them. 

Weeks later, Cedric Dixson was sentenced to 10 years in prison for speeding down Grand and causing a car crash that killed four people last year.

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Urban League Receives $300k Grant from KeyBank to Tackle Housing Instability

KeyBank and the KeyBank Foundation announced an investment of $300,000 in the Columbus Urban League or CUL (Columbus, OH), aimed at bolstering its innovative Housing Accelerator Program (HAP).

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