Success Stories

Meet Xavier, a high school junior, whose life has been profoundly shaped by Urban League's Project Ready Mentor Program....

Since joining the Project Ready Mentor program a year ago, 17-year-old student Deonna can now imagine a brighter future....

K'nori, a young man from Knoxville, TN participated in the National Urban League's Project Ready program in 2016....

Youth and families learned about voter suppression, ways to vote and the impact of their vote....

The Louisville Urban League's Polaroid Project in partnership with Seek Common Ground, distributed free cameras to kids, grades K-12, for a six-week project.  The program invites special guests to join weekly virtual sessions to process different aspects of the project—photography, photojournalis...

The Urban League of Lexington - Fayette County awarded 12 $1,000 scholarships recently to high school seniors, and 8 to continuing education students.

The Chicago Urban League’s Youth Services Scholarship Program awarded 37 students a total of $58,500 in scholarship funds to support their post-secondary efforts. CUL students will be attending schools all across the country including Howard University, LSU, Morgan State, Missouri and the Univers

This summer the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle will be bringing back Summer University, thanks to new funding from Google....

Bria Beckley seems like a typical college student: tired, frazzled perhaps, but determined. Scratch the surface and it becomes clear that Beckley’s path to Monroe Community College was a long and bumpy one.

Lauryn is an active member of the Project Ready: Mentor program in the Houston Area Urban League....

Jordan is an active member of the Project Ready: Mentor program at the Fort Wayne Urban League. At 13 years of age, Jordan is a Youth Advocate, Published Author, and National Speaker....

Cheyney enrolled in the Louisville Urban League’s Project Ready program, in September 2013. Upon entering the program she expressed interest in majoring in communications, hoping for a career in radio or television broadcasting....