The Columbia Urban League is a multi-service, non-profit agency that promotes financial stability and racial inclusion in our community. The Columbia Urban League offers programs designed to provide economic empowerment and educational opportunities for those in need.
About Us
Our Mission
The Urban League Movement was founded in 1910. The National Urban League, headquartered in New York City, spearheads the non-profit, non-partisan, community-based movement.
The Mission of the Urban League is to enable disadvantaged and other underserved communities to secure self-reliance in education, employment, and economic development. The Urban League is the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to empowering African Americans and others.
CULSC was founded based on interracial cooperation, eliminating racial segregation and discrimination, and helping disadvantaged and other minorities to become contributing members of society.
The need for an Urban League in the area was essential to bringing leadership together, addressing issues, and moving the community forward.
The Columbia Urban League offers programs designed to provide empowerment opportunities for those in need by pursuing the following priorities:
Education and Youth Empowerment:
Ensuring that all children are well educated and prepared for economic self-reliance in the 21st century.
Economic Empowerment:
Empowering all people to be self-reliant through promoting strong work ethics and job training as a pathway to workforce development.
Health and Quality of Life Empowerment:
Working to build healthy and safe communities by promoting and advocating for quality and complete access to affordable health care for all people.
Civic Engagement and Leadership Empowerment:
Encouraging all people to take an active role in their communities by full participation as citizens, volunteers, leaders and voters.
Enabling Disadvantaged and other underserved urban residents to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.
Our Vision
Our Vision is to become the leading and premier non-profit organization and community center in the Columbia Area for the advancement of Education and Youth Empowerment, Economic Empowerment, Health and Quality of Life, Civic Engagement and Leadership, and Civil Rights and Racial Justice Empowerment.
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