CENTER OF EDUCATION AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

UL College Track

Early Head Start

UL Parent Information Center

Clarence L. Barney
Student of the Week

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Women's Business
Resource Center

Unlocking Opportunities

Bienville Corridor Community Development Project

CENTER OF POLICY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

State of Black New Orleans

Civil Rights Advocacy

INTRODUCTION

The Urban League of Greater New Orleans
 Boldly Pioneering A New Course in the 21st Century

ULGNO is proud to contribute to rebuilding our community even as we rebuild as an organization.  The Urban League recognizes the incredible opportunity and responsibility facing the metropolitan New Orleans area.  As such, ULGNO has re-envisioned its work in three core thrust embodied in its CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.  These CENTERS give broader consideration to both the value we create in each life we touch and how such value translates into rebuilding systems, infrastructure, and the local economy, all which are key to creating sustainable change and improving individual life chances.

The future of New Orleans’ economic viability is inextricably linked to education and its role in improving life chances.  The Urban League has targeted its direct service and advocacy efforts toward empowering parents, recognizing and promoting educational excellence, and closing the achievement gap with direct service in early learning and extended learning (afterschool/summer programs). 

Post-Katrina New Orleans affords unprecedented opportunities in key industries including construction, hospitality, and shipbuilding. However, the city also faces a critical gap between the skills of its workforce and the requirements of these new positions.  Likewise, small businesses are a staple in the rebuilding of the local economy. ULGNO targets its work in strengthening industry via building the capacity of workforce, supporting the re-establishment of small businesses and re-envisioning the Urban League’s home community – the Bienville Corridor.

ULGNO recognizes the direct service is only one component in a broader strategy to truly facilitate self-sufficiency. As such, the Center for Policy and Social Justice intends to identify and inform public discourse and policy to eradicate institutional barriers which inhibit the broader aims of the organization’s programmatic thrust.  In 2007, ULGNO will re-establish its annual publication, State of Black New Orleans.  Likewise, as New Orleans rebuilds public education ULGNO is focusing on broader policy agenda to ensure teachers have the supports and systems which ensure their success at improving student achievement