The Urban League Movement

Our Movement
The Urban League movement was founded in 1910. The National Urban League, headquartered in New York City, spearheads our nonprofit, nonpartisan, community-based movement. The heart of the Urban League movement is our professionally staffed Urban League affiliates in over 100 cities in 34 states and the District of Columbia.

Our Mission
The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power and civil rights.

Our Strategy
Our three-pronged strategy for pursuing the mission is:

Education and Youth: Ensuring that our children are well-educated and equipped for economic self-reliance in the 21st century

Economic Self-Sufficiency: Helping adults attain economic self-sufficiency through good jobs, homeownership, entrepreneurship and wealth accumulation; and

Racial Inclusion: Ensuring our civil rights by eradicating all barriers to equal participation in the economic and social mainstream of America.

Urban League affiliates employ these three strategies, plus others tailored to local needs, in order to implement the mission of our movement.

Our Methods
The Urban League movement carries out its mission at the local, state and national levels through direct services, advocacy, research, policy analysis, community mobilization, collaboration and communications.

Visit the National Urban League website: http://www.nul.org/