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).
Early Head Start
New Orleans Parent’s Guide
Clarence L. Barney Student of the Week
Urban League Afterschool and 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.
Business Resource Center
Urban Empowerment Program
Bienville Corridor Community Development Project
Katrina Help Center
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
State of Black New Orleans
Teachers First Community Initiative
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