The Springfield Urban League Inc. is a nonprofit nonpartisan civil rights and community-based movement that serves over 21,000 people annually, providing direct services, research, and policy advocacy to assist individuals and communities in reaching their fullest potential.
Primarily working with low-income individuals and youth, it is networked with 93 professionally staffed affiliates in over 35 states across the nation. The Movement, spearheaded by the National Urban League, headquartered in New York, works to close equality gaps for people at all economic levels and stages of life and affords citizens an opportunity to socially tithe as volunteers.
Our History
The Urban League is the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to empowering those who struggle to enter the economic and social mainstream.
Our Team
Meet the people who make up our incredible team of leaders, who are dedicated to empowering communities and fighting inequality.
Community & Stakeholder Reports
Our Annual Reports are publicly availabe, and we encourage community members to share their feedback.
- Head Start and Early Head Start End-of-Year Celebration
Our Head Start and Early Head Start End-of-Year Celebration was nothing short of amazing! As we closed out a truly impactful program year, our entire team took a moment to … Read more - Donuts, Dads, and a Whole Lot of Memories: Celebrating Fatherhood at Head Start
As we bring the Head Start school year to a close, we paused this week for a heartwarming celebration that reminded us just how important the role of a father … Read more - Celebrating the Project Ready Mentor Program Class of 2025
100% Graduation Rate, 100% College Bound This week, the Springfield Urban League proudly celebrated a major milestone: the graduation of our Project Ready Mentor Program seniors—a remarkable group of students … Read more - Springfield Urban League’s EHS/HS Home-Based Program Closes Out the Year with Celebration at Chuck E. Cheese
The Springfield Urban League’s Early Head Start (EHS) and Head Start (HS) Home-Based programs marked the end of a successful program year with a celebration filled with joy, laughter, and … Read more
Mission
The Springfield Urban League empowers those who struggle and disadvantaged individuals to achieve social and economic self-sufficiency.
Vision
The vision of the Springfield Urban League is to be a leading human and social service corporation, providing equitable quality of life opportunities for all.
Our Empowerment Strategies
The Springfield Urban League employs a multi-pronged strategy to implement the mission of our movement. This strategy is best described as areas of empowerment and addresses most of the social, economic and cultural tenants of everyday life.
- Education and Youth Empowerment: Ensuring that all of our children are well-educated and prepared for economic self-reliance in the 21st century.
- Economic Empowerment: Giving all people the ability to attain economic self-sufficiency through job training, good jobs, homeownership, entrepreneurship and wealth accumulation.
- Health and Quality of Life Empowerment: Working to build healthy and safe communities to eliminate health disparities through prevention, healthy eating and fitness, as well as ensuring access and complete access to affordable health care for all people.
- Civic Engagement and Leadership Empowerment: Helping all people to actively determine the direction, quality of life, public policy and leadership in their communities by fully participating as citizens and voters, as well as through active community service and leadership development.
- Civil Rights and Racial Justice Empowerment: Promoting and ensuring our civil rights by actively working to eradicate barriers to equal participation in all aspects of American society, whether political, economic, social, educational or cultural.
2024 ANNUAL REPORT
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