The Springfield Urban League
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.
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.