Urban League of Metropolitan Saint Louis

The Urban League advocates for and empowers African Americans and others in the Greater Saint Louis Metropolitan Region by pursuing the following priorities:

Educational Excellence: ensuring that all children are well-educated and prepared for economic self-reliance in the 21st century through college scholarships, early childhood literacy, and Head Start.

Economic Opportunity: empowering all people to attain economic self-sufficiency through job training, good jobs, home ownership, entrepreneurship, and wealth accumulation.

Community Empowerment: providing basic needs to stabilize disadvantaged families in order to benefit our communities.

Civil Rights and Advocacy: promoting and ensuring civil rights by actively working to eliminate barriers to equal participation in all aspects of American society, whether political, economic, social, educational, or cultural.