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One year into our partnership with the Obama Foundation, our joint Obama Youth Jobs Corps program was featured on ABC 7 Chicago’s Windy City Live.…

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Our Town DC: Eshauna Smith – CEO, Urban Alliance
By Janice Iacona Ockershausen, January 29.…

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The Warrior: High School Internships: Leading the way for Successful Futures
By Daniela…

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Arlington schools to benefit from college-, career-readiness effort
By Scott McCaffrey, Dec. 10,…

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Urban Alliance awarded $1 million grant from AT&T to expand high school internships in DC
By…

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AT&T To Award $1 Million To Urban Alliance To Support Students’ Success After High…

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One in six high schoolers don’t graduate on time. This is how one organization hopes to raise that stat
A look at the…

Listen to Urban Alliance CEO Eshauna Smith interviewed on WJR Radio’s ‘Opportunity Detroit’ with hosts Paul W. Smith and Laura Grannemann.

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Corp Magazine: Quicken Loans partners with Urban Alliance to bring youth employment program to…

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Quicken Loans and Urban Alliance Bring Flagship Youth Employment Program to Detroit
By RISMedia Staff;…

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Partnership aims to fill pipeline with talent
By Ingrid Jacques
When Eddie Cotton was growing…

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Washington D.C.’s Urban Alliance, Detroit’s Quicken Loans Bring Internship Opportunities to Detroit…

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Quicken Loans, other organizations take on Detroit high school interns through national…

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Students in Wards 7 and 8 to benefit from new workforce readiness training partnership
by…

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Word Press: Future Surveyors’ Second Year Wraps Up
Published…

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Cannon Design: Spotlight on Khalid Dyer: Urban Alliance Intern in the Baltimore Office
By…

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MC Media: Program Offers Paid Internships To Underserved Youth
By Mitti Hicks, July 27,…

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Wakefield High grad honored by Urban Alliance for internship success
Published: July 21,…

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Prosperity Now: A DIY Approach to Building Financial Capability
By Ola Wadibia, July 19,…

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5 Ways to Introduce Students to the Workplace
By Eshauna Smith, July 18, 2018
Omega Dyson is a driven…

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Monique Rizer is the New Executive Director of Urban Alliance’s Washington D.C. Region
By Nickolas…

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M Report: Bank of America Makes a Business Case for Inclusion
Published June 8, 2018
From…

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Alexandria Gazette Packet: Thanks a Million in Alexandria
By Jeanne Theismann, May 7,…

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Alexandria Times: Spring2ACTion breaks fundraising records in eighth year
Published on April 27,…

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Patch: Record-Breaking $1.7M Raised For Alexandria’s Spring2ACTion
By Emily Leayman, April 26,…

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Investing Early in the Workforce of the Future
By Eshauna Smith
CEO, Urban…

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Building a better education in the post-recession world
By Ric Anderson 
While job prospects…

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New Partnership Connects South Side High Schoolers with Professional Internships
By Katherine…

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Obama Foundation, Urban Alliance announce Obama Youth Jobs Corps
By AARON GETTINGER
The…

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Hyde Park Herald: Obama Foundation, Urban Alliance announce Obama Youth Jobs Corps
By Aaron…

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Obama Foundation to train high schoolers for the workplace, with a focus on soft skills

By Riia…

Obama Foundation Launches Workforce-Training Program for Chicago Youth
By Catherine Gewertz, Education Week
Former President Barack Obama’s…

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Obama Foundation announces new job training program for Chicago students
By Morgan Gstalter
The Obama…

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Chicago high schools to participate in Obama Foundation-Urban Alliance ‘workforce readiness’…

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Obama Foundation and Urban Alliance launch Obama Youth Job Corps
By GABRIELLA…


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Obama Foundation, Urban Alliance expand job training program
By Leah Hope
CHICAGO (WLS) — On…

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ABC7 Chicago: Obama Foundation, Urban Alliance expand job training program
By Leah Hope, March…

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Curbed: What does a presidential building look like?
By Alexandra Lange, March 22, 2018
On February…

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ThinkaBit: Anfal is Urban Alliance’s Intern of the Week!
Posted on March 22, 2018
Our wonderful,…

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The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Beyond College: How To Prep Young Students For The Working…

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Nonprofit Leader Shares Her Life Story to Promote Jobs for Youths 
By Nicole…

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Trump Calls for More Workforce Development, Urban Alliance Makes Recommendations
By…

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The Path of Opportunity, the Path of Despair: John King offers Urban Alliance a Tale of Two High Schools

By KATE…

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Former education secretary pushes for more student help for life after high school
by Caroline Vakil |…

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How High Schoolers Can Boost American Business
By JD HOYE, 1/22/2018

Employers are struggling…

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Urban Alliance gets $160,000 grant for city youth financial education program
Cassie Carlisle, Nov 30,…

The Maryland Daily Record ran a story about the $160,000 grant Urban Alliance received from the Citi Foundation and Prosperity Now as part of their…

Citi Foundation president Brandee McHale shared the logic behind their inaugural Pathways to Progress Youth Financial Capability Fund – for which…

Our partner, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, wrote about the impact of their investment in Urban Alliance’s High School Internship Program…

Our Baltimore Executive Director Stephanie Amponsah shared some advice on nonprofit fundraising in the Maryland Daily Record’s November 2017 issue of…

We learned a lot during our six-year RCT study released this summer. Our CEO Eshauna Smith shared some advice and lessons learned in Nonprofit…

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Urban Alliance Baltimore helping to build bright futures

By Ursula V. Battle | 10/13/2017

Vernon…

Our partners at Strada Education Network shared the the benefits of our program, along with our recent RCT results, in a blog post on their website.…

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Take a chance on a high school intern — and you could change a life
By Eshauna Smith, CEO of Urban…

Our partners at Urban Institute shared the results of the six-year, randomized controlled trial they conducted of our program’s impact in their Urban…

High School Internship Boosts College-Going for Boys of Color, Study Finds
By Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week
Mentoring young men of color with…

Our Northern Virginia Executive Director Alessandra Colia penned an op-ed in this week’s edition of the Alexandria Gazette Packet. 

Here’s what…

UA champion and astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz shared why she supports Urban Alliance in an interview with Space.com:

“My interaction with Urban…

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Nonprofit Works With City Public Schools To Fix The Youth-To-Work Crisis In Chicago And…

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Kylie Patterson of the Racial Wealth Divide Initiative at the Corporation for Enterprise Development write about their…

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10 DC Students Awarded Full Scholarships to George Washington University
By Kristen Wright and…

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10 DC students surprised with full ride to George Washington University
By Michael Quander
March…

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“Airbnb is proud to announce we are partnering with Urban Alliance on the work they are doing to…

A new book, Moneyball for Government, encourages government at all levels to improve outcomes for children, their families and communities by…

Giving Back to Teenagers

By ELIZABETH OLSON

JUNE 28, 2014

Nathaniel M. Cole, 27, is executive director of the Washington arm of the…

Aida Villalta is a senior at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. She has been an Urban Alliance Intern with the Arlington County Office of…

Urban Alliance on CNN Original Series: Chicagoland
The Urban Alliance visit from First Lady Michelle Obama was showcased in the season finale of the…

The teen unemployment rate clocked in at 20.9 percent in March, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it shows few…

After graduation, Aysa Nixon, a senior at McKinley Technological high school, plans to attend beauty school while working to save money toward…

Alexandria Renew Enterprises is keeping its latest intern, Jenny Melara, hard at work. Jenny is a student at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria…

Over its 16-year history, the Urban Alliance has placed some 11,000 low-income D.C., Chicago and Baltimore youth in paid internships and curriculum…

Veronica Nolan recognized for work in youth employment and development
Washington, D.C. (January 7, 2013)— The Washingtonian Magazine selected…

In cities across the country, Wells Fargo is partnering with charities and organizations that are making a real difference in their communities, and…

The Bittersweet Zine is a quarterly publication that identifies the critical social issues in the community and determines how professionals can…

With fewer opportunities for young people to earn money this summer, city advocates are working to fill the gaps and trying to understand why the District hasn’t done more to promote alternatives for job-seekers left empty-handed.

Urban Alliance is proud to announce that two of our incoming interns were invited to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s press conference. Click for video.

Urban Alliance was recently featured on Comcast local edition. Click on the title to learn more and watch the video.

Urban Alliance Batlimore Intern Menelek Hendricks was featured in a Batlimore Industry Magazine for his recent testimony in front of the Baltimore City Council.

Urban Alliance was a featured segment on News Channel 8 on August 12 during Washington Business Tonight. Click for more information.

Urban Alliance Executive Director Veronica Nolan was featured in the July 24th edition of the Washington Biz Journal.

Veronica Nolan, Executive Director of Urban Alliance, is featured in Trinity Magazine’s Spring 2009 publication.

The economy is hitting everyone hard–including Urban Alliance. We need your help! Become a job partner.