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Featured Services
The Urban League offers job readiness skills training and job placement assistance for individuals who may have difficulty finding a job because of a lack of work experience, lack of education and training, or because of a past criminal background.
SOAR - Solid Opportunities for Advancement and Retention
Special Opportunities for Uptown Residents:
Avondale, Clifton, Clifton Heights, Coryville, Fairview, Mt. Auburn, and University Heights.
Change your life. Train yourself for a new and better job.
Short-term education and training with job placement assistance for adults in the Uptown area communities.
Three week pre-employment training program that provides job readiness skills for people who may have criminal backgrounds or employment barriers such as a lack of:
Work experience
Education/training
Basic computer skills
To participate, you must attend an information session:
Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM and 5:30 PM
Every Friday at 9:00 AM
For more information
please contact
Angela Walker
at 513-487-6522
Accelerated call Center
Education (ACE)
This is a no cost intensive training program in computer and
customer service skills designed to qualify graduates
for employment in the
call-center industry.
Help others help themselves. Regardless of your skill or availability, the Urban League needs you. Can we count on your help? Information about volunteer opportunities is available by calling 513-281-9955.
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Job Opportunities. The Urban League offers job readiness skills training and job placement assistance. Learn More
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From Donna Jones Baker, president/CEO - The Urban League of Greater Cincinnati welcomes you to explore our web site that has been redesigned to assist clients, volunteers and supporters in helping us realize our mission to develop strong African American families and individuals who are fully educated, employed, empowered, healthy with quality housing, and whose contributions are valued and recognized as benefiting the local community.
For nearly 60 years, the Urban League has been helping individuals gain the skill needed to grow and prosper in our complex society.
We are grateful for the help of thousands of area residents and numerous corporations who work with us to build a great and embracing community.
I encourage your comments and questions about our programs and services. We will make every effort to respond to you within 48 hours. Please feel free to contact me by clicking here.
Your involvement is crucial to the Region's future
Greater Cincinnati today is at an important crossroads. Our region is endowed with exceptional resources. Yet there is no clear and comprehensive picture for deploying our assets in a manner that will allow us to achieve continued social progress, economic prosperity and community building.
With this in mind, a group of passionate leaders from a variety of sectors of society in Greater Cincinnati have come together to organize an action agenda for the four primary counties of Southwest Ohio (Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren). As this agenda emerges, it will be aligned with similar initiatives already well developed in Northern Kentucky (Vision 2015) and Southeast Indiana to form a comprehensive regional agenda for the Tri-State region.
For more information please visit the Agenda 360 web site.
The Urban League of Greater Cincinnati proudly announces the kick-off of the African American Business Development Program.
This five-month program focuses on leadership skill enhancement, encouragement of the use of proven business development techniques and support civic/community leadership development.
Program participants will gain an expansive outlook on community issues that affect their businesses while participating in thought-provoking leadership training activities. They are afforded a superior networking opportunity with business and community leaders from throughout the Greater Cincinnati area.
The mission of the African American Business Development Program is to identify, prepare, involve, empower and sustain African American Business Owners, who are committed and positioned to address community challenges in Greater Cincinnati.
The goal of AABDP is to create an environment where experienced owners are challenged to explore new leadership concepts and opportunities that will create sustainable companies that benefit the community through economic growth.
Through this environment, the program will attract and support the growth of firms capable of providing job and career opportunities for residents of the Greater Cincinnati community.
This month’s numbers show serious weakness in the
job market. The overall unemployment rate in
December jumped to 5% after remaining at 4.7% for
the previous three months. This is the biggest
monthly jump since 2001. The unemployment rate
for Blacks increased from 8.4% to 9%, and the
unemployment rate for Latinos also increased 0.6% to
6.3%. The overall participation rate remained
essentially level, at 66%, but that is 0.4% lower than a
year ago. The labor force participation rate remained
basically level for both whites (at 66.3%) and Blacks
(at 63.3%). Unemployment increased 0.3% for both
men and women (both now at 4.4%) and increased
0.2% for whites (also 4.4%). The unemployment rate
for teenagers (16-19) increased overall to 17.1 %; for
black teens it was 34.7%, and for white teens 14.4%.
For more detailed unemployment information please visit the Department of Labor web site.
The Urban League of Greater Cincinnati is proud to be a CETconnect.org partner. We encourage you take a few moments to view these video clips and learn about the League's involvement in the community.
Glorifying the Lions Presentation
Donna Jones-Baker, President & CEO of the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, recognizes five outstanding Greater Cincinnatians and two local companies for performing civic and community service during the annual Glorying the Lions presentations.
Recorded on 2/2/2007 at Hyatt Regency, Cincinnati
58th annual Meeting and luncheon
The keynote speaker at the Urban League's 58th annual meeting and luncheon, Melvin Gravely, Ph.D., of The Institute for Entrepreneurial Thinking calls upon the audience to make an impact in their community. Dr. Gravely asks each person to go beyond giving ... to actually invest in making a difference.
Recorded on 2/2/2007 at Hyatt Regency, Cincinnati
Women in the C-Suite
2007 Pulse Update: Women in the C-Suite is the March 2007 update of the 2005 Pulse study commissioned by the Women's Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation. In this first of two segments, speakers presenting the report include Mary Stagaman of the University of Cincinnati, Donna Jones-Baker of the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, and Vanessa Freytag of Women's Business Cincinnati. Watch for the second part of the presentation, the panel discussion of experienced women leaders, in the Lifelong Learning content section next week. (Some audio difficulties were encountered in this taping; however, they will be brief.)
From Donna Jones Baker, president/CEO - The Urban League of Greater Cincinnati welcomes you to explore our web site that has been redesigned to assist clients, volunteers and supporters in helping us realize our 
