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Kuryne Lee joins Urban Ministry as Director of Urban Kids
Urban Ministry is pleased to welcome Kuryne Lee as the new Director of our Urban Kids After-School and Summer Learning program. Kuryne comes to Urb...

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Join us for "Back to the Island" Friday, May 11th!
It's a rooftop beach party, and you're invited! Please join us Friday, May 11th for our Junior Board's annual spring fundraiser! This year...

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Wednesday WE Gardens Report: Spring celebrations
Last Saturday was our Spring Planting session at WE Gardens. We welcomed around 30 youth and adults to learn about spring planting, composting, drying...

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Project Homeless Connect + Point in Time Survey results
On January 24th, our homelessness prevention caseworker Jeff Bowman participated in the Point in Time Survey, which collects important information abo...

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Where do your gifts go?
In case you are wondering where your donations from Alabama Gives Day (or any other day) go, check out some of our programs: Feeding th...

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We're going “Whole Hog” for Alabama Gives Day!
For Urban Ministry, spring comes early this year!  On Thursday, February 2nd, Urban Ministry’s junior board is partnering with Moe&...

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Alabama Gives Day: 5 ways to support Urban Ministry
On February 2, 2012 the Alabama Association of Nonprofits, in partnership with the Alabama Broadcasters Association, is taking one day to harness the ...

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Danny Jones joins Urban Ministry as Director of the Joe Rush Center
Urban Ministry is pleased to welcome Danny Jones as the new Director of the Joe Rush Center for Urban Mission. A native of Athens, Alabama, Danny&...

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Goodbye, Deb and Michael
We are saddened this month to lose two of our long-time Joe Rush center staff. Former RUSH program Director Deb Welsh is shown above with our long-tim...

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What we do: emergency services
  Food, water, shelter: Emergency services are at the heart of our ministry When Urban Ministry was founded in 1976, our goal was to help meet...

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What we do: painting houses
  Home is where the heart is: The Rush program helps families maintain housing The Joe Rush Center, our dorm facility...

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What we do: growing food, growing community
  WE (West End) Community Gardens is one of our newest programs here at Urban Ministry. Founded in 2008 in partnership with the Communi...

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What we do: connecting volunteers
    Volunteers served 17,367 hours last year We are grateful for the hard work and transformations you have achieved! Voluntee...

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What we do: nurturing students
  Urban Kids nurtures at-risk youth. Your gifts support 30 students and their families in our after-school and summer learning program ...

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What we do: feeding the hungry
  The Community Kitchen feeds the hungry. We served over 27,000 meals this year Old, young and in-between, male and female, families and sin...

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Support Urban Ministry by shopping at Sojourns Tuesday, November 29
Please join us tomorrow, November 29, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. to shop at Sojourns, Birmingham's fair-trade global market! (Directions) 10% of a...

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Volunteer spotlight: Gwen Wallace
What would we do without Gwen Wallace? For the second year running, Ms. Gwen, a retired BellSouth employee, has utilized her expertise in customer ser...

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Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing serves 1 million nationwide
We don't share enough here about the day-to-day social services we provide to individuals in crisis: emergency shelter grants, utility and food assist...

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Urban Kids: Back to school, thanks to you!
Last Sunday, we had a great show of support for Urban Kids at our Back-to-School Benefit Concert featuring the Dill Pickers! Urban Kids direc...

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Dorothiann McCray joins Urban Ministry as Director of Urban Kids
Urban Ministry is pleased to welcome Dorothiann McCray as our new Director of Urban Kids!   Above: Ms. McCray with students Raneesha,...

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