Vision Statement

We see a world where urban youth experience the knowledge, power, and passion to rise above individual circumstances and become leaders who creating lasting change.

Our Mission is:To awaken a spirit of service and leadership among urban youthTo equip these young leaders with the tools for service learningTo introduce urban students to the power of self-discovery and creative expressionTo develop emotionally healthy leaders, with the life skills necessary for effective leadershipTo create spiritually minded leaders who have compassion for the city 
Overview

The Urban Leadership Academy (“ULA”) was founded in 1997 as an organization dedicated to gathering promising urban Christian youth from varied denominations and races together to experience servant leadership training to serve their perspective communities. Through this servant leadership development training the ULA has empowered over 600 young people, 70% are of color, to become stronger faith leaders in their church and community. Through their service learning projects, these young people have impacted the lives of over 100,000 people by contributing over 200,000 hours of community service within the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Since its inception the emergence of Urban Leadership has grown to serving a wide variety of communities through diverse offerings of leadership training and multi-ethnic coaching. We have engaged students and mentors, small business and non-profits, to effectively train leaders to better impact their communities in both public and private sectors. We believe that we have created a working model that can help tramsform communities by re-engaging its most precious assets (community residents) to serve as leaders.