THE URBAN LEAGUE "Building For Equal Opportunity" 2930 Prospect Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115 216.622.0999 info@ulcleveland.org Statement of Mission New Facility Tour

MISSION Empowering Clevelanders to contribute our full measure and potential to increase social inclusion, educational competitiveness and economic prosperity. What we mean . . . Empowering: Promoting and enabling self-actualization; influencing a person to bring about the desired end or result. Contribute: To give or supply in common with others; to play a significant part in bringing about the desired end or result. Full measure: The person one is today. Potential: The person one can become. Social Inclusion: Achieving participation in Cleveland's multi-dimensional advantage, which entails meaningful inclusion in and connections with opportunities offered through the major government, social, education and economic spheres of the community. Educational Competitiveness: In the global knowledge economy, the fundamental natural resource is brainpower, the supply of which is renewable and can exponentially increase – without risk of depletion. Nurturing a Cleveland culture that values education as necessary and indispensable to successfully compete in the global knowledge economy. Economic Prosperity: Attaining a Cleveland economic state of sustainable growth, with increased innovation and productivity, rising profits and full employment. Urban League 75th Anniversary Documentary View