The holidays can be a stressful time for families who are already struggling to make ends meet. They need to pay all their regular bills and provide a little extra to make Christmas special for their children. In fact, in CT 40% of households are considered ALICE...
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INSPIRE in 2022
Each January, Chela – one of our awesome Urban Alliance staff members – invites the team to share special words for the coming year. Each of us chooses a word that has personal meaning - defining our expectations and hopes for the coming year, reminding us...
Youth Leadership Development with Grant Funding from Urban Alliance
Generation Now! is an Urban Alliance (UA) initiative to help churches and organizations reach and serve children and youth. Currently, UA is partnering with approximately 23 churches and organizations to help increase their children and youth program’s impact...
take your Giving Tuesday participation to the next level
You may have seen friends on Facebook who run a fundraiser for a favorite charity for their birthday, in lieu of gifts. Urban Alliance invites you to partner with us and set up your own UA Fundraiser. You can extend your reach and impact as you join UA...
The Teacher Resource Center continues to change lives
The on-site Distribution Center is a central part of Urban Alliance's outreach efforts. For over six years, in collaboration with World Vision, the Distribution Center has hosted the Teacher Resource Center (TRC), which has supported the academic...
Community Garden Toolkits
As we look forward to welcoming the fall season, UA is taking the time to celebrate three network partners that leveraged a community gardening toolkit to enhance their programming over the summer. UA’s community gardening toolkits are customized to the needs...
Supporting Mental Health Workshops
Mental health has been a long-standing challenge in our local community. According to the CDC, problems with mental health are very common, with an estimated 50% of all Americans diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime....
Free Resource: Preventing Burnout
With stress at an all-time high, many people are battling burnout, a state of emotional, mental, physical, and often spiritual exhaustion brought on by prolonged stress. That’s why UA recently hosted a learning community meeting on practicing self-care and...
Pray Without Ceasing: Interceding for the People You Serve
The Bible is clear that prayer is powerful! It is not our efforts that yield meaningful change in the world, but the Holy Spirit working through us. Urban Alliance uses their 5-C Framework to strengthen nearly 120 programs in five distinct areas– one of which is...
Better Together: Special Touch Ministries Receives Christian Witness Grant
Romans 10: 12-14 states that, “…the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, ’Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can...