CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC
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Mission Statement
Cincinnati Urban Promise, Inc. seeks to create holistic change in the lives of individuals, families, and neighborhoods by meeting their spiritual, physical, emotional, and academic needs through a Christ-centered approach to education, empowerment, and loving relationship.
About This Cause
Cincinnati Urban Promise, Inc. (CUP) seeks to create holistic change in the lives of individuals, families, and neighborhoods by meeting their spiritual, physical, emotional, and academic needs through a Christ-centered approach to education, empowerment, and loving relationship. CUP began in 2007 as an urban church plant in the neighborhood of Northside in Cincinnati, Ohio sponsored by the Church of the Nazarene. The goal of this church was to reach those living in generational poverty and help them escape that cycle. Through the first year it became quite clear that the neighborhood was in need of much more than a simple church plant. In 2009, Cincinnati Urban Promise, Inc. was officially organized as a community development non-profit with the intention of helping families break the cycle of poverty through empowerment, education, and supportive relationships. We recognize that without education our children can’t thrive, without the knowledge that they have the power and control of their own lives they can’t succeed, and without the support of stable individuals surrounding them they can’t grow. Since then our organization has begun to develop programming to assist at-risk youth and their parents in our community to survive and thrive. Currently we offer People of Promise Mentoring, a mentoring program pairing a caring adult with three at-risk youth for the purpose of teaching them wisdom and how to avoid the pitfalls of growing up in an under-resourced community. We also offer Summer of Promise Academic Enrichment program, a four-week day camp that gives students in grades 1-6 opportunity to spend their summer being discipled, doing art projects, gardening, and learning practical living skills. Students are also able to have two meals a day during summer, just as they would at school during the school year - ensuring our kids aren’t going hungry during summer. We also periodically offer life skills lessons in art and music, courses in cooking healthy meals, and how to budget your money. In addition to this we offer a program for parents to learn the skills they need to acquire and retain employment, Jobs for Life, as well as a version for teens: Powered for Life. Our organization is diverse in its ethnic make-up being 89% African American, 1% Indian (non-Native American), and 10% Caucasian. 100% of the people we serve are living below the poverty line. Our students come primarily from single-family homes, many have parents who are incarcerated or who have been victims of violence. Our goal is to help our students and their families recover from the difficult situations they find themselves in and provide a place of hope and security.