UrbanPromise’s Executive Director, Jimmy McQuilkin, was recently featured in Wake Forest Magazine.

UrbanPromise was featured in a WBTV News segment about successful reading interventions for students! Check out the story about how UP West Site 4th grader, Josiah, has grown in his reading ability.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools celebrates the shining stars among their 9,000+ seniors with their “senior stories” video features. In 2019, they picked La’Maya, one of our UP West Site StreetLeaders, to share her story!

Strength to Love is UP's annual speech contest during which our students and StreetLeaders share inspiring speeches in front of a crowd of their peers, parents, mentors and volunteers, school and community partners, and donors. Students compete in several divisions (lower elementary, upper elementary, middle school, and StreetLeader divisions), and winners are crowned in each. See this year’s finalists compete!

UrbanPromise Charlotte is celebrating our 5th anniversary this year! Thank you to Silent Images for producing this video highlighting how powerful our long-term approach and model can be!