Urban Partners Los Angeles

Scenes from this morning's Without Limits math tutoring program. The UPLA Board is meeting later this morning with a consultant who will help us expand our program to include English tutoring as well.

The UPLA Board meets for a day-long visioning, planning, recommitting retreat today. We're building energy for the work and passion for the organization and peering into our future.

You won't believe how beautiful our classrooms look! We've had a wonderful, generous, creative team of volunteers from RevolutionLA spread their magic.

Volunteers from RevolutionLA are working to transform the classroom space for UPLA's Without Limits Math and English Tutoring Programs. Help support their work.

The UPLA Board is pleased to announce the addition of three new Board members: Maggie Potthoff, Michael Kelley, and Rev. Silvio Nardoni. Thank you to all three for your skills, your hearts and minds, and your service to our organization.

Fabulous news! UPLA has received a $20,000 grant from the William I. Smith Foundation. The award is the largest grant in our organization’s history. UPLA will use the award to expand our Without Limits math tutoring program. The tutoring program will hire additional paid staff, will add a second day of tutoring each week (Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings) and will add English reading and writing help along with the math tutoring. In addition, the grant will pro...vide funds to hire a professional educator to help us create effective teaching and assessment tools for the program. Grant funds will support the expanded program for one year. During that year the UPLA Board will continue to work to recruit additional Member/Owners making monthly recurring donations. A larger donor base will provide the sustainable funding the will allow the expanded Without Limits program to continue after the year of grant funding ends. See more

A couple of pictures from this morning's Groceries for our Neighbors program.

A snapshot of one of the two neighborhoods served by UPLA. It's a diverse, dynamic place. Our mission is to help our neighbors awake to their full potential and take their place as agents of their own destiny in the civic life of Los Angeles.http://www.latimes.com//la-fi-hp-neighborhood-koreatown-20

An article about the neighborhood we serve. Belmont High School is just the other side of MacArthur Park from where we are. http://www.latimes.com//la-me-belmont-high-school-20160710

Our field trip at Bolsa Chica Wetlands with the Sierra Club. We saw baby sharks and caterpillars and learned about the migratory birds that stop by Huntington Beach.

Rev. Hoyt-McDaniels is preaching about Urban Partners Los Angeles tomorrow at the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church in Canoga Park. Come join the service. Or read the text of his message here. http://www.rickhoyt.com//2/7_Urban_Partners_Los_Angeles.ht

In a few weeks, the Without Limits Math & Study Center will welcome back old and new students for the spring semester of 2016 with new curriculums and a revamped space. Please join us January 10th at 12:00 pm for lunch to give the downstairs a makeover. We appreciate all the help in fostering childhood education within our community. For any questions regarding tasks or supplies, please contact Lauren Brown who will be available at the church on Wednesday morning.

UPLA's Without Limits program will be taking a field trip this Saturday to the Observatory at Griffith Park to learn about planets, stars and the heavens. It's going to be out of this world!