Urban Upbound

The mission of Urban Upbound is to provide residents of public housing neighborhoods with the tools and resources needed to achieve economic mobility and self-sufficiency and to break cycles of poverty. Urban Upbound serves public housing residents and other low-income New Yorkers to break cycles of poverty. Ellen Glickstein and Bishop Mitchell Taylor founded Urban Upbound utilizing a grassroots community organizing approach, which now serves over 6,000 people each year. Urban Upbounds partners include a diverse group of foundations, corporations and government supporters who all share the same commitment to fighting poverty. It also has the best group of individual donors in the nation.