Community Partnerships provide the Urban League with the opportunity to recruit students outside of our in school program. Community partners help to provide resources such as curriculum material and leverage services and resources in order to help us effectively fulfill our mission in empowering communities and changing lives. Through several different projects that we have done with our students, we have been able to solidify several community partnerships. These partners have either offered in-kind service, given students career, life skills, or post-secondary educational information, or facilitated tours.

GLR Recycling Solutions facilitated a tour with our summer program students, offering not only information on community service projects where they could partner with us, but also career information. GLR offers several opportunities to visit as well as recycle.

Macomb County Community College has also been a partner who has offered their resources to our program participants. Several of our participants who were graduating seniors were able to gain admission and move successfully through their academic programs. Their School of Technology is at the forefront of the Green Technology & Renewable Energy initiatives and trainings in our state. The students had an opportunity to find out about their Renewable Energy, Battery Testing, and Green Technology programs on their south campus. We toured this facility in May 2010 and had the opportunity to view the workforce development center, as well as the schools classes of graphic arts and design, video editing/animation, harmonics, renewable energy, battery testing, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. We also had an opportunity to see the hybrid vehicles that the students are actually rebuilding and disassembling.

Through our students at Osborn High School we facilitated a purple ribbon campaign supporting non-violence in the city of Detroit. Through this connection, we gained new connections with the Better Detroit Youth Movement, St. Joseph Health Systems, & University of Michigan Law School.