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The Greater Toledo Urban League is going for the gold and only with your help can we claim first prize. In order for us to make a name for ourselves on Facebook [Facebook.com/gtul] we need to gather 1000 followers on our fan page. We are positive that with your help we can do this. All you need to do is send a suggestion out from our fan page to all of your friends and have them send one out to all of their friends. We are even thinking about making a special announcement and presenting a special prize to the one thousandth fan to our GTUL Facebook fan page. So what are you waiting for!?

On your mark! Get set! Go!
The Greater Toledo Urban League is going for the gold and only with your help can we claim first prize. In order for us to make a name for ourselves on Facebook [Facebook.com/gtul] we need to gather 1000 followers on our fan page. We are positive that with your help we can do this. All you need to do is send a suggestion out from our fan page to all of your friends and have them send one out to all of their friends. We are even thinking about making a special announcement and presenting a special prize to the one thousandth fan to our GTUL Facebook fan page. So what are you waiting for!?

On your mark! Get set! Go!


We need to get to 1, website 000 fans on our facebook page. Will you be #1,000? http://bit.ly/4Gn5w

New League, New Blog, New Life

Good day good people. You are witnessing the result of months of intense work and dedication by the Toledo Urban League staff and their  bright vision of the future for the community and our supporters. We are in the midst of a grand restructuring on all fronts. This is just a single part of the BIG picture which goes along with our other transformations including: Our new location; Our new web site; Our new programs and our new attitude.

As the webmaster I plan to keep you informed of the changes and improvements in relation to the new website and this blog. We plan on expanding our “digital presence” into some bits of unexplored territory technically striving to mirror the current presidential administrations digital “connectedness” which can no longer be called a fad.

The overall purpose of this blog will now be communicate the living activities and happenings of the Toledo Urban League and the website will now serve as a static capsule of the overall goals and objectives of our fine organization.

Feel free to look around and leave comments and ideas on the topics and stories you find here. We hope to keep this consistently updated but your feedback with be the gas that drives our content.

Thank you again for your support.

Jermaine A. Young
Webmaster

Embracing Change:An Opportunity for New Beginnings

Everyone has, dosage on the tips of their tongues and in the breath from their lips this great and interesting word….CHANGE. With unemployment rates on a constant rise, viagra buy concerns surrounding the quality education of our youth, medical and very real issues of funding shortfalls for many of the organizations that serve this community, we must find a way to navigate CHANGE. We are beginning to design and craft a plan to help us at the Greater Toledo Urban League address some of these issues. So the question is….What does CHANGE really mean to Toledo and this region?
Mission | Vision | History | Staff | Agency Information

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[fancy_header]Our Mission[/fancy_header]

[dropcap2]T[/dropcap2]he Greater Toledo Urban League (GTUL) is a non-profit community service organization, hospital established to provide direct services in the areas of employment, physician training, business and career development, education, health, housing, and youth development to the Toledo community.

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[dropcap2]T[/dropcap2]he vision of the Greater Toledo Urban League is an empowered community of economically and socially self sufficient individuals.

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[fancy_header]Our History[/fancy_header]

[dropcap2]I[/dropcap2]n October of 1994, a local group of concerned citizens began a movement to establish an Urban League Affiliate in the Toledo area.

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[fancy_header]Our Staff[/fancy_header]

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[fancy_header]Administration[/fancy_header]

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  • Rev. John C. Jones – President /CEO
  • Ret Littleton – Administrative Assistant
  • Jermaine Young – Director of Marketing and Development

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  • Flo Wormley– Program Administrator (Success Through Review Incentive Vision Effort)

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  • Brandon Tucker – Director
  • Brooke Campbell – Administrative Coordinator

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Financial Stability Collaborative

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  • Phil Cunningham – Workforce Development Coordinator
  • Charlotte Jones – Program Specialist

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Project Reconnect

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  • Shirley Lyons– Workforce Development Coordinator

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  • Barbara Kyles – Director, Senior Services
  • John Hawkins – Transportation Specialist
  • Prince McDonald – Program Assistant

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Brandon R. Tucker – Dir., Workforce Development

Phil Cunningham – Workforce Coordinator

Charlotte Jones – Program Specialist

Sha’Bre Swanier – Program Assistant

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Project Reconnect – The SOURCE

1301 Monroe St. – Toledo, OH 43604

(419) 213-6370

(419) 213-6268 (fax)

Brooke Campbell – Admin Coordinator

Shirley Lyons – Workforce Coordinator

Steve Eaton – Educational Specialist

Kristie Knighten – Employment Specialist

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Health & Quality of Life

J. Frank Troy Senior Center

1235 Division St,

Toledo, OH 43604

(419) 255-6206

(419) 255-1670 (Fax)

Barbara Kyles – Dir., Senior Programs

Prince McDonald – Program Assistant

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Everyone has, more about on the tips of their tongues and in the breath from their lips this great and interesting word….CHANGE. With unemployment rates on a constant rise, discount concerns surrounding the quality education of our youth, order and very real issues of funding shortfalls for many of the organizations that serve this community, we must find a way to navigate CHANGE. We are beginning to design and craft a plan to help us at the Greater Toledo Urban League address some of these issues. So the question is….What does CHANGE really mean to Toledo and this region?