Programs
Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center
The over-arching goal for the Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center, is to help each youth involved in our programs graduate from high school and to go on to a post-secondary experience of higher education or training. The CP Center is being built in partnership with the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School founded and sponsored by the Society of Jesus (a Catholic order of priests and brothers known as the Jesuits). The school will serve low-income families of any faith or culture who desire a religiously supportive, Christian value-centered, education for their children.
Urban Stars Athletic Program

More than 500 boys and girls, ages 5-18, participate in basketball, soccer, track and field athletic leagues, tournaments and camps. As these young people interact with staff and team coaches, they are taught life-skills that will serve them far beyond their days of sports activity. Youth receive excellent instruction and play at superior facilities, such as our full-sized soccer field, Kix Field. Athletes also have opportunities to participate in development clinics with professional athletes from local teams like the Minnesota Thunder soccer team.

Soccer
Basketball
Track & Field
Jump rope
Badminton
The Learning Lab
The Learning Lab is a year-round, comprehensive academic support program for students in the first through twelfth grades. Working in partnership with local schools, The Learning Lab effectively helps students to increase their academic performance by offering after-school homework programs, on-site tutoring, pre-testing for Minnesota Basic Skills tests and assistance with college preparations.

After-School Programs
Summer Jaam
Summer in the City

The Family Center
People in our communities run the risk of falling into someone else’s dead-end plan on a daily basis. The challenge of saving our urban communities from the negative opportunities in the neighborhood is great, but the promise shown by the people who choose positive opportunities is even greater. The Family Center helps connect people to the positive opportunities and empower them to make life changes.
Through a number of unique programs and partnerships, the Family Center works with more than 5,000 participants a year. Support classes for men and women concentrate on parental direction and encourage participants to become responsible individuals—both personally and financially—for the sake of their children.
Family Center programs meet every Tuesday evening from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Dinner and childcare are provided.

Center for Fathering
W.A.T.E.
Family Time
Forever Strong
People’s Exchange
The Hub
At Urban Ventures, our youth run the risk of falling into someone else's dead-end plan on a daily basis. Mark-Peter Lundquist, Director for the Urban Youth Hub, recently reiterated that fact when he stated that “These kids are on the fence between a world of pimps and gangs and the positive opportunities we provide.” The challenge of saving our kids from the negative opportunities in our neighborhood is great, but the promise shown by the kids who choose the positive opportunities is even greater.

PowerHouse
LaVictoria
Skateboard Park
ZOOM/Life Coaches
Recording Studio/Music Academy – Coming Soon

GoLatino!
GoLatino! hosts events and administers programs for families and youth that empower the Latino community and encourage its members to build hope, stability and a positive future. This includes hosting a Mexican Independence Day which annually hosts 25,000 participants. GoLatino! also coordinates efforts to strengthen LaVictoria's youth program and the Wednesday night Latino Family Time program.

www.golatino.org

City Kid Java
CityKid Java is part of the Urban Ventures for-profit portfolio. Through CityKid Java, Urban Ventures seeks to advance its earned-income strategies to generate income to support our youth programs. CityKid Java is a highly virtual organization that leverages strategic relationships in the roasting/distribution industries to keep costs low while aligning with key distributors to grow sales volume. CityKid Java can now be purchased in Twin Cities Cub and Kowalski grocery stores.

www.citykidjava.com