urban impact foundation
$250,000 Year-End Matching Grant
With grateful hearts, we have been blessed this year with a $250,000 year-end matching grant. Each new or additional dollar you give before year’s-end will be matched to support our goal.
Ed and Tammy
Pastor Ed and Tammy Glover move to the North Side of Pittsburgh on a street where four out of five homes were boarded up.
Athletics
Outreach basketball with pizza is launched and becomes the foundation for Urban Impact’s robust Athletics programming.
Vision
Pastor Ed walked out of his home and his car is stolen for the third time. Questioning if he can really a difference in the community, God gave him the vision of impacting one person, one family, one block at a time.
Founded
Urban Impact is founded by Pastor Ed to help address the profound challenges facing the urban setting of the North Side.
Camp
Summer Day Camp is initiated to combat summer learning regression. Once just a classroom of students, we now serve 220+ students in two locations and employ 67 interns to run classes and activities.
1st Urban Missionary
First full-time urban missionary, Becky Boll, joins the Urban Impact staff.
500 Kids
Urban Impact consistently ministers to 500 kids of the North Side throughout the year.
Performing Arts
A children’s choir begins rehearsals in the Glover’s living room becoming the foundation of Urban Impact’s Performing Arts Academy.
150 Gospel Responses
Keeping the “main thing” the main thing as 150 lives are changed for eternity.
1,000 Kids Reached
A true milestone for the organization yet the ongoing mission is to reach even more children in need.
Birth of Options Department
Urban Impact’s influence on its students extends beyond high school with this programming designed to create post-secondary success.
First ManUp Event
More than an event, ManUp becomes a movement in subsequent years to combat the effects of fatherlessness in Pittsburgh and Charlotte.
Education
An in-school partnership is formed with King Elementary school for staff and volunteers to provide literacy support to struggling students. The partnership grows to multiple schools and becomes the foundation of Urban Impact’s Education programming.
Grew to 10 Urban Missionaries
More resources translate to more programming as Urban Impact continues to offer new ways to form relationships with students.
1,500 Kids Reached
A fifty percent increase in just 3 years!
Grew to 20 Urban Missionaries
People living among the students and families we serve. Now more missionaries than distinct neighborhoods of the North Side.
Grew to 30 Urban Missionaries
High demand for our programming requires an explosive growth in Urban Missionaries to maintain our standard 6:1 ratio.
500+ Gospel Responses
Heaven rejoices as hundreds of people continue to receive the gift of eternal life.
2,370 Kids Reached
Now reaching nearly 20% of the children and youth on the North Side, Urban Impact keeps a steady eye on positioning itself to reach those remaining.
Resilience to a Global Pandemic
In a very atypical year, Urban Impact staff rises to the occasion and meets the needs of the community in incredible ways strengthening the organization to continue the path forward.
transformation stories
25 years of ministry
For the past 24 years, Urban Impact has been an integral part of people’s lives on an individual basis. See how some of our students, volunteers, and staff have been transformed by Urban Impacts’ mission of loving and serving others around the North Side of Pittsburgh.
Be part of the story
Urban Impact Foundation has consistently served the North Side of Pittsburgh for 25 years. Would you prayerfully consider where God is calling you?