Stories
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Nonprofit Spotlight: LEAN on Healing with Healing on Purpose
Nonprofit name LEAN on Healing with Healing on Purpose Year formed 2025, as a fiscally sponsored project of Stara Collaborative Mission & population served LEAN on Healing with Healing on Purpose exists in response to the profound and ongoing trauma experienced within our community. Many individuals and families are directly impacted by incarceration, addiction, violence, family…
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This Is Me Now
Brandywine grew up surrounded by the drug world and it was all she ever knew. When she joined Momentum, she was able to develop new life skills and a trusting relationship with her children that they she did not know she could have prior to joining. Brandywine expresses how she was glad to join this…
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When Dave first met Scottie
When Dave first met Scottie, he didn’t really know what to expect. He was familiar with Momentum and its vision, and he was eager to join the ranks of Momentum ‘Coach,’ but now his preconceived notions were running headlong into reality. Scottie was working to escape the fires of life, and he’d brought another with…
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We Are An Alliance
Urban Alliance brings a system that works to a community who is failed by systems. Its goal is to grow relationships within the community and change the views of how others see each other towards a more positive, loving light. With the Momentum program, Urban Alliance and its partnered employers strive to give people in…
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Life With Momentum
Urban Alliance Momentum graduates and their employers talk about life after graduating. Even with little experience joining the workforce, Momentum was able to help give graduates the resources they needed in order to succeed and start again, and to provide an empowering support system.
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The Pursuit of Happiness: Cory’s Version
Cory sat in the Urban Alliance office, looking like he didn’t have a care in the world. For the next hour I listened as he dispelled my thinking. Cory, I found out, had recently left a dead-end comfort zone because he cares so deeply about being sober and watching his little boy grow up. Several…
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The First Thing I Ever Graduated
Before joining Urban Alliance, 2019 Momentum graduate, Shawna Wilson, had a given up on herself but decided she wanted to set a good example for her daughter. She did not know what to expect from Momentum, but her first day there was inspiring and uplifting. Right away people believed in her, and now she has…
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More Secure Than Ever Before
Urban Alliance assisted Momentum graduate, Patricia Wagoner, to achieve her goals, gain resources she needs to succeed, and helped her find a job accepting people with past felonies. Wagoner expresses how Urban Alliance gave her a fresh start, improved lifestyle, and security.