CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL AND EDUCATION

CURE is the only DC-based organization that exclusively focuses on public policy that promotes market-based solutions to fight poverty in African American and urban communities. We accomplish that mission through our policy center, our 875-member Clergy Network, and our vast media outreach. These efforts work in tandem to dismantle government dependency and advance economic growth through faith, family, and local governance. For more than twenty years, CURE has led the fight to transition America's poor out of the bondage of our welfare state.

At CURE we believe we can change laws to change lives, continue to build an alternative black media outlet, and reach minority clergy members. That's why our work is divided into three sectors— Policy, Media, and Grassroots Organizing— that specifically target these needs to bring about the change urban communities need.

Policy: CURE provides testimony before Congress and educates policy makers with conservative answers to the areas of urban poverty, federal entitlements, and market-based solutions. We issue policy reports and white papers, and work with academics specializing in the concerns of modern urban communities. Our goal in these activities is to create, influence, and advocate for policy solutions that have a direct positive impact on communities rife with social and economic struggle.

Media: CURE has created new avenues to promote principles we believe can transform urban communities, including:

➢ CURE president Star Parker's nationally syndicated weekly column which reached a readership of 8 million people in 2017.

➢ BlackCommunityNews.com, that now has over two million pageviews and its own engaged online community.

➢ In addition to our own media, CURE staff members also frequently appear in major print, web, radio, and television networks advocating for our ideas and conservative values.

Grassroots Organizing: CURE knows from personal experience and the testimony of friends and neighbors that one of the biggest ways the African American community can be impacted is through the influence of committed clergy and church communities. With this evidence in mind, CURE founded The National CURE Clergy Network, a nationwide network of clergy who work with CURE to expand the impact of our work in urban communities.

We work to educate and inform our 875-member clergy network on issues that have an impact in their communities, and these clergy in turn engage their congregations in conversations about government, poverty solutions, and the family values that can strengthen their families and urban living. The CURE Clergy Network provides a practical way for pastors to engage their congregations, and for CURE to help identify the concerns of black communities across the country.

CURE hosts regular roundtables, strategy sessions, and an annual, pastor-focused National Policy Summit to provide them with training in ways to activate church communities around the most pressing issues in their community. Our educated, influential, and strongly networked clergy collaborate with us in these ways to make a profound difference in their churches and the culture at large.

CURE founder and president has a syndicated column in national news outlets that reaches over 8 million readers on an annual basis.

CURE's website, BlackCommunityNews.com, had 693,728 page views, and boasts 181,156 unique users.

CURE's Annual National Policy Summit is held in Washington DC and hosts over 100 minority pastors for three days and features nationally recognized experts in their respective fields.

In 2017,

1. CURE's team visited 25 state capitals to lobby, meet with and educate lawmakers and policy makers.

2. CURE's team visited, spoke to and engaged with students on eight college campuses.

3. CURE's team visited, spoke to and engaged with pregnancy centers in eight states.

4. CURE's team consulted with the White House on Welfare Reform, Israel, Sanctity of Human Life and Religious Freedom.

5. CURE's team testified before Congress; lobbied Congress; and educated multiple Congressional leaders on minority related concerns.

6. CURE's Media Center has 66,440 friends on Facebook, 158,049 YouTube views, 26,200 Twitter followers, and the website, BlackCommunityNews.com has over 181,156 unique users.