Third Time’s a ($12M) Charm

Urban Arts has earned its third highly competitive $4M Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. New York, NY—Urban Arts, an arts and technology nonprofit serving underrepresented students nationally, has earned its third highly competitive $4M Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This third […]

Expanding with a Pickaxe

By Philip Courtney, CEO of Urban Arts With our third USDOE EIR grant win, we’re amplifying what we do best with middle schoolers nationally. At Urban Arts, we’re really good at teaching computer science through game development to high school students from low-income communities. We get them into college with well-crafted digital portfolios and we […]