Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center (NLURC) is a faith-based, Latino-focused, community-focused/based organization that develops programming to challenge the root causes.....

Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center is a faith-based organization challenging the root causes of systemic poverty among Latino and other underserved individuals through holistic and culturally competent service and community building.

Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center sees the end to the vicious cycle of poverty that keeps many of the residents of Cleveland's Latino Community as well as all citizens in the west side neighborhoods locked into inadequate housing and low-income employment. We see an increase in education that enables individuals with lowered self-esteem to rise up out of the spiral of drug abuse, commercial sex work and the legal entanglements that go along with these activities. Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center, in collaboration with other programs on Cleveland’s west side, seeks to change this reality by providing compassionate outreach and service provision regardless of the individual’s race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religious affiliation.

Nueva Luz literally means "new light." Light has been a literal and metaphoric guide in human understanding since early times. In scriptures, we are called to be a "light to the nations." Our logo, a stylistic flame, is the symbol of the light of our commitment in facing and meeting the challenges of systemic poverty. The new light illuminates our emergent understanding of our compassionate role in working with those challenged by systemic poverty and its many manifestations.