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Birmingham-Southern College
Community Partner Agencies



The agencies linked below represent community partners with whom students, faculty and staff at BSC collaborate.  Agencies address a wide range of social needs. We have organized the list according to the following areas of interest:

  • Children, Youth, and Education
  • Elder Care
  • Environment, Outdoors, Animals 
  • Community Development and Action 
  • Food Justice 
  • Health and Wellness 
  • Housing/Homelessness 
  • Special Needs Care 

To get involved with any of these agencies, contact Krulak Institute staff.    


Community Partners:

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    Children, Youth, and Education 

    Alabama Possible  is a statewide nonprofit organization that breaks down barriers to prosperity through advocacy, education, and collaboration. 

    Birmingham Education Foundation  is dedicated to increasing the number of students in Birmingham City Schools that are on the path to college, career, and life readiness. 

    Books to Prisons-Alabama  supports and facilitates the education of people who are incarcerated. 

    Bush Hills STEAM Academy  is a STEAM middle school offering a challenging academic curriculum, six unified arts options, and a wide range of extracurricular and leadership opportunities; Bush Hills is adjacent to the BSC campus. 

    Build Up is a workforce development model that provides low-income youth career-ready skills through paid apprenticeships with industry-aligned secondary and early-postsecondary academic coursework. 

    Desert Island Supply Company  is a nonprofit creative writing program for Birmingham students offering free after-school workshops plus in-school programs. 

    Girls, Inc.  offers after-school programming for girls in grades 1-8, including reading, life skills, economic literacy, and sports with the goal of inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. 

    NorthStar Soccer Ministries  promotes opportunities for investment in the lives of neighborhood youth by providing a high-quality soccer club within a holistic, Christian environment.  

    STAIR of Birmingham (Start the Adventure in Reading) seeks to improve reading skills and self-esteem of second graders through one-on-one tutoring. 

    YouthServe promotes youth volunteerism and leadership, giving young people the tools to make positive differences in their communities.

     

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    Elder Care

    McCoy Adult Day Care  provides a high-quality on-site program of adult day care services including supervision, health screening, nutrition, therapeutic activities, exercise and lots of love; McCoy is adjacent to the BSC campus.  

    Oak Knoll Health and Rehabilitation Center  is a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility where residents enjoy a wide variety of activities, including weekly Bingo; volunteers are paired with a resident for regular visits. Oak Knoll is two blocks south of BSC’s campus.

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    Environment, Outdoors, Animals 

    Bush Hills Community Garden and Urban Farm  was established in 2019 on the property of the former Woodrow Wilson Elementary School to eradicate food insecurity and promote healthier lifestyles for residents and visitors.  

    Greater Birmingham Humane Society promotes the humane treatment of people and animals through education, advocacy and services. 

    Red Mountain Park  is a 1,500 acre public urban park that encloses a 4.5 mile long section of Red Mountain, a prominent ridge that passes through Birmingham.  

    Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve is a 1,040 acre nature preserve located in the eastern portion of Jefferson County with the mission of advancing the understanding of ecology in a rapidly changing world. 

    BSC’s Southern Environmental Center is the largest educational facility of its kind in Alabama, dedicated to showing individuals how they can protect and improve their local environments through an nteractive Museum and the Hugh Kaul EcoScape garden; located on the BSC campus. 

    Turkey Creek Nature Preserve is a 466 acre preserve established through a partnership between the Freshwater Land Trust and Alabama’s Forever Wild program. The Southern Environmental Center manages the environmental education center at the preserve.  

     

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    Community Development and Action

    Ensley Alive  is a movement dedicated to the renaissance of Ensley, a community in western Birmingham.  Ensley Alive seeks to present a counter-narrative to the widely held beliefs, stereotypes and misinformation about the community.  

    Greater Birmingham Ministries  is a multi-faith, multi-racial organization that provides emergency services for people in need and engages the poor and the non-poor in systemic change efforts to build a strong, supportive, engaged community and pursue a more just society for all people.   

    HICA (Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama) educates immigrant communities about their rights, supports and mobilizes youth, and collaborates with allies working with marginalized communities to stand in unity against hate.  

    Invisible Histories Project  serves as a repository for the preservation of the history of LGBTQ life, first in the state of Alabama, and then the entire Southeast; the archive preserves, collects, and protects the living history of the diversity of the Queer community. 

    Jefferson County Memorial Project  is a grassroots coalition dedicated to researching Jefferson County’s 30 documented racial terror victims and their descendants, educating the public on the importance of this history, placing historical markers at lynching sites, and retrieving the Jefferson County monument from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery.  

    Smithfield-Dynamite Hill Community Land Trust  is a community-led initiative to establish a Community Land Trust centered in the Historic Smithfield community of Birmingham to support low-income permanently affordable home ownership, community-based business development, food sovereignty, and popular education. 

    Urban Ministry, Inc.  is a faith-based nonprofit extending compassion and opportunities for wholeness to everyone in the West End community by listening to the community, engaging their gifts and strengths, and building programs that affirm their dignity as children of God.  

    YWCA of Central Alabama  seeks to create a more caring community through work in affordable housing, quality child development programs for children of homeless and working poor families, domestic violence services, and social justice programming.  

     

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    Food Justice

    Community Food Bank of Central Alabama  feeds people in need today and fosters collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow. 

    Community Ministries at Highlands UMC offers a hospitality hour Monday through Saturday to serve breakfast, provide mail, laundry, and legal service to homeless and food insecure individuals on Birmingham’s Southside. 

    Jones Valley Teaching Farm  encourages academic exploration and achievement through food, farming, and the culinary arts.

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    Health and Wellness

    Cahaba Valley Health Care  provides dental and vision services for people in financial need in Jefferson and Shelby counties, while maintaining dignity, respecting cultural diversity, and strengthening the community.                  

    M-Power Ministries  provides free primary care services to adult patients without access to health insurance, helping to alleviate chronic illnesses.  

    The Crisis Center of Birmingham serves the unmet needs of people experiencing personal crisis or mental health issues and responds with services that promote coping, emotional health, and well-being.

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    Housing/Homelessness

    First Light Women’s Shelter  located in downtown Birmingham, offers the area’s only emergency shelter accepting homeless women and families 24 hours a day. 

    Habitat for Humanity helps families build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter.  

    One Roof  is the coordinating agency for the homelessness Continuum of Care of Central Alabama.

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    Special Needs Care

    The Bell Center  is dedicated to maximizing the potential of children from birth to three years of age who are at risk for developmental delay. 

    The Exceptional Foundation  enhances the quality of life for individuals of all ages with developmental challenges by providing social and recreational activities designed to promote healthy living, support social relationships, improve functional skills, and foster community involvement.


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