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Fair Trade…Clothing? By Jonathan Walton - Posted May 9, 2013

“The revolution that has swept the food industry is expanding to retail: origins matter,” says the New York Times. What would it look like for people to finally rise up and demand that things be different. Click here to read this article and share it far and wide! Let’s make something happen! Would [...]

40 Days of Faith and Fundraising! By Jonathan Walton - Posted May 1, 2013

5000+ people have come to NYCUP Spring Break, Summer Immersion, Feed 500 and other workshops and worship nights where we’ve called students and volunteers to faith in Christ and action compelled by the Love of God! After the Price of Life NYC we need to double that! What would it look like for 10,000 [...]

Looking Back at NYCUP Spring & Winter 2013 By ecraig - Posted April 13, 2013 NYCUP 2013

After five weeks of NYCUP Spring and Winter Break I smiled. I smiled because we did our first ever Winter Break with 12 brave students and staff from the University of Delaware. At Session 2, I got to see Zack Kattwinkel from JMU and just “liked” his post about moving to Memphis soon to teach. [...]

“Girl Be Heard” Comes to Columbia & Barnard! By Jonathan Walton - Posted March 18, 2013

“Girl Be Heard creates a world for young women to find strength, realize their potential, and rise above their circumstances and society’s expectations of them. And InterVarsity at Columbia, the Price of Life-NYC and the New York City Urban Project aim to help them! The fight against sex-trafficking and exploitation is a real one [...]

LENT: World Vision & LOGOFF By ecraig - Posted February 21, 2013 Logoff screenshot

Are you ready to LOGOFF? Watch the video here to look at your life with World Vision LENT for the next 5 weeks! For more information about this campaign, please click here!

We Are Not Awesome By ecraig - Posted February 15, 2013 Kid President 2

How many times have you made a commitment to something? Maybe you stood up at a rally or meeting and said “Yes, I want to do/be that!” Maybe it was to fight slavery, follow Jesus, commit to some idea of positivity and peace making and then and there you felt so passionate [...]

Be Part of the Solution! By ecraig - Posted February 4, 2013 Proxe

When learning about the injustices in this world, we can easily feel overwhelmed and helpless to do anything about it. It is also humbling when we come to realize that although we may not enslave someone ourselves, we enable others to do this by purchasing products made with slave labor and unfair business practices. It [...]

Registration for Spring Break EXTENDED! By Jonathan Walton - Posted January 31, 2013

The Bowery Mission is opening up a new men’s shelter in East Harlem and we’re going to help them get the building ready! The Bowery is also opening up new programs for kids in the South Bronx and we’re helping out with them too! March is going to be an amazing month and you’re [...]