Urban Assist is a non-profit organization founded by Carlisle Mitchell.

The goal of Urban Assist is to facilitate personal, business and community development.

Personal development as a concept refers to the following activities:

•improving self-awareness and self-knowledge
•building or renewing identity
•developing strengths or talents
•identifying or improving potential
•building employability or human capital
•enhancing lifestyle or the quality of life
•realizing dreams and fulfilling aspirations

Personal development also includes developing other people and overs personal development methods, programs, tools, techniques and assessment systems.

Business development involves evaluating a business and then realizing its full potential, using such tools as:

•marketing
•information management
•customer service

Small to medium-sized companies often do not establish procedures for business development, instead relying on their existing contacts. A sound organization aiming to withstand competitors never stops business development, but engages in it as an ongoing process.

Community development is a broad term applied to the practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities.

Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups by providing the skills needed to effect change in their own communities. These skills are often concentrated around building political power through the formation of large social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must understand both how to work with individuals and how to affect communities’ positions within the context of larger social institutions.

Together personal, business and community development create opportunities to improve the world we live in.