Urban Literacy Project Is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) company, conceived in February 2005 by Omar Tyree, a New York Times best-selling author, a 2001 NAACP Image Award recipient for Outstanding Work in Literary Fiction,and a 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Prize Winner for Body of Work in Urban Fiction.

The mission of the charitable company is to raise funds for the goal of increasing the overall literacy rate among urban and other disadvantaged youth and citizens through informative lectures, panel discussions, performances, presentations, enrichment opportunities, workshops, book donations, and special events that provide access to resources that will foster achievement and utilization of higher literacy.