Our Impact

Driving results by forging productive partnerships

We provide technical, financial and supportive services that lead to individual and community results that transform homes, neighborhoods, communities and urban environments.

We deliver comprehensive strategies that are powered by local experts and leaders.

With over 45 years as a national leader, our most notable achievements include:

  • Implemented comprehensive neighborhood transformation planning in 63 communities across 25 major cities, including two territories.
  • Secured over $400 million in Choice Neighborhood Initiative funds that have led to positive change.
  • Leveraged over $3 billion from public and private sources to fuel programs and initiatives.
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  • Partnered with schools in 17 major cities to support cradle-to-college career-forward pipelines.
  • Selected as an Annie E. Casey Results Count Hub, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “Your Money, Your Goals” cohort fellow, with Executive Leaders chosen for the Center for Community Investment at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, The Bridges Collaborative by The Century Foundation, and ProInspire.
  • Community lender for over 30 years and certified as Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2019.
  • In 2022, our work in communities across the country won the Catalyze Challenge Award, a joint venture among education funders including The Walton Family Foundation, The Gates Foundation, Arnold Ventures and Charles Koch Foundation. This award supports organizations that have developed pragmatic solutions to better connect education and careers for youth. USI’s innovation was Niche Innovators and Social enterprise, a program assisting youth living in assisted housing to gain paid work experience in the housing industry and then create their own social enterprise within their communities.

State Successes:

  • Received Missouri’s First Promise Neighborhood Grant, focusing on equity in education strategies.
  • Supporting a youth-led social enterprise in Minnesota, Green Garden Bakery
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KIND WORDS

“It’s not often that we run into organizations that put a stake in the ground for improved outcomes that are measurable, that are fair, that are really being held at a kind of a population level. Because of the relationship that we’ve had with USI for almost 20 years, we feel like they are someone who can produce the outcomes but ultimately always for the well-being of the family.”

BARBARA S.
Director of Leadership Development
at Annie E. Casey Foundation

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