Partners Growing
Kansas City’s Core
The Urban Neighborhood Initiative
is dedicated to breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty by helping to build healthy neighborhoods that enable all children and families to succeed and thrive.
Initiatives
Our Major Work Areas
Most of UNI’s time and energy is committed to four initiatives that together address our priority areas of prosperity, safety, health, and education:
- Vacant to Vibrant – Transforming Vacant Spaces to Vibrant Places
- The Phillips Collective – A Purpose Built Community
- Kansas City Neighborhood Academy (KCNA)
- Kansas City Catalytic Urban Redevelopment (KCCUR)
Programs
Focused Projects
We have four programs in place currently:
- Connecting Neighbors Pilot Program
- Dolly Parton Imagination Library
- Health Fairs
- Success by 6
Our Neighborhoods
Long before the Urban Neighborhood Initiative was even an idea, neighborhood organizations were already hard at work, intent on improving and revitalizing the communities in which they live. Our neighborhood partners have been and are essential to UNI’s success.
Our partners are building community gardens, orchards, and playgrounds, and working on streetscapes, new curbs, and sidewalks. They’re working to decrease crime and close drug houses. They’re developing block leader programs and hosting clean-up and dumpster days.