UNO's Key Strategies focus on three main areas: Housing, Social Investments and Social Services. An overview of the Services we provide can be found in the table below.

Housing:

Purchase, rehabilitate, sell/and or rent for other entities or for UNO itself
Finance, plan, construct, manage Assisted Living Facilities (ALF) over a wide area
Finance, plan, construct, manage Student Housing, and Multi-unit medium/ low income families
First-time home buyer education, budgeting, credit, foreclosure mediation
Be a community leader in installing solar energy and other environmentally sound housing materials

Social Investments:

Keep families in homes by buying their mortgages and restructuring favorable debt terms
Purchase, rehab, abandoned foreclosed properties and sell/rent to medium/low income families
Invest in environmentally friendly, green energy projects

Social Services:

Immigration: UNO has provided complex legal counseling since 2004 to as many as 450 immigrants a year to achieve legal residency, through two offices, one in Tampa and the other in Clearwater. UNO seeks funding to help legal residents take the next step towards citizenship. As many as 7000 new legal residents per year in the Tampa Bay area do not seek citizenship due to financial and other barriers which can be corrected in part through UNO leadership and financial resources.

Outreach: UNO seeks funding for a wide variety of educational activies and programs to impact on children concerning quality of life issues such as high drop out rates from schools, teen age unwanted pregnancies, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and availability of community services in Spanish.

Scholarships: UNO strives to reinforce the importance of education by rewarding the brightest students through scholarship assistance. UNO partners with other agencies to raise scholarship funds

Advocacy: a 2001 Juvenile Welfare Board Needs Assessment Study for the Hispanic Community, and a 2002 Pinellas County Office of Human Rights study on Discrimination in Housing confirm a high degree of racial and ethnic discrimination is practiced against minorities in housing and presents a barrier to integration into living in Pinellas County. We do not have any information that conditions have changed since 2002. UNO is committed to challenging persons and/or organizations that practice or are passive on issues of race, religion or gender