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United Neighborhood Houses of New York (UNH) is a 501(c) nonprofit membership organization of 37 independent community centers and settlement houses located throughout New York City. Rooted in the history and values of the settlement house movement, UNH promotes a neighborhood-based, multi-service approach to improving the lives of New Yorkers in need and the communities in which they live. Today, UNH comprises one of the largest human service systems in New York City.[1]
United Neighborhood Houses is headquartered on 36th street in midtown Manhattan, two blocks away from Herald Square. The President of UNH’s board is Lewis Kramer, a retired partner at Ernst & Young LLP. Sidney Lapidus, a retired partner at Warburg Pincus, LLC, serves as the organization’s Honorary Chair. In the fall of 2002, Nancy Wackstein, former Director of the Mayor’s Office on Homelessness and SRO Housing, was named UNH’s Executive Director. Prior to this position, Ms. Wackstein had also served as the Executive Director of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House—one of UNH’s member agencies—for eleven years.[2]