South Bronx United (SBU) is sports-based youth development organization using soccer to improve education and health outcomes in the South Bronx, NY. Founded in 2009, SBU serves more than 1,700 young people annually combining athletics with academic enrichment, college prep, mentoring, leadership development, health and wellness programs, immigration legal services, and other family and youth supports.
Since 2012, 100% of SBU Academy seniors graduated high school and 95% matriculated in college. In 2020 SBU accepted the Laureus Sport for Good Award in Berlin, Germany. SBU was honored by the U.S. Soccer Foundation as the 2018 Urban Soccer Symposium Impact Award recipient.