Vimenti
Education, Workforce, Family Support
A place-based system designed to connect communities to real economic opportunity.
Oasis 360 is PSI's place-based economic mobility system, concentrated within 2.5 miles of the Oasis Hub in Villa Prades along the San Juan–Carolina corridor. Rather than running isolated programs, it integrates education, workforce development, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and policy into one coordinated strategy.
Grounded in proximity and a generational approach, the model strengthens families alongside the children and communities they support. Concentrated investment in one defined area drives systemic change: services advance in tandem rather than in isolation, reinforcing each other to produce clear, connected pathways toward quality jobs, financial stability, and long-term growth.
A single anchored system, 136,000 sq ft connecting education, workforce, health, and family support.
Oasis 360 operates through a set of coordinated implementation streams, each designed to address a critical barrier to economic mobility.
These are not standalone programs. They are interconnected components of a single system, implemented by the organizations in the PSI ecosystem and aligned through PSI's capital and governance structure.
Each stream advances a different part of the pathway, from access to jobs, to care infrastructure, to entrepreneurship, to education, to policy, ensuring that families can not only access opportunity, but sustain it over time.
PSI designs the financial architecture, aligns public and private funding, and establishes the accountability systems that ensure resources reach the ecosystem organizations effectively. Programs are delivered by the four ecosystem organizations under the PSI umbrella, while PSI ensures they operate within a coordinated system designed for measurable impact.
Education, Workforce, Family Support
Entrepreneurship & Capital Access
Policy & Benefits Cliff
Accessible Healthcare
The EDA selected PSI's proposal from 565 applicants nationwide, awarding a $30 million Recompete grant to catalyze the five programs that form the Oasis Expansion.
A $30 Million Federal Endorsement of a Model That WorksThe Oasis Hub is the physical anchor of Oasis 360, a 136,000-square-foot facility that brings together key partners and services in one place.
More than a building, the Hub functions as infrastructure: enabling coordination, expanding access, and strengthening the connection between services, opportunity, and community.
By centralizing implementation within a shared space, the Hub allows the Oasis 360 system to operate with greater efficiency, alignment, and impact.
Schematic, 136,000 sq ft total. Building co-owned with Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico.
The Oasis Hub building is co-owned by PSI and Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico. PSI's ecosystem organizations (Vimenti, Project Makers, IDJ, and Vidalus) deliver programs from inside the Hub; the Boys & Girls Club operates after-school programming and shares ownership of the facility itself.
Architectural renders of the 136,000 sq ft Oasis Hub and Vimenti school, exterior views, campus spaces, and key interiors. Click any image to enlarge.
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Vimenti, Main View
Exterior, School Entrance
Exterior, Courtyard
Exterior, Playground
Exterior, Signage Facade
Exterior, Arched Walkway
Exterior, Covered Walkway
Exterior, Tree Pavilion
Exterior, Play Area
Exterior, Breezeway
Interior, Library
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Exterior, Side Entrance
Connecting talent to quality jobs.
Better Jobs for Me builds the workforce engine of Oasis 360, connecting residents to stable, quality jobs and clear pathways for professional growth.
Designed and implemented by Vimenti, this stream responds directly to persistent challenges of unemployment, underemployment, and low-wage work in surrounding communities. Its focus is not only job placement, but long-term mobility.
Vimenti structures a full pathway from career exploration to sustained employment, aligning training, employer demand, and wraparound support into a single system.
Identification of high-demand sectors, including healthcare, technology, construction, and care, and co-design of training programs with employers and industry partners.
Community-based outreach and individualized career plans aligned to each participant's goals, skills, and barriers.
Tailored training programs, mentorship pathways, and direct coordination with employers for job placement.
Post-placement support to strengthen job retention, enable career progression, and connect participants to complementary services.
Activation of the Oasis 360 network to attract new employers into the area and increase access to quality job opportunities.
This stream ensures that access to employment is not transactional, but structured as a pathway toward sustained economic mobility.
Building the care infrastructure that makes work possible.
Caring Community addresses one of the most critical, and often invisible, barriers to employment: access to reliable care.
Across the Oasis 360 geography, limited childcare, afterschool, and elder care options prevent many adults, particularly women, from entering or staying in the workforce. This stream is designed to close that gap.
Vimenti leads delivery of Caring Community. PSI structures the capital and stewardship that make the program possible, strengthening the local care economy while expanding access to flexible, high-quality care services aligned with real work conditions.
Launch of afterschool programs across seven schools, creating 600 new childcare spaces for families.
Training and certification pathways to prepare new caregivers and strengthen skills within the sector.
Direct support to over 200 families through vouchers, stipends, and expanded access to non-traditional care hours (evenings and weekends).
Local market analysis and activation of procurement processes, grants, and microenterprise support to expand the supply of care providers.
Support for new care businesses and employment pathways within a high-demand sector.
By strengthening care infrastructure, this stream removes systemic barriers to employment while simultaneously creating new economic opportunities within the community.
Connecting families to the full system of opportunity.
Family Navigator is the connective layer of Oasis 360, ensuring that families can access and move through the system effectively.
Rather than addressing isolated needs, Family Navigators work alongside families to identify barriers, coordinate services, and guide them toward long-term goals.
Navigators operate within seven partner schools, creating proximity, trust, and early engagement with families.
Structured intake processes evaluate key indicators such as income, employment, housing, and access to services.
Families co-create annual plans with clear goals and receive ongoing support to address barriers.
Flexible access to services based on evolving family needs.
Use of data systems and artificial intelligence tools to prioritize support and guide decision-making.
This stream ensures that the system remains accessible, responsive, and centered on the realities families face.
Building businesses as pathways to mobility.
E3 positions entrepreneurship as a viable and scalable pathway to economic mobility.
Implemented by Project Makers, this stream supports the creation, formalization, and growth of businesses within communities that have historically faced limited access to capital and opportunity.
Rather than treating entrepreneurship as an isolated activity, E3 builds an ecosystem that combines technical assistance, capital access, and policy alignment.
An intensive 8-week accelerator program that equips entrepreneurs with core business skills and culminates in a demo day with ecosystem stakeholders.
Support for informal businesses transitioning into the formal economy, including legal, financial, and operational guidance.
Strategic support for small and medium enterprises, including expansion planning, product diversification, and access to capital and networks.
Development of a business association to strengthen collaboration, peer support, and collective growth.
E3 ensures that entrepreneurship is not left to chance, but structured as a supported pathway to income generation, job creation, and community wealth.
Aligning policy, incentives, and opportunity.
Empowered for Employment addresses a structural barrier often overlooked in workforce strategies: the design of public benefits systems.
Led by Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud (IDJ), this stream focuses on the "benefits cliff", a dynamic where families risk losing essential support as their income increases, creating a disincentive to pursue formal employment.
This initiative combines research, policy design, pilot programs, and narrative change to realign incentives and enable families to transition into stable employment without destabilizing their households.
In-depth study of the benefits cliff through interviews, surveys, and data analysis.
Creation of a Policy Playbook with actionable recommendations to improve public systems.
Implementation of targeted pilots, including training for case managers and financial incentives for participants transitioning into employment.
A coordinated communications effort to challenge misconceptions about work and reshape public understanding of economic mobility.
This stream ensures that the broader system, beyond jobs and training, is aligned to support, rather than hinder, upward mobility.
There's a path for everyone in the Oasis 360 system. Choose the one that fits where you're starting from.
Tell us what you're looking for and we'll connect you with the right organization in our ecosystem.
Hire from our workforce pipeline, sponsor programs, or build supplier and vendor relationships with local enterprises.
Explore the capital stack, the Revolving Loan Fund, and place-based investment vehicles structured for measurable impact.
Foundations, philanthropic investors, public agencies, and mission-aligned organizations: align with the Oasis 360 system.
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