United Way of Metropolitan Chicago

For more than 80 years, the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago (United Way) has worked to create positive change in the city of Chicago and its suburbs. In partnership with a range of human service organizations, the United Way aims to improve the health, education, financial stability, and safety of residents in communities throughout the region. The United Way is the institutional home of the “211 Metro Chicago” program, which manages a telephone number and digital platform that residents can use to access non-emergency social services, such as food pantries, homeless shelters, legal aid, rental assistance, services for disabled persons, and mental health care. The 211 program also serves as a critical link to information and resources in moments of natural disaster, pandemic, or other crises. This award provides project support to the 211 Metro Chicago program.

For more than 80 years, the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago has worked to create positive change in the city of Chicago and its suburbs. In partnership with a range of human service organizations, the United Way aims to improve the health, education, financial stability, and safety of residents in communities throughout the region. Launched in 2013, the United Way operates a Neighborhood Network Initiative to address the root causes of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods and improve the quality of life for people in ten low-income communities. The COVID-19 pandemic and civil unrest of 2020 have hit these communities especially hard. This renewed award supports the United Way Neighborhood Networks and their efforts to build back stronger, more equitable communities throughout the Chicagoland area.

For more than 80 years, the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago has worked to create positive change in the city of Chicago and its suburbs. In partnership with a range of human service organizations, the United Way aims to improve the health, education, financial stability, and safety of residents in communities throughout the region. Launched in 2013, the United Way operates a Neighborhood Network Initiative to address the root causes of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods and improve the quality of life for people in ten low-income communities. This renewed award supports the United Way Neighborhood Networks and their efforts to develop neighborhood-specific, community-led solutions to local challenges.

In partnership with a range of human service organizations, the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago aims to improve the health, education, financial stability, and safety of residents in communities throughout the region. This award supports the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund, which supports local nonprofit organizations serving the region’s most vulnerable residents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Response Fund pools the resources raised by Chicago’s philanthropies, corporations, and individuals, and disburses them to nonprofit organizations across the region.

For more than 80 years, the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago has worked to create positive change in the city of Chicago and its suburbs. In partnership with a range of human service organizations, the United Way aims to improve the health, education, financial stability, and safety of residents in communities throughout the region. Launched in 2013, the United Way operates a Neighborhood Network Initiative to address the root causes of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods and improve the quality of life for people in ten low-income communities. This award supports the United Way Neighborhood Networks and their efforts to develop neighborhood-specific, community-led solutions to local challenges.