Our Work
Agency Programs

United Way works to ensure that every dollar we invest addresses critical community needs and delivers measurable, lasting results. In other words, we're not as interested in how many kids attended one of our after school programs; we want to know how many of those kids actually improved their grades, stayed in school and graduated. We're not as interested in how many people received meals at a soup kitchen; we want to know how many of those people no longer rely on the soup kitchen because they've become independent.

In 2006, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago invested nearly $50 million in more than 700 effective programs at the following agencies across our region:

A Safe Place
Abraham Lincoln Centre
Access Community Health Network
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago,
Access to Care
Acorn Housing Corporation
ADA S. McKinley Community Services
Adult Christian Day Care
Agape Youth Network
AIDS Legal Council of Chicago,
Albany Park Community Center, Inc.
Alexian Brother's Northwest Mental Health Centers
Allendale Association
Alternatives, Inc.
American Red Cross
America's Second Harvest
Asian Human Services
Aspire
Association for Individual Development
Association House of Chicago,
Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center
Avenues to Independence
B.E.D.S.
B.U.I.L.D., Inc.
Barrington Youth Services
Beacon Therapeutic Diagnostic and Treatment Center
BEHIV ( Better Existence with HIV)
Berwyn/Cicero Council on Aging
Bethel Community Facility
Bethel New Life
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation
Big Brothers/Big Sister of McHenry County
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Lake County
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Metro Chicago
Blue Cap
Boy Scouts of America: Calumet Council
Boy Scouts of America: DesPlaines Valley Council
Boy Scouts of America: Northeast Illinois Council
Boy Scouts of America: Northwest Suburban Council
Boy Scouts of America: Three Fires Council
Boys & Girls Club of Lake County
Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago
Boys' and Girls' Club of Dundee Township
Boys and Girls Club of West Cook County
Boys Club of Cicero
Breaking Free
Bremen Youth Services
Bridge Youth and Family Services
Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic
Cambodian Association of Illinois
Camp Fire USA Metropolitan Chicago Council
Camp Fire: Illinois Prairie Council
Career Resource Center
Carole Robertson Center for Learning
DuPage CASA
CASA Kane County
Casa Central
Cathedral Shelter of Chicago
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
Catholic Charities: Diocese of Joliet
Catholic Charities: Lake Co.
Catholic Charities: Northwest Suburban Services
Catholic Charities: South Suburban Senior Services
Catholic Charities: Southwest Cook Cty
Catholic Charities: West Suburban Services
CEDA Center for Community Action
CEDA Northwest
CEDA Southeast
Center for Enriched Living
Center for Independence through Conductive Education
Center for Independent Living Lake County
Center of Concern
Center on Halsted
Centers for New Horizons, Inc.
Centro de Informacion
Chicago Abused Women Coalition
Chicago Area Project
Chicago Child Care Society
Chicago Commons Association
Chicago House and Social Service Agency
Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc.
Chicago Lighthouse for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired
Chicago Urban Day School
Chicago Urban League
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation
Chicago Youth Centers
Child Care Center of Evanston
Child Care Network of Evanston
Childhood Trauma Treatment Program
Children's Advocacy Ctr of North & Northwest Cook
Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn
Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois (CHASI)
Children's Place Association, The
ChildServ
Chinese American Service League, Inc.
Chinese Mutual Aid Association
Christopher House
Circle Family Care
Clearbrook
Community Adult Day Care
Community Care Options
Community Career Center
Community Center Foundation
Community Crisis Center
Community Extension Project
Community House, The
Community Mental Health Council
Community Nurse Health Association
Community Resource Network
Community Support Services
Concordia Avondale Campus
Connections for the Homeless
Counseling Center of Lake View
Countryside Association
Crisis Center for South Suburbia
Day Care Action Council of Illinois
DuPage P.A.D.S.
DuPage Senior Citizens Council
E.S.S.E.
Easter Seals DuPage
Eastern Will County Senior Services
Ecker Center for Mental Health
Ecumenical Adult Care of Naperville
El Hogar del Nino
El Valor Corporation
Elgin Catholic Social Services (Catholic Charities-Rockford)
Elk Grove Township Community Day Care
Elmwood Park Infant Welfare Society
Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago
Epilepsy Services for Northeastern Illinois
Erie Neighborhood House
Esperanza Community Services
Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago
Evanston Community Defender Office
Evanston Day Nursery
Evergreen Park Tween Club
Family Focus
Family Matters
Family Network
Family Rescue
Family Service and Mental Health Center of Cicero
Family Service and Mental Health of Oak Park and RF
Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area
Family Service Center of Wilmette, Etc.
Family Service of Glencoe
Family Service of South Lake County
Family Service of Winnetka/Northfield
Family Services of Will/Grundy County (Trinity Services)
Family Shelter Service
4-H
Fox Valley Hospice
Gads Hill Center
Garden Center for the Handicapped
Girl Scouts of Chicago
Girl Scouts of the USA: DuPage County Council
Girl Scouts of the USA: Illinois Crossroads Council
Girl Scouts of the USA: South Cook County Council
Girl Scouts of the USA: Sybaquay Council
Girl Scouts of the USA: Whispering Oaks
Glen Ellyn Youth and Family Counseling
Glencoe Junior High Project
Glencoe Youth Services
Glenkirk
Good Shepherd Center
Gorton Community Center
Grand Prairie Services
Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association
Greater DuPage-MYM
Habilitative Systems, Inc.
Harbour ,The
Harkness House for Children
HAVEN Youth & Family Services
Heathcare Alternatives Systems
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, The
Helping Hand Rehabilitation Center
Henry Booth House
Hephzibah
Highland Park Community Nursery School & Day Care
Hinsdale Community Service
Hope Community Services
Housing Options, Evanston, IL
Howard Area Community Center
Howard Brown Health Center
Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago
Infant Welfare Society of Evanston
Inspiration Café
Institute for Latino Progress
Jane Addams Hull House Association
Jane Addams Hull House Association (Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Cook County)
Jane Addams Resource Corporation
Japanese American Service Committee
Jayne Shover Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
John Howard Association
Jones Memorial Community Center
Josselyn Center For Mental Health
JUST of DuPage
Juvenile Protective Association
Kenneth Young Center
KidsMatter
Kid's Hope United (formerly Central Baptist Children's Home)
Korean American Community Services
Korean American Senior Center
L.E.A.D.
La Casa Norte
Lake County Council Against Sexual Assault (LACASA)
Lake County Haven
LARC
LaSalle Street CYCLE
Latin United Community Housing Association (L.U.C.H.A.)
Lawrence Hall Youth Services
Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, Inc.
Leadership Council For Metropolitan Open Communities
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
Lester And Rosalie Anixter Center
Leyden Family Service & MH Center
Life Span
Lifelink
Links - North Shore Youth Health Service
Little Friends
Little House of Glencoe
Lutheran Child & Family Services of Illinois
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Maine Center for Mental Health
Marcy-Newberry Association, Inc.
Mary Crane Center
Mental Health Association of North Shore
Methodist Youth Services, Inc.
Metropolitan Family Service: DuPage
Metropolitan Family Service: Southwest
Metropolitan Family Services
Metropolitan Family Services:Evanston & Skokie Val
Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation
Mujeres Latinas En Accion
NAMI of DuPage
National Able Network
National Black Nurses Association
National Kidney Foundation
NCO Youth & Family Services
Near North Health Service Corp. (Winfield Moody Health Center)
New Hope Center
Niles Twnshp Comm. Day Care Center
North Shore Senior Center
Northern Illinois Council on Alcoholism
Northwest CASA
Northwest Suburban Day Care and Toddler Center
Northwestern University Settlement
Oak Park and River Forest Infant Welfare Society
Oak Park-River Forest Day Nursery
Oak/Leyden Developmental Services
Omni Youth Services
Onward Neighborhood House
Open Door Clinic of Greater Elgin
Operation Uplift
Orchard Village
Organization Of The North East (ONE)
Outreach Community Ministries
PNRC
PADS Crisis Service
Palatine Twsp. Senior Citizens Council
Parenthesis
Park Lawn
Park Ridge Senior Center
Peer Services
Pillars Community Services
PLOWS Council on Aging
Polish American Association
Prairie State Legal Services: DuPage County
Prairie State Legal Services: Kane County
Prairie State Legal Services: Lake County
Presbyterian Homes
ProCare Centers
West Suburban Senior Services (Proviso Council on Aging)
Proviso-Leyden Council Community Action (PLCCA )
Ray Graham Association
Reba Early Learning Center
Renz Addiction Counseling Center
Respond Now
Restoration Ministries
Resurrection Project, The
Rogers Park Community Council
Safer Foundation
Salvation Army Metropolitan Division, The
Salvation Army: Chicago Heights
Salvation Army: Comm. Counseling Centers
Salvation Army: Des Plaines Corp.
Salvation Army: Golden Diners Club
Salvation Army: Norridge Citadel
Salvation Army: Suburban Service Extension
Salvation Army: Tempo Laramie
Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center
Sarah's Inn
SGA Youth & Family Services
Seguin Services
Senior Service Association
Seniors Action Service
Seniors Assistance Center
Serenity House
Sertoma Centre, Inc.
Sertoma Speech and Hearing Center
Shelter
Shore Comm. Ser. for Retarded Citizens
Shriver Center
Sokol Stickney
SOS Children's Villages Illinois
South East Alcohol & Drug Abuse Center
South Suburban Council on Alcoholism
South Suburban Family Shelter
South Suburban PADS
SouthStar Services
Southwest Community Services
Southwest Suburban Center on Aging
Southwest Women Working Together
St. Augustines Center for American Indians
St. Leonard's Ministries
Suicide Prevention Services
Teen Living Programs, Inc.
Tibetan Alliance of Chicago
Together We Cope
Tri-Con Child Care Center
Turning Point
USO of Illinois
United Way of America
Vietnamese Association of Illinois
Vision of Restoration
Volunteer Center
Volunteer Center of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff
Volunteer Center of New Trier Township
Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago
Warming House Youth Center (Youth Resource Foundation)
Way Back Inn, The
Wayne/Winfield Area Youth and Family Service (WAYS)
Well Child Center
Wesley Child Care Center
West DuPage Community Resource Center
West Suburban P.A.D.S.
Westside Holistic
Wings Program, The
Winnetka Community House
Winnetka Youth Organization
World Relief DuPage
Xilin
YMCA : Alfred Campanelli
YMCA : Elmhurst
YMCA : Network
YMCA : Heritage Group
YMCA : Indian Boundary
YMCA : Leaning Tower Family YMCA
YMCA : Lombard
YMCA : McGaw YMCA in Evanston
YMCA : Nicholas M. Lattof
YMCA : Oak Park-River Forest-Forest Park
YMCA : PAV in Berwyn
YMCA : Rich Port
YMCA : South Suburban
Youth Connection
Youth Guidance
Youth in Crisis
Youth Job Center of Evanston
Youth Organizations Umbrella (Y.O.U.)
Youth Outreach Services
Youth Service Project, Inc.
Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook
YWCA : DuPage District
YWCA : Elgin
YWCA : Evanston/North Shore
YWCA : South Suburban District
YWCA: Metropolitan Chicago