Category ‘Dupage/West Cook’
United Way of DuPage/West Cook hosted its first community event on October 26th at Pleasant Home in Oak Park where Wendy DuBoe, Chief Operating Officer at United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, spoke to local donors, partner organizations, board members and volunteers about United Way’s 10-year vision, LIVE UNITED 2020.
The focus of the event was to present how United Way is advancing the common good in our three focus areas income, education and health throughout the Oak Park/River Forest/Forest...
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Posted by Beth Esler | 10/27/11 12:03 PM UTC | Related: Blog | Dupage/West Cook | Education
The Southeast DuPage/Health Initative (SDHI), now in its second year of operation, is a highly innovative collaboration between Access DuPage, the DuPage Community Clinic, the DuPage Health Department and United Way of Dupage/West Cook that continues to help close the gap in access to holistic, affordable health services throughout DuPage County.
SDHI has connected over 2,200 low-income adults to a trusted medical home and improved the health of communities across the entire county, just in the...
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Posted by Beth Esler | 10/26/11 2:49 PM UTC | Related: Blog | Dupage/West Cook | Health
After a year of planning, United Way of DuPage/West Cook, in partnership with United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, was preparing to launch LIVE UNITED 2020, a decade long vision to transform communities of greatest need throughout our region. At the same time, the OfficeMax Foundation was gearing up to make one of their largest philanthropic investments into a school sponsorship. United Way had recently identified the Berwyn region as one of its target communities.
In a neighborhood where 63% of...
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Posted by Alix Matzke | 10/5/11 10:55 AM UTC | Related: Blog | Dupage/West Cook | Education | Give | Income
I believe every child deserves the chance to succeed. Millions of children in low-income neighborhoods across the country are at risk of school failure before they even enter kindergarten.
United Way is kicking off our early childhood education investments by participating in the 2011 Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign. This national effort will mobilize adults and children to close the early education achievement gap by setting a world record across the country for the largest shared reading...
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Posted by Beth Esler | 10/5/11 10:52 AM UTC | Related: Advocate | Blog | Dupage/West Cook | Education
There are some days you wake up and are proud and thankful for where you work. The day we found out OfficeMax had chosen to partner with United Way on a community school grant was one of those days.
I have had the pleasure of working with OfficeMax on their philanthropic initiatives for the past several years. One thing that has always been prominent in the conversations with them is that they truly understand the value of a good education. That is why, as part of their corporate responsibility...
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Posted by Beth Esler | 9/15/11 1:21 PM UTC | Related: Dupage/West Cook
Jessica is nine; she likes butterflies and the color purple. She dreams of traveling the world and being a singer. She is part of a single-parent family, and there is never a dull moment with her four-year old brother and her mother’s full-time job as an elderly care-giver.
I am her mentor. I go once a week to Willowbrook Corner and the community center in the housing complex where she lives. Although just miles from the affluent communities of Burr Ridge and Hinsdale in DuPage County, this is...
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Posted by Alix Matzke | 7/25/11 8:39 AM UTC | Related: Blog | Dupage/West Cook | Education
