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    During normal business hours, you can make a donation via phone by calling Carla Iwanski, Customer Service Manager, at (312) 906-2343.
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    United Way
    75 Remittance Drive, Suite 5828
    Chicago, IL 60675-5828

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Your donation to United Way this year is more important than ever. Please help us address critical needs in our communities by giving all you can. No gift is too small and every nickel counts!

The combination of economic instability, severe budget cuts in state funding for health and human services and growing poverty has formed the perfect storm for families in need across Chicagoland. Your donation is needed more now than ever to help families in our region who are falling through the cracks.

  • Illinois has an 11% unemployment rate – one of the highest in the nation. Food pantry demand has escalated in many places around the region by 30% or more. We now see middle class folks trying to navigate the safety net system for the first time. And, our agencies are reporting that their donors are now becoming clients.
  • In the South Suburbs, for example, there are communities where unemployment approaches 27%, demand for emergency shelter is up by 50% and homelessness of children has increased by 300% over the past year.
  • Half of the students in our region do not graduate. Dropout rates are even higher for communities of color – in some areas approaching 60%
  • There are still communities in our territory where not all of the children are immunized before they go to school.
  • 25-30% of individuals under the poverty level have no source of usual medical care and in low income communities often 50% of children have no regular source of medical care.

Along side this growing need, capacity often does not exist where it’s needed most, and funding has significantly declined over the past year from both public and private sources.

Please Give NOW to help those who need it most.