United Way of Metro Chicago

United Way of Metro Chicago is a nonprofit organization that brings together businesses, government, nonprofits, and agency and community leaders to deliver funding, resources, and expertise to nonprofit organizations across greater Chicago. We work alongside our partners at the neighborhood level to ensure individuals and families can meet their basic needs and support our agency and community partners' goals for transformation in their neighborhoods.

At United Way, we believe that individuals and families living in every zip code, and of every race, deserve the same opportunities for success. Through our dual approach strategy of working with community partners to meet our neighbors’ basic needs and rebuild neighborhoods to be stronger and more equitable, we can make that possible. 

United Way has worked side-by-side with agency and community organizations for more than 80 years, and in individual neighborhoods across Chicago since 2013 through our Neighborhood Network Initiative. We work alongside our partners to solve community priorities and build local infrastructure to respond to their neighborhood’s most pressing needs – and then we help scale that across the region. We also connect donors and organizations that want to invest in the Chicago region with opportunities to make an impact. 

In short, United Way is uniquely positioned to bring all the people, organizations, and groups to the table to make meaningful change. We are there for our neighbors in their time of need and we work alongside neighborhoods to reverse the effects of decades of disinvestment and improve health, education and financial outcomes to build a stronger, more equitable Chicago region.