Please take a look at a new section of our website where we will be posting our press releases. You can go here to read about our two newest releases. One focuses on UWDA volunteer Phil Smith winning United Way of Metropolitan Chicago’s Volunteer of the Year award at the United Way Community Celebration. The other is about UWDA’s Top 5 Corporate Citizens. Once again, Kellogg Company of Elmhurst and Oak Brook is the #1 Top Corporate Citizen.

Get ready for another night at the ballpark with United Way at the fourth annual “Salute to United Way Supporters” at U.S. Cellular Field on August 18. Come watch the Chicago White Sox slug it out against the Kansas City Royals where United Way and the White Sox have reserved 1,000 ground level bleacher seats directly behind left and center field. You can purchase tickets for just $21 which includes a LIVE UNITED T-shirt and the chance to walk around the warning track on the field for a pre-game LIVE UNITED parade.

Companies can purchase up to 150 tickets on a first-come, first-served basis and are encouraged to consider using these tickets to recognize their $1,000+ Leadership Givers or their Campaign Committee and Solicitors.

Tickets will be limited so you are encouraged to place your order early. Last year, more than 1,650 United Way supporters from 70 companies and organizations sat together at U.S. Cellular Field.

If you have any questions, please email Barbara Kaplinsky at BKaplinsky@uw-mc.org, or call 312.906.2406. Thank you for your continued support and commitment to United Way.

United Way of the DuPage Area’s annual board meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on June 17th, 2009 at The Community House in Hinsdale.

Free Foreclosure Prevention Help May 30th
DuPage County Administration Building

Workshop Helps Homeowners Get Assistance and Avoid Scams

Struggling DuPage County homeowners can get information on President Obama’s Making Home Affordable foreclosure prevention initiatives and other strategies to help them save their homes at a free workshop Saturday, May 30, 2009, from 2 pm to 4 pm at the DuPage County Administration Building Auditorium, 421 N. County Farm Road, Wheaton, IL 60187. The workshop is sponsored by the DuPage Homeownership Center, a nonprofit HUD-certified housing counseling agency serving DuPage County.

“This free workshop will give homeowners practical advice on the foreclosure prevention options currently available and valuable tips on how to get organized to work with their lenders,” said Dru Bergman, Executive Director of the DuPage Homeownership Center. “We’ll also have important consumer alerts about avoiding scam artists who are preying on homeowners in crisis.”

Although the workshop is free, reservations are required. For reservations or information, call the DuPage Homeownership Center at (630) 260-2500, ext. 2501, or visit their website at www.dhoc.org.

Welcoming Day DuPage

This is a historic event as DuPage County holds the second Illinois Welcoming Day for New Americans. Welcoming Day is to provide services in partnership with state agencies, local community organizations and educational entities that support self-sufficiency to our immigrant and refugee residents.

Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Location: College of DuPage
K Building, Commons Area
425 Fawell Boulevard
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

FREE health screenings (blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, dental) 

Information and Services provided regarding Health, Seniors, Education, Employment, Housing, Public Aid

All provided by the State of Illinois, Welcome Center of Melrose Park, College of DuPage, and DuPage County local community-based agencies and organizations.

For more information, please contact:
Welcome Center of Melrose Park
(708) 338-6500

Many are concerned about the recent surge of probable H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu) cases in the United States. For information and factsheets about the H1N1 Virus and to see what Illinois and DuPage County governments are doing to protect residents, please visit www.protectdupage.org. You may also call the DuPage County Health Department at 630-682-7400.

For answers to frequently asked questions, please take a look at this document.