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Full Length Campaign Video (2007)
Show the 2007 United Way of Metropolitan Chicago campaign video at all of your campaign events and in public spaces. This fast-moving, inspiring video showcases our outcomes-based approach to program funding as well as our groundbreaking initiative work.

United Way is Working (2007)
This inspiring two minute montage features agency clients, community leaders, volunteers and health and human service experts—sharing their experiences and describing the many tangible ways that "United Way is working" to change lives across Chicagoland.

Interactive Flash Presentations

These cutting-edge Flash presentations, created by generous pro bono support from the Energy BBDO ad agency, introduce donors to the everyday faces behind the needs in our local communities. Include their target links in your next campaign email!

Access to Healthcare (2007)

Crisis Support (2007)

Educational Achievement (2007)

Meet Matthew: Financial Stability (2007)
This one-minute video introduces Matthew, an at-risk teen who is staying on track and achieving her goals thanks to a United Way supported mentoring program.

Meet Brenda: Crisis Support (2007)
This one-minute video introduces Brenda, an at-risk teen who is staying on track and achieving her goals thanks to a United Way supported mentoring program.

Meet Monita: Access to Healthcare (2007)
This one-minute video introduces Monita, an at-risk teen who is staying on track and achieving her goals thanks to a United Way supported mentoring program.

Meet Jasmine: Educational Achievement (2007)
This one-minute video introduces Jasmine, an at-risk teen who is staying on track and achieving her goals thanks to a United Way supported mentoring program.

Meet Sue: Financial Stability (2007)
This one-minute video introduces Sue, a formerly homeless single mother who is back on her feet and caring for her family, thanks to the support of a United Way supported affordable housing program.

Hurricane Katrina: Crisis Recovery (2006)
This video follows the devastating Hurricanes of 2005, when over 7,000 men women and children from the Gulf States fled to Chicago. The United Way Crisis Recovery Fund made sure the survivors were on the path to self-sufficiency.

Meet Deborah: Educational Achievement (2006)
This one-minute video introduces Deborah, a former at-risk teen who—thanks to a United Way supported after-school program—is beating the odds and on the road to success.

Meet James: Financial Stability (2006)
This video features James, who has turned from a life of drugs and gangs and become a true father for his daughter thanks to a United Way funded program.

Meet Smokey: Access to Healthcare (2006)
This video features Smokey, a retired factory worker who suffered a stroke and found himself unable to perform simple tasks. Through a United Way funded senior outreach program, Smokey was able to move to an minimum assisted living facility.

Meet Starla: Crisis Support (2006)
Watch this one minute video to meet Starla, a single mother, who after a traumatic divorce found affordable housing to raise her two boys and begin her family's future on solid ground.

Issue Area Flash Animations

The following flash movies provide interesting facts about the issues in our region. Include their links in your next campaign email!

Financial Stability (2006)

Affordable Housing (2006)

Access to Healthcare (2006)

Crisis Support (2006)

Educational Achievement (2006)