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Secretary’s Challenge Accepted for Santa Clara County

UnitedWaySV has accepted U.S. Dept. of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' "Secretary's Challenge" to boost children's enrollment in health insurance. In Santa Clara County, more than 18,000 children are uninsured, often because parents don't know they're eligible. UnitedWaySV will accept the Challenge by undertaking activities that will cut red tape by simplifying enrollment and renewal in Healthy Families and Medi-Cal and support the passing of Measure A on the November 2010 ballot. For more information on how you can join us and take action to keep our children healthy, contact Megan Tracz.

Watch It Live...Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge Press Conference

Sept 3 at 6:30 a.m.: Watch United Way take the "Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge" at a national press conference with both Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Hear about children's participation in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at the state level and more.

Board Approves Endorsement of Measure A - Healthy Kids

UnitedWaySV's Board of Directors recently endorsed Measure A, the Santa Clara County Healthy Kids Parcel Tax, on the November 2010 ballot. Passage of Measure A is necessary to prevent thousands of children from losing their insurance and to ensure that all eligible county children have access to health coverage including preventative healthcare services, early detection and treatment. Support of this measure aligns with UnitedWaySV's 2013 goal of providing 100% of local children with access to routine health care. Email Megan Tracz if you'd like to support efforts to pass Measure A.

U.S. Dept. of Justice Accredits SIREN

Congratulations to United Way partner agency, SIREN (Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network) on receiving approval to provide quality, low-cost immigration legal services to low-income immigrants in Santa Clara County. According to Tuan Nguyen, Immigrant Services Program Director, SIREN intends to open its legal doors to the community on October 1, with a focus on family visa and domestic violence petitioning. United Way supports programs like SIREN because gaining citizenship helps local people increase their financial stability and independence through expanded employment opportunities.

Creating Opportunities
for Better Lives for All in Silicon Valley

Advancing the Common Good

Everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health. That's why United Way's work is focused on the building blocks for a good life:

Helping Children and Youth

Achieve Their Potential

Through Education Programs

Promoting Financial Stability
and Independence Through

Education and Programs

Improving People's Health

Through Advocacy and
Partnerships & Coalitions

Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time
and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all
connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in
school, when families are financially stable, when people are healthy.

United Way’s goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the
underlying causes of these problems. Living united means being a part
of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to
create a brighter future.

Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.

United Way to Invest
$2,340,000
to Fund 44 Programs
that Improve the
Lives of Local People

United Way Silicon Valley's Goal

Create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying
causes of these problems.

~ Just Released ~

Report to the community

6-Month Highlights

(July - December 2009)
(2-pages - PDF)

~ Available to Downloard ~

2008-2009
Report to the Community
(20-pages - PDF)

A United Way Program

For Everyday Needs &
in Times of Crisis

~ Additional Information ~

2007-2008
Report to the Community

Full 16-Report (pdf)

One-Page Summary (pdf)

and

Reports/Assessment Research Data