Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.
For the month of May 2023, we choose Shreveport Mutual Aid as our give-away-the-plate recipient.
Shreveport Mutual Aid (website / Facebook) is “the act of a community becoming empowered to meet each other’s needs by caring for one another and organizing against the unjust systems that ignored those needs in the first place.”
It takes many forms in the many places where it is practiced.
Shreveport Mutual Aid has food shares every Saturday from 1000 AM to 1200 PM at Caddo Common Park in Shreveport, Louisiana.
They have establishing a Little Free Library on Texas Avenue.
And they are currently collecting warm weather supplies for unhoused people.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2023 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Home is Here Shreveport and then put “GATP MAY 2023” or “SHREVEPORT MUTUAL AID” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2023 will go to the Shreveport Mutual Aid.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Shreveport Mutual Aid” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to Shreveport Mutual Aid. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Shreveport Mutual Aid, please put the amount you want going to Shreveport Mutual Aid on the memo line.
