Category: Fundraising

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of August 2025, we choose Red River Radio — our local source of unbiased in-depth news and current events, a wide variety of music including live music with local musicians, thoughtful local programming (“Illuminations” and “About Faith“), and Saturday morning laughs with “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.”

The federal government is withdrawing funding from public media so this is an especially important time to show our support.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Red River Radio and then put “GATP AUG 2025” or “Red River Radio” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of August 2025 will go to Red River Radio.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “Red River Radio” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Red River Radio.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Red River Radio, please put the amount you want going to Red River Radio on the memo line.

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of July 2025, we choose North Louisiana Interfaith, a broad-based coalition of congregations and other institutions who work intentionally across lines of faith, race, geography, economics, and politics to create real change in our local community and across our state.

The picture above reflects the culmination of yet another Interfaith victory — the ribbon cutting of the second Community Lighthouse in Shreveport (opening another solar-powered grid resilience hub which will serve as a life-saving haven for our citizens in times of multi-day power outages).

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to North Louisiana Interfaith and then put “GATP JUL 2025” or “North Louisiana Interfaith” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of July 2025 will go to North Louisiana Interfaith.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “North Louisiana Interfaith” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to North Louisiana Interfaith.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to North Louisiana Interfaith, please put the amount you want going to North Louisiana Interfaith on the memo line.

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of June 2025, we choose the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

This film festival is North Louisiana’s acclaimed LGBTQ film festival which returns 5-11 September 2025.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to OutNorthLA and then put “GATP JUN 2025” or “OutNorthLA” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of June 2025 will go to the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “OutNorthLA” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to OutNorthLA.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to OutNorthLA, please put the amount you want going to OutNorthLA on the memo line.

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of May 2025, we choose Shreveport Green.

Shreveport Green programs include:

• Urban Farms and MLK Community Garden
• City Wide Cleanup Days
• Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Days
• A Mobile Market providing fresh food to food deserts throughout our community
• The ShreveCorps program through AmeriCorps
• Trees and Urban Forestry

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Shreveport Green and then put “GATP MAY 2025” or “Shreveport Green” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2025 will go to Shreveport Green.

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 Green” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Shreveport Green.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Shreveport Green, please put the amount you want going to Shreveport Green on the memo line.

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of April 2025, we choose Volunteers for Youth Justice.

As their mission statement says, Volunteers for Youth Justice seeks to “provide a caring community for children, youth, and families in crisis” and they do so through many programs:

• CASA Volunteers (Court Appointed Special Advocates for children in foster care)
• FINS program (Families in Need of Services)
• Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®)
• Truancy Assessment Service Center
• Jump Start Program and the youth services provided by them

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Volunteers for Youth Justice and then put “GATP APR 2025” or “Volunteers for Youth Justice” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of April 2025 will go to the Volunteers for Youth Justice.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “Volunteers for Youth Justice” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Volunteers for Youth Justice.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Volunteers for Youth Justice, please put the amount you want going to Volunteers for Youth Justice on the memo line.

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of March 2025, we choose Home is Here Shreveport through Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention.

Our Home is Here group is currently raising money for an asylum seeker whose court hearing will be coming up in June 2025.

This is a hardworking person — currently working two jobs legally, learning English, and has even passed their driving test (despite the fact that their interpreter did not show up that day).

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Home is Here Shreveport and then put “GATP MAR 2025” or “Home is Here Shreveport” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of March 2025 will go to the Home is Here Shreveport.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “Home is Here Shreveport” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Home is Here Shreveport.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Home is Here Shreveport, please put the amount you want going to Home is Here Shreveport on the memo line.

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of February 2025, we choose the Highland Center Ministries (All Souls is also a member organization of the Highland Center Ministries).

Along with the weekly Highland Blessing Dinner (where All Souls members volunteer on the first Thursday of each month), Highland Center Ministries provides:

• Clothing closets for all ages and genders
• Senior lunch on Tuesdays
• Thrift store with all kinds of bargains
• Partnership with Pelican Credit Union to help people avoid predatory lenders
• Home for St. Francis Episcopal Church for the Highlands
• Free tax preparation service for anyone making $67,000 or less annually

And the Highland Center Ministries makes its home in the Highland Center building which houses Basic Necessities (a diaper and period products bank), the Goldman School, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, and some small local business start-ups.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Highland Center Ministries and then put “GATP FEB 2025” or “Highland Center Ministries” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of February 2025 will go to the Highland Center Ministries.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “Highland Center Ministries” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to the Highland Center Ministries.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to the Highland Center Ministries, please put the amount you want going to Highland Center Ministries on the memo line.

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of January 2025, we choose the New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

Additional information on the New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund can be found here.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund and then put “GATP JAN 2025” or “New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of January 2025 will go to New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund, please put the amount you want going to New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund on the memo line.