Category: Fundraising

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 November 2023, we choose the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana.

In this month when so many people will celebrate a bounty of food on their tables, we want to extend that possibility to many more in our community who struggle to keep food in the house.

The mission of the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana is to serve as the primary resource for fighting hunger in Northwest Louisiana.

They do this in a number of ways:

• Facilitating distribution of food from multiple centers throughout our community
• Providing most of the food for the weekly Highland Blessing Dinner (helping that event to stretch their budget much further)

Every $10 donated to the food bank can provide $100 worth of food to hungry people — so let’s multiply our power together and give generously.

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 Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana and then put “GATP NOV 2023” or “Food Bank of NW Louisiana” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of November 2023 will go to the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana.

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

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 October 2023, we choose North Louisiana Interfaith — an organization of institutions working together to make life better for citizens of Northwest Louisiana.

All Souls is proud to be a member institution of Interfaith.

Projects include the current Pledge to Vote campaign and the upcoming launch of the Community Lighthouse Project.

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 North Louisiana Interfaith and then put “GATP OCT 2023” or “North Louisiana Interfaith” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of October 2023 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 an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.

For the month of September 2023, we choose Compassion for Lives.

Compassion for Lives is an organization dedicated to helping individuals reintegrate into the community after incarceration. They also work with veterans returning from wartime experience, and with at-risk youth.

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 Compassion for Lives and then put “GATP SEP 2023” or “Compassion for Lives” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of September 2023 will go to Compassion for Lives.

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

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 August 2023, we choose the OUTNorthLa Film Festival (formerly known as the North Louisiana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival).

The OUTNorthLA Film Festival returns to the Robinson Film Center after a forced three-year forced due to COVID.

Your give away the plate contribution will go toward All Souls’ sponsorship of the festival.

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 OUTNorthLA Film Festival and then put “GATP AUG 2023” or “OUTNorthLA Film Festival” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of August 2023 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 Film Festival” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to the OUTNorthLA Film Festival.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to the OUTNorthLA Film Festival, please put the amount you want going to the OUTNorthLA Film Festival on the memo line.

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 July 2023, we choose North Louisiana Interfaith (a community organization of institutions of which All Souls is a member).

Interfaith allows our congregation to accomplish many things we could not do alone — at both the local and statewide level.

The organization is non-partisan and intentionally crosses lines of race, religion, geography, and political affiliation.

Most recently, we secured funding from the Caddo Parish Commission for two pilot locations of the Community Lighthouse Project here in Caddo Parish.  Interfaith also launched a survey campaign to help emergency responders get to citizens in greatest need during the recent power outages.

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 North Louisiana Interfaith and then put “GATP JULY 2023” or “NORTH LOUISIANA INTERFAITH” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of July 2023 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 an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.

For the month of June 2023 (Pride Month), we choose the Philadelphia Center — the HIV/AIDS resource center for Northwest Louisiana, including Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Red River, Bienville, DeSoto, Sabine, and Natchitoches Parishes.

Along with a full range of services for people living with HIV/AIDS, the Philadelphia Center offers no-cost confidential testing for HIV, hepatitis C, syphilis, and other STIs to anyone in the community.

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 JUNE 2023” or “PHILADELPHIA CENTER” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of June 2023 will go to the Philadelphia Center.

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

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.

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 April 2023, we choose Highland Center Ministries.

As a member congregation of Highland Center Ministries, we designate that organization as our Give Away the Plate recipient twice each year.

Highland Center Ministries is a mosaic of churches and other organizations who join together to provide various ministries in the Highland neighborhood including the Highland Blessing Dinner, clothes closets for all ages, financial services through Pelican State Credit Union that provide low-cost loans and other banking services to keep citizens from falling prey to payday lenders, and free tax preparation services for anyone with an annual income of $55,000 or less.

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 APR 2023” or “HIGHLAND CENTER MINISTRIES” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of April 2023 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 Highland Center Ministries.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to 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 an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.

For the month of March 2023, we choose Home is Here Shreveport (based on the program by the same name in New Orleans).

All Souls members have joined with others in the community with the aim of sponsoring more newly arrived immigrants through a program called Home is Here.

In order to raise money to get our sponsorees who have settled in the community, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention has made it possible for us to raise money for Home is Here Shreveport through their non-profit organization.

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 MAR 2023” or “HOME IS HERE” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of March 2023 will go to 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 an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.

For the month of February 2023, we choose The Whitney Plantation Museum (near New Orleans in Wallace, Louisiana).

The Whitney Plantation Museum provides a different kind of plantation tour experience — one that tells the truth about the history and legacy of slavery in our nation.

The museum has suffered during the pandemic and in the most recent hurricanes

Here’s how to help preserve this vital link to a history we need to know as light and air are vital to healing.

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 Whitney Plantation Museum and then put “GATP FEB 2023” or “WHITNEY” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of February 2023 will go to the Whitney Plantation Museum.

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