Category: Social Justice

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 North Louisiana Interfaith 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.

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 December 2024, we choose North Louisiana Interfaith.

Interfaith is a broad-based organization whose members are institutions (including All Souls).

Over the years, we have realized that All Souls can do our most effective work in the community when we partner with others and interfaith is one of those partnerships we value highly.

Recently, Interfaith has secured funding from the Caddo Parish Commission to build four Community Lighthouses in the city of Shreveport (one already up and running at Morning Star Baptist Church).

Community Lighthouses are solar-powered grid resilience hubs that can save lives during multiday power outages in the aftermath of large disasters (tornadoes, summer storms, or winter storms).

Interfaith is currently beginning the groundwork to seek support for two locations in Bossier City as well.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2024 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 DEC 2024” or “North Louisiana Interfaith” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of December 2024 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 November 2024, we choose the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana.

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

Their vision is to ultimately end hunger in Northwest Louisiana by ensuring a consolidated network of effective food collection and distribution which will provide universal access to food for the needy in our communities.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2024 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 2024” or “Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of November 2024 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 Northwest 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.