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 September 2024, we choose Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation of Louisiana (WERLA).
WERLA is a state and federally licensed 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release sick, injured, or orphaned wildlife back into their natural habitat.
Working closely with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
and local communities, they take in a care for roughly several hundred wild animals from Louisiana each year.
To give the animals with the best chance for rehabilitation, they regularly network with local, private, state-licensed rehabilitators to provide individualized care for different species of animals.
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 WERLA and then put “GATP SEP 2024” or “WERLA” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of September 2024 will go to WERLA.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “WERLA” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to WERLA. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to WERLA, please put the amount you want going to WERLA on the memo line.
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