{"id":11285,"date":"2022-04-30T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T01:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=11285"},"modified":"2022-04-30T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T01:38:56","slug":"united-way-of-northwest-louisiana-may-2022-give-away-the-plate-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2022\/04\/30\/united-way-of-northwest-louisiana-may-2022-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"United Way of Northwest Louisiana &#8212; May 2022 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May2022UnitedWayGiveAwayThePlate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11288\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May2022UnitedWayGiveAwayThePlate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"901\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May2022UnitedWayGiveAwayThePlate.jpg 901w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May2022UnitedWayGiveAwayThePlate-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May2022UnitedWayGiveAwayThePlate-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Our give-away-the-plate recipient for May 2022 is the <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwaynwla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Way of Northwest Louisiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/beliefs\/what-we-believe\/principles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unitarian Universalist principles and values<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time-honored national organization works locally to help children succeed in school, beginning with their participation in <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwaynwla.org\/our-focus\/education\/dolly-partons-imagination-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dolly Parton&#8217;s Imagination Library<\/a>, giving free books to children from birth to age 5 throughout the region, and continuing throughout the school years with support for each phase of the academic journey through graduation and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwaynwla.org\/our-focus\/financial-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bank On Northwest Louisiana<\/a> program provides banking services and low-cost loans to underbanked individuals to help them avoid the payday lenders and improve their financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>They have <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwaynwla.org\/our-focus\/health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">programs to improve access to health care for children and adults<\/a>, and they work to <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwaynwla.org\/our-focus\/essential-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meet immediate needs of people in crisis<\/a>, whether from natural disasters or more personal crises such as domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two ways to donate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Online<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsuu.breezechms.com\/give\/online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to our donation site using this link<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are paying your pledge, select &#8220;2022 Pledges&#8221; and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.\u00a0 Then select &#8220;Collection Plate&#8221; to give the amount you would like to give to the United Way.\u00a0 All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2022 will go to the United Way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Offline<\/strong> &#8212; Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA\u00a0 71106.\u00a0 Please put &#8220;United Way&#8221; on the memo line of the check if\u00a0 you want to have 100% of this check go to the United Way.\u00a0 If you want less than 100% of the check to go to the United Way, please put the amount you want going to the United Way on the memo line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our give-away-the-plate recipient for May 2022 is the United Way of Northwest Louisiana. 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. This time-honored national organization works locally to help children succeed in school, beginning with their participation in Dolly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2022\/04\/30\/united-way-of-northwest-louisiana-may-2022-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Way of Northwest Louisiana &#8212; May 2022 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11289,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions\/11289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}