The Shared Offering Team facilitated a zoom meeting on Sunday, November 12th to choose organizations aligned with our UU values that would receive the shared offering for January through November of 2024 (December is always reserved for our partner’s churches).
About 30 members and kids from the church attended the meeting to select the organizations for 2024 and heard a two-minute presentation by the person nominating the organizations, followed by a one-minute Q&A. We had the great pleasure of 3 nominations and presentations from our kids and youth this year with the help of their teachers and REE staff.
The team is happy to announce the 11 organizations that will receive 50% of the plate/online donations for the months designated below.
| Month | Organization |
| January | Palestine Children’s Relief Fund |
| February | Immigrant Services of Champaign Urbana |
| March | Midwest Access Coalition |
| April | Green Team Academy |
| May | Courage Connection |
| June | Uniting Pride of Champaign County |
| July | Feeding Our Kids |
| August | Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center |
| September | NAACP of Champaign County |
| October | Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center |
| November | Midwest SOARRING Foundation |
The committee wishes to thank ALL the people who submitted organizations for consideration, and to those who attended the meeting. Every organization nominated is doing good work and we wish we could support them all. Remember that organizations can not be chosen 2 years in a row so if your organization was not chosen this year, please submit your organization again next year.
The committee is small but mighty and we would like to invite others to join next year so we can be even ‘mightier’. Please contact the Shared Offering team at sharedoffering@uucuc.org if you are interested.
Thank You,
Shared Offering Committee
Lindsey Sharp
Sandy Hannum
Jim Hannum
Pat McClard