The Shared Offering Team facilitated a zoom meeting on Sunday, November 13th to choose organizations aligned with our UU values that would receive the shared offering for January through November of 2023 (December is always reserved for our partners churches).
21 members of the church attended the meeting to select the organizations for 2023 and heard a two minute presentation by the person nominating the organizations, followed by a one minute Q&A.
The committee is happy to announce the 11 organizations that will receive 50% of the plate/online donations for the months designated below.
| Organization name | Month |
| Chicago Abortion Fund | January |
| DREAAM | February |
| Randolph Street Community Garden | March |
| Champaign County CASA | April |
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | May |
| Community Choices | June |
| Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners | July |
| First Followers Reentry Program | August |
| Brave Trails | September |
| Survivor Resource Center | October |
| Greater Community AIDS Project – GCAP | November |
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 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 a even ‘mightier’. Please contact the Shared Offering team at sharedoffering@uucuc.org if you are interested.
Thank You,
Shared Offering Committee
- Pat DeWalt
- Debra Karplus
- Lindsey Sharp
- Sandy Hannum
- Jim Hannum
- Pat McClard