All members and friends of the church are welcome to nominate organizations to receive the shared offering in 2022. Each chosen organization is featured for one month during 2022 and receives half of the money contributed in undesignated collections during the Sunday service for that month. We are looking for organizations in alignment with our UU values. They can be local, state, national, or international. These organizations should be ones you know and support, but not ones that you personally run or that employ you.
Organizations that received the shared offering in 2021 cannot receive it again in 2022. These organizations supported in 2021 are:
- Eastern Illinois Food Bank
- CU At Home
- Books To Prisoners
- Prairie Rivers Network
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Greater Community Aids Project
- First Followers
- Partner For People and Place (Jatrofa Projenou)
- Banks Bridgewater Lewis Fine Arts Academy
- DreAAm House
- MAIA Impact School (Guatemala)
The deadline for submitting a nomination is November 29. On Sunday, December 5 at 1 p.m. we will have a Zoom meeting to select the organizations we will support. There will be brief presentations by the nominators and all interested members and friends are invited to attend and vote!
Nomination form can be found here