Guest at Your Table Donations

Watch for the opportunity to join fellow Unitarian Universalists across the country in upholding human rights work around the globe through a seasonal collection for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization advancing human rights together with an international community of grassroots partners and advocates.

Donate online, listing your congregation as the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua:
https://donate.uusc.org/give/75595/#!/donation/checkout

Your tax deductible donation of $40 or more earns you and your family annual UUSC membership benefits. Donations of $150 or more are eligible to be matched by the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, NY.

UUSC believes that the transformational solutions we need come from communities most directly impacted by injustice. More at uusc.org

Thanksgiving food drive

October 1 through November 8

Help provide holiday meals for our neighbors who seek help from the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry. Donated foods will fill Thanksgiving meal baskets.  Foods needed are: 

• Jello or pudding mixes
• Canned fruit & vegetables
• Sweet potatoes (canned or fresh)
• Cake or cookie mixes

Postcard writing campaign

UUCNC’s Green Sanctuary team again sent non-partisan postcards to voters through the Center for Common Ground, as recommended by UU the Vote, in an effort to combat voter suppression. Thanks to all who helped mail 600 postcards to voters in Georgia and North Carolina by writing postcards and/or by donating postcard stamps or stamp money.

From the Center for Common Ground website:

We contact every registered voter of color who has a chance to cast a ballot. We go to the voters that political campaigns always overlook because we know every voice deserves to be heard. Every year, voters tell us we are the first contact they have received about elections. Our work is not over until we know every voter has an equal chance to make their voice heard at the ballot box.

Click on the following link for more information, and watch the short video on the webpage to learn the basics: https://www.centerforcommonground.org/postcarding

Postcards were mailed between September 15 and 30.