Serving Connections in the Season of Giving: November 13, 2020
Try on one of these ideas and find a fit – Serving Connections for the Homeless in the Season of Giving
As the winter holiday season approaches, have you wondered how you and your family could tangibly help other community members? Do you find yourself torn between feeding the hungry or advocating to build affordable housing in Evanston?
UCE has started a partnership with Connections for the Homeless and their housing advocacy group, Joining Forces for Affordable Housing. You can work with UCE friends to do some task from a wide range of service work from making lunches, collecting specific clothing, working at Hilda’s place or working on a myriad of housing advocacy projects including advocacy work with our local and state governments. Whether your passion is food, housing, children’s issues, legal justice reform, mental health, or equity, there is a role for you in this project.
Below are two links that will give you background on volunteering efforts you can participate in – one link to advocacy tasks that you can do from home and one to more direct service tasks, like providing sack lunches or volunteering in the clothing closet. Some of these tasks are family friendly and some can be done comfortably by one adult alone at home. Some are easy (join an email list), and some are harder (attend a monthly meeting and report what happened).
Find one thing on these lists you can do before the year end and make your contribution to our UCE partners in justice and to the people they serve. Guaranteed to make your holiday brighter!
To explore where to begin with your preferred volunteer efforts, contact Carol Nielsen (carolnielsen2100@gmail.com) for direct service opportunities, Dale Griffin (dalecgriffin@comcast.net), Les Butler (wb1630@hotmail.com), or Judy LeFevour (judy.m.lefevour@gmail.com) for prison ministry support or Sarah Vanderwicken (vanderesq@mindspring.com) to discuss housing advocacy.