by Admin | Aug 7, 2018 | Inreach/Outreach News
August Recipients
August 5: Ventura Homeless Prevention proceeds go directly to residents of the homes and apartment buildings destroyed by the fire and flood. All funds are dedicated to supporting long-term recovery and re-building efforts for low-income families affected by the fire and flood
August 12: Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Ventura County. Our Mission is to provide all children facing adversity with professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. Funding would allow us to continue to expand our mentoring program and ensure its continued success in helping children who face adversity.
August 19: Citizens for Responsible Oil and Gas. Our mission is to defend communities and wild places from the adverse impacts of oil and gas activities. Funding will build our organization’s capacity to educate the public and decision makers about risks to air quality, water and soil
August 26: UUCV Inreach/Outreach to help those in our own congregation or someone in the wider community who is in need of assistance.
Reccent Inreach/Outreach Recipients
Your generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing.
June 24: LUYV Park Outreach Team – $818.41
July 1: City Center Tansitional Living – $660.25
July 8: Innocence Project – $713.24
July 15: LUYV Park Outreach Team– $725.08
Thanks so much for all your generous donations!
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by Admin | Jul 3, 2018 | Inreach/Outreach News
July 1: City Center is a transitional living center that provides a total of 38 rooms (recently added 8 rooms) on Thompson Blvd. in Ventura for homeless families. It gives them a place to live while they rebuild their lives. Volunteers have built a playground, refurbished rooms, and serve as mentors. The Ventura YMCA provides programs for the families and children. Programs and services truly help people transform their lives and return to gainful employment. This non-profit is supported by a combination of donations from local businesses, churches, and private donors.
July 8: Innocence Project, founded in 1992 Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. Their mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.
July 15: LUYV UUCV’s Park Outreach Team helps the homeless men and women who are in our city parks find their way forward in life and meet them as friends and as people worthy of dignity, respect, and life necessities. The team provides bus passes necessary to access One Stop where they can get health coverage, food stamps, assistance with jobs, and help from case managers and sign up for all available services. This work is a reminder there is no available year-round shelter, no place for homeless to go during the day and a lack of adequate low-income housing.
July 22: UUCV Inreach/Outreach The fund provides assistance to those in our local and church community who may be in need of help
July 29: Salvation Army for Safe Sleep People who are homeless are often forced to let their car registration, driver’s license and car insurance lapse for lack of funds. Donations will help people in the Safe Sleep program get insurance, license and/or registration as needed and allow expansion of case management services for the participants of the Safe Sleep Program. The hope is the case manager can help the client move forward in their process to gain self-sufficiency and move into more permanent housing.
May and June Inreach/Outreach Recipients
Your generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing.
May 27: Heart to Heart – $781.29
June 3: PSWD: YRUU – $626.55
June 10: LUYV Park Outreach – $855.85
June 17: Ventura Homeless Prevention Fund- $673
Thanks so much for all your generous donations!
by Admin | Jun 11, 2018 | Inreach/Outreach News
These organizations will receive the collection from the service on the following dates:
June 3: PSWD (Pacific Southwest District) YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalists) Board is the governing body of the youth agency in the Pacific Southwest District of the UUA. The organization empowers youth and adults working with youth in their spiritual growth; encourages cooperation between local, district, and regional youth groups; provides a greater understanding of Unitarian Universalism; encourages development of independence and responsibility; and assists youth in developing an effective system of social action. Our goal is to involve all youth in life changing programming and foster the growth of lifelong Unitarian Universalists.
June 10: LUYV Park Outreach helps the homeless men and women who are in our city parks find their way forward in life as we meet them as friends and as people worthy of dignity, respect, and life necessities. We provide bus passes necessary to access One Stop where they can get health coverage, food stamps, assistance with jobs, and help from case managers as well as sign up for all available services. We help people with whom we form relationships complete the steps they need to take to move toward housing. This work is a reminder that there is no available year-round shelter, no place for homeless to go during the day and a lack of adequate low-income housing.
June 17: Ventura Homeless Prevention Fund 100% of your donation goes to prevent homelessness for people currently residing in the city of Ventura. The fund pays the rent which a means a temporary loss of income or one-time unexpected expense for a hospital stay, car repair or funeral does not result in eviction. 50% of Ventura’s homelessness can be PREVENTED simply by keeping people in their current residence when an emergency expense arises.
June 24: UUCV Inreach/Outreach The fund provides assistance to those in our local and church community who may be in need of help.
Recent Inreach/Outreach Recipients
Your generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing.
April 22: Ventura Homeless Prevention – $790.13
April 29: SMART Recovery – $622.75
May 6: ACLU Summer Institute – $655.50
May 13: National Center for Science Education– $420.13
Thanks so much for all your generous donations.
by Admin | May 3, 2018 | Inreach/Outreach News
May 6: ACLU Foundation The ACLU’s Summer Advocacy Institute brings together a diverse group of students entering their junior and senior years of high school from across the United States to participate in an advanced, firsthand learning experience for the next generation of social justice advocates. In an intensive 8-day program, students will learn directly from lawyers, lobbyists, community activists, and other experts working to defend the civil rights and liberties critical to a free and open society. Tuition is $2,895, so it is imperative scholarships be available for the many talented and committed students with financial need.
May 13: National Center for Science Education (NCSE) works with teachers, parents, scientists, and concerned scientists at the local, state, and national level to ensure topics that are socially but not scientifically controversial—in particular evolution and climate change—are taught accurately, honestly, and confidently. NCSE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Association of Science Teachers.
May 20: CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy), a Ventura based nonprofit that reaches out to and trains and supports youth, adults and families to speak up for justice! CAUSE works to protect immigrant rights; increase farmworker and other low-wage worker justice; put an end to new fossil fuel power plants locally, protect renters’ rights; advocate for affordable housing and more!
May 24: Heart to Heart houses durable goods from the community so families can “shop” for items they desperately need to provide for the children placed in their care. At no cost to the families, we provide clothes, backpacks, beds, cribs, strollers, baby and child-sized furniture to families who suddenly find themselves taking care of foster children or members of their extended family.
Inreach/Outreach Recipients
Your generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing.
- March 25: Camp de Benneville – $746.50
- April 1: LUYV: Safe Sleep – $975.75
- April 8: United Way: Thomas Fire Fund – $818
- April 15: Humane Society – $834.95
Thanks so much for all your generous donations!
by Admin | Apr 2, 2018 | Inreach/Outreach News
April Inreach/Outreach Recipients
- April 1: LUYV: Safe Sleep. People who are homeless are often forced to let their car registration, driver’s license and car insurance lapse for lack of funds. Donations will help people in the Safe Sleep program get insurance, license and/or registration as needed. Two thirds of our Safe Sleep guests have moved on to some form of housing through participating in the program.
- April 8: Thomas Fire Fund proceeds go directly to residents of the homes and apartment buildings destroyed by the fire and flood. All funds are dedicated to supporting long-term recovery and re-building efforts for low-income families affected by the fire and flood.
- April 15: Humane Society of Ventura County, a private non-profit founded in 1932, not affiliated with any national animal welfare organizations. They provide animals with loving care, feeding and veterinary treatment 24/7/365. Funds are needed to care for animals displaced by The Thomas Fire.
- April 22: Ventura Homeless Prevention proceeds go directly to residents of the homes and apartment buildings destroyed by the fire and flood. All funds are dedicated to supporting long-term recovery and re-building efforts for low-income families affected by the fire and flood.
- April 29: SMART Recovery Your donation will go toward ensuring the group can meet weekly for a full year. Those attending the group learn to use essential self-empowerment and self-reliance tools that enable them to recover from addictive behaviors that are harmful to their health or life balance.
Your ongoing generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing.
- February 18: Winter Warming Shelter – $848.17
- February 25: Winter Warming Shelter – $1,017.33
- March 4: Riverhaven Tuff Sheds – $2,052.01
- March 11: Riverhaven Tuff Sheds – $1,250.35
Thanks so much for all your generous donations!
by Admin | Feb 27, 2018 | Inreach/Outreach News
“Love only grows by sharing.” Brian Tracy
March Inreach/Outreach Recipients
- March 4: Humane Society of Ventura County, a private non-profit founded in 1932, not affiliated with any national animal welfare organizations. They provide animals with loving care, feeding and veterinary treatment 24/7/365. Funds are needed to care for animals displaced by The Thomas Fire.
- March 11: Camp de Benneville Pines to offer a scholarship to a youth or an adult who is unable to afford the cost of attending camp. The scholarship would be available for an individual to attend a youth camp, or an adult music, drama or family camp.
- March 18: LUYV: Safe Sleep program to help people whose cars are their only homes with insurance, registration, or maintenance so that they don’t lose their only home through impounds and tickets.
- March 25: Thomas Fire Fund proceeds go directly to residents of the homes and apartment buildings destroyed by the fire and flood. All funds are dedicated to supporting long-term recovery and re-building efforts for low-income families affected by the fire and flood.
Your generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing.
January and February plate collections:
- Jan. 28: Dig Deep Water – $1,078.71
- Feb. 4: Family Promise – $761
- Feb. 11: Southern Poverty Law Center – $630.81
- Feb. 18: West County Winter Warming Shelter – $848.17
Thanks for all your donations!
