by Admin | Feb 2, 2018 | Inreach/Outreach News
“Love only grows by sharing.” Brian Tracy
Your generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing.
Dec 17: UU Justice Ministry of California – $682.48
Dec 24: Turning Point Foundation – $544
Dec 24: Motel rooms for Safe Steep guests at Xmas – $981
Dec. 31: LUYV Family to Family – $706.94
Jan 7: No More Deaths (UU Church of Tucson) – $913
Jan 14: UUCV Inreach/Outreach – $1,292,26
Jan 21: Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County – $880.80
February Inreach/Outreach Recipients
Feb. 4: Family Promise of West Ventura County to provide temporary housing for homeless children and their families at area churches as well as case management leading to a return to housing.
Feb. 11: Southern Poverty Law Center to fight hate and bigotry and seek justice for the most vulnerable members of our society, using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy,
Feb. 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.
Feb. 25: 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.
Thanks for all your donations!
by Admin | Jan 1, 2018 | Inreach/Outreach News
“Love only grows by sharing.” Brian Tracy
Your generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing.
Nov. 5: UU Church of Ventura Inreach/Outreach fund – $726
Nov. 12: Southern Poverty Law Center – $813.97
Nov. 19: LUYV: Safe Sleep program – $840.60
Nov. 26: Turning Point Foundation – $813.95
Dec. 3: UUSC: Guest at Your Table – $709
Dec. 10: Park Outreach Team – $913
January Inreach/Outreach Recipients
Jan. 7: No More Deaths is a humanitarian effort of the UU of Tucson Arizona dedicated to stepping up efforts to stop the deaths of migrants in the desert and to achieving the enactment of immigration reform.
Jan. 14: UUCV Inreach/Outreach Fund to help those in our own congregation or someone in the wider community who is in need of assistance.
Jan. 21: Habitat for Humanity uses volunteer labor to help low-income families build their own homes on land secured by this non-profit through grants and donations.
Jan. 28: Dig Deep Water works to ensure that every American has clean running water. They empower American communities to build and manage low-cost systems that bring safe, hot and cold water into homes, schools and community centers and to measurably improve human rights standards like health, gender equity and economic development.
Thanks for all your donations
by Kitty Merrill | Dec 4, 2017 | Inreach/Outreach News
“For it is in giving that we receive.” Francis of Assisi
Your generosity toward those who ask for our help continues to be amazing. The congregation donated $3,706 during late October and early November to support: a new organization’s preschool and therapeutic services, Ventura County’s indigenous immigrant community, homelessness prevention in Ventura, Oxnard’s meals for the hungry, a national nonprofit legal advocacy organization, and folks needing help in our local community.
Step-Up Ventura received $762 to help expand their outreach, and preschool and therapeutic services for homeless children.
We collected $623 for MICOP (Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project) to help maintain a full-time trilingual (Mixteco, Spanish, English) caseworker in their office. They have an unprecedented increased need for caseworkers due to the challenges and threats of living under this administration.
You donated $781 to Ventura Homeless Prevention Fund (VHPF) to stop families and individuals living in Ventura from becoming homeless due to a one-time event such as accident or illness. Funds pay the rent so a temporary loss of income or unexpected expense does not result in eviction.
The UUCV Inreach/Outreach Fund received $726. The fund provides assistance to those in our local and church community who may be in need of help.
The congregation collected $814 for the Southern Poverty Law Center to aid in their fight against hate and bigotry in our country and in seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society.
by Kitty Merrill | Nov 4, 2017 | Inreach/Outreach News
“Give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.” Roy T. Bennett
Members and pledging friends voted in October to determine which organizations will receive our Sunday offerings during the months of November through February. Results of the vote and a schedule of Sunday offering dates are posted in Berg Hall on the We Care/We Share bulletin board.
Dinners for the hungry, mental health, outreach to homeless in our parks, and housing homeless families were causes the congregation generously supported in late September and early October.
We collected $533 for Bread of Life, “Feeding Oxnard’s Hungry,” the program that provides 80-100 hot, three-course dinners to anyone who comes through the door each Sunday evening all year at this Oxnard site.
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health) Ventura County received $723 to help continue to offer without cost their classes and presentations throughout the county. NAMI provides emotional support, education and resources for families affected by mental illness, and advocates at the local, state and national levels for a maximization of services for persons who are afflicted.
Donations to Lift Up Your Voice: Park Outreach Team amounted to $608 which allows the volunteer team to continue to provide outreach to the homeless community in Ventura’s parks.
Family Promise of West Ventura County received $677. This nonprofit houses newly homeless families with children at a different host congregation each week. During the day the families stay at a centrally located day center where they receive social services and work on issues to help them gain stability. The funds will buy bedding and beds to use at the houses of worship and will travel with the families to each host congregation.
by Kitty Merrill | Oct 4, 2017 | Inreach/Outreach News
“For it is in giving that we receive.” Francis of Assisi
In late August and early September the congregation continued its ongoing generous support of the homeless, reached out to hurricane victims with open hearts and wallets, and reaffirmed support for women’s health care and reproductive rights.
You donated $528 to the Park Outreach Team, allowing these volunteers to continue their outreach activities in Ventura’s parks. The team provides some basic needs while simultaneously building trust and developing relationships. Funds also pay for the bus passes for transportation “home” from One Stop.
Ventura Homeless Prevention Fund (VHPF) received $757 to help keep families and individuals living in Ventura from becoming homeless simply because of a one-time event such as an accident or illness. Funds pay the rent, so a temporary loss of income or unexpected expense does not result in loss of housing.
The congregation donated $1355 to Direct Relief International (DRI) to aid the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. DRI sends crucial emergency supplies to aid the most vulnerable victims in disaster situations, and provides high demand medical resources especially for those with chronic conditions.
We collected $874 for Planned Parenthood of the California Central Coast to assist patients who are low-income, uninsured, under-insured, unable to qualify for state or federal healthcare programs or are enduring a hardship requiring them to sacrifice healthcare.
by Kitty Merrill | Sep 18, 2017 | Inreach/Outreach News
“For it is in giving that we receive.” Francis of Assisi
In late July and early August our congregation donated generously to five local and national causes.
We collected $623 to support the mission of The Innocence Project, a national program that exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing, and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
The UUCV Inreach/Outreach Fund received $553 to make available monies that will assist folks in our own local and church community who are in need of help.
Congregants donated $528 to SMART Recovery (Self-Management and Recovery Training) which allows the group to meet weekly for a full year with a facilitator volunteer. Participants work on recovering from all types of addictive behaviors – drinking, taking drugs, overworking or any other habitual action that is harmful to one’s health or life balance.
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) received $402 to help pay for an intern to assist with their summer programs. NCSE supports teachers, engages scientists, and organizes local communities to ensure that evolution and climate change are taught without compromise.
Your donation of $599 to CAREGIVERS will help add a staff volunteer coordinator to ensure the wellbeing of the 495 seniors they serve. This organization is a model program of neighbors helping neighbors based on the one-on-one match between a homebound senior and a neighborly volunteer.
September Inreach/Outreach
Sept. 3: Family Promise of West Ventura County houses newly homeless families with children at a different host congregation each week. During the day the families stay at a centrally located day center where they work with a case worker to save money, repair credit issues, receive social services and gain stability. Funds would help buy supplies needed to give families beds and bedding to use at houses of worship where they will sleep. Bedding will travel with the families to each host congregation.
Sept. 10: Planned Parenthood of the California Central Coast Funds will assist patients who are low-income, uninsured, under-insured, unable to qualify for state or federal healthcare programs or are enduring a hardship requiring them to sacrifice health care.
Sept. 17: B read of Life “Feeding Oxnard’s Hungry” provides 80-100 hot, three-course dinners to anyone who comes through the door each Sunday evening all year at this Oxnard site. More than 20 churches and organizations provide food and volunteers. Funding would help maintain this program.
Sept. 24: NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Health) Ventura County provides emotional support, education and resources for families affected by mental illness, and in addition strongly advocates at the local, state and national levels for a maximization of services for persons who are afflicted. Funds would help continue to offer without cost their classes and presentations throughout Ventura County.
Thanks for your donations, Anne Escobedo
