Our Share the Plate recipient for October is Hawkwing, headquartered in Glastonbury, CT. Hawkwing began with a promise its director Rochelle Ripley made to her Lakota grandmother to “go home and help the People.” “Home” is the Cheyenne River Lakota/Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, a land of beauty, wilderness, inspiration, and heart-wrenching poverty. The Cheyenne River …
Our Share the Plate recipient for September is Call to Care Uganda, a local nonprofit organization based right here in Madison founded by our own, Martha Wells Hoffman. Call to Care Uganda’s mission is bringing health, safety, education and vitality to the people of Uganda through clean, accessible water. “It all starts with water…” and since …
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Guilford Peace Alliance has been meeting from 11:00am-12:00pm Saturday mornings since 1977, only missing a handful of Saturdays over the years. We stand on the corner of the Guilford Green, across from Page Hardware.Check out Guilford Peace Alliance on FB and give the page a like:facebook.com/GuilfordpeaceallianceThese meetings are a model of peaceful witness.Come for 5 …
Thanks to our DFF, Amy Buckley and all the families and members who participated in our juice drive ! Barb Francese and Richard Gressely have picked up the juice boxes, cans and bottles of juice and distributed these to the Guilford and Madison food pantries. Way to go!
In June, we will Share the Plate with Amistad Catholic Workers House in New Haven, where Luz Catarineau and her husband Mark Colville have been feeding the homeless since 1994. Even during this pandemic, Amistad House provides hot meals every day for more than fifty people. The Colvilles open their private home for the homeless …
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Our Share the Plate recipient for May is the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization advancing human rights together with an international community of grassroots partners and advocates. The UUSC responds with aid for people recovering from natural and manmade disasters as well as those displaced by climate changes. It has also …
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, the SUUS Green Team has chosen the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters (CTLCV) to be the recipient of our Share The Plate Offering. They are a bipartisan, statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to giving our environment a voice at the Capitol. During session, they …
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