Our share-the-plate recipient this week is the Porchlight Men’s Homeless Shelter. Although COVID tests are available for free at several places in Madison, Porchlight has found that they are more likely to get the men using the temporary homeless shelter to get tested if they are given incentives such as small gift cards. Our donations … Continue reading Share the plate – Aug. 23rd and 30th
Our Share The Plate recipient is the Justified Anger Coalition. Justified Anger is a coalition of leaders, agencies, and employers within and outside of the Black community developing and implementing a plan of action to address long-standing and harmful racial disparities in social and economic outcomes in Madison.
Our recipient this week is Urban Triage. Their mission is to foster, develop, and strengthen Black families’ self-sufficiency, community leadership, advocacy, and family success through psycho-education, community engagement, trauma response, healing, and cultural heritage. They have been at the forefront of supporting black families during COVID, and in organizing the Black Lives Matter protests and … Continue reading Share the plate – 7/26, 8/2
Our share the plate recipient is the Free The 350 Bail Fund. Free The 350 seeks to prioritize bailing out Black people incarcerated in the Dane County jail system, and also seeks to end the unjust and antiquated prison and jail system in general. Getting people out of the jail is especially important now as … Continue reading July 12, 19 Share the Plate
This morning, our Share the Plate donations will go to The Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, which works to inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us the most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults. Our recipient was chosen after the attack on Madison resident … Continue reading June 28, July 5 Share the Plate
Our community partner this week is the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness. This local organization supports women to improve their health and quality of life, and to disrupt the disparities that impact our health outcomes. Their programming and advocacy focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, fitness, financial wellness, sisterhood and community building.
Just before the Safer at Home order in March, our JRUUC Youth Group initiated a food drive for a local food pantry. Because an in-person food drive is no longer possible, the Youth Group requested that the Share the Plate go to Community Action Coalition. CAC provides food, clothing and housing support to low income … Continue reading Share the Plate – 5/31 & 6/7
Our recipient this week is Porchlight. Porchlight provides essential services to homeless persons and has been working on proactive measures and crisis response plans for the spread of Covid-19. Porchlight is also looking for direct donations of food and supplies. If interested in helping out, see https://porchlightinc.org/donate-items/
Our Share the plate recipient for May 3rd and May 10th is the Dane County Community Defense Team – founded in response to the COVID-19 crisis by the Madison IWW General Defense Committee. The CDT has been delivering direct financial assistance, food, emotional support, supplies and medical advice. As of 4/2/2020 they have distributed over … Continue reading Share the Plate for May 3rd and 10th
Our share the plate recipient on April 19th and 26th is the Voces de la Frontera Direct Relief Fund for Covid-19 Relief in Wisconsin. Voces de la Frontera are currently raising funds to assist the victims of the Covid-19 Pandemic, which threatens thousands of undocumented workers with losing their jobs and livelihood across the state. Unlike … Continue reading Share the plate – 4/19 and 4/26
