Sharing Our Bounty
Each month, First Unitarian Portland is pleased to share our plate offering with a community organization — usually local — whose mission is in concert with our own. Read a little more about these organizations and the important work they do by clicking on the links below. We’re glad to count them as our friends!
2023 Shared Plate Recipients
Outside In: October
This calendar year, First Unitarian shares our plate offering with community partners dedicated to the dignity of and care for ...
Chesney Deale Fund: August 27
We share our plate with The Chesney Deale Fund, which supports intern ministers at First Unitarian Portland. Being a teaching ...
Shower Project: August 20
We share our plate with the First Unitarian Portland Shower Project. The church has been exploring what service our downtown ...
UUA OUN: August 6
This Sunday, we share our offering with the Unitarian Universalist Association Office at the United Nations. They are a non-governmental ...
TRUUsT: July
This week, we share our plate with TRUUsT (Transgender Religious professional UUs Together) TRUUsT is an organization of trans Unitarian ...
Local Home Fire Financial Assistance: May 28 & June 4
On Tuesday, May 16, residents of the May Apartments at SW 14th and Taylor fled the burning building. More than ...
Friends of Noise: June & July
This church year, we have been sharing our plate with organizations that center on youth leadership. In June and July, ...
YRUU: April 30
For Youth Service Sunday, we'll dedicate our plate collection to the YRUU Pilgrimage Fund to support the 2024 Civil Rights ...
OPAL: April
April Plate Collection For April, we dedicate our shared plate collection to YEJA, which stands for the Youth Environmental Justice ...
Girls Inc. PNW: March
For March, we dedicate our offering to Girls Inc. Pacific Northwest in honor of Women's History Month. Girls Inc. serves ...
Blueprint Foundation: February
For February, we share our plate with The Blueprint Foundation, which aims to eliminate the opportunity gap for Black youth within the Portland Metropolitan ...
Mercy Corps: February 12
In response to the devastating earthquake that struck regions of Turkey and Syria last week, we share our plate with ...
IIORF: January
January 22 marks 50 years since the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Since the Dobbs v ...
2022 Shared Plate Recipients
2021 Shared Plate Recipients
2020 Shared Plate Recipients
- December
- Oregon Workers Relief Fund
- Outside In
- Clay Street Table
- 12/24 – First U PDX Emergency Fund
- November
- October
- September
- August
- Black Unitarian Universalists
- 8/30 – First U PDX Music Ministry
- July
- June
- May
- Outside In
- 5/3 – YRUU
- April
- March
- February
- January