Announcements
[This is the Announcements page. Also see the Upcoming Events page.]
Share the Plate with Fools Mission Community Backpack Fund on July 21
July 17, 2024We want all kids in our community to thrive, yet some families struggle to afford basic back-to-school supplies. On Sunday, July 21, we will Share the Plate with Fools Mission to help make sure that kids in Redwood City and North Fair Oaks have the ...more...Share the Plate with Puente De La Costa Sur on June 16
June 10, 2024For 26 years, the nonprofit Puente has provided essential services to Seniors, farmworkers, low-income families, and students (preschool through college). As the region’s only Community Resource Center, Puente serves Pescadero, La Honda, Loma Mar, and San Gregorio. Puente both advocates and leverages resources that foster economic prosperity ...more...Share The Plate Recipients for 2024-2025
May 21, 2024Each year since 2006, UUFRC has dedicated a monthly “Share the Plate” Sunday offering to a non-profit organization selected by the Fellowship. The following 10 organizations were selected for 2024 – 2025: Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse Faith in Action Bay Area KARA LifeMoves One Life Counseling Center Peninsula Open Space Trust Puente ...more...Share the Plate with ReEvolution on Sunday, May 19
May 16, 2024On Sunday, May 19th, we will have the opportunity to support the powerful and selfless work of the ReEvolution Group. ReEvolution creates solutions to generations of harm and inequity. Initiatives to reduce incarceration, heal harm and build communities. Our mission is to facilitate a circle of intergenerational healing ...more...Vote for Share-the-Plate Offerings in 2025-26
May 2, 2024Choose your favorite recipients for next year’s monthly Share the Plate offerings! Each month the UU Fellowship of Redwood City dedicates one “Share the Plate” Sunday offering to a non-profit group selected by the Fellowship. For the 12 available slots, ten are voted on by the ...more...UUFRC Redwood Circle Zine Issue 19 April 2024
April 8, 2024Click here to view the PDF filemore...Interdependence: the Sacred Space Between Us
April 1, 2024Interdependence has been at the heart of Unitarian Universalism for the last 40 years if not longer. Our seventh principle “Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part” is important to many of us and gives a spiritual imperative ...more...Nominate Candidates for UUFRC Share the Plate by Sunday, April 28
March 27, 2024Are you looking to raise the profile of your favorite charity? The Social Action Committee will hold an election in May to choose 10 organizations to receive a ‘Share the Plate’ collection in the coming year: July 2024 through June 2025. To be eligible for Share The ...more...Share The Plate with Insight-Out / The GRIP Training Institute on March 17
March 13, 2024At our March 17th service, we will have the opportunity to support the powerful peacemaking work of the Guiding Rage into Power (GRIP) Training Institute. GRIP is a year-long transformative program that provides tools that enable incarcerated men to “turn the stigma of being a ...more...Share the Plate with One Life Counseling Center on February 18
February 14, 2024One Life Counseling Center in San Carlos, is a non-profit whose mission is to provide easy access to counseling, education, & opportunities to connect through service. One Life offers individual & group therapy, community & school based programs (including school counselors in San Carlos, Belmont, ...more...UUFRC Redwood Circle Zine Issue 18 January 2024
January 24, 2024Click here to view the PDF filemore...Share the Plate with Sequoia High School Dream Club on January 21
January 16, 2024On Sunday, Jan 21st, we will donate our offering to the Sequoia High School Dream Club. The club’s mission is to help create limitless educational opportunities for undocumented students and our contribution goes directly to the club’s college scholarship fund. Our funds help Dream Club ...more...Share the Plate with Faith In Action Bay Area on December 17
December 12, 2023This Sunday’s Share-the-Plate is for FIABA (Faith in Action Bay Area). It seeks to build strong personal and community bonds across ethnic, religious, and class boundaries and to develop leadership among those in the most impacted areas. Currently its central goal is seeking more secure ...more...Share the Plate with Sonrisas Dental Health on November 19
November 13, 2023Sonrisas Dental Health is a non-profit dental center dedicated to providing access to quality dental care and oral health education to our community, working to improve the health of our community members through culturally sensitive, integrated care, with a focus on disease prevention. 75% of ...more...Share the Plate with Upward Scholars on October 15
October 10, 2023Many immigrants come to the United States for a better life but find themselves stuck in low-wage jobs, struggling to make ends meet and support their families. That’s what motivates Redwood City-based Upward Scholars to provide adult immigrants the boost they need to move up the economic ...more...UUFRC Redwood Circle Zine Issue 17 September 2023
September 15, 2023Click here to view the PDF filemore...Share the Plate with Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley on September 17
September 14, 2023UUFRC has had a long standing relationship with Second Harvest, and it is eminently worthy of our financial support, along with our volunteer efforts. Founded in 1974, it is one of the largest food banks in the country and has consistently received a 4/4 star rating ...more...Share the Plate with CORA on August 20
August 16, 2023Intimate partner abuse affects our entire community: one in four women, one in seven men and one in two transgender individuals here in San Mateo County will experience domestic violence in their lifetime. With numbers like this, it’s all but certain that someone we know ...more...Share the Plate with St. Francis Center of Redwood City on July 16
July 11, 2023In the words of nominator John Anning, the St. Francis Center in Redwood City is “local, practical, and proven. I have a dear friend whose whole family was saved from homelessness through the intervention of the St Francis Center, and UUFRC has done several clothing ...more...Reforming the Program Council in Support of the Strategic Implementation
June 21, 2023June 21, 2023 UUFRC,As a wrap up to a productive year regarding UUFRC’s strategy, and to follow up on comments I made at the Annual Meeting, here’s a summary of what you can expect this upcoming year and how you can engage with the ongoing implementation ...more...