We need your help! I’m Julia Moskowitz and I am sponsoring a blood drive with the New York Blood Center. We are currently experiencing a blood shortage. Do you know each donation saves three lives? I can’t think of a better time to give this gift of life! This UUFH Blood Drive will be take [...]
The split-plate charity for September is the Huntington Interfaith Homeless Initiative (HIHI) which provides nightly food and shelter in Huntington houses of worship, including the UUFH (a founding member), during the colder months of the year. Please give generously.
The G2GG project provides healthy food for our neighbors in need. We grow and donate organically grown vegetables and herbs to local food banks and pantries. The Grow to Give Garden (G2GG), which is located at the rear of the UUFH, was created in 2013 and is run by UUFH volunteers. Thanks to the generosity [...]
This month's split plate is Options for Community Living, with funds collected going to its Greenhouse Program. Options for Community Living is a nonprofit agency which provides housing, support services, and care coordination for people recovering from mental illness and those living with HIV/AIDS or other chronic health conditions. Options' goal is to help each [...]
Sanctuary, a specialized project run by the Huntington Youth Bureau, assists youth between the ages of 12 and 21 who have run away from or been asked to leave home, or are otherwise at risk of being homeless. Through its various programs, The Sanctuary’s professional staff members provide individual, family and group counseling, an Anger [...]
The split plate charity for March is the Gateway Community Garden in Huntington Station. Since its first season in 2010, Gateway has been growing food and community, aided by the generous support of UUFH volunteers and donations. Gateway provides eco-literacy programs for low-income neighborhood children, adult gardening education to spread organic growing methods to the [...]
Formed in the wake of several conversations among Black UUs at the July 2015 Movement for Black Lives Convening in Cleveland, OH, the Black Lives of UU Organizing Collective works to provide support, information and resources for Black Unitarian Universalists. BLUU also works to expand the role and visibility of Black UUs within our faith. [...]
…Bag of rice, can of tuna, box of pancake mix, a roll of paper towels. Our local food pantry "Red Wagon," off the main lobby near the social hall entry, has been looking mighty empty this month. Imagine if each one of us just remembered to quickly grab “just one” item from our own kitchen [...]
The High School Youth are coordinating our annual holiday toy drive for Family Service League’s Project TOY. Please select a “star” toy/gift card suggestion from the sign in the social hall. Our youth are always excited to participate and will ask for your participation during our social hour . Please return all unwrapped toys/gift cards [...]
The donation box is now available in the Fellowship foyer for donations for UUFH's SMILE-IN-A-BAG project! We'll be assembling fun activity bags for kids at Winthrop Hospital. (We've been participating since our own Alley Wolff brought this project to the Fellowship almost a decade ago, and we'd love to have your support again this year.) There are three [...]