Each month UUCM donates 50% of undesignated offerings collected during Sunday services to a local organization doing good in our community and whose work matches our Unitarian Universalist values. With input from members, friends, and attenders, the Justice Team determines which organizations to support each year.
To donate to the organization directly, please use the links below.
Our September 2026 Share the Plate partner is
Bear Yuba Land Trust.
Our September Share the Plate recipient is Bear Yuba Land Trust. Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to conserve and protect the natural, working, and cultural lands in the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and empower a healthy, resilient community through nature access and education.
Click here to give directly to Bear Yuba Land Trust.
2026-2027 Share the Plate Partners*
- July – Hospitality House
- August – Interfaith Food Ministry
- September – Bear Yuba Land Trust
Results are in from the congregational vote for 2026-27 Share the Plate Partners! The Justice Team will work with the Worship Team to designate a month to each of the following organizations:
- Color Me Human
- FREED Center for Independent Living
- Gold Country Senior Services
- Greensleeves
- Immigrant Rights Network
- Nevada County Pride
- Sierrra Streams Institute
- Sierra Roots
- Spirit Peer Empowerment Center
2025-2026 Share the Plate Partners
- July – Child Advocates
- August – Bear Yuba Land Trust
- September – Habitat for Humanity
- October – Sierra Roots
- November – Bright Futures for Youth
- December – Hospitality House
- January – Community Beyond Violence
- February – FREED
- March – Citizens for Choice
- April – Immigrant Rights Network
- May – Interfaith Food Ministry
- June – Color Me Human
How to Give
There are many opportunities to give financially to UUCM. To learn more about giving options, along with detailed instructions, please review here […]
Previous Share the Plate recipients have included:
- Child Advocates of Nevada County
- Citizens for Choice
- Interfaith Food Ministry
- KARE Crises Nursery
- Sierra Roots
- Hospitality House
- Sammie’s Friends
- Habitat for Humanity
- Color Me Human
- Community Beyond Violence
- Hospice of the Foothills
- Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release
- Bear Yuba Land Trust
- Nevada County Vet Disaster Response Team
Note: UUCM currently supports the California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project, and thus the Nisenan, through an annual budgeted contribution of $1200.00 to CHIRP’s Ancestral Homelands Reciprocity Program (AHRP). Participation in the Reciprocity Program acknowledges the sovereignty of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan and their historic relationship with this land, their ancestral homelands. It also acknowledges and responds to, in a very small way, the fact that our UUCM building is located on historic Nisenan homelands, lands taken at the expense of the Nisenan and from which we now benefit.