Responses from 45 members of Memorial UCC about where they volunteer and to whom they give financial support beyond the operations and programs run through Memorial.
Volunteer
Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)- Oregon
Little Angels Preschool – Oregon
Prairieview Elementary School – Oregon
Habitat for Humanity
Second Harvest Food Bank – both financial and physical
Ice Age Trail development
Red Cross blood donation
man the phones at the Wisconsin Public TV pledge drives
UW’s school of social work, I am an annual guest speaker/educator on domestic abuse
DV survivors- Maintain an educational blog for those healing from abuse, published a book for victims of abuse
Vigil Team – St. Mary’s Care Center
MOSES
T’ai Chi Chih
Holy Wisdom Prairie Upkeep
SISTER House, Inc. – Journeying with Madison-area women transitioning from prison, jail, or AODA treatment
Prison Ministry Project
The Arc Dane County
Dreamweavers
Coordinate the annual neighborhood picnic for over 250 people in June
Coordinate the annual neighborhood garage sales on Labor Day weekend
Member of the Madison Opera chorus
Nicaragua for a medical mission with Nicaplast organization which is based in Madison at UW Hospitals and goes twice a year to do surgeries.
Resurge, Intl based out of Palo Alto, CA for the last 24 years and was in Bangladesh last year.
Hartman Center UCC bible camp in Milroy, PA is a camp I have been volunteering as a nurse 1 week every summer for the last 18 years.
Stoughton Lioness Club-15 years!
The Crossing
Taking care of family
MARC
Ronald McDonald House,
Prison Ministry Project
Badger Honor Flight
Community projects through the Madison Knitters Guild
Support of and participation in the American Heart Association
Volunteer work at a number of golf tournaments
Allied Partners
Church Women United
Oakwood Chorus
Alzheimer’s Association
Wish granting for Make-A-Wish
Bookworms (UW and WPT program for early reading) reading at Packers Headstart
Bethlehem Partnership – WI Conference, SW Association
Bright Stars Area Rep
CROP Walk City Planning Committee
Prairie Kitchen Committee, Badger Prairie Needs Network
Board and the Public Affairs Committee of the Wisconsin Public Health Association
United Way — Volunteer and donate (Cheryl)
NAMI Dane County–volunteer and donate (both)
DAIS – Volunteer (both)
Host-A-Family (holiday gifting)
Oregon School Disctrict (volunteering in classroom, coaching for sports, providing supplies)
Various food drives (food donations)
Operation Joy (holiday gifting)
Toys for Tots (holiday gifting)
Boy Scout Troop 132: Assistant Scoutmaster & Committee member
Glacier’s Edge Boy Scout Council: Co-chair Award & Recognition Dinner, Aquatics Committee member
Madison Area Music Association
Oregon Preschool Inc
Dane County Veterinary Medical Association
Briarpatch committee- Ryan
RSVP school volunteers
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Second Harvest
Prison Ministry Work (Mostly writing prisoners and helping them some upon release)
Playing the piano or organ at other churches
Helping with summer bible school classes at other churches and accompanying their Christmas and bible school music programs
Volunteered as a Dane County Hunter Safety Instructor
Project Babies
Club TNT
RPCVS of Madison
Goodman Community Center
Professional consultative committee for the school of social work
Gardening for others
Organized a swim race in Lake Monona as a fundraiser for the Clean Lakes Alliance
When I go grocery shopping, I buy a box of Cliff Bars to give to the homeless people I see under the bridges of the bike path on my commute and to the many more people I see outside my office downtown.
My parents, aunts, uncles and cousins have scaled back our Christmas giving in favor of a donation from the family to an international charity.
Donate
Support an individual enrolled at a university in El Salvador
Supplement a family with monthly rental payments
WPR 88.7 Radio station
LIFE WNC 102.5 Radio Station
Watertown UCC
Nehemiah Center
Nepal Earthquake Relief
Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Badger Prairie Needs Network
Overture Center
Forward Theater
American Players Theater
Wisconsin Sheriff’s and Deputy Sheriff’s Association
Wisconsin Public Television
Wisconsin Public Radio
CROP
INH Road Home
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Madison Children’s Museum
The Crossing
Wisconsin Conference UCC
* Camps
* Bethlehem Partnership
* Church Development and Renewal Committee
DAIS
Madison Urban Ministry
Kiva (provides micro-loans to women and men to alleviate poverty worldwide.)
Nature Conservancy
Sierra Club
National Parks Conservation
World Wildlife Federation
Wyoming Wildlife Federation
World Wildlife Fund
Habitat for Humanity
Doctors without Borders
St Stephens Mission in Ethete, WY
UW Foundation
Hartman Center UCC camp in Milroy, PA,
March of Dimes
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Milwaukee
MDA
Wis Public Radio
Goodwill Industries,
Milwaukee Public TV
Amvets,
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Milwaukee Rescue Mission
United Way
United Way organizations (contributions)
Golf in several golf outings to raise money for UW Carbone Cancer center for Head and Neck Cancer, UW Friends and family, Susan G Komen Foundation, Gilda’s Club.
ChildFund (Foster two children)
Wisconsin Public Radio
Smile Train
WhatIf Foundation
FINCA (microloans)
Heifer
Red Cross
Central Asia Institute
WCCN (microloans)
Holy Child Program (Israel/Palestine school)
Doctors Without Borders
ICAHD (Israel Committee Against Housing Destruction)
Amnesty International
Smile Train
The Carter Center
Habitat For Humanity
Oxfam
International Rescue Committee
World Food Program
CWS/CROP
Feeding America
Earth Justice
Trust for Public Land
Nature Conservancy
National Resources Defense Council
Michelle’s Earth Foundation (set up by a high school friend in memory of her daughter who was mysteriously murdered at the University of Vermont about 10 years ago)
Wisconsin Society for Ornithology
Sierra Club
Rails to Trails
Green America
Union of Concerned Scientists
Churches Center for Land and People
Harvest of Hope
Fair Share CSA Coalition
REAP
Food First
Global Exchange
Slow Food
American Farmland Trust
Madison Boys and Girls Club
The Road Home
Second Harvest Food Bank of Southern Wisconsin
Community Shares of Wisconsin
Sustain Dane
Keep Wisconsin Warm Fund
Community Action Coalition
Salvation Army
Wisconsin Public Radio
Wisconsin Public Television
UW
Wittenberg University
Olbrich Gardens
American Civil Liberties Union
MACC Fund (Childhood Cancer – Trek Bicycle Ride)
People for Bikes
Engineers without Borders
Ice Age Trail Alliance
Go-Baby-Go (collaboration between PT/OT/engineering students to adapt electric riding cars for children with mobility impairment)
Habitat for Humanity
Feeding America
Cancer
Juvenile Diabetes
Crohns and Colitis
World Vision
WPT
WPR
WORT
Free Speech Radio
Media Matters
Amnesty International
ACLU
Oxfam
local food pantries
The Road Home
United Way
NAMI
DAIS
Council on Children and Families
Red Cross
Salvation Army
International Crane Foundation
UNICEF
FNIH
Nature Conservancy
Planned Parenthood
Stoughton Opera House
Blume Haiti (brings music lessons/instruments to people of Haiti)
Save the Children
UW Alumni
Strides for Africa- local run/walk in August to put water wells in Africa
School supply donation- MMSD
Supply/clothing/other donations-JFF
World Wildlife Fund
Firefighters Assistance Foundation
WISPIRE
Help Me See
Easter Seals
Blinded Veterans Foundation
Epilepsy Foundation
American Foundation for the Blind
Multiple Sclerosis Assoc. of America
American Lung Association
Shrine Circus
American Veterans Support Foundation
Pink Diamond Women Cancer Fund
Professional Firefighters of WI
The Breast Cancer Society
Marquette University
Dane County Deputy Sheriff Association
National Diabetes Fund
FirstStep
Autism Speaks
MADD
Children Cancer Dream Network
Disabled Veterans Foundation
Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation
CARE
Heart Center of America
Children Wish Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
National Audubon Society
Alzheimers Disease Research
Arthritis Foundation
AICR
Habitat for Humanity
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Firefighters Support Foundation
Susan Komen
Lupus Foundation America
American Diabetes Association
American Cancer Society
National Foundation For Cancer
Disabled Veterans National Foundation
Missionary Society of St. Paul
Children’s Cancer Fund of America
Parkinsons Disease Foundation
Second Amendment Foundation
Sierra Club
Southern Poverty Law Center
Special Olympics Wisconsin
Alliance for Retired Americans
National Federation of the Blind
Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation
Doctors Without Borders
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Macular Degeneration
National Park Foundation
National Veterans Services
United States Armed Forces Association
Disabled Veteran Fund
Diabetes Research Wellness Foundation
National Childrens Cancer Society
Shriners Hospital For Children
Breast Cancer Survivors Foundation
Prostrate Cancer Fund
Disabled Police & Sherifs Foundation
Heart Center of America
Friends of the Zoo
American Homeless Veterans
National Police and Trooper Association
Edmunlite Missions
Pro Life
Veterans Now Foundation for American Fund
Campus Crusade for Christ International
Council of Indian Nations
Hazel Green Fire Department
Benton United Methodist Church
Carousel of Possible Dreams (student orchestra donation)