2018 Annual Fund Campaign

We’ve kicked off our 2018 Annual Fund Campaign!

You can contribute

  1. on our ioby campaign page: https://www.ioby.org/project/building-solidarity-everyone-needs-huub

  2. or by check. Send the check with “Building Solidarity: HUUB” on the memo line to:

             ioby
    PO Box 4668 #74253
    New York, NY, 10163-4668

    If you would like to receive a tax receipt for your check donation, please include a note with the check requesting a receipt and list your name, email address and phone number.

The following letter is from the presidents of First UU & The HUUB board:

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Dear Members and Friends,

Everybody needs a HUUB!  First UU needs a HUUB because we want to bring our UU values to our neighbors in Orange.  Orange needs a HUUB for debates, potlucks, plays, ESL classes and more.  Everybody needs a HUUB, because we all want to be united with other people, helping to make a better world! What better way for our wonderful campus to be of service to the city, to all of us and to the world!

That’s why we’ve decided to start an Annual Fund Campaign.  We want to raise $25,000, to support the work we’ve carried out this year, and get us going on next year.  Our 2017-2018 budget was $156,000.  This covered the care for our wonderful campus, and the work of The HUUB.  We supported our work with income from rentals, grants and contracts, and donations.  We are shifting from what we used to call “Canvass,” during which members and friends pledged donations, to the Annual Fund Appeal, to round out our income and to appeal to the larger group of people who care about The HUUB.

The Annual Fund Drive will run from May 15 to June 15.  This Annual Fund Drive will be carried out as a crowdfunding campaign, on a platform called ioby – which stands for “in our backyards.”  ioby supports all kinds of projects in communities trying to improve.  We fit right in with their campaigns!

Please give as you are able.  We members and friends have traditionally been the bedrock of the church, and we need to continue to be that foundation of giving.  Thanks for your past support, and how great that we are ready to share our values in this new way!

If you can, ask some friends to give. Think of a list of people you know who would be glad to support the work we’re doing.  Who among your friends and family care about the struggle to invest without displacement? Who likes to see an old church welcome its community?  Who would be happy to see the chipping paint fixed up?  Your list matters!

Thanks for your help!  Let’s give now! You can give in two ways:

  1. You can give by going to ioby – here’s the link: https://www.ioby.org/project/building-solidarity-everyone-needs-huub.  Or you can go to ioby.org and search for “huub” – you’ll see the link to our campaign, “Everybody needs a HUUB.”
  2. You can also give by sending a check with “Building Solidarity: HUUB” on the memo line to:

             ioby
    PO Box 4668 #74253
    New York, NY, 10163-4668

    If you would like to receive a tax receipt for your check donation, please include a note with the check requesting a receipt and list your name, email address and phone number.

Thank you for helping us create our HUUB!

Yours in faith,

–Mindy Fullilove
President of the Congregation

–Frank Barszcz
President of the Board of Directors of The  HUUB