Share the Plate

A few years ago, our congregation decided to share each week's offering with a non-profit partner whose programs and values are in line with Unitarian Universalism. Each January, the congregation nominates and then votes for non-profits in Wyoming. 12 are selected for the year. Each receives half of the offering for a month, and has the opportunity to visit and educate our congregation and friends about the work they do during services. 


January:

Minister's Discretionary Fund

The Minister's Discretionary Fund allows UUCC's minister to respond to immediate needs of congregants, and, occasionally, community members who are in need. The help provided might include paying a critical bill, or providing a gas card so the person can get to an interview, or a grocery card to tide over a family facing unexpected expenses.

Video on the MDF

Wyoming Equality strives to achieve equity for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, and queer Wyomingites by building broad and inclusive communities, shifting the hearts and minds of our neighbors, and achieving policy victories.


Video on Wyoming Equality

We serve recoverees (people seeking long-term recovery) and the broader community - family members, employers - basically anyone whose life has been impacted by substance use disorder.

April: Arts Cheyenne

We’re more than an arts organization — we’re a movement for imagination, access, and expression in every corner of Cheyenne.

Bethel Outreach Ministries is a faith-based, non-profit, 501 (c) (3) that provides a comprehensive array of mental, emotional, and financial support services for men and women who have experienced incarceration.

June: WyoFile

WyoFile’s mission is to inform and engage Wyoming through in-depth reporting in the public interest.


WyoFile aims to reestablish the primacy of facts in Wyoming’s public discourse — to ensure that residents, community leaders, business leaders, politicians, agency personnel and policy makers all have access to, and faith in, the information they need to participate effectively in civic life and self governance.


July: UUCC FIRE

Friends of Immigrants Responding Ethically seeks to serve people and families who are affected by current immigration policies.


Donate to FIRE

August: Better Wyoming

We're building engaged communities. We coach our neighbors to engage in the civic processes that shape our lives and communities.


We believe everyday Wyomingites should have a say in the decisions that shape our lives.


Through civic education, leadership development and collective action, we coach folks on how to speak up, get involved, and work together to improve our communities.


It’s up to us to build a better Wyoming.


  • Provides a safe and stable home setting for unaccompanied youth.
  • Provides connection and support to community resources to help youth with educational and personal goals.
  • Promotes high school graduation, career development, and post-secondary education.
  • Assists the youth in becoming a productive member of the community.


Unaccompanied homeless youth - a youth who is not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian and they lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

We are an all-volunteer 501(c)3 agency assisting homeless men, women and children in Cheyenne.


We are the only day shelter serving the homeless in Cheyenne, Wyoming. We provide snacks, food, laundry, showers, bicycles, job assistance, resource assistance.


November: Veterans' Rock

Supporting Our  Heroes


We are dedicated to fulfilling our mission by committing to:

  • Rock solid support for homeless veterans, veterans in need, and their families. 
  • We will be their foundation on which to build a new household and a new life. 
  • We will be their staff to help guide them through tough times offering useful information and ways to communicate. 
  • We will help to lessen the burden of mental injury and fight to overpower veteran suicide through a welcoming presence in a warm, comfortable environment. 
  • They fought our freedom; now we must help them live free of everyday burdens in small, but impactful ways. 

December: Safehouse

Safehouse Services – a safe haven.

Safehouse Services is a not-for-profit organization that operates a shelter, facilitates support groups and advocacy programs, assists with protection order filings, and provides 24-hour crisis care and safety planning.