The mission of Salt & Light is to share God’s love by fighting poverty with opportunities that empower people for lasting change. “to share God’s love” What does it mean to share the love of God? God’s love includes every…
Lisa Sheltra
How Volunteering Benefits the Volunteer
Many people are surprised to find that when they set out to make a difference in things around them, they also end up being changed in ways they did not expect.
The Impact of Your Volunteer Time at Salt & Light
While our amazing, dedicated staff works hard each day to make Salt & Light the best it can be, we literally could not operate for a single day without the efforts of community volunteers who come through our doors to sort, stack, stock, stage, and sacrifice their time to make Champaign-Urbana a better place. Their work makes opportunity possible for people in poverty to have their needs met with dignity and grace.
Addressing Poverty of Community
Poverty of community affects all of us. Salt & Light in Urbana and Champaign, IL addresses this broken relationship through opportunities that build collaborative connections with community members and participants.
Why People of All Abilities Volunteer at Salt & Light
If you ever volunteered or visited at Salt & Light during the years we were an emergency food pantry, you would have found many people with various types of disabilities standing in line for food. This is a reflection of…
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Two Reasons to Volunteer as a Group at Salt & Light
At the beginning of Salt & Light’s existence as an organization, we were a typical food pantry and clothing closet. This type of operation functions as a large, assembly line style business, and so for the first ten years of…
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Why is Salt & Light Opening a Childcare Room?
This fall, we’ll be opening a child care room at Salt & Light Urbana, staffed by volunteers, that will offer a safe, fun space for preschool-aged kids to play while parents volunteer, or attend a class or program on site.…
4 Ways Salt & Light Partners with Churches
Our mission here at Salt & Light is sharing the love of God by fighting poverty with opportunities that empower people for lasting change. As we work to accomplish this mission every day, we partner together with many groups, individuals,…
The Real Question of Poverty
Lately, I've been doing a lot of thinking about poverty. It seems like there is ongoing controversy about what can be done to help those in poverty. Although lots of people from all kinds of different philosophical and religious…