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…
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Recycling Your Laptop With REcompute
This blog post, which Salt & Light kindly allows me to include here, will describe what inspired me to start REcompute, the project created to recycle old laptops, make tech more widely available, and keep old machines out of the…
Transforming Our Community Through Volunteering
When you walk through the doors of Salt & Light, you will see many people working throughout the store. In addition to our staff, there are: credit-earning participantspeople completing community service hoursstudents in job training programscommunity volunteers (both individuals and in…
The Power of Work
“What do you do?” is usually one of the very first questions asked in a conversation between two strangers. How do you think you might feel if you had no meaningful answer to that question? “The Lord God took the man…
Donating Goods – What to Bring and Why It Matters
Are you looking for an organization that will take your gently used items and makes the most of them? We, at Salt & Light, would be honored to receive your donated goods and make them available to our community members. …
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.
Program Update
Since we first transitioned into our current credit-earning model in the fall of 2014, we have done our best to make the unique opportunities we provide available to every person who desires to participate. Not surprisingly, the number of people…
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.
Addressing the Beggar Mentality
I saw a growingly familiar sight on the off ramp today. A disabled “begger” who was clearly in a bad way. He had this eerie million-mile stare on a very downcast face. As he leaned on his crutches there was no way…