2007 Annual Report for UU Social Responsibility
Total Number of Grants Made: 26
Grants Made: $151,820
Challenge Grants Made: $68,250
Total Grants Made: $220,070
Allen Avenue UU Church—Portland, ME
$6,000 Grant, $3,250 Challenge
Social Justice Institute
For a social justice institute that will offer spiritually grounded, skill-based training and leadership development workshops to further social justice organizing by the church community, other Unitarian Universalist (UU) churches, individuals, and social action groups in the Portland and Southern Maine area.
Allies for Racial Equality, Marshfield, MA
$14,000 Grant, $2,500 Challenge
Traces of the Trade Partnership
In response to the GA 2006 Responsive Resolution charging congregations to hold one program over the next year to address racism/classism, this partnership will deliver a feature documentary to engage congregants in dialogue and action on racial and economic justice. The film focuses on how the system of slavery affected the white populations of the time, their descendants, and subsequent generations of white Americans.
Beacon Press, Boston, MA
$19,000 Grant
New Media Initiative
To build and promote visibility of a blog on www.beacon.org and to update and enhance its websites with the objective of advancing the socially responsible work of the denomination by linking online UU communities through shared conversation on books, issues and authors.
Cedars UU Church, Bainbridge Island, WA
$1,270 Grant
Alternative Gift Project
To expand an “Alternate Gift Project” that raises funds for local non-profit organization to other UU congregations and to the local Interfaith Council. A “How To” guide will be published so other congregations can do an Alternate Gift Project.
Center for Relational Living/Joseph Priestley District Wilmington, DE
$2,000 Grant, $6,000 Challenge
Delaware Women’s AVP Re-entry Project
A second grant for a program to engage Delaware UU congregations with other religious societies working to transform and restore the lives of female ex-offenders. The project includes a long term mentoring program, AVP trainings at local schools and community centers, creation of an AVP ex-offender support community and educational programming on the systemic issues which lead to the incarceration of poor and minority groups.
First Parish in Needham, Needham, MA
$8,000 Grant
Channing Adopt a School Project
To connect members of several suburban UU congregations with an elementary school in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood through a tutoring program designed to improve English language skills.
Interfaith Impact of New York State Foundation, Guilderland, NY
$2,000 Grant, $2,000 Challenge
Conscience in Public Life—Making Values Count
For a series of interfaith forums held in UU churches across New York state that will encourage civic participation from a liberal and progressive point of view and increase participation by UU congregations and individuals in public policy dialogues.
Jamaica Plain Forum, Jamaica Plain, MA
$5,000 Grant, $5,000 Challenge
Community Forum Organizing Project
To support and expand the establishment of UU Forums as centers of conversation and ideas and to be catalysts for engagement and action to advance progressive social change. The project aims to grow congregations by drawing new people in and raising the visibility of UU churches as meeting places and venues for authors, filmmakers and community organizers."
Mass Bay District of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Belmont, MA
$5,000 Grant, $6,500 Challenge
Social Action Coordinator
For a District social justice program to develop communication networks and coordinate projects and advocacy among UU congregations. the goal is to strengthen social justice efforts and nurture the growth of Unitarian Universalism.
Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance, Minneapolis, MN
$8,000, $4,500 Challenge
Building the UU Movement for Social Change
A second grant to deepen UU engagement in social justice issues by working locally and regionally with issue groups and nationally with UU state advocacy networks.
Olympia UU Congregation & Out of the Woods, Olympia, WA
$5,000 Grant, $2,500 Challenge
Out of the Woods
To support an emergency shelter program that is hosted by the church. The program is focused on families with young children and supported by the congregation.
Peacemaking CSAI Core Team, Westport, CT
$9,000 Grant, $5,000 Challenge
DVD and Curricula for UUA Peacemaking CSAI
For the development of a DVD to be used as an integral component of workshop and curriculum materials to encourage the broadest possible involvement of UU congregations in the new “Peacemaking” UUA Congregational Study/Action Issue (CSAI) process.
Promise the Children, Nahant, MA
$7,500 Grant, $5,000 Challenge
Capacity Building Program
To develop the organizational and fund-raising capacity and to articulate the theological underpinnings of work to support a better quality of life for children and youth, especially in low-income families.
Sanford Unitarian Church, Sanford, ME
$5,000 Grant
Corner Cupboard
For a monthly program, sponsored by and housed in the church, that provides non-food essentials to assist people in meeting their basic needs for living and increases their quality of life. The project is also working to develop a longterm base of community support.
Shawnee Mission UU Church, Overland Park, KS
$4,000 Grant
Julia’s Voice: Moms Against the War
To establish a Mother’s Day event in the name of Julia Ward Howe that will reclaim Howe’s original intent of Mother’s Day as an anti-war action, raise awareness of Unitarian Universalism, bring mothers together in Kansas City to speak out against war. The project will also provide on-line resources to prompt similar activities around the country.
UU Church of Arlington, Arlington, VA
$4,000 Grant, $5,000 Challenge
OWL Out into the World
To take Our Whole Lives, a curriculum used by UU and United Church of Christ (UCC) groups that meets the criteria for effective sexuality education programs, to at-risk youth in non-congregational settings in DC and Northern Virginia.
UU Church of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
$2,500 Grant, $2,500 Challenge
Cooperative Feeding Program (Harvesting Hope)
For a program that strengthens the collaboration of several UU and other churches with the Cooperative Feeding Program. Broward County is widely considered to be ground zero in the fight against hunger and food insecurity. The CFP helps single, minority low income women select, grow, and prepare healthy food for themselves and their families.
UU Church of Ogden—OUTreach Resource Center, Ogden, UT
$6,500 Challenge Grant
Keeping Youth Safe
For an OUTreach program that will provide sex education for all youth and to encourage recognition by a youth suicide task force that society plays a role in LGBTQ suicides which occur at a rate that is three times that of heterosexual youth.
UU Church of the Philippines, Oriental Negros, Philippines
$3,500 Grant
Empower the Marginalized through Entrepreneurships
To expand micro-finance projects in Novaliches and Bicutan, offering small loans and providing poor communities with an alternative to loan sharks, and to improve the economic security and leadership of the poor.
UU Community Church of Park Forest, Park Forest, IL
$2,050 Grant
Foodapalooza
For seed money for a program to raise money and food donations for Respond Now, a non-profit agency that provides for the emergency needs of residents in Chicago’s south suburbs.
UU Legislative Ministry of Maryland, Annapolis, MD
$2,000, $4,000 Challenge
UU Legislative Ministry of Maryland
A third grant to strengthen and institutionalize the advocacy network, involve youth and collaborate with other UU groups on global warming and other priority issues and develop a plan for sustainability.
UU Massachusetts Action Network, Acton, MA
$7,000, $6,000 Challenge
UU Mass Action Network
A second grant for a program giving public voice to UUs in Massachusetts through the establishment of a statewide UU program that identifies and coordinates advocacy and legislative work, and prioritizes action issues,
UU Statewide Advocacy Network, Acton, MA
$8,000 Grant
Statewide Advocacy Networks
For the creation of a “How-to manual” and a web based library with resources to help build and sustain the work of UU activists in 17 networks bringing UU values to the public arena.
UU United Nations Office, New York, NY
$10,000 Grant
Seminar: Developing and Sustaining UU SR Skills
To attract and accommodate more UU participants, particularly youth to an intergenerational seminar that addresses UN and UU principles, and to establish follow-up mechanisms to expand the impact of the Seminar and sustain participant actions at the congregational level.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Uganda, Kampala, UGANDA
$5,000 Grant
UU HIV/AIDS Orphanage Project
To support a school and orphanage established in Kampala by the UU Association of Uganda for children who were left homeless because of AIDS.
Unity Church UU North Easton, MA
$7,000 Grant, $2,000 Challenge
UCAN: Unity Church Aiding Neighbors A second grant for a program to provide English classes, life skills support and citizenship classes to adult low income, non-native English speakers in the Brockton, Massachusetts area."
For more information contact uufp @ uua.org.
Last updated on Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
