Related and Associate Member Organizations

Covenanting Communities

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Covenanting communities are Unitarian Universalist (UU) groups that claim a UU identity but they look and feel different from a traditional congregation.

Covenanting Communities

Related and Associate Member Organizations are diverse groups that embrace Unitarian Universalist (UU) principles and traditions outside of congregations and covenanting communities. They include member and professional organizations, justice-focused groups, camps and conference centers, and more.

Associate Member Organizations are named in the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) bylaws, and are limited to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation, two organizations with historic connections to the UUA.

Related Organizations do important work in providing identity groups for Unitarian Universalists, focusing on specific justice work, supporting people working within Unitarian Universalism, and providing unique UU experiences. Related Organizations are in formal relationship with the UUA in order to advance Unitarian Universalist values and claim a UU identity, but are not congregations or covenanting communities.

NOTE: The renewal process for existing Related Organizations ended on August 31, 2023. If your organization is no longer listed as a related organization, please re-apply by completing the online application form.

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Social Justice

  • Iowa Unitarian Universalist Witness Advocacy Network

    The Iowa Unitarian Univerasalist Witness Advocacy Network's (IUUWAN) main purpose is to educate and facilitate connecting Unitarian Universalists across the state.

  • Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry

    Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry (UUAM) is a group of concerned UUs who express their faith, in part, through compassion towards all beings. UUAM chapters across the US and Canada promote compassion for animals at the local level.

  • Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME)

    UUJME works for a peaceful and just resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict, affirming the equality, dignity, freedom and security of all peoples involved. UUJME’s principal activities are educational programs, including appearances at the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations...

  • Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community

    Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC) is a vibrant progressive organization committed to economic justice for all...

  • Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth

    Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth is a related organization of the Unitarian Universalist Association. We provide UUs with organized ways to connect energy, ideas, and information about how their lives relate to the living Earth, environmental justice, and future generations.

  • Conservative Forum for Unitarian Universalists

    The Conservative Forum for Unitarian Universalists was founded in 1985 to provide an institution within Unitarian Universalism for the expression of a full range of views on politics, economics and society, that while mainstream in society, are often not heard within the Unitarian Universalist...

  • Faithful Fools

    Faithful Fools was founded in 1998 by Kay Jorgensen, a Unitarian Universalist minister and Carmen Barsody, a Franciscan from Little Falls, MN.

  • Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry

    The UU Urban Ministry has continued its work in Boston for nearly 200 years by facing the moment we are in, summoning the resources to address it, and convening people to work together to make change...

  • UU Mass Action

    Our mission is to organize and mobilize UUs in Massachusetts to confront oppression. We provide pathways towards justice and identify opportunities in which we can live our shared values.

  • Coalition of Unitarian Universalist State Action Networks (CUUSAN)

    CUUSAN is an association of Unitarian Universalist state witness, advocacy, and action organizations from Florida to Washington and Maine to California that are working to give life the shape of justice.

  • Economic Justice Action Group

    Following the WTO in Seattle last year about a dozen of us who had attended the demonstrations and were members of the First Unitarian Church began meeting on a weekly basis. We were determined to continue to educate ourselves as well as others on the threats of economic globalization....

  • Promise the Children

    Our mission is to help Unitarian Universalists advocate for and with young people. We give special priority to initiatives that promote the well-being of low-income children and youth. Promise the Children works with advocates around the country, as well as in our home state of Massachusetts.

  • Unitarian Universalist Peace Ministry Network

    The UUPMN, is a 501c3 and an outgrowth of the UU Peacemaking Congregational Study Action Issue. The purpose of the UUPMN is to institutionalize this energy at the national and congregational levels to encourage a culture of peace within our families, our association, our communities, and the world.

  • Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois

    UUPMI believes no one is outside the circle of love. They equip UUs in Illinois to help transform institutions and support people harmed by the prison industrual complex.

  • Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice

    Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice of the Baltimore Washington Region (UUSJ) advances the social justice work of UU congregations, organizations, and individuals and increases the frequency, impact, and visibility of UU collaborative social justice efforts in the region of Baltimore, MD;...

Supporting Organizations

  • Unitarian Service Pension Society

    The Unitarian Service Pension Society holds trust funds that provide Service Gratuities to fellowshipped UU ministers who have reached the age of 67 and who have served at least 21 years in Unitarian Universalist ministries. Approximately 350 recipients receive quarterly gratuities averaging $400.

  • The Society for Ministerial Relief (SMR)

    SMR provides financial assistance through its Clergy Fund to aged or needy Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist clergy and, through its Survivors Fund, to needy surviving spouses and orphans of deceased UU clergy. In determining need, consideration is given both to obligations and...

Theological Schools

Theology/Academic

  • Universalist Heritage Foundation

    Our mission is to educate future generations in the Universalist tradition,to continue to put forth the Universalist message as an agent of hope for a fractured world,and to celebrate and preserve the rich legacy of the Universalist faith.We are currently implementing this mission by: 1) promotin...

  • Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship

    The UUCF was founded in 1945 in Boston to continue promoting the presence of our historic Christian tradition, to expressing the diverse spirit of contemporary Free Christianity, to providing a home for all those who "follow freely in the spirit of Jesus" regardless of what they call themselves, ...

  • Unitarian Universalist Mystics in Community

    We believe that the direct experience of transcending mystery and wonder is a wellspring for a life of faith. Life and the universe are replete with mystery beyond thought or expectation. Encountering it raises our spiritual awareness, inspires us to have spiritual practices, and opens us to the...

  • HUUmanists Association

    The HUUmanists Association originally met at the second General Assembly of the UUA as the Fellowship of Religious Humanists, later adopting its present name to express more clearly its identity within Unitarian Universalism. Its purpose is: "To enhance, promote, practice and enjoy humanism in...

  • Unitarian Universalist Studies Network

    The Unitarian Universalist Studies Network continues the work of the Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society and of Collegium, a network of liberal religious scholars....

  • Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness (UUJA)

    Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness is committed to supporting Unitarian Universalist Jewish multi-religiosity.

  • Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship

    Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship (UUBF) is a non-geographic network of Buddhist practitioners who also identify as Unitarian Universalists.

Universalist Conventions

  • The Pennsylvania Universalist Convention

    The Pennsylvania Universalist Convention (PUC) established in 1831, was comprised of all the Universalist Churches in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at that time....

  • Universalist Convocations

    The members of Universalist Convocations are Unitarian Universalists united to explore and draw from the heritage of Universalist experience and faith in order to inform Unitarian Universalism today and to help light its way toward the future.

  • New York State Convention of Universalists

    The NYSCU was organized in 1825 and was the principal denominational body for Universalist churches in New York State until 1961. Today the NYSCU administers two endowments and holds annual meetings.