Related and Associate Member Organizations

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Covenanting Communities

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.

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Professional Organizations/Ministry

Social Justice

  • OpenDoor Housing Fund/UU Interfaith Fund

    UUAHC (Unitarian Universalist Affordable Housing Corporation), a community development loan fund, is a nonprofit organization channeling resources from socially responsible donors and investors to community-based housing developers. The UUAHC loan fund makes below-market rate loans to provide...

  • 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....

  • Unitarian Univeralists for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

    Unitarian Universalists for Alternative to the Death Penalty (UUADP), organized in 1996, is a social action group seeking to give witness to the five UUA resolutions of past years calling for an end to capital punishment.

  • Unitarian Universalists for Drug Policy Reform

    UUDPR empowers congregations and individual UUs nationwide to give public witness to the UUA's drug policy Statement of Conscience (passed by the General Assembly in 2002). Utilizing all effective means of mass communication and direct action, UUDPR has become the premier religious group in the...

  • 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...

  • 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 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;...