Associate Member Organizations

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  Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

  UUSC advances human rights through grassroots collaboration. In more than a dozen countries throughout the world, UUSC fosters social justice and works toward a world free from oppression. UUSC’s innovative approaches and measurable impact are grounded in the belief that all people have inherent...

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  Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation (UUWF)

  UUWF is a continental membership organization that advances justice for women and promotes their spiritual growth. It is an independent non-profit, 501c3 corporation and one of only three associate member organizations of the Unitarian Universalist Association....

Related Organizations

• Community Church of Sebastopol (UCC)
• Texas UU Justice Ministry

  Texas UU Justice Ministry (TXUUJM) is the UU State Action Network of Texas. We are “Bending Texas Toward Justice TOGETHER.”TXUUJM educates and organizes Texas UUs, member congregations, and partners to advocate effectively for UU principles in public policy and the public square.

• Minnesota Conference United Church of Christ

  The Minnesota Conference United Church of Christ (UCC) is the state-wide organization that equips UCC pastors to lead, supports congregations, engages in transformative mission and witness, and guides youth and adults on their faith journeys.

Camps, Conference Centers, or Retirement Homes

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  UBarU Camp and Retreat Center

  UBarU Camp and Retreat Center serves Unitarian Universalist congregations as well as other groups consistent with the mission for religious retreats and educational programs. Our mission is to provide a welcoming, peaceful place to gather for spiritual, educational, and recreational purposes in...

• Unirondack Inc.

  Our mission is to provide an environment that inspires people to explore responsible roles in the web of life through physical, mental, and spiritual challenges. Our programs respect different traditions and the search for truth.

• Camp Quinebarge
• Muuyc Marwood

  Marwood, an all-volunteer run camp, in existence for over 60 years, offers a program designed for social, spiritual, and emotional fun and growth for rising 7th-10th grade UU youth.

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  The Rowe Center

  The Rowe Center is a community, spiritual, and educational retreat center creating opportunities for the presentation and exchange of a wide variety of topics consistent with the Unitarian Universalist principles and values.

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  Ferry Beach Retreat and Conference Center

  Ferry Beach is a retreat and conference center with a mission to "awaken hearts to explore, grown and renew the spirit of universal love." We accomplish our mission through programs in education, culture and the arts, spirituality, sustainability, social justice, and action and personal growth.

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  The Mountain Retreat & Learning Center, Inc.

  Surrounded by the natural beauty of the Southern Appalachians, The Mountain offers camps, conferences, and educational programs for all ages. Comfortable accommodations are available for congregation retreats and programs sponsored by UU groups and community-based organizations.

• Hale Barnard Corporation

  Hale Barnard Corporation provides residential and supportive services of exceptional quality for a diverse older population. Hale House offers residential care, a wide range of activities, and community services to 56 elderly people regardless of their ability to pay.

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  Star Island Corporation

  At Star Island, enjoy rugged living six miles off the coast of New Hampshire. Summer programs include spirituality, world affairs, arts, ecology, yoga, history, and children’s activities.

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  Murray Grove Retreat and Renewal Center

  This historic site is where John Murray preached his first Universalist sermon in America in 1770. Located on twenty peaceful acres in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Murray Grove offers year round lodging for up to sixty-six people, meeting spaces, commercial kitchen and a (seasonal) salt water...

Congregational Life

• Channing-Murray Foundation

  The Channing-Murray Foundation provides a liberal religious center for the campus community of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Its mission is to provide educational opportunities to explore Unitarian Universalist spirituality, reflect our concern for social justice, encourage free...

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  Stewardship for Us

  The Stewardship For Us (s4us) Team, is based on a simple principle and a long history. The principle is that stewardship is important to all of us....

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  UU Women and Religion (Continental)

  Continental Unitarian Universalist Women & Religion (UUWR) is a network of Unitarian Universalist (UU) women's organizations and individuals, dedicated to freeing ourselves, others, and the Earth from traditional, historical, and contemporary oppressive and patriarchal systems. serves as a link...

Identity

• Lambda Ministers Guild

  The Lambda Ministers Guild exisits to offer support to and facilitate communication among bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender UU ministers. To encourage and support research in the field of bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender clergy spirituality....

• Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness

  Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness (UUPA) has as its mission to serve the Unitarian Universalist community of polyamorous people by providing support, promoting education, and encouraging spiritual wholeness regarding polyamory....

• Allies for Racial Equity

  Allies for Racial Equity disrupts oppression, uproots white supremacy, and plants seeds of justice.

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  Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU)

  Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU) seeks to expand the power and capacity of Black Unitarian Universalists within our faith, providing support, information, and resources for Black Unitarian Universalists and doing justice-making and liberation through our faith.

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  Southwest Unitarian Universalist Women (SWUUW)

  A non-profit organization that supports women through worship, learning, leadership, community and social justice, SWUUW addresses women's issues, explores feminist theology, promotes friendships, and celebrates the diversities that make us unique women on our individual spiritual paths.

• EqUUal Access

  We are Unitarian Universalists living with disabilities, our families, friends, and allies coming together for a common purpose: To enable the full engagement of people with disabilities in Unitarian Universalist communities and the broader society...

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  TRUUsT (Transgender Religious professional UUs Together)

  TRUUsT is an organization of trans Unitarian Universalists who are living out a call to ministry within Unitarian Universalism. Its mission is to advocate for the gifts, safety, liberation, and leadership of trans religious professionals in Unitarian Universalist ministries and institutions.

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  DRUUMM (Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries)

  DRUUMM is an all-volunteer BIPOC collective that organizes community building events, leadership trainings, and is an advocate within the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.

• Unitarian Universalist Mental Health Network

  The mission of the Unitarian Universalist Mental Health Network (UUMHN) is to empower the Beloved Community in honoring each individual’s unique mental health journey towards wellness.

International

• Religions for Peace
• Religions for Peace: USA

  Religions for Peace USA is the largest and most broadly-based representative multi-religious forum in the United States, with participants from about 50 religious communities, representing diversity within each of the major faith traditions and many of the minor ones.

• General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches

  Learn more about The Unitarians in the United Kingdom.

• International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women

  The International Convocation of UU Women (ICUUW) is a global partnership of Unitarian/Universalists and people who share our values to work for women’s empowerment through Unitarian/Universalist connections around the world. ICUUW is committed to improving the lives of women and girls by working...

• International Association for Religious Freedom - U.S. Chapter

  The purpose of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) is to work for freedom of religion and belief because it is a precious human right that potentially enables the best within our religious lives, our search for truth or enlightenment, to flourish.

• International Association for Religious Freedom

Lifespan Faith Development

• Unitarian Universalist Small Group Ministry Network

  The Unitarian Universalist Small Group Ministry Network (UU SGMN) supports and enriches UU congregations through developing and sustaining covenanted small group ministry programs. We provide single and multi-congregational workshops to set-up or re-energize SGM programs, offer consultations and...

• Oak Park Our Whole Lives

  Oak Park Our Whole Lives is an independent non-profit, volunteer-run organization that provides holistic, inclusive, comprehensive sexuality education to children and families in the community and area in grades K-9.

• Unitarian Sunday School Society

  The Unitarian Sunday School Society provides grants in support of religious education projects not originating with the Unitarian Universalist Association’s own religious education arm.

• UU Wellspring

  UU Wellspring is a 10-month spiritual deepening course for Unitarian Universalists.

Professional Organizations/Ministry

• Liberal Religious Educators Association

  LREDA is an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, multicultural, welcoming, professional organization open to liberal religious educators and those supportive of religious education whatever their age, race/ethnicity, class, gender, gender identity, physical ability, and sexual orientation.

• UU Society for Community Ministries

  The Unitarian Universalist Society for Community Ministries (UUSCM) is a Unitarian Universalist movement of lay ministers & ordained clergy committed to promoting a broad spectrum of healing and social justice ministries. We believe that only through many diverse forms of ministry can we heal...

• UUMA - Pacific Northwest Chapter

  The Pacific Northwest Chapter of the UUMA is comprised of colleagues (parish, community, candidate and retired) from Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington who covenant to journey together in the name of our UU ministry. President: Cecilia Kingman...

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  UU Trauma Response Ministry

  The Unitarian Universalist Trauma Response Ministry (UUTRM) provides culturally sensitive spiritual care to survivors of mass disasters and other significant trauma.

• Mountain Desert District LREDA Chapter
• Association of UU Administrators

  The Association of Unitarian Universalist Administrators is a continental network of people working as paid administrators in local UU congregations, district or regional offices, or UU affiliated organizations.

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  Unitarian Universalist Association of Membership Professionals

  Our membership is open to ALL who are passionate about growing Unitarian Universalism. Members of UUAMP, both paid and volunteer, serve congregations with membership as one of the main components of their ministry...

• Pacific Northwest Conference United Church of Christ

  The Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ lives through its camps, churches and communities by offering God's welcome to all, listening to one another, bearing witness, and working for justice.

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  Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA)

  In the day to day, the UUMA devotes its time and resources to promoting lifelong growth and learning in ministry, supporting ministers in all stages and settings and working to dismantle systems and structures of racism and oppression.

• Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries (AUUMM)

  The Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries (AUUMM) was formed as the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network (UUMN) at a meeting during the 1982 General Assembly. The AUUMM is an international organization which currently boasts a membership of approximately 550 from the US/Canada.

• Unitarian Universalist Retired Ministers and Partners Association

  In faithfulness to the UU tradition and to the guidelines and code of conduct of the UUMA, the purpose of UURMaPA is to serve the interests and enhance the well-being of retired UU ministers and their life partners.

Social Justice

• 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.

• UU Prison Ministry Illinios

  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;...

• 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 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.

• Iowa Unitarian Univerasalist 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.

• UURISE: UU Refugee and Immigrant Services and Education, Inc.

  UURISE is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) with a mission to advance justice and human rights for immigrants and refugees.

• 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.

Supporting Organizations

• 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...

• Unitarian Universalist Assn
• 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.

Theological Schools

• Meadville Lombard Theological School

  Carrying the Living Tradition of Unitarian Universalism, Meadville Lombard Theological School nurtures learners from diverse faith traditions to embody the collaborative work of liberation through congregational and community leadership.

• Eden Theological Seminary
• Starr King School for the Ministry

  Founded in 1904, Starr King School for the Ministry is a graduate theological school that educates Unitarian Universalist ministers and progressive religious leaders.

Theology/Academic

• 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 Universalist Buddhist Fellowship

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

• Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness (UUJA)

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

• 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, ...

• 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 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...

Universalist Conventions

• 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.

• 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.