Rice Room – Eliot & Pickett House Present: Merck, chair, Reece, Saunders, Smith, Gabert, staff liaison Absent: Larry Ladd Also Present: Charbonneau, Rutherford, Einhorn, Crowell The meeting convened at 9:03 a.m. Deloitte & Touche Jim Winning Jim Winning from Deloitte & Touche (D&T) joined the...

General Assembly 2009 Event 3014 Led by Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Moderator Gini Courter. UUA Commission on Appraisal: Rev. Orlanda Brugnola, Chair; Rev. Thomas Owen-Towle, Vice Chair, Chaplain; Rev. Barbara Child, Project Manager; Jacqui C. Williams, Treasurer....

The President is authorized to make loans, issue loan guarantees, and make grants to congregations seeking to buy land for a new building, to build a new building, or to make major improvements to an existing building. The President shall establish all terms of these programs, subject to the...

Policy Governance® is a governance model created by Dr. John Carver. It provides a complete model for delegating authority from a Board to an Executive and monitoring operations against policy. Policy in the Carver model is defined in two ways: Ends Policies, which define a future-oriented vision...

May 27, 2009 Our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) governance model is built on the foundation of John Carver's "Policy Governance®." If you desire assistance with the terminology of this governance model, please search for "policy governance" on this website, and read from the many books...

Morales won 2009 UUA presidential election despite Hallman’s larger base of donors.

Candidates and campaign chiefs talk about travel, technology, and identifying delegates.

Gini Courter was elected to a second full term at the General Assembly in Salt Lake City June 27, 2009

UUA Board of Trustees meeting for the first time with newly-elected UUA President Peter Morales.

Introductions and statements by board, new president.

The Rev. William G. Sinkford has given a charge to his successor as UUA president, the Rev. Peter Morales.

Remarks after the election at the 2009 General Assembly.

Try as we might, conflict is a part of life in many of our congregations. A group may not like the direction the church is going. Someone feels left out. There is too much spirituality on Sunday morning. Or not enough. The minister or religious educator is going down the wrong path....

Many of the ten congregations in metropolitan Pittsburgh, PA, have fewer than one hundred members, but together they have nearly 1,000 and in recent years they've found more and more ways to come together and make their numbers count. For about six years representatives of the congregations have...