Sample Grants
See the complete annual report listing all grants made from the past several years.
Grant Made by the Fund for Unitarian Universalism
Prairie Star District
Southern Cluster Outreach and Extension
$4000 grant and a $4000 challenge grant
For a cluster-based extension and growth program in western Missouri and Kansas that will provide an infrastructure to support congregations in a large geographic area where increasingly regressive social policies demand a liberal religious voice.
Grant Made by the Fund for Unitarian Universalist Social Responsibility
Church of Belfast, Belfast, ME
Restorative Justice Project
$12,770 grant and a $3,500 challenge grant
For a program to lower crime and recidivism, foster the rehabilitation of offenders and support systemic change in the schools and criminal/juvenile justice systems. Congregation members work with community members to advocate that schools develop alternatives to suspension and expulsion, organize to provide alternatives to arrest and jail and to support inmates upon their return to the community.
Grant Made by the Fund for International Unitarian Universalism
International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, Kalamazoo, MI
ICUU Theological Symposium
$4,000 for a 5-day symposium “Unitarian/Universalism: Liberal Religion for a Changing Global Society” bringing together U/U theologians from member and emerging groups to focus on the challenges and opportunities facing our liberal religious movement in a time of increased economic and social globalization and environmental degradation.
Grant Made by the Fund for A Just Society
Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA
The Longtimers Organizing Project
A $10,000 grant and a $2,500 challenge grant for a campaign organized by women prisoners to shut down the dilapidated prison, replace it with and improved facilities that include a nursery for babies born to incarcerated women and advocate for a system that promotes restorative justice.
Grant Made by the Fund for Unitarian Universalism
Prairie Star District
Southern Cluster Outreach and Extension
$4000 grant and a $4000 challenge grant
For a cluster-based extension and growth program in western Missouri and Kansas that will provide an infrastructure to support congregations in a large geographic area where increasingly regressive social policies demand a liberal religious voice.
Grant Made by the Fund for Unitarian Universalist Social Responsibility
Church of Belfast, Belfast, ME
Restorative Justice Project
$12,770 grant and a $3,500 challenge grant
For a program to lower crime and recidivism, foster the rehabilitation of offenders and support systemic change in the schools and criminal/juvenile justice systems. Congregation members work with community members to advocate that schools develop alternatives to suspension and expulsion, organize to provide alternatives to arrest and jail and to support inmates upon their return to the community.
Grant Made by the Fund for International Unitarian Universalism
International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, Kalamazoo, MI
ICUU Theological Symposium
$4,000 for a 5-day symposium “Unitarian/Universalism: Liberal Religion for a Changing Global Society” bringing together U/U theologians from member and emerging groups to focus on the challenges and opportunities facing our liberal religious movement in a time of increased economic and social globalization and environmental degradation.
Grant Made by the Fund for A Just Society
Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA
The Longtimers Organizing Project
A $10,000 grant and a $2,500 challenge grant for a campaign organized by women prisoners to shut down the dilapidated prison, replace it with and improved facilities that include a nursery for babies born to incarcerated women and advocate for a system that promotes restorative justice.