In Memoriam: Jane McAlevey Jane McAlevey, renowned labor organizer and movement strategist, died on Sunday, July 7 after entering hospice care at her home in...
Veatch Governors Visit Detroit-Area Grantees Each year, a delegation of Veatch Governors leads a site visit to a location around the country to learn about the work of Veatch grantees...
Report from the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), May 2024 UUSC REPORT 5/2024 2023 Activities & Accomplishments From accelerating impacts of the climate crisis to ongoing military brutality in...
Veatch Grantee Organizing Resilience Continues to Rebuild Months After Devastating Maui Wildfires While media attention quickly wanes following natural disasters, the work of many Veatch grantees active in these communities continues...
Veatch Grantee GoVoteNYC Effectively Boosts Voter Turnout According to Case Study New York City has long struggled with low voter turnout, but Veatch grantee GoVoteNYC—a donor collaborative founded in 2021—is helping...
Renewal There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which...
UUCSR Awards TWO 20th Annual Music Scholarships! Members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock (UUCSR) are excited to announce the winners of TWO 2024 Edward Miller...
Toward an Engaged Pluralism We’ve been thinking together about pluralism this month. We’ve had sermons and blog posts and even some linguistically and culturally...
Reflections Upon Return from Poland I was invited to participate in a recent Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) learning trip to Poland so that I could visit...
Blessed Beltane! Our group Exploring Earth-Centered Spirituality met on Saturday to consider the neo-Pagan holidays centered around May Day. My own...
Growing Together: The Interdependence of Our Community Garden In our garden, every plant relies on the others around it—roots intertwine, and life-giving resources like water and nutrients are...
Veatch Grantee One Fair Wage Holds Digital Memorial to Commemorate Sacrifices of Service Workers During Covid-19 Last month, Veatch grantee One Fair Wage—a national organization seeking to end subminimum wages for service workers in the United...
Interdependence When I was in seminary, I took an ethics class—it was required for the obvious reasons. Of the many important things I was told, one...
Fighting Forward: Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Leads Effort to Remake the Kingsbridge Armory For nearly 30 years, the Kingsbridge Armory—thought to be the largest in the world—has sat empty, despite multiple attempts to...
Pluralism A public friend, a member of the clergy from another religion, once kidded with me that Unitarian Universalists must have it easy around...
Veatch Grantee Education and Training Institute Organizes March on International Women’s Day As we close Women’s History Month, we are happy to share news from a New Jersey-based grantee that organizes immigrant workers, the...
Member of VOCAL-NY, a Veatch Grantee, Attends State of the Union as Rep. Yvette Clarke’s Guest During the State of the Union address earlier this month, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke invited Milton Perez, a longtime leader of Veatch...
We Gather On Native Land The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock is located in Shelter Rock, New York, the ancestral home of the Matinecock...
The Situation in Haiti Claire Deroche received this email from Cassandra Ryan of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC in answer to her query about...
Wildflower Meadows at UUCSR UUCSR has engaged Larry Weaner Landscape Associates to design wildflower meadows along the perimeter of the Great Lawn. This design work...
Transformation When my son was young he loved to play with the Hasbro toy “Transformers.” One moment the toy was a dump truck and the next, after...