Emergency Assistance to Ukraine. Click here to find a list of organizations providing emergency assistance to Ukraine. We do not recommend any particular ones; please do your research before deciding to donate.

Our Social Action & Justice Committee works hard to create and sustain a more just and equitable world. Committee efforts begin with studying an issue, which may lead to advocacy by working with grassroots community organizations, government, interfaith, and community groups. The Social Action & Justice Committee provides a focal point for these efforts. Individuals take the lead on specific social justice issues. Examples of  these issues include:

  • Economic Equality

  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Justice, Intersex, Asexual, Pansexual, & Two-Spirit

  • Immigrant Rights

  • Racial Justice

  • Environmental Justice

  • Voting Rights

UUCR is actively involved in social action work throughout our community, with representatives on the boards of Cornerstones, a local non-profit that provides support and advocacy to those in need, and The Closet, a local faith-based non-profit thrift shop. We also organize or support the following initiatives:

  • UUCR Alternative Gift Market

  • Jennifer Mitchell Memorial Scholarship Fund

  • Helping Hungry Kids

  • Hypothermia Prevention

  • Monthly special collections to benefit various charities and humanitarian groups

Please contact Committee Chair Tim Norton at sajchair@uureston.org for additional information.

Learn More About Social Action & Justice at UUCR

Please contact Committee Chair Tim Norton for additional information: sajchair@UUReston.org.

Special Collection for June: Poor People’s Campaign

The Poor People’s Campaign strives to create a movement that will shift the moral narrative, impact policies and elections at every level of government, and build lasting power for poor and impacted people. 

Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up the unfinished work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. From Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.

Learn more here - Poor People's Campaign