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Part XII, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Rental expense 370,361. 1 Central America and the Caribbean 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 262701 East Asia and the Pacific 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 409955 Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 108000 Middle East and North Africa 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 117953 0 0 0 0 0 0 898609 0 898609 Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 92200 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 60001 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 40000 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 30000 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 20500 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 40000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 40000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 35000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 33680 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 31737 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 30000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 22500 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 22143 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 21895 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 15000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 12000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 11000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 10000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 10000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 10000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 40000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 30000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 28000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 10000 Wire Transfer North America Humanitarian Assistance 45000 Wire Transfer North America Humanitarian Assistance 32953 Wire Transfer North America Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer North America Humanitarian Assistance 15000 Wire Transfer 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Part I, Line 2: Activities for each grant are outlined in the proposal form and are mutually agreed upon by UUSC and the partner organization. The goals of the project must be in line with UUSC's mission and vision and the partner organization must comply with Department of Treasury regulations. Once the grant is awarded, the progress of goals and activities is monitored using a results based monitoring and evaluation system that includes the following methods: metrics systems, whole measure rating scale, complex adaptive systems, systems thinking, observation and ethnographic story lines. These methods are implemented through a variety of ways such as site visits, regular phone calls, focus group meetings, written reports, and financial reports. A written midterm report is requested as well as a financial report. Upon completion of the project, a final written narrative and financial report is requested that analyzes the success and challenges of the project based on the goals and activities outlined in the proposal. Part III Accounting Method: Schedule F, Part II, Line 2: The number of grantees listed on Part II, Line 2 represents the number of recipient organizations, not the number of grants made. X X X X X 1 Integrated Direct Marketing 1250 Connecticut Ave NW Ste 200 Washington DC 20036 Donor Marketing 0 0 160400 0 160400 MN RI HI OK FL CO WI DC AK AR AL UT WV MA PA SC CA IN NC NH NY OH OR VA WA CT ME GA IL KS KY MD MI NJ NM TN MS LA MO ND AZ 1 Lowlander Center Inc 106 Sandalwood Dr Gray CA 70359 464993987 501(c)(3) 51840 Addressing the needs communities affected by Hurricane Laura Center for Transformative Action 119 Anabel Taylor Hall Ithaca NY 14853 160990318 501(c)(3) 45000 Provide assistance for QDEP's work supporting members Alaska Institute for Justice 431 West 7th Ave Suite 208 Anchorage AK 99501 562533062 501(c)(3) 43705 Follow up with the UN Special Rapporteur regarding complaint United States Campaign for Burma PO Box 34126 Washington DC 20043 270843682 501(c)(3) 39000 Support for CRC education programming in Balukhali refugee West Street Recovery 1707 West St Houston TX 77026 822708194 501(c)(3) 35000 Assistance to communities affected by electrical grid crisis Unitarian Universalist Justice Arizona Network 10400 E Camino Quince Tucson AZ 85748 464229880 501(c)(3) 32550 Support organizing within Black and immigrant population Grassroots Leadership 2301 E Cesar Chavez Austin TX 78702 581581743 501(c)(3) 22625 Support Criminalization and Resistance Case Study Project Black Belt Justice Center 4323 F Street SE Washington DC 20019 454441783 501(c)(3) 20000 Support the Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign through the Liberat Foundation for the Austin Sanctuary Network 3514 Pinnacle Rd Austin TX 78746 822653572 501(c)(3) 20000 Immigration advocacy and sanctuary work in Austin TX The Praxis Project Inc 1001 Connecticut Ave NW Ste 201 Washington DC 20036 300044814 501(c)(3) 20000 Provide General Operating support for the UndocuBlack Networt Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee 816 Magoffin Ave El Paso TX 79901 824820135 501(c)(3) 16000 Support & organizing work against the Otero Detention Center Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children 1307 Oretha castle Haley Blvd Suite 304 New Orleans LA 70113 205924561 501(c)(3) 16000 FFLIC re-code Emergency funding for communities affected by Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Socila Justice Alliance 900 Mt Curve Ave Minneapolis MN 55403 421734371 501(c)(3) 16000 Support to Water Protectors preparing to resist the Line 3 d Adelante Alabama Worker Center 2104 Chapel Hill Rd Hoover AL 35216 465635459 501(c)(3) 15000 Post-release support to immigrant detainees at the Etowah De Center for Labor Education and Research Inc 375 Center St Boston MA 02130 222604923 501(c)(3) 15000 Advance emergency work that has arisen from the COVID Central American Resources Center of California 2845 W 7th St Los Angeles CA 90005 953867724 501(c)(3) 15000 Support any and all activities of the National TPS Alliance Communities Uniting in Prayer and Service 1014 Auburn Ave Lafayette LA 70503 205798331 501(c)(3) 15000 Provide post-release support to Immigrant detainees Georgia Latino Alliance For Human Rights 7 Dunwoody Park Suite 110 Atlanta GA 30338 760809155 501(c)(3) 15000 Provide operating support for all aspects of GLAHR's work Graceful Passages Inc 48609 Calle Esperanza La Quinta CA 922536204 472847525 501(c)(3) 15000 Enhance Desert Support for Asylum Seeker's capacity to respo Make The Road New York 301 Grove St Brooklyn NY 11237 113344389 501(c)(3) 15000 Support any and all aspects of Make the Road PA's work Rural Community Workers Allinace 60731 Hwy M Milan MS 63556 611718871 501(c)(3) 15000 Support to RCWA's organizing and educational work Unitarian Universalist Association 24 Farnsworth Street Boston MA 021101409 042103733 501(c)(3) 15000 Emergency COVID-19 support grassroots communities in India Conversations with Friends 7455 France Avenue South 131 Edina MN 55435 814359535 501(c)(3) 12500 Provide commissary to detainees incarcerated in Minnesota Activate Labs 12412 Groveview St D Garden Grove CA 92840 822271990 501(c)(3) 10000 Shelter & kitchen for people in migration in Mazatlan Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas 1250 Roemer Ln Floresville TX 78114 752830923 501(c)(3) 10000 Providing the Tribe with tablets that be used during COVID EDGE Funders Alliance BOX 559 60 29th Street San Fransisco CA 94110 208211195 501(c)(3) 10000 Support all activities to advance systemic change in Philant Living Hope Wheelchair Association 9500 Westview Suite 104 Houston TX 77055 611491319 501(c)(3) 10000 Assist individuals with disabilities & their families throug Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson 4831 E 22nd St Tucson AZ 85711 866006433 501(c)(3) 10000 Support any and all aspects of No More Deaths' work Unitarian Universalist Justice Florida PO Box 18954 Sarasota FL 32476 462876652 501(c)(3) 10000 Additional support with projects that support COVID relief UU Ministry for Earth 1034 SW 13th Ave Portland OR 97205 020530982 501(c)(3) 10000 Engaging UUs in a variety of climate & environmental projet 30 0 Part I, Line 2: Each grant has a term limit. At the end of the term, a full narrative and financial report is requested that documents how the funds were used. Monitoring and evaluation of the project is ongoing throughout the term of the grant. X X X X X 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mary Katherine Morn President & CEO 226525 0 0 0 0 0 21011 0 20676 0 268212 0 0 0 Cassandra Ryan VP & CDO 158036 0 0 0 0 0 18472 0 28403 0 204911 0 0 0 Rachel Freed VP & CPO 164285 0 0 0 0 0 16793 0 14489 0 195567 0 0 0 Mack Davidson VP & CAO 166022 0 0 0 0 0 15682 0 8287 0 189991 0 0 0 Kathleen McTigue Director Of AJE 140598 0 0 0 0 0 16551 0 28900 0 186049 0 0 0 Quang Nguyen Director Of HR 55106 0 0 0 83728 0 15559 0 9034 0 163427 0 0 0 Carol Cahalane Director Of Finance 129909 0 0 0 0 0 14885 0 10355 0 155149 0 0 0 Danielle Fuller-Wimbush Director Of Programs 69126 0 0 0 53045 0 9548 0 20869 0 152588 0 0 0 Part I, Line 4a Danielle Fuller Wimbush received a severance payment in calendar 2020 in the amount of $53,045. Quang Nguyen received a severance payment in calendar 2020 in the amount of $83,728. A Mass Development Finance Agency 043431814 000000000 2007-05-17 3500000 Purchase of Office Building 0 0 0 A 3500000 47000 3453000 2009 0 0 1 1 A 0 1 0 0 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0 0 1 A 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 A 1 Family member of Board Member Family member of Board Member 79818 Employment 0 X 40 378749 Mean Value on Gift Date 0 0 1 0 Part I, Column (b): The number shown in column B represents the total number of gifts of securities. Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission: Guided by UU principles and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UUSC strives to advance human rights, dismantle systems of oppression, and uplift and affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all people. We center the voices and experiences of those most affected and strengthen those grassroots groups and movements who are organizing themselves to advance these goals. In order to accomplish this, we offer justice education and leadership development; engagement and mobilization for advocacy; partner support; and grant funding. UUSC aims to leverage our particular strategic assets and strengths to disrupt criminalization and systemic oppression of people based on their identities; support self-determination and defend the rights of people who are or may be forced to leave the places they call home due to climate, conflict, or economic hardship, and address the root causes of forced displacement; and respond to humanitarian crises as partners with people whose access to aid is most limited, by helping them to rebuild their lives and by addressing the human rights issues or violations that make them more vulnerable. In all of our work, UUSC and our partners work with the communities most affected by injustice, including: - In Burma, all of our partners are focused on protecting the rights of the Rohingya Muslim minority, currently facing a crisis of displacement and a military campaign of genocide. This year, those impacts have been impacted by the military's attempted coup and the systematic persecution of opposition leaders, activists, and the Civil Disobedience Movement that arose in response. - In Mexico and Central America, UUSC's partners work with people who have been displaced from their home countries by state-sanctioned and gender-based violence, are at risk of being displaced, or who have been repatriated and are in continued danger. - In the U.S., our partners work with criminalized populations, including undocumented people, those at risk of deportation, and humanitarian aid workers seeking to assist those making the dangerous journey from Mexico to the U.S. border. - In Alaska, Louisiana, and the Pacific, UUSC's partners are advancing and protecting the rights of populations at risk of climate-forced displacement, and upholding the "right to resist" extractive development projects that threaten to displace their communities and destroy their ancestral lands, including Line 3 in Minnesota and LNG pipelines in Texas. - In the Bahamas, UUSC is supporting grassroots partners working with the communities most impacted by Hurricane Dorian, including Haitian immigrants who are subjected to ongoing discrimination and completely ignored by the mainstream response to the hurricane. UUSC seeks to involve our grassroots partners in all aspects of our decision-making, and to adapt and adjust our strategies, practices, and processes in accordance with their feedback. Doing so requires building long-term, trusting relationships and finding new ways to solicit candid and, if necessary, anonymous feedback from our partners, which we do each and every year. This year, our partners had encouraging words for us and the way we work. For example: - Having the support from Unitarian Universalists has opened up the door for partnerships with other funders. We are pleased to have received the support from this grant which has allowed us to grow in many ways, not just in the work we set out to do with this grant but also opening the doors to funding for other programs, such as our migrant girls group." - "UUSC has been a wonderful partner. Your increased flexibility and understanding have been wonderful." "I would like to thank you for your support over the last many years. UUSC was one of the first funders to believe in [us] and support our work not just with grant dollars but also with volunteer engagement. Our ability to expand visitation programming to now 69 communities in 26 states is in part due to the amazing power and passion of" UUSC and its supporters. - "I wish all of philanthropy could do partnerships like the way UUSC does!" In the past fiscal year, facing the devastation of the global COVID pandemic, UUSC made 110 grants and amendments worth $2.1M to grassroots organizations working in countries around the world. This represents the most money UUSC has granted and the most grants UUSC has made in at least the last five years. UUSC's Impact What does it mean to have a human rights "impact"? For UUSC, "impact" means building movements for systemic change. Impact means using our power and privilege as a US-based nonprofit to amplify the power of the grassroots by following the leadership of communities directly affected by injustice. It is addressing immediate harms and their root causes, in order to dismantle oppressive systemsincluding those from which we benefit. In short, our impact can be seen in the steps we take on the way to building a more just, equitable, and regenerative world. These are ambitious goals to be sure. Achieving them will take time, and the work that will make them possible is not always quantifiable or readymade for public consumption. The themes, stories, and outcomes we choose to highlight in our work, therefore, are chosen because they help us understand whether or not our work is supporting those long-term, systemic impacts, as we strive to make progress on our human rights goals. We are proud that many of our highlights showcase UUSC's approach: consulting with our grassroots partners, frontline communities, and other allies and then leveraging whatever resources we have to make a collective impact on our shared struggle for justice and human rights. In every case, we aim to put our grassroots partners at the center, showing the power of social change when it is led by communities confronting oppression and injustice. Form 990, Part III, Line 4a: Migrant Justice Expenses $3,222,072 including grants of $720,608. Revenue: $40,825. This year, UUSC helped strengthen grassroots movements, addressed immediate harms while working toward systemic solutions, and centered the experiences and wisdom of the communities most impacted by injustice. Below are just a few of the highlights of how we did this, including by: UUSC's years supporting community work to develop alternatives to the dominant economic and political systems of oppression were critical this year, as were our partners' analyses of how governments across the region have failed at both short-term emergency response and long-term development. The global COVID crisis and the effects of climate change have put this into sharp relief. - COVID response: Most of our migrant justice partners either expanded existing direct food assistance programs or started new ones as needed. With emergency funds, UUSC was able to provide support for partners as they organized these immediate responses to COVID's impacts in their communities. o In Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, we helped our partners organize direct aid to communities and families in the form of food and cash assistance. o In the US, we supported the provision of grocery and rent support, as well as urgently needed access to affirming mental health services, unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere. o In Mexico, our partners' migrant shelters continued operating with reduced staff, though were forced to implement strict sanitary measures and temporarily stop receiving new arrivals. They adapted their physical spaces and expanded services out into the communities by providing supplies and food aid to migrants and asylum-seekers living in the Guadalajara and Mexico City metro areas. Importantly, they also both continued to monitor ongoing migration flows across the country and highlight inadequate and abusive Mexican state responses. - On top of the COVID crisis, our partners in Central America were also critical in responding to the devastating impacts of the back-to-back hurricanes, Eta and Iota. Particularly here, the work that partners have been engaged with for years and their location in the affected communities enabled each of them to do three things: o Identify the most urgent needs and plan for the medium-term o Respond to these needs quickly and with dignity o Socialize their analyses of inadequate, abusive, and corrupt state responses and how that fits within the context of globalized neoliberalism and militarization. This work toward alternative systems, particularly those linked to local agricultural development, is rooted in autonomy, sustainability, gender equality, and anti-corruption, since it means that communities are less reliant on government programs that are either insufficient or often driven by patronage. - Elections and advocacy work in the US o Thanks to their organizing model based on established civic engagement networks, and tireless, courageous "get out the vote and voter education work in the midst of an ongoing public health crisis, our partners in Georgia were key players in the outcome of state and federal elections there. o Change doesn't stop once the ballots are counted, and our partners have been vital to keeping momentum for long-term systems change: several have continued to keep issues of migration, asylum and sanctuary visible while holding the new Biden administration to account. Form 990, Part III, Line 4b: Climate Justice & Environmental Justice Expenses $1,856,019 including grants of $415,093. Revenue: $23,517. - In collaboration with our coalition partners, the Legal Justice Coalition (co-convened by UUSC), and community leaders from the Gulf and Alaska, we released a policy brief directed to the new Biden-Harris administration, addressing climate-forced displacement in the US. We also prepared an international statement in response to President Biden's Executive Order on Climate Change and Migration, which was drafted in collaboration with partners across our 3 portfolios. The statement urged the administration to bring an intersectional human rights lens to its work to address the climate crisis, and more than 30 of our partners signed onto the statement indicating their support. - Following the release of our statement, we organized and hosted a webinar during the President's climate leader summit, which included 10 UUSC partners and community leaders from the United States, Central America, the Pacific, The Bahamas and Canada -- and representing our work on climate justice, migrant justice, and crisis response -- to demand action. - This year, we also provided emergency funds to 10 of our of our climate justice partners to support their adaptation to the global pandemic. This included supporting communities to mobilize humanitarian aid and COVID-relief support on the ground with households that were displaced by Hurricane Laura in the Gulf, as well as bolstering aid distribution and advocacy efforts from our partners in the Pacific Islands. - In Fiji, our support helped convene the first ever meeting of representatives from climate displaced communities including those who have been relocated (Tukuraki and Vunidogoloa) or partially relocated (Narikoso). Form 990, Part III, Line 4c: Crisis Response Expenses $1,502,616 including grants of $377,579. Revenue: $19,038. - While the COVID pandemic reverberated around the world, the compounded effects of international aid disruptions and economic crises were acutely felt by already vulnerable Rohingya refugee and IDP (internally displaced person) communities in Burmese IDP camps, Bangladesh refugee camps, and urban Malaysia. UUSC was able to not only permit existing grantees to re-program their funds, much of which focused on education and community organizing that were disrupted due to social distancing and public health protocols, but we were also able to make new critical emergency grants to help grassroots Rohingya partners respond to community requests for food aid, personal protective equipment, and COVID-related advocacy for improved government aid policies. - As a critical education and outreach component among our own UU community, UUSC created a Discussion and Action Guide to complement the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's recent Rohingya Exhibition, "Burma's Path to Genocide," to help UUSC members and the broader public build awareness on how to practically fight against genocide in a modern context. UUSC hosted a public panel with Museum experts and a Rohingya human rights activist to launch and discuss the guide, which was shared widely both by UUSC and the Museum. - With the February 1st military coup, banking and communications were severely disrupted by the Burmese junta, and grassroots protesters and participants in the nationwide civil disobedience movement have faced ongoing violence and oppression. UUSC was one of the first international organizations to be able to provide direct emergency aid in the country, providing financial assistance to our grassroots partners for physical relocation, communications equipment, security, humanitarian and livelihood assistance, and advocacy. - UUSC awarded its 2020 Human Rights Innovation Fellowship to a Thailand-based solidarity group, which in conjunction with various ethnic minority women activists from across Burma created a virtual convening platform focused on building connections among disparate youth activists from Burma. Though the program was designed before the COVID-pandemic, the virtual nature of the learning series ultimately timed well with social distancing and public health protocols. Over the course of 8 months and 25 sessions with various human rights experts and mentors, more than 35 youth participants from Burma, located in Burma, Thailand, Bangladesh and further afield, came together to learn, network, and build solidarity for each other's work. In addition to the learning program, our partnership included 8 small grants for participants to carry out human rights projects in their local communities, which served as the basis for discussion, sharing and practical learning among participants. Due to its success, the coordinators are exploring the possibility of making the program a permanent semi-annual learning series for youth activism and development. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: UU College of Social Justice The UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) is structured as a joint program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), jointly governed by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and UUSC for the benefit of both organizations under the terms of a joint operating agreement. UUCSJ's mission is to inspire and sustain faith-based activism for justice, on issues of local, national, and global importance. We accomplish this through a variety of experiential learning programs, and through workshops and resources designed for use in our UU congregations. We work closely with UUSC to center frontline grassroot partner needs and to activate UU's to serve in movement with them. One of the major initiatives we undertook this past year before the pandemic hit was to support the UUA's UU the Vote Initiative leading up to the Fall 2020 election including, recruiting and supporting young adults as poll workers in states where the communities of color faced voter restrictions. As part of this work, we created the 2020 Democracy Defense & Action Resource Guide, that was available online through January 2021 with the incoming change in the US government with the Biden Administration. Beginning almost immediately with the pandemic, UUCSJ staff and Program Leaders began experimenting with entirely new online offerings (in addition to adapting in-person versions to an online platform). We have now developed and offered a wide range of Community Action Circles to UU constituents and donors, ministers and religious educators, and organizers/activists with accompaniment networks, youth and young adults among others. Our Community Action Circles on zoom are a way to foster community-building, energetic grounding and connection, and collective action-taking, even while we were all physically distanced. Using interactive google slides, we created visually rich spaces that allowed people to feel less isolated, while offering timely political education and concrete opportunities to respond to action alerts from social movements in which we and our partners are involved. It has been an iterative process that we had adapted for multiple groups (including congregations, youth groups, UUA partners, the UUSC board, and national events such as the UU@UN Spring Seminar and the most recent General Assembly). We have received rave reviews for these gatherings and continue to offer templates, training-by-doing, and coaching to congregations and other UU justice groups that want to learn to facilitate their own. We've engaged roughly 250 participants through action circles over the last year and the ripple effect of our impact is harder to predict as we've trained and mentored many activists to bring these action circles to their own communities. Our ability to transition to online workshops has enabled us to reach many more congregations and develop new engaging workshops with alumni from our programs, our network of CSJ program leaders and others to broaden our offerings. Our workshops have served as a positive way to strengthen our relationships with State Action Networks and the congregations they serve. We led approximately 20 workshops this year reaching over approximately 250 participants through workshops such as The Revolution Will Not Be Colonized, Re-socializing for the Revolution, Arts and activism, Faith in Action, Speaking Justice in our Language of Faith, Saying Yes and Saying No, The Answer is in our Bodies, How do we Imagine Justice, Praxis in the Borderlands and our new program focused on Settler Colonialism 101. This past year has brought challenges to our youth constituents and for those who seek to offer them meaningful opportunities for learning and connection amidst so much disruption to their social and educational lives. We have remained a resource and collaborator, whether working directly with congregational leaders or with our youth ministry focused colleagues at the UUA, bringing interactive online practices we have learned and our focus on justice education to joint endeavors. We have also remained in close contact with our partners at the organization, BORDERLINKS so that when it is safe to resume travel, we will be well equipped to welcome youth groups back into immersive learning journeys. A recent stakeholder assessment of UUCSJ's work particularly highlighted the important contributions that we continue to make to the youth ministry landscape, even in these ever-shifting times. As one stakeholder stated, "UUCSJ really does center young people in a way that feels whole." At a time when many online programs have struggled to sustain participation, the online fellowship version of our GROW (Grounded & Resilient Organizers Workshop) has expanded and sustained engagement from young adults, ages 18-35, during the past year, with more than 50 total participants who have gathered weekly for facilitated sessions to build their organizing skills in spiritually nourishing and relationally rich ways. Participants have grappled with themes related to Governance & Power, Conflict, Care, Time & Imagination, as well as the ongoing work of dismantling white supremacy, and growing their understanding of intersectional social movements. These activists were supported in contextualizing their local contexts, whether campus, congregation, and/or community and mapping power and possibilities for ongoing meaningful action, including in concert with one another. As with our prior in-person iterations of GROW, we continue to hear how meaningful and even "life changing" this program is for many young adult participants, several of whom have returned repeatedly to participate in evolving iterations and who have stayed engaged with UUCSJ in other ways, including serving as paid facilitators and leaders of our emerging programs. Two years ago, at General Assembly, the UUA put out a call to congregations to members to strengthen their ties with indigenous partners. Since this time, UUCSJ has hosted several programs and offerings in response to this call starting with the Settler Colonialism 101 workshop in Spring of 2020. From there, we've built relationships and created new program offerings with several indigenous leaders, including some already within the UU network. We've supported non-indigenous UUs in deepening their understanding of indigenous solidarity through our Being a Good Relative workshop series and direct actions at the Treaty People Gathering in Minnesota in June 2021. Creating such offerings have allowed participants to expand their knowledge in multiple fronts, as there were participants who attended our first Settler Colonialism workshop and Being a Good Relative series who later became agitators against the Enbridge Line 3 pipelinea new w section of Enbridge pipeline is set to carry 760,000 barrels a day of tar sands oil across protected Indigenous treaty lands. 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