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Part X, Line 2: UUSC accounts for the effect of any uncertain tax positions based on a "more likely than not" threshold to the recognition of the tax positions being sustained based on the technical merits of the position under scrutiny by the applicable taxing authority. If a tax position or positions are deemed to result in uncertainties of those positions, the unrecognized tax benefit is estimated based on a "cumulative probability assessment" that aggregates the estimated tax liability for all uncertain tax positions. UUSC has identified its tax status as a tax exempt entity and its determination of which income is related and unrelated as its only significant tax positions and has determined that such tax positions do not result in uncertainty requiring recognition. UUSC is not currently under examination by any taxing jurisdiction. UUSC's Federal and state income tax returns are generally open for examination for three years after the date of filing. 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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. 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. 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X X X X X 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Mary Katherine Morn President & CEO 124424 0 15000 0 0 0 0 0 15995 0 155419 0 0 0 Rachel Freed VP & CPO 157767 0 14679 0 0 0 14246 0 0 0 186692 0 0 0 Mack Davidson VP & CAO 155704 0 14679 0 0 0 14246 0 7227 0 191856 0 0 0 Cassandra Ryan VP & CDO 149156 0 14679 0 0 0 15829 0 25511 0 205175 0 0 0 Kathleen McTigue Director of UUCSJ 137006 0 4320 0 0 0 14615 0 25511 0 181452 0 0 0 Quang Nguyen Director of Human Resource 133616 0 4059 0 0 0 13732 0 7871 0 159278 0 0 0 Thomas H Andrews President & CEO (former) 0 0 0 0 137567 0 0 0 0 0 137567 0 0 0 Carol Cahalane Director of Finance 125029 0 2513 0 0 0 12755 0 0 0 140297 0 0 0 Part I, Line 4a Thomas Andrews received a severance payment in the amount of $137,567 during the fiscal year. A portion of this amount was paid in calendar 2017. The balance of the payment was made during calendar 2018 and is reported in Schedule J, Part II, column (B)(iii). Part I, Line 7 Bonuses were paid to all qualified staff members based upon their annual performance review. 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 67103 Employment 0 X 31 187974 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 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. In Mexico and Central America, UUSC's partners work with people who have been displaced from their home countries by state-sanctioned 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 Eastern Europe, UUSC's partners work with refugees at risk of being pushed-back into countries they have fled, or those seeking to make a new life in an unfamiliar country that has unexpectedly become their home. In Texas following Hurricane Harvey, UUSC directed funds to grassroots organizations serving the most vulnerable communitiesnamely, immigrants, the disabled, and people of color in resource-poor communities. In Alaska and the Pacific, UUSC's partners are advancing and protecting the rights of populations at risk of climate-forced displacement, including those in the Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea who are among the first communities on earth having to relocate because of climate change. In the past fiscal year, UUSC made 68 grants and 5 amendments worth more than $1.4 million to grassroots organizations working in dozens of countries around the world. What Is Our Impact What does it mean to have a human rights "impact"? For UUSC, it means building movements for systemic change. Impact is amplifying the power of the grassroots and following the leadership of communities directly affected by injustice. It is addressing immediate harms and their root causes, in order to dismantle oppressive systems. In short, it is the steps we must 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, therefore, are chosen because they help us understand whether or not we are headed toward 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 & Crisis Response 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. We did this by: Answering the urgent calls of our grassroots partners In the face of increasing repression and violence perpetrated by state and corporate actors, UUSC has consistently answered the call of our grassroots partners for accompaniment, solidarity, and international advocacy. Impact Highlight: Between January 2018 and March 2019, we helped coordinate and lead five accompaniment and solidarity delegations to Honduras in support of our local partners, Radio Progreso and Foro de Mujeres Por la Vida, and the country's active resistance movements. In February 2019, in response to our partners' request for emergency in-person accompaniment at a court hearing for twelve community leaders and human rights defenders, UUSC flew to Tegucigalpa to accompany our partners and the defenders in their court appearance. Nearly a week later, an international presence at the hearing and growing pressure from U.S. Members of Congress -- coordinated and amplified by UUSC -- led to the defenders' release and the dismissal of all charges. Leveraging all of our resources in an ongoing fight against the deportation and detention system This year, as the torrent continued of oppressive rules, policies, and programs aimed at the criminalization of immigrants and other marginalized groups, UUSC leveraged all of its strategic resources to fight them at every turn. While this struggle will not end anytime soon, we are proud of what we and our partners and allies have done to: create a compassionate response to the exodus of Central American migrants unable to remain safely in their home countries; fight to end the immigration detention system; resist the continued separation of migrant children from their families; and fight the administration's ongoing efforts to detain children. Impact Highlight: As the exodus of migrants arrived at the U.S. border from Central America this year, UUSC helped create an alternative response of compassion, solidarity, and support for migrant rights. In partnership with grassroots groups in California, Texas, and Mexico, UUSC: Recruited and deployed more than 100 volunteers and interns to support grassroots partners in Texas and Mexico. Provided emergency supplies, such as backpacks and shoes; covered the cost of humanitarian calls from detention centers; supported legal advice and know your rights information in Tijuana; provided accompaniment and trauma support; and outfitted a new migrant community center and shelter in Tijuana. Showed up for our partners as part of the "Love Knows No Borders" direct action at the border wall, in active resistance to the xenophobic and inhumane policies of the federal government. Through Love Resists, compiled and shared an extensive list of resources to support solidarity with Central American asylum-seekers, and hosted a companion webinar facilitated by UUSC, featuring UUSC's partner, Activate Labs, and attended by over 150 people. Building power to change policies One of the hallmarks of a powerful movement -- whether small or large, local or international -- is the ability to make or change policy. This year, UUSC and our partners were able to do just that. Not only are these policy changes indicative of the kind of powerful movements necessary to change systems, they have the potential to immediately improve people's lives. Key victories include the passage of the American Dream and Promise Act, ending immigration detention in Atlanta, and creating Welcoming Schools in Pennsylvania. Impact Highlight: In June 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Dream and Promise Act, "a groundbreaking bill to provide a path to citizenship for more than a million immigrants at risk of deportation and family separation." This marked the first time any legislation including permanent protections for undocumented immigrants has passed the House or Senate in almost a decade -- and the first ever time a bill containing permanent protections for holders of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has passed a chamber of Congress in any form. This historic victory was made possible through the tireless organizing of directly-affected immigrant communities, including UUSC's partners the UndocuBlack Network and the National TPS Alliance. In recent weeks, leaders with both UndocuBlack and the TPS Alliance addressed members of Congress in person. For years, UUSC and our supporters have joined these and similar efforts, by condemning attempts by the administration to end TPS (for people from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nepal) and by advocating to legislators around the country to enact permanent protections. In the weeks leading up to the vote in June, hundreds of UUSC supporters sent the message to members of Congress that TPS holders deserve permanent protections. This time, we know that message was heard. Going beyond funding in the pursuit of justice and accountability At UUSC, we believe that achieving the changes we seek in the world will require the redistribution of financial resources to grassroots organizations and movements. However, we also understand that this alone will not be enough. While funding is a critical component of this work, we maximize our impact by supplementing funding with support for activism, justice education, research, and other forms of partner and movement support. Impact Highlight: Last August, as apart of a "Faith Floods the Desert" solidarity action, UUSC organized 60 faith leaders from around the country to bring jugs of drinking water to leave in the Sonoran Desert, in support of No More Deaths (NMD) and the migrants who regularly make the perilous journey to the U.S. border. For similar acts of humanity, nine of NMD's volunteer human rights defenders were charged with federal crimes. One of the volunteers, Dr. Scott Warren, was charged with three felonies. His arrest, which came just hours after No More Deaths released a UUSC-funded report, The Disappeared, documenting the sabotage of humanitarian supplies by Border Patrol agents, was most likely intended as retaliation for the report. As our partnership with No More Deaths has deepened, UUSC has engaged in an ongoing effort to amplify the demand that U.S. federal prosecutors drop all charges against their volunteers. In solidarity with No More Deaths, Dr. Warren, and the other volunteers charged with crimes, UUSC has: Urged our members to contact their Congressional representatives and pressure them to take action in support of No More Deaths, Dr. Warren, and their volunteers; Organized a vigil outside of the federal building in Boston; Coordinated the writing and distribution of "solidarity letters" to the aid workers on trial; Showed up in-person at court in Arizona; and Recruited clergy to "pack the court" during Dr. Warren's felony trial, as part of the "Faith Floods the Courtroom" action. (We are deeply grateful to Kent Matthies (Germantown, PA), Karen Foster (Reno, NV), and Neal Anderson (Walnut Creek, CA) for representing UUSC in Tucson for that action.) Earlier this year, intense public pressure led federal prosecutors to drop the charges against four of the volunteers, and the powerful Faith Floods the Desert action has had a lasting impact, allowing No More Deaths to introduce concrete evidence of selective prosecution (unlike the NMD workers, none of the action-takers were arrested or charged with any crimes) in support of their cases. In June, the felony trial against Dr. Warren ended in a hung jury, and despicably, the government recently announced its intention to retry Scott. In his testimony, Scott asked, "If you live in a place where people are dying by the dozens every year around you, how could you not respond?" UUSC continues to stand with Dr. Warren, No More Deaths, and all of our partners and allies in seeking justice and dignity for migrants. Form 990, Part III, Line 4a Fulfilling a commitment to long-term recovery in Haiti It has been nearly a decade since the deadly earthquake that destroyed much of Haiti's capital, impacting nearly 3 million people and killing upwards of 200,000. UUSC's response, which is in its ninth year and has included partnerships with more than a dozen grassroots organizations, serves as an important counterpoint to the mainstream "crisis caravan" that left Port-au-Prince long ago. In each of those years, we have been in partnership with Mouvman Peyizan Papay (Papaye Peasant Movement) (MPP), Haiti's largest peasant organization. Together, we have developed a network of six sustainable villages in Haiti's Central Plateau, and a national school to serve the villages, which was recently certified by the Haitian Ministry of Education. By committing to this work for the long-term, in the face of endemic corruption, political instability, devastating drought, and other unforeseen challenges, our work together stands out a model for post-crisis recovery and development. Impact Highlight: In 2018-19, using emergency assistance from UUSC, MPP was able to connect all six EcoVillages to the electrical grid and to fix both of the broken wells. Now, all villagers have access to clean water and electricity, improving well-being in the villages and leading to new ambitions among the villagers. In addition, the EcoVillage School was recently granted a certificate of nationalization from the Haitian Ministry of Education, and the school is now known as "The National School of the EcoVillages of Colladere." This means that, if and when the state has the funds, all teachers will be compensated by the Ministry, making the school viable for the long-term. Form 990, Part III, Line 4b: Climate Justice & Environmental Justice Fostering connections to build and strengthen movements This year, UUSC again succeeded at fostering collaborations among our partners and created spaces for them to convene, connect, and strategize, in order to help build and strengthen movements for justice. Support for movement-building is critical because strong, interconnected social movements are critical to achieving the deep, systemic change we seek. Moreover, the organizations on the frontlines of this fight are often overworked, on the verge of burnout, and lack the resources necessary to build movements, like time to connect to, learn from, and strategize with their peers. Impact Highlight: In early October 2018, UUSC and more than 60 representatives from impacted First and Indigenous communities in Alaska, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Bangladesh, Washington State, and Louisiana convened in Girdwood, Alaska, for a three-day gathering to discuss the impacts of climate change on First and Indigenous communities, build community, and share strategies about how to address the devastating effects of the climate crisis. Bringing grassroots leaders to the table Another way UUSC can use our power to support our grassroots partners is by providing them with access to decision-making spaces from which they have traditionally been excluded. In our work on climate-forced displacement, for example, those partners represent the First and Indigenous Peoples most impacted by the climate crisis, and UUSC has worked hard to ensure that their voices are heard when decisions are being made about their future. Impact Highlight: In December 2018, for the third consecutive year, UUSC staff traveled to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's 24th Conference of the Parties (COP 24), this year held in Katowice, Poland. UUSC co-organized an event, Climate-Forced Displacement: Advancing Human Rights and Justice, to emphasize the importance of centering human rights and voices of communities in addressing climate-forced displacement one of just a few NGO-led side events approved by the UN. The panel featured at the event was moderated by UUSC staff and included our partners, Robin Bronen and Maina Talia, from Alaska and Tuvalu, who shared the experiences of their communities grappling with the prospects of climate-forced displacement. Form 990, Part III, Line 4c: UU College of Social Justice The UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) is structured as a program unit of the UUSC, jointly governed by the 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. In fiscal year 2019 we offered immersion learning journeys to the Arizona/Mexico border with BorderLinks and No More Deaths; to Honduras with Foro de Mujeres por la Vida; and to West Virginia with the Southern Appalachian Labor School (SALS). In addition to the border witness programs designed for high school youth, we offered Activate New Orleans, a youth training focused on racial justice. Each of these programs utilized our adult or youth Study Guides for preparation and follow-up. UUCSJ continued its annual collaboration with the UUA on the UU-UNO Spring Seminar; and building on last year's experiment with a half-day justice program in Portland, OR, this year we offered a similar program in the Pacific Southwest District. We increased our capacity to offer congregational workshops by training more staff and Program Leaders in the workshop pedagogy and delivery. We presented one or more workshops for the national gathering of UU religious educators in Houston (LREDA), the Pittsburgh cluster of congregations, the State Action network in New Hampshire, and for five separate congregations. As part of our support for accompaniment of refugees and migrants, we collaborated with UUSC partner Freedom for Immigrants in creating a resource Handbook for Sponsors of Asylum Seekers. One of the most dramatic increases in our programming during fiscal 2019 was with our skilled volunteers. The numbers of refugees fleeing violence and poverty in Central America rose quickly in the summer of 2018 and continued at historically high levels. The refugees were met with an escalating rhetoric of hostility from the Trump administration, along with multiple attempts to shut down avenues for asylum. Many of our constituents were motivated to respond, and between June 2018 and July 2019 UUCSJ was able to recruit, screen and deploy more than 110 Spanish-speakers. These volunteers donated their labor for between one and eight weeks, offering a much-needed infusion of human capital to Annunciation House (El Paso, TX), RAICES (San Antonio, TX), Al Otro Lado (San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico) and Casa Alitas (Tucson, AZ). To support these volunteers before and after their immersion at the border we created a new Volunteer Handbook and initiated monthly support calls for returned volunteers. Our internships for college age young adults placed 12 interns with justice organizations in the US and Mexico; our interns were supported with small stipends and frequent check-ins from CSJ Program Leaders serving as internship liaisons. Also for young adults, we offered another iteration of GROW Racial Justice, this time in collaboration with the Minnesota UU Justice Alliance (MUUSJA). All of our programs are supported by the UUCSJ Study Guide for Cross-Cultural Engagement and by adaptations to the Guide for different age groups. They are led by staff and by our Program Leaders, who we support with an annual retreat. Our current cadre of 20 Program Leaders includes 13 ministers, seminarians or Directors of Religious Education; 11 are people of color and 8 are fluent Spanish speakers. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Economic Justice /Other The "UUSC Fair Trade Project" links congregations with small farmers through fair trade. This project is a partnership between UUSC and Equal Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative offering 100% fairly traded coffee, tea, chocolate, and other foods. For every pound of Equal Exchange's fairly-traded coffee, chocolate, and other products purchased by UU congregations, Equal Exchange donates 20 cents to UUSC's Small Farmer Fund. In addition to supporting the farmer coops that supply Equal Exchange's products, UUSC uses the Small Farmer Fund to build sustainable livelihoods and advance human rights of other cooperative groups, particularly the rights of women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples. Last year, UUSC used the Small Farmer Fund to provide two grants to Fundacion Entre Mujeres ("FEM"), a feminist organization based in rural Nicaragua that, after 23 years of working with rural women, is in a moment of transition, construction, and germination of a peasant feminism that allows women to reaffirm their ways of being, thinking, and acting in the context of structural violence. These grants supported FEM's efforts to provide community health kits with key basic medical supplies to 12 of their communities; the temporary relocation of a part of the FEM team to an office in the community of El Rosario, given that it is often too dangerous for FEM to travel to its office in the current context and political climate; and strengthened the business management of FEM's coffee "agro-chain" by evaluating the results obtained in the different levels of production, stockpiling, and commercialization 2018 and 2019. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The draft of the Form 990 is discussed and reviewed with the audit committee of the Board of Trustees for their comments, input and approval. All the members of the governing body receive either a hard copy or an electronic copy of the Form 990 before it is filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c UUSC regularly and consistently monitors and enforces compliance with the conflict of interest policy which covers all staff and the board of trustees. In doing so, all decisions (financial or non-financial) are scrutinized to ensure that they are not self-serving with respect to UUSC personnel or members of the board of trustees. Human Resources decides if a conflict of interest exists for UUSC personnel and elevates the matter to the President/CEO or the President of the board of trustees as appropriate. The board completes a conflict of interest form annually which is then shared with the full board. Any conflicted individual is prohibited from voting or making any decisions related to the matter. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The compensation of the President/CEO is determined by the executive committee of the board of trustees, all of whom are independent of the President/CEO. The compensation is determined by reference to comparability data. The President/CEO's compensation is reviewed and potentially adjusted annually upon board approval. The organization maintains contemporaneous documentation of the deliberation and decision. Compensation for other officers is determined by the President/CEO. Such compensation is similarly determined by reference to comparability data. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 UUSC makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the public by publishing them on its website. Additionally, the Form 990 and financial statements are available through the Massachusetts Attorney General's website. Form 990, Part XI, line 9: Change in Value of Split-interest Gifts -32,510. Charitable Annuity Trusts (4) Charitable Annuity Trust MA UUSC T 1 Pooled Income Fund (1) Pooled Income Fund MA UUSC T 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0