2017-11-14T14:33:33-06:00 2017-06-30 263753134 CBIZ Tofias 500 Boylston Street Boston MA 02116 990 2016-07-01 046186012 Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc UNIT 6178686600 689 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 Mack Davidson Chief Administration Officer 6178686600 2017-11-13 1 Brenda L Booth P01342395 6177610600 2017-11-09 207.172.72.163 2017-11-13 15:11:18 ES P 102C1995D04F643618E9EB8F2AEF5D32C98268A5 B0824711EFFAC56D49F0A654FCE22BDFF284F515 2016 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z Lyssa Jenkens 689 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 9690361 0 X www.uusc.org X 1948 MA See Schedule O 14 14 53 2000 20116 9366 8141734 7674074 125816 209468 464147 862690 111745 98609 8843442 8844841 2246800 1648615 0 0 4496287 4859679 156852 122160 779572 2996633 2904045 9896572 9534499 -1053130 -689658 30411607 30115350 4691791 4434453 25719816 25680897 X UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. 0 0 4479357 1141287 84802 Human Rights Programs - I. Rights At Risk: See Schedule O. 1334285 257553 32731 Human Rights Programs - II. Environmental Justice: See Schedule O. 1179412 227658 31243 Human Rights Programs - III. Economic Justice: See Schedule O. 863288 22117 125835 UU College of Social Justice The mission of the UUCSJ 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. In fiscal year 2017 our programs included immersion learning journeys to the Arizona/Mexico border with BorderLinks, three different Nicaragua programs with Guardians of the Yaoska (religious leaders), Equal Exchange, and the Fundacion Entre Mujeres (FEM); Florida with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and West Virginia with the Southern Appalachian Labor School (SALS). Four of these programs were offered for youth groups.In addition to our immersion learning programs, we provided two experiential justice education programs for high school youth, called Activate! These week-long trainings occurred in Boston and in New Orleans; in addition, a one-day training for youth preceded General Assembly in New Orleans. We repeated our Grow Racial Justice training program for young adults (ages 19-34). 32 young adults - over half of them young adults of color - came to New Orleans for an intensive exploration of how our denomination can respond to the current challenges and opportunities of racial justice. Both Activate! and GROW continued with workshop tracks for General Assembly.Our internships for college age young adults placed 12 interns with justice organizations in the US and India; through the generosity of our donors we were able to support our interns with small stipends. We deepened their experience through a series of weekly vocational and spiritual reflections and supported them with chaplains drawn from our Program Leaders. We continued our skilled volunteer placements with UUSC partner RAICES in San Antonio, TX. We recruited, screened, placed and supported 25 volunteers with legal training and/or fluency in Spanish in cohorts April through June, and established a rotating practice that allows us to supply volunteers through the fall and into the winter. We were again supported in this important work through receptions, home stays and transportation assistance by volunteers from the First UU Church of San Antonio.All of our programs are supported by a justice learning framework, primarily the UUCSJ Study Guide for Cross-Cultural Engagement. They are led by staff and by our Program Leaders, who we support with a training and retreat each fall. Our current cadre of 21 Program Leaders includes 14 ministers, seminarians or Directors of Religious Education; 11 are people of color and 8 are fluent Spanish Speakers. We are in the process of recruiting a few additional Program Leaders interested in working with youth.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. 863288 22117 125835 7856342 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 42 0 1 53 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 CA CO CT DC FL GA HI IL IN KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN NH NJ NM NY NC OH OK OR PA RI SC TN UT VA WA WV WI AL AK AR ND MS X X Carol Cahalane 6173014331 UUSC 689 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 Martha Easter-Wells Chair 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Brock Leach Vice-Chair 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Danah Fisher Secretary 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Todd Hess Treasurer 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Ebe Emmons Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Peter Fenn Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Karen Kell Hartman Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Nathan Alan Hollister Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Lyssa Jenkens Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Hope Johnson Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Ramanujachary Kumanduri Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Zaynab Nawaz Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Lachonne Walton Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Ned Wight Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Thomas H Andrews President & CEO 40.00 X 146320 0 13710 Constance Kane VP & COO 35.00 X 240487 0 33398 Rachel Freed VP & CPO 35.00 X 154861 0 12897 Mack Davidson VP & CFO 35.00 X 153828 0 8355 Cassandra Ryan VP & CDO 35.00 X 142590 0 39998 Kathleen McTigue Director of UUCSJ 35.00 X 131236 0 38405 Paul Twitchell Jr Director of Communications 35.00 X 190880 0 17402 Quang Nguyen Director of Human Resource 35.00 X 125285 0 20107 Pamela Sparr Ass. 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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, including extensions. Part XI, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Rental expense 347,210. Change in value of split-interest gifts -98,450. Part XII, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Rental expense 347,210. 1 East Asia and the Pacific 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 341865 North America 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 77000 South America 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 600 South Asia 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 67600 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 180000 Central America and the Caribbean 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 205000 Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 219500 Middle East and North Africa 0 0 Grants to Recipients Located in the Region 23540 0 0 0 0 0 0 1115105 0 1115105 Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 15000 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 50000 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 50000 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 50000 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 10000 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 15000 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 2500 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 2500 Wire Transfer Central America and the Caribbean Humanitarian Assistance 10000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 9600 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 35000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 15500 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 37365 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 8400 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 19000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 24300 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 16500 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 10000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 8000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 17700 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 8000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 11000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 13000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 10000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 12000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer East Asia and the Pacific Humanitarian Assistance 16500 Wire Transfer North America Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer North America Humanitarian Assistance 17000 wire Transfer North America Humanitarian Assistance 25000 WIRE Transfer North America Humanitarian Assistance 15000 Wire Transfer South America Humanitarian Assistance 600 Wire Transfer South Asia Humanitarian Assistance 25900 Wire Transfer South Asia Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer South Asia Humanitarian Assistance 1700 Wire Transfer South Asia Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Humanitarian Assistance 15000 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Humanitarian Assistance 40000 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Humanitarian Assistance 30000 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer Sub-Saharan Africa Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 15000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 20000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 25000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 21500 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 28000 Wire Transfer Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) Humanitarian Assistance 15000 Wire Transfer Middle East and North Africa Humanitarian Assistance 23540 Wire Transfer 56 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. 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 2069141 81161 1987980 Public Interest Communications 7700 Leesburg Pike Suite 301 Falls Church VA 22043 Phone Solicitation 0 117793 40999 76794 2186934 122160 2064774 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 Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise PO Box 241504 Montgomery AL 36124 201283385 501(c)(3) 27500 Advocacy Design & Implementation of Sustainable Septic System Right to Water Sanitation Project Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services 1305 N Flores Street San Antonio TX 78212 742436920 501(c)(3) 5000 Support for Immigrant Families Post Release from Detention Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network 4220 Arlington Drive Royal Oak MI 48073 462871970 501(c)(3) 10000 Support legislative advocacy, advance Human Right to Water Rural Community Workers' Alliance 60731 Highway M Milan MO 63556 611718871 501(c)(3) 10000 Justice and Solidarity Workers Alliance Allied Media Projects 4126 Third St Detriot MI 48201 010559608 501(c)(3) 10420 Black Muslim Convening Arab American Civic Council PO Box 9172 Anaheim CA 92812 453309117 501(c)(3) 15000 Support ''The Beautiful Resistance Initiative'' Project Arab American Civic Council PO Box 9172 Anaheim CA 92812 453309117 501(c)(3) 15000 Refugees Welcome Guidebook & Anti-Stigmatization Campaign Center for Transformative Action 119 Anabel Taylor Hall Ithaca NY 14853 160990318 501(c)(3) 15000 Community Defence & Accompaniment for LGBTQI Detainees Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance 900 Mt Curve Ave Minneapolis MN 55403 421734371 501(c)(3) 15000 Build & Strengthen for the UUA/UUSC Love Resists! Campaign Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center 210 S Thompson Street Suite 4A Springdale AR 72764 203709967 501(c)(3) 15000 Support the creation of a community protection network Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry PO Box 1621 Austin TX 78768 463560205 501(c)(3) 15000 Bolster Immigration Advocacy & Provide Support to Joint Camp Center for Popular Democracy 449 Troutman Street Suite A Brooklyn NY 11237 453813436 501(c)(3) 20000 Support based defense committees dedicated to educating neighbors on their rights Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement PO Box 40677 San Francisco CA 94140 800875881 501(c)(3) 29500 Identifying Central American Minors Participants Refugee Prg Foundation Cristosal INC 9641 Carousel Center Dr Syracuse NY 13204 030366224 501(c)(3) 30000 Expand on successful Protection Models in Central America's Alaska Institute for Justice 431 West 7th Ave Suite 208 Anchorage AK 99501 562533062 501(c)(3) 55000 Climate Forced Displacement in Native Alaskan Villages Church World Service Inc 28606 Phillips Street PO Box 968 Elkhart IN 46515 134080201 501(c)(3) 20000 LaUnidad 11's Protection Network in response to growing Fear Georgia Latino Alliance For Human Rights 7 Dunwoody Park Suite 110 Atlanta GA 30338 760809155 501(c)(3) 15000 Expanding the ICE-Free Zone Campaign Greater Minnesota Worker Center 2719 W Division Street Suite 122 Saint Cloud MN 56301 463874287 501(c)(3) 21460 Support "Resist and Persist" Campaign by supporting Workers Grassroots Leadership 2301 E Cesar Chavez Austin TX 78702 581581743 501(c)(3) 20000 Support deportation resistance & community protection Austin Justice in Motion 789 Washington Ave Brooklyn NY 11238 721597864 501(c)(3) 10000 Convene Justice in Motion's Defender Network Summit meeting Legal Aid of West Virginia 922 Quarrier Street 4th Floor Charleston WV 25301 311789739 501(c)(3) 25000 To provide assistance to marginalized communities affected Lowlander Center Inc 106 Sandalwood Drive Gray LA 70359 464993987 501(c)(3) 25000 Implement best-practice matrix for Climate Forced in S Louis Unitarian Universalist Congregagtion of Charleston 520 Kanawha Boulevard West Charleston WV 25302 042103733 501(c)(3) 5000 Support UUC's Flood disaster relief effort in West Virginia The Praxis Project Inc 1001 Connecticut Ave NW Ste 201 Washington DC 20036 300044814 501(c)(3) 16580 Building Infrastructure for Community Defense Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois 9 Pinewood Drive Carbondale IL 62901 042103733 501(c)(3) 12000 Improve outreach to the congregations in IL & increase Legisislative advocacy Louisiana Appleseed 1615 Poydras Street Suite 1000 New Orleans LA 70112 721402876 501(c)(3) 20000 Immediate support to flood Victims Unitarian Universalist Justice Arizona Network 10400 E Camino Quince Tucson AZ 85748 464229880 501(c)(3) 12000 To Bolster UUJAZ's immigration advocacy & Privide Support Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California 1731 Howe Ave 579 Sacramento CA 95825 870694546 501(c)(3) 15000 Provide Support to UU Congregations for the Love Resists Campaign 28 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. 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Form 990, Part I, Line 1 Powered by grassroots collaboration, UUSC works in eye-to-eye partnership with organizations around the world to foster justice and to create sustainable models for change within their own communities. Our programmatic work - including grants, advocacy and strategic communications, and research - is organized into three areas of focus: economic justice, environmental justice and climate action, and rights at risk. In the past fiscal year, UUSC made 83 grants worth more than $1.6 million to grassroots partners working in 33 countries around the world. Based upon data reported by our partners, the projects supported by UUSC over the course of the last fiscal year directly benefited approximately 80,000 individuals (a conservative estimate). Form 990, Part I, Management Comment regarding Year to Year comparison (FY17 vs. FY16): UUSC follows generally accepted accounting principles for revenue recognition and experienced an anomalous surge with $2.5m in pledges in FY15 at the peak of our highly successful UUSC Rising Campaign followed by $0.5m in pledges in FY16 and $0.1m in FY17. As a result of our successful UUSC Rising Campaign to fund new strategic initiatives, program expenses increased over $0.9m in FY16 and $0.6m in FY17. This activity explains the year to year differences seen in Part I on page 1 of the Form 990. Further information regarding UUSC Rising and our financial results is available by contacting UUSC at info@uusc.org. Form 990, Part III, Line 4a: Rights at Risk UUSC's Rights at Risk Program addresses the needs of populations on the outer margins of society, who are traditionally excluded from mainstream aid responses. In situations of forced displacement, natural and man-made disasters, and gross violations of civil and political rights, UUSC works to restore, protect, and advance these rights through programs of social transformation and structural change. In addition to urgent responses to the Nepal earthquake and the refugee crisis in the Middle East/Europe, UUSC's ongoing rights at risk work focuses on confronting ethnic persecution of minorities in Burma, supporting efforts to uphold the rights of migrants from Central America who are seeking asylum in the United States, and advancing sexual orientation and gender identity rights in southern Africa. UUSC also has legacy programs related to rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2013 typhoon in the Philippines. UUSC has 52 active rights at risk partners. Syrian Refugee Response UUSC's partners in southeastern Europe are working to strengthen protection and integration mechanisms for refugees fleeing violence and destabilization in the Middle East, particularly Syria. These partners are also operating in contexts rife with xenophobic nationalism that is pervasive throughout Europe. In the US, hostile attitudes toward refugees and Muslim immigrants - fueled by xenophobic political rhetoric and racist misconceptions - have presented a major obstacle over the past year to efforts to persuade the US to resettle Syrian refugees in numbers commensurate with its resources and claims to moral leadership. UUSC has therefore worked with grassroots partners in the US to support Syrian refugees and counteract negative stereotypes about Muslims and refugees. Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Rights in Africa State-sanctioned homophobia is on the rise in Africa, fueled by religious fundamentalism and the financial support of anti-LGBTI hate groups in the West. Civil society dedicated to advancing SOGI rights in Africa is a relatively new and still highly stigmatized element of the human rights sector. While Western funding for SOGI work is plentiful in some areas, it tends to benefit top-down rights movements, at the expense of more innovative approaches that would prioritize changing public attitudes. Migrant Justice Pervasive violence, impunity, and lack of confidence in government capacity to confront the underlying systemic drivers of migration in Central America have continued unabated. This, combined with an increasingly sophisticated and well-developed system for apprehending, detaining, and deporting Central Americans in Mexico, means access to humanitarian protection for this population remains a pressing human rights concern. UUSC continued to address the criminalization of refugees fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras by supporting partners in both the US and the Northern Triangle of Central America that strengthen protection mechanisms, hold governments accountable for respecting the human rights of migrants, and demilitarize borders. Philippines In the aftermath of the Typhoon Haiyan, UUSC partnered with local organizations on the ground to provide support to vulnerable populations, a key component of which consisted of trainings in trauma resiliency in order to improve the well-being of survivors as well as support for the rebuilding of livelihoods for those affected by the typhoon. In February 2017, UUSC conducted an impact assessment in the Philippines. In addition, according to data reported by our partners, UUSC-funded projects have thus far benefited (directly or indirectly) more than 52,000 individuals since 2013. That amounts to approximately $14 per beneficiary, and an average of approximately 1,300 beneficiaries per grant. Haiti After Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti in October 2016, UUSC partnered with GARR, a Haitian-led organization with a long history of supporting displaced persons in Haiti, to help protect families forcibly removed from the Dominican Republic and now living in temporary shelters at the Anse-a-Pitres border, which were devastated in the storm. UUSC targeted this particular population as a way to build on its work related to the denationalization crisis in the Dominican Republic, which has included advocacy campaigns aimed at influencing US policy as well as support for Zanmi Timoun, which is working at the Haiti-DR border in Belladere to assist recently deported unaccompanied minors. In addition, for a third year, UUSC supported the continued construction of a school adjacent to the UUSC-supported eco-villages in Haiti's Central Plateau. The school currently serves 172 students, 115 or so of whom are from the eco-villages. With support from UUSC, MPP will build two additional classrooms this year, bringing the total number of classrooms to seven and allowing the school to serve students from pre-K through sixth grade in the next school year. Nepal On April 25, 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people and injured approximately 23,000 in the Gorkha region of Nepal. This earthquake occurred against a backdrop of a fraught nation-building process, as leaders struggle to develop a viable constitution that guarantees equal rights in a multi-ethnic country. Protracted political instability and poor governance have plagued the rebuilding process. Women, minorities, and children have been particularly vulnerable in the aftermath of the earthquake to violations of their human rights and have faced additional barriers to accessing relief and rehabilitation support. UUSC's partners work to assist vulnerable communities by ensuring access to disaster relief and health services, training community members in trauma recovery and resilience, and safeguarding equitable education opportunities for traditionally marginalized children in earthquake-affected regions. ***** Last year, we provided a total of 54 rights at risk grants worth $1,100,865. Some of the highlights of our Rights at Risk work over the past fiscal year include: -Syrian refugee reponse partner, Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), was able to reunite 10 families after many years spent apart. As part of the reunification process, HHC paid for DNA tests, official translations, rent for six children in Nairobi, costs of obtaining passports, and the purchase of more than 30 airplane tickets. Simply put, these families would not have been able to reunite without the project's financial assistance. (Pictures of the families HHC has helped reunite can be seen here: http://egyuttacsalad.helsinki.hu/.) -Another Syrian Refugee Response partner, Asylum Protection Center (APC), used its mobile team of aid professionals to provide 25,595 refugees with critical information about their legal rights; 1,117 with free legal aid; 874 with psychosocial support; and 4,560 with humanitarian aid. UUSC's support to APC paid for one of the camper vehicles that the comprehensive aid teams use to travel across Serbia, as well as technology (laptops, cellphones and software) to enable them to do their work more efficiently. -Inclusive and Affirming Ministries, one of UUSC's SOGI partners in Africa, created safe spaces through which at least 85 members of clergy and 70 LGBTI individuals could conduct dialogues related to SOGI rights. After those meetings, at least 30 clergy were inspired to create their own dialogue spaces in their churches. -Migrant Justice partner, CIVIC, built the first national immigration detention hotline that connected people in immigration detention to their families, while also documenting human and civil rights abuses. The hotline allows CIVIC to provide direct immediate support to people in detention, while also tracking issues to push for systemic change. In the year since the hotline was established, advocates have answered 13,818 calls and have conducted a total of 4,730 intakes with people in immigration detention. -Also in the Migrant Justice portfolio, FM4 Paso Libre was able to provide 24/7 shelter services for migrants and asylum-seekers passing through Guadalajara, Mexico. As a result of the expanded hours, 6,289 persons received services from FM4 Paso Libre at the shelter in 2016, well exceeding FM4's goal of serving 4,500 for the year. -After Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti in October 2016, Groupe d'Appui aux Rapatri s et Refugi s (GARR) was able to provide humanitarian assistance (food, clothing, kitchen equipment, hygiene kits, tarps, etc.) to 1,045 people living in improvised displacement camps at the Anse-a-Pitre border. -In Nepal, LAHURNIP helped affected community members obtain compensation for lands taken over by massive, government-led hydro-development projects in the Rasuwa and Panchthar districts. Form 990, Part III, Line 4b: Environmental Justice & Climate Action This year, as part of a strategic decision to focus on the disproportionate impacts of a changing climate on the world's most vulnerable populations, UUSC's environmental justice & climate action launched a program aimed at protecting and defending the rights of people forcibly displaced by climate change in Alaska and in the South Pacific. To our knowledge, UUSC is currently the only funding organization supporting community-led and rights-based relocation strategies for communities experiencing the most severe impacts of climate change and who are at risk of being forcibly displaced. UUSC has twelve active environmental justice & climate action partners. Climate Forced Displacement UUSC recognizes the grave dangers that climate change impacts pose to the world's most vulnerable populations. Increasing temperatures and variable precipitation are intensifying natural disasters, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, intensifying droughts and causing widespread flooding. These climate impacts are increasing food and water insecurity, affecting natural resource-based economies and livelihoods and leading to mass displacement. These impacts disproportionately affect the most marginalized populations by multiplying their risks, widening inequalities and threatening their basic human rights and dignities. This reality has shaped UUSC's Environmental Justice & Climate Action program to focus on advancing and protecting the rights of marginalized populations who are at risk of forced displacement caused by slow-onset climate impacts. UUSC's program emboldens the principle of the right to self-determination by prioritizing building protections in place and when necessary and required by our partners, supporting communities to relocate with dignity. UUSC focuses on assisting indigenous populations of the South Pacific and Alaska-two distinct regions of the world that are highly susceptible to rising sea levels and climate induced natural disasters, and whose adaptive capacities are limited by their geographic isolation, their reliance on coastal resources and habitats, and their development limitations. We recognize that the limited adaptive capacities of these two regions are further heightened by the limited abilities of government institutions and policies to adequately respond to the multiple and ongoing issues that communities experience, and more importantly, the lack of human rights protections for people at risk of climate forced displacement. Therefore, UUSC aims to: -Strategically strengthen the capacities of affected communities to organize and advocate for rights-based solutions and protection and -Support affected communities to build protections in place and to implement community-led relocation/migration in a way that respects and reinforces their rights and human dignities. Together, our partners cover six countries. By the end of 2017, we anticipate reaching a total of 18 countries. Our partners work on various issues along the climate forced displacement spectrum, from building protections in place to relocation and resettlement. In Papua New Guinea, our partner has been working for the past decade to relocate households from the Carteret Islands to areas in mainland Bougainville. UUSC's support is strengthening our partner's advocacy at the local provincial and national levels to raise more awareness about their communities' experiences and needs and for government support to help resettled households build their local infrastructures. In Alaska, UUSC is supporting our Alaska Institute for Justice's (AIJ) Rights, Resilience, and Community Relocation program. AIJ is working with 16 Alaska Native Tribes to develop advocacy strategies to enhance their ability to adapt to a radically changing environment and to ensure the protection of their human rights if they are required to relocate as a consequence of climate change. In Kiribati, our partners are working to enhance dialogue about climate forced migration in the climate change debate, while advocating for rights-based responses and the humane treatment of climate migrants. They are also working to raise awareness about the unique needs of People Living with Disabilities in Disaster Risk Reduction planning and responses. In Palau and Micronesia, our partner is strengthening the capacity of remote rural villages to build protections against climate change hazards, to help communities self-organize and to advocate for assistance from their governments and the international community. Human Right to Water For years, UUSC was on the cutting edge of ensuring that the human right to water is recognized in principle and becomes a reality in practice. UUSC collaborated with innovative groups who protected water resources and increasing access to services in law and practice. Recognizing that too many people are denied the human right to water because of discriminatory policies and procedures, UUSC focused on working with rural communities and low-income urban residents, indigenous people, people of color, women, children, and people living with disabilities. UUSC is in the process of exiting this work; however, over the course of the past year the program realized a number of positive outcomes. ***** Last year, we provided a total of twelve environmental justice & climate action grants worth $271,900. Some of the highlights of our Environmental Justice & Climate Action work over the past fiscal year include: -For ten years, UUSC supported Federaci n Nacional de Trabajadores de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado del Peru's (FENTAP) campaign for the recognition of the human right to water and sanitation in Peru. FENTAP's research was crucial to demonstrating that the privatization of WASH services had not resulted in cleaner, widely available water or sanitation services. Last year, the Congress of the Republic of Peru approved a constitutional reform that recognizes the right of access to water as a constitutional right. -TGNP Mtandao's human right to water campaign, "Tua Ndoo Kichwani" (or "Bucket off the Head"), launched in Tanzania in 2014 to push for accessible water within 400 meters of all buildings, led the Dar es Salaam water utility, DAWASCO, to install four new water points, all of which are being maintained by women and women now represent 50% of those on water committees. -Following the 2016 flood in West Virginia, UUSC supported Legal Aid of West Virginia (LAWV) in its effort to provide legal assistance to marginalized communities. In more than 100 cases, LAWV provided legal assistance to individuals who needed help with landlord-tenant, FEMA, and insurance issues. In five of those cases, LAWV attorneys appealed denials of assistance and helped clients receive over $80,000 in flood assistance, enabling them to buy new homes or repair damaged ones. -For years, UUSC has supported SoilFarm Multi-Culture Group's programs to support sustainable agriculture and livelihood development in Kenya. These activities contributed to a much more food secure community in advance of the crippling drought that has devastated East Africa and led to a major famine. Last year, SFMG planted more than 50,000 trees; helped more than 400 families attain self-sufficiency in food production; and more than 2,000 students and 80 teachers across 45 schools received environmental education. Form 990, Part III, Line 4c: Economic Justice UUSC recognizes that workers' rights are human rights and works to improve the lives of the world's most marginalized and vulnerable workers. In the United States, we confront discrimination against low-income workers by supporting employee-led organizing through partnerships with worker centers. Internationally, we support small cooperatives in Central America and seek to protect the rights of women who work in Africa's massive informal economy. Informal Economy Workers in the informal economy are vulnerable to a number of violations of their rights, such as limited access to social protection, denial of labor rights, and lack of organization and representation, as well as lower pay than workers in the formal economy. According to the ILO: "Few have secure work, most have low and erratic earnings and few are protected against loss of work and income". Additionally, "most operate outside the reach of government regulations and protection, and remain largely invisible in official statistics." Women, for whom the informal economy provides a key source of income and employment, are particularly vulnerable to these violations of their rights. Empowering workers in the informal economy, particularly women, through the provision of skills and rights trainings that not only inform them of their rights but ensure they are equipped to engage with local authorities to advocate for their rights and needs. Food Chain Workers Workers in the US food chain are vulnerable to a variety rights abuses. While most fall into the "formal" sector category, they experience many abuses of their rights - ranging from wage theft, unsafe working conditions and discrimination, to retaliation for reporting workplace violations. Additionally, the food chain relies heavily on the use of immigrant workers. For a number of reasons, immigrant workers are especially vulnerable to these rights violations. Accordingly, it is critical to ensure that food chain workers are empowered to advocate for their rights so they can ensure that their employers are held accountable and that their rights are respected. UUSC has supported worker efforts to advocate for, and ensure, that their rights are respected through: research to highlight the issues workers face; advocacy to effect changes in national, state, and corporate policies to ensure respect for worker rights; and promote new standards and/0r monitoring methodologies that emphasize worker rights. ***** UUSC has fourteen active economic justice partners. Last year, we provided a total of 15 economic justice grants worth $245,000. Some of the highlights of our Economic Justice work over the past fiscal year include: -Also in Nepal, following dialogue and continuous follow-up with government officials and community leaders, Economic Justice partner, Saathi, helped obtain electricity for 25 households. In Manohara district, for instance, electricity was approved for all houses in the community after rigorous follow-up and dialogues with the officials. -In New York, the Street Vendor Project successfully lobbied for a bill, introduced in the City Council last summer, to substantially increase the number of vending permits and make other important improvements to the vending laws. The bill, known as the "Street Vending Modernization Act," has sixteen co-sponsors and several other Council Members have indicated that they would vote in favor of the bill if it were brought to the floor for a vote. -Since 2011, UUSC has supported Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center's (NWAWJC) organizing and advocacy efforts to empower and protect poultry industry workers in Arkansas, with a particular focus on conditions in Tyson's plants in the state. In a major victory for NWAWJC, Tyson recently announced a number of changes to improve the pay, benefits, and working conditions for their employees across the country-a possible step in the right direction following years of advocacy and pressure from NWAWJC. The changes are designed to ensure that poultry workers are given a voice in the company, and that they benefit from improved safety, compensation, and transparency-all things the poultry workers care deeply about, and have been fighting for, for years. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The draft of the Form 990 is discussed and reviewed with the finance 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 -98,450. 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