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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. X X X X X 1 Integrated Direct Marketing 1250 Connecticut Ave NW Ste 200 Washington DC 20036 Donor Marketing 0 0 680321 0 680321 AK AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC FL GA HI IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS NC ND NH NJ NM NY OH OK OR PA RI SC TN UT VA WA WI WV 1 First Parish in Malden 2 Elm Street Malden MA 02148 237099111 501(c)(3) 106000 0 Support rapid response protection & security measures for Faith in Democracy 1279 Paces Forest Dr Atlanta GA 30327 990645675 501(c)(3) 88640 0 Convene global progressive faith leaders Georgia Latino Alliance For Human Rights 7 Dunwoody Park Suite 110 Atlanta GA 30338 760809155 501(c)(3) 60000 0 FY25 grant to Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights United States Campaign for Burma PO Box 34126 Washington DC 20043 270843682 501(c)(3) 58000 0 Support advocacy on human rights & democracy in Burma Lowlander Center Inc 106 Sandalwood Drive Gray CA 70359 464993987 501(c)(3) 55000 0 Bolster Lowlander Center and the Tribal Nations it serves Grassroots International 179 Boylston St 4 Jamaica Plain MA 02130 042791159 501(c)(3) 25000 0 Support partners facing crimes against humanity School of the Americas Watch Educational Fund 225E 26th Street Suite 7 Tucson AZ 85713 274096953 501(c)(3) 50000 0 Support Indigenous, Black, mestizo & peasant movement leader UndocuBlack Network Inc 1032 15th Street NW Suite 415 Washington DC 01502 863899115 501(c)(3) 40000 0 Support any and all aspects of UndocuBlack's work Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of North Carolina PO Box 61966 Durham NC 27716 822653685 501(c)(3) 39000 0 Support the organizing & mobilization of UU's in North Carolina Asylum Pride House 450 N 18th Street Unit 545 Philadelphia PA 19130 921375642 501(c)(3) 30000 0 Costs for an apartment which houses criminalized community Center for Transformative Action 119 Anabel Taylor Hall Ithaca NY 14853 160990318 501(c)(3) 30000 0 Support and & all aspects of the QDEP Central American Resource Center 2845 West 7th Street Los Angeles CA 90005 953867724 501(c)(3) 30000 0 Support any & all aspects of the National TPS Alliance Earthrights International Inc 1612 K Street Suite 800 Washington DC 20006 043265555 501(c)(3) 30000 0 FY25 Grant to EarthRights International Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc 1 Thomas Cir Ste 700 Washington DC 20005 455257937 501(c)(3) 25000 0 Address the catastrophic HR crisis on the ground Sudan Peace Development Fund 44 North Prospect Street Amherst MA 01004 042738794 501(c)(3) 25000 0 Advance the food sovereignty productive engagement. Foundation Cristosal 401 W Division Drive 9641 Syracuse NY 13290 030366224 501(c)(3) 20000 0 Cover cost to investigate human rights violations & grave crimes Foundation for the Austin Sanctuary Network 3514 Pinnacle Rd Austin TX 78746 822653572 501(c)(3) 20000 0 Support any and all aspects of the Austin Sanctuary Network Institute For Justice and Democracy in Haiti Inc 892 Plain Street Suite 1 Marshfield MA 02051 030541424 501(c)(3) 20000 0 Support the work to address the root causes of injustice New York University 665 Broadway Suite 801 New York NY 10012 135562308 501(c)(3) 20000 0 Support the amplification of GJC's reparations report Rural Community Workers Alliance 60731 Hwy M Milan MS 63556 611718871 501(c)(3) 20000 0 Support any and all aspects of RCWA's work Women in Migration Network INC 12 Dongan Place 206 New York NY 00206 922417437 501(c)(3) 15000 0 Provide general operating support to WIMN Black Diaspora Liberty 525 Glen Iris Drive NE Unit 2509 Atlanta GA 30308 331491342 501(c)(3) 10000 0 To help seed the BDLI launched by the former co-ED of QDEP BorderLinks 620 S 6th Street Avenue Tucson AZ 85701 860760505 501(c)(3) 10000 0 Enhance the capacity to mobilize for local deportation defense EDGE Funders Alliance 2021 Fillmore St 66 San Francisco CA 94115 208211195 501(c)(3) 10000 0 Support EDGE Funders Alliance's work to organize philanthropic events Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc 2800 Biscayne Blvd Suite 300 Miami FL 33138 202123833 501(c)(3) 10000 0 Build & strengthen the political power of the Haitian Diaspora Panorama Global 2101 4th Avenue Suite 2100 Seattle DC 98121 814204119 501(c)(3) 10000 0 Support HRFN's work to organize human rights funders The Justice Center at All People 4934 Brownsboro Rd Louisville KY 40222 610593460 501(c)(3) 10000 0 Support the Clergy Resistance Network & the Justice Center 27 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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X 37 745587 Mean Value on Gift 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 Unitarian Universalist 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 Grantmaking In the past year, UUSC made over 100 grants and amendments worth over $3 million to grassroots organizations working to advance human rights in countries around the world. Due to the heightening state of humanitarian crisis around the globe, UUSC increased our grantmaking. In the latter half of FY2025, we distributed over $900,000 in rapid response grants to support community organizing and safety over and above our scheduled grantmaking goals. UUSC's approach to grantmaking centers on building relationships of trust and reciprocity and providing flexible general operating support to organizations on the frontlines of human rights struggles. In FY25, over 90% of UUSC grant funds were designated as general operating support for partners. Over 85% of our partnerships are with organizations led by directly-impacted individuals. This is especially important in a global environment in which organizations increasingly face threats from authoritarian governments limiting the space civil society can make positive change. UUSC employs a robust screening process of its grantees, which includes vetting for compliance with relevant anti-terrorism, corruption, and sanctions laws. UUSC Impact Framework 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, 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. We measure impact using our Impact and Accountability Framework. With this framework, we seek to have even more means to evaluate the extent to which we are contributing to systemic change impacts and are accountable to our partners and stakeholders. The framework centers around three key intersecting outcomes that are at the heart of what UUSC brings to our human rights work. - Partners and UUSC supporters increase their capacity for addressing the human rights and social justice needs of their communities. - UUSC members and allies in social justice learn about UUSC partners' areas of work, how areas are thematically and systemically linked, and how to translate this all into action. - UUSC works to model a culture among International NGOs, human rights funding networks, and other social justice stakeholders that is equitable, antiracist, anticolonial, and partner led. UUSC Impact Highlights The following are ten highlights from our work over the last year. These selections help us illustrate the extent to which our work is supporting our overall impact and accountability outcomes, as we strive to make progress on our mission. In all cases, 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. - UUSC supports the capacity of grassroots partners to carry out their human rights work, for instance: UUSC was able to deploy over $900,000 in rapid response community support grants over and above the annual budget with no substantial increase in staff or capacity, growing the capacity of grassroots organizations to respond to crises. -UUSC supports grassroots partners' advocacy capacity, for instance: UUSC supported Indigenous Nations in submitting information on displacement and human rights abuses to the United States' Universal Periodic Review process; supported a Haitian human rights organization in a submission to the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women Communication to pressure the Dominican Republic to uphold the rights of people of Haitian descent; and engages in a range of education with Congressional staff to advance self determination and rights in the places our partners work. - UUSC mobilizes supporters and allies to support human rights, for instance: UUSC organized an interfaith letter urging additional humanitarian support to those impacted by natural disasters in Burma and engage UU Congregations in accompaniment work to protect individuals and families targeted by discrimination and persecution in the US. - UUSC equips UUSC supporters with the knowledge needed for responsible action and solidarity for social justice movements, for instance: UUSC and the College of Social Justice built and facilitated the UU Climate Justice Revival, which engaged nearly 40% of UU congregations in discussions and training around climate justice. - UUSC holds events and initiatives that provide supporters about activism, allyship, and organizing, for instance: UUSC hosted a Hill Day during which we accompanied over 100 participants to visit 100 senate offices and key Congressional offices, engaging in education around UUSC's partners' human rights needs. - UUSC engages and educates donors and members on how our partners' work connects with global systems of justice, human rights, and oppression, for instance: UUSC hosted a Haiti Human Rights Teach In for International Human Rights Day; educated members and supporters face to face with 67 congregational visits; coordinates leadership opportunities for congregational liaisons who wish to engage more deeply in human rights and social justice work; and brought supporters and grassroots partners together for Partner Advocacy Days. - UUSC provides opportunities for supporters to engage in advocacy and action, for instance: In response to growing authoritarianism, UUSC launched a new Resistance Network. - UUSC engages in narrative changes work to dismantle oppressive narratives, for instance: Our newsletter Rights Now shares partner-centered storytelling around human rights challenges in Sudan, Ukraine, and elsewhere; we reported out the Pacific Rising convening, sharing examples of community-led grantmaking practices and collaborative-design practices that funders and state actors can learn, to be less extractive in their work. - UUSC convenes spaces where grassroots partners can share knowledge, learnings, and strategize, for instance: UUSC hosted a convening of partners working in and around Burma, the Pacific, and Mesoamerica in the past year. - UUSC provides financial and logistical support and accompaniment for grassroots partners to engage in decision-making spaces at the national and international level, for instance: UUSC accompanied partners and organized panels and engagement opportunities to the Commission on the Status of Women 69th Session; the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 24th session, and other international fora. For more information about UUSC's work, please visit our website at uusc.org Form 990, Part III, Line 4a: Environmental Justice UUSC's climate justice work centers upholding the self-determination of communities and Indigenous peoples in the face of climate change and climate forced displacement. We support grassroots organizations in the Pacific and Americas facing displacement due to climate change. We center the right to self determination of communities in the face of displacement and advocate and provide guidance to communities and all levels of government on how to advance community-led processes and meaningful community engagement. We convene and build bridges to support grassroots leaders in advocating for their rights before government and international bodies, and advance narrative change work such that the stories of communities impacted by climate change and their rights are centered and upheld. Form 990, Part III, Line 4b: Migration Justice We support grassroots and worker-led movements challenging systemic oppression or pursuing systemic alternatives to the root causes of injustice so they can grow stronger and continue their work for the long-term. We uphold the rights of Human rights and environmental defenders and their resistance efforts, helping to ensure that their rights are protected across the region (including in the US), leading to stronger protections for rights, land, territories, and nature. We contribute to discourse change such that the stories we tell about migration and the region to accurately reflect the systemic roots of human rights abuses and impacts in the region. We advance tactics and support partners who protect and uphold the Freedom and rights of people displaced and in migration. Form 990, Part III, Line 4c: Crisis Response When we feel we can make an impact and it is strategic to do so, UUSC develops programmatic work in response to emerging natural disasters and complex humanitarian crises throughout the world. In recent years, UUSC has developed programmatic work in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine; we responded to natural disasters like Hurricane Dorien in the Bahamas; as well as crisis events in Burma, Haiti, and beyond. In crisis response situations, UUSC identifies and supports grassroots organizations that are often overlooked by mainstream humanitarian relief and commits to multi-year support, not one-off approaches. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: UU College of Social Justice The UU College of Social Justice is a program created as an act of radical imagination between the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC). UUCSJ is a joint program of the UUA and UUSC and its staff are employees of the UUSC. Mission The mission of the UU College of Social Justice is to inspire and sustain effective and spiritually grounded activism for justice. We do this in alignment with the strategic approaches, prioritized issues, and missions of UUSC and the UUA: UUSC Mission: UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. Our work is grounded in the belief that all people have inherent power and dignity. UUA Mission: The mission of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is to equip congregations for health and vitality, to support and train lay and professional leaders, and to advance Unitarian Universalist values in the world. Strategy UUCSJ is a key strategy by which both UUSC and the UUA realize their independent and intertwined missions to advance the justice-centered values of Unitarian Universalism and human rights. UUCSJ provides justice education and leadership development to a wide variety of UU constituents, including clergy, lay leaders, and youth, and UUSC members and partners. Impact Framework The goal of the Impact & Accountability Framework is to discern UUCSJ's contribution to inspiring and sustaining effective and spiritually grounded activism for justice, especially in the work of global solidarity building and the dismantling of systems of oppression. UUCSJ's framework is shaped by both UUSC and the UUA's impact frameworks: For UUSC, "impact" means building movements for systemic change. Impact means using UUSC's 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, to dismantle oppressive systemsincluding those from which we appear to benefit within empire. 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 takes time, and the work that will make them possible is not always easily quantifiable. For the UUA, the framework of impact is held within the concept of "Meeting the Moment." This framework asks: - What is the shared moment we are in? - What are the most urgent and important needs of this moment? - What is this moment calling us to do and become? UUCSJ Impact Highlights Since its inception, UUCSJ has offered a distinct form of justice education designed to forge lifelong connections to movements for social change. Instead of focusing on theory in isolation, UUCSJ provides opportunities for participants to learn directly from the leaders of grassroots movements working for justice. 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 advancing the justice-centered values of Unitarian Universalism and human rights. In all cases, 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. A few highlights of our work include: In FY25, UUCSJ developed and successfully led an experiential education program called "Practice the Practice: Experiential Education for Religious Professionals." Religious professionals are a diverse group that includes clergy, directors of religious education, seminarians, and many others. They come from many different communities and are at various stages of their own learning about what it means to be in solidarity with grassroots movements in a responsible way. Many of them, regardless of their stages of learning, are expected to lead experiential education journeys for their work. UUCSJ provided a much needed intervention that allowed professionals to skill up together and not at the expense of community partners. For the practicum for this program, UUCSJ hosted a journey in New Orleans, Louisiana for the Practice the Practice course, called PTP 2024 New Orleans Abolition: Surviving and Flourishing as a Collective (Place- based Justice Education). This experiential journey to New Orleans was the culmination of a series of sessions that began with an online and community of practice components. As one participant of the program shared, UUCSJ "built a practice that enabled us to explore and embody Bernice King's statement that social justice is LOVE applied to systems, policies and cultures." Feedback from the community partners who supported the event celebrated that the program had been experienced locally as generative and not extractive in the ways usually associated with learning delegations. In ongoing work, UUCSJ continues to partner with BorderLinks, which has worked towards transformative change and justice by bringing the voices of people in migration to the forefront and confronting the policies and circumstances that led to a militarized border for over 35 years. By facilitating immersive educational experiences, BorderLinks strives to dismantle systems of oppression through teaching practices of education that honor our wholeness as human beings all while envisioning a world without borders. UUCSJ and BorderLinks know that spiritual learning, taking action, and reflection are key to understanding complex issues facing those in migration. In FY25, CSJ supported delegations to BorderLinks and amplified learning platforms to offer collaborative designed to help people connect the injustice dots and imagine a future of collective liberation. UUCSJ continues to inspire and sustain effective and spiritually grounded activism for justice through our core support of: - UUCSJ Experiential Internship Equity program. The goal of the UUCSJ Experiential Internship Equity Fund is to support experiential learning opportunities in support of faithful justice organizing. Too often, we've seen organizations offer low or unpaid internships, often placing the experiential learning opportunity out of reach for all but the most advantaged. This program increases the capacity of grassroots justice organizations while increasing accessibility to these learning opportunities. IN FY24, this program supporting spiritually grounded justice activism with Black Lives Unitarian Universalist (BLUU), Diverse and Revolutionary Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM), as well as several UU State Action Networks (SANs). - UUCSJ Skilled Volunteer Program, which provides a framework to help skilled volunteers deepen their understanding of systems of injustice and reflecting on one's personal connection to justice work as well as a stipend to increase accessibility to skilled volunteering. FY24 supported skilled volunteers engaged in essential Pink Haven coalition efforts and the efforts of social justice organizers in Alabama. Also of note: UUCSJ has been a primary creator, through our role in the Unitarian Universalist Climate Justice Coalition, of the first known continental UU Climate Justice Revival, planned for the last weekend of September 2024. We have put many hours of staff time and creativity into the co- creation of a major skill up for UUs to connect their activism to their faith and the intersectional work of climate justice and look forward to sharing the impacts of this labor in the FY25 narrative. UUCSJ has also held the bulk of the responsibility for planning the 2024 United Nations Multigenerational Seminar, scheduled for the third weekend of September, which we will also share more about in the FY25 narrative. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 A party who has made a donation in the last twelve months is considered a UUSC member. This is the only class of organizational member. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7b UUSC members are entitled to voting rights specified by Massachusetts statute. 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/LEO or the Chair 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/LEO is determined by the executive committee of the board of trustees, all of whom are independent of the President/LEO. The compensation is determined by reference to comparability data. The President/LEO'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/LEO. 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 VI, Line 13: UUSC is currently updating its existing whistleblower policy. Form 990, Part VI, Line 14: UUSC has been informally adhering to such a policy for a number of years. It is in the process of codifying that policy. Form 990, Part XI, line 9: Change in Value of Split-interest Gifts -4,698. 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