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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 7,674,074 | 8,042,642 | 6,959,775 | 9,377,718 | 12,367,891 | 44,422,100 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 7,674,074 | 8,042,642 | 6,959,775 | 9,377,718 | 12,367,891 | 44,422,100 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 4,549,563 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 39,872,537 | |||||
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(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 7,674,074 | 8,042,642 | 6,959,775 | 9,377,718 | 12,367,891 | 44,422,100 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 303,624 | 218,406 | 320,506 | 260,054 | 219,103 | 1,321,693 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | ||||||
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 45,808,315 | |||||
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(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
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(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
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Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 0.015 of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by 0.035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | 1 | |
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Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | 3 | |
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | 4 | |
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required - provide details in Part VI) | 5 | |
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | 6 | |
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | 7 | |
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Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2020 from Section C, line 6 | 9 | |
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | 10 | |
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2020 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2019 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from line 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2020 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
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| b Applied to 2020 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from line 4. | ||||
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Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2020, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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Remaining underdistributions for 2020. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2021. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission: | Guided by UU principles and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UUSC strives to advance human rights, dismantle systems of oppression, and uplift and affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all people. We center the voices and experiences of those most affected and strengthen those grassroots groups and movements who are organizing themselves to advance these goals. In order to accomplish this, we offer justice education and leadership development; engagement and mobilization for advocacy; partner support; and grant funding. UUSC aims to leverage our particular strategic assets and strengths to disrupt criminalization and systemic oppression of people based on their identities; support self-determination and defend the rights of people who are or may be forced to leave the places they call home due to climate, conflict, or economic hardship, and address the root causes of forced displacement; and respond to humanitarian crises as partners with people whose access to aid is most limited, by helping them to rebuild their lives and by addressing the human rights issues or violations that make them more vulnerable. In all of our work, UUSC and our partners work with the communities most affected by injustice, including: - In Burma, all of our partners are focused on protecting the rights of the Rohingya Muslim minority, currently facing a crisis of displacement and a military campaign of genocide. This year, those impacts have been impacted by the military's attempted coup and the systematic persecution of opposition leaders, activists, and the Civil Disobedience Movement that arose in response. - In Mexico and Central America, UUSC's partners work with people who have been displaced from their home countries by state-sanctioned and gender-based violence, are at risk of being displaced, or who have been repatriated and are in continued danger. - In the U.S., our partners work with criminalized populations, including undocumented people, those at risk of deportation, and humanitarian aid workers seeking to assist those making the dangerous journey from Mexico to the U.S. border. - In Alaska, Louisiana, and the Pacific, UUSC's partners are advancing and protecting the rights of populations at risk of climate-forced displacement, and upholding the "right to resist" extractive development projects that threaten to displace their communities and destroy their ancestral lands, including Line 3 in Minnesota and LNG pipelines in Texas. - In the Bahamas, UUSC is supporting grassroots partners working with the communities most impacted by Hurricane Dorian, including Haitian immigrants who are subjected to ongoing discrimination and completely ignored by the mainstream response to the hurricane. UUSC seeks to involve our grassroots partners in all aspects of our decision-making, and to adapt and adjust our strategies, practices, and processes in accordance with their feedback. Doing so requires building long-term, trusting relationships and finding new ways to solicit candid and, if necessary, anonymous feedback from our partners, which we do each and every year. This year, our partners had encouraging words for us and the way we work. For example: - Having the support from Unitarian Universalists has opened up the door for partnerships with other funders. We are pleased to have received the support from this grant which has allowed us to grow in many ways, not just in the work we set out to do with this grant but also opening the doors to funding for other programs, such as our migrant girls group." - "UUSC has been a wonderful partner. Your increased flexibility and understanding have been wonderful." "I would like to thank you for your support over the last many years. UUSC was one of the first funders to believe in [us] and support our work not just with grant dollars but also with volunteer engagement. Our ability to expand visitation programming to now 69 communities in 26 states is in part due to the amazing power and passion of" UUSC and its supporters. - "I wish all of philanthropy could do partnerships like the way UUSC does!" In the past fiscal year, facing the devastation of the global COVID pandemic, UUSC made 110 grants and amendments worth $2.1M to grassroots organizations working in countries around the world. This represents the most money UUSC has granted and the most grants UUSC has made in at least the last five years. UUSC's Impact What does it mean to have a human rights "impact"? For UUSC, "impact" means building movements for systemic change. Impact means using our power and privilege as a US-based nonprofit to amplify the power of the grassroots by following the leadership of communities directly affected by injustice. It is addressing immediate harms and their root causes, in order to dismantle oppressive systemsincluding those from which we benefit. In short, our impact can be seen in the steps we take on the way to building a more just, equitable, and regenerative world. These are ambitious goals to be sure. Achieving them will take time, and the work that will make them possible is not always quantifiable or readymade for public consumption. The themes, stories, and outcomes we choose to highlight in our work, therefore, are chosen because they help us understand whether or not our work is supporting those long-term, systemic impacts, as we strive to make progress on our human rights goals. We are proud that many of our highlights showcase UUSC's approach: consulting with our grassroots partners, frontline communities, and other allies and then leveraging whatever resources we have to make a collective impact on our shared struggle for justice and human rights. In every case, we aim to put our grassroots partners at the center, showing the power of social change when it is led by communities confronting oppression and injustice. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a: | Migrant Justice Expenses $3,222,072 including grants of $720,608. Revenue: $40,825. This year, UUSC helped strengthen grassroots movements, addressed immediate harms while working toward systemic solutions, and centered the experiences and wisdom of the communities most impacted by injustice. Below are just a few of the highlights of how we did this, including by: UUSC's years supporting community work to develop alternatives to the dominant economic and political systems of oppression were critical this year, as were our partners' analyses of how governments across the region have failed at both short-term emergency response and long-term development. The global COVID crisis and the effects of climate change have put this into sharp relief. - COVID response: Most of our migrant justice partners either expanded existing direct food assistance programs or started new ones as needed. With emergency funds, UUSC was able to provide support for partners as they organized these immediate responses to COVID's impacts in their communities. o In Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, we helped our partners organize direct aid to communities and families in the form of food and cash assistance. o In the US, we supported the provision of grocery and rent support, as well as urgently needed access to affirming mental health services, unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere. o In Mexico, our partners' migrant shelters continued operating with reduced staff, though were forced to implement strict sanitary measures and temporarily stop receiving new arrivals. They adapted their physical spaces and expanded services out into the communities by providing supplies and food aid to migrants and asylum-seekers living in the Guadalajara and Mexico City metro areas. Importantly, they also both continued to monitor ongoing migration flows across the country and highlight inadequate and abusive Mexican state responses. - On top of the COVID crisis, our partners in Central America were also critical in responding to the devastating impacts of the back-to-back hurricanes, Eta and Iota. Particularly here, the work that partners have been engaged with for years and their location in the affected communities enabled each of them to do three things: o Identify the most urgent needs and plan for the medium-term o Respond to these needs quickly and with dignity o Socialize their analyses of inadequate, abusive, and corrupt state responses and how that fits within the context of globalized neoliberalism and militarization. This work toward alternative systems, particularly those linked to local agricultural development, is rooted in autonomy, sustainability, gender equality, and anti-corruption, since it means that communities are less reliant on government programs that are either insufficient or often driven by patronage. - Elections and advocacy work in the US o Thanks to their organizing model based on established civic engagement networks, and tireless, courageous "get out the vote and voter education work in the midst of an ongoing public health crisis, our partners in Georgia were key players in the outcome of state and federal elections there. o Change doesn't stop once the ballots are counted, and our partners have been vital to keeping momentum for long-term systems change: several have continued to keep issues of migration, asylum and sanctuary visible while holding the new Biden administration to account. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4b: | Climate Justice & Environmental Justice Expenses $1,856,019 including grants of $415,093. Revenue: $23,517. - In collaboration with our coalition partners, the Legal Justice Coalition (co-convened by UUSC), and community leaders from the Gulf and Alaska, we released a policy brief directed to the new Biden-Harris administration, addressing climate-forced displacement in the US. We also prepared an international statement in response to President Biden's Executive Order on Climate Change and Migration, which was drafted in collaboration with partners across our 3 portfolios. The statement urged the administration to bring an intersectional human rights lens to its work to address the climate crisis, and more than 30 of our partners signed onto the statement indicating their support. - Following the release of our statement, we organized and hosted a webinar during the President's climate leader summit, which included 10 UUSC partners and community leaders from the United States, Central America, the Pacific, The Bahamas and Canada -- and representing our work on climate justice, migrant justice, and crisis response -- to demand action. - This year, we also provided emergency funds to 10 of our of our climate justice partners to support their adaptation to the global pandemic. This included supporting communities to mobilize humanitarian aid and COVID-relief support on the ground with households that were displaced by Hurricane Laura in the Gulf, as well as bolstering aid distribution and advocacy efforts from our partners in the Pacific Islands. - In Fiji, our support helped convene the first ever meeting of representatives from climate displaced communities including those who have been relocated (Tukuraki and Vunidogoloa) or partially relocated (Narikoso). |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4c: | Crisis Response Expenses $1,502,616 including grants of $377,579. Revenue: $19,038. - While the COVID pandemic reverberated around the world, the compounded effects of international aid disruptions and economic crises were acutely felt by already vulnerable Rohingya refugee and IDP (internally displaced person) communities in Burmese IDP camps, Bangladesh refugee camps, and urban Malaysia. UUSC was able to not only permit existing grantees to re-program their funds, much of which focused on education and community organizing that were disrupted due to social distancing and public health protocols, but we were also able to make new critical emergency grants to help grassroots Rohingya partners respond to community requests for food aid, personal protective equipment, and COVID-related advocacy for improved government aid policies. - As a critical education and outreach component among our own UU community, UUSC created a Discussion and Action Guide to complement the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's recent Rohingya Exhibition, "Burma's Path to Genocide," to help UUSC members and the broader public build awareness on how to practically fight against genocide in a modern context. UUSC hosted a public panel with Museum experts and a Rohingya human rights activist to launch and discuss the guide, which was shared widely both by UUSC and the Museum. - With the February 1st military coup, banking and communications were severely disrupted by the Burmese junta, and grassroots protesters and participants in the nationwide civil disobedience movement have faced ongoing violence and oppression. UUSC was one of the first international organizations to be able to provide direct emergency aid in the country, providing financial assistance to our grassroots partners for physical relocation, communications equipment, security, humanitarian and livelihood assistance, and advocacy. - UUSC awarded its 2020 Human Rights Innovation Fellowship to a Thailand-based solidarity group, which in conjunction with various ethnic minority women activists from across Burma created a virtual convening platform focused on building connections among disparate youth activists from Burma. Though the program was designed before the COVID-pandemic, the virtual nature of the learning series ultimately timed well with social distancing and public health protocols. Over the course of 8 months and 25 sessions with various human rights experts and mentors, more than 35 youth participants from Burma, located in Burma, Thailand, Bangladesh and further afield, came together to learn, network, and build solidarity for each other's work. In addition to the learning program, our partnership included 8 small grants for participants to carry out human rights projects in their local communities, which served as the basis for discussion, sharing and practical learning among participants. Due to its success, the coordinators are exploring the possibility of making the program a permanent semi-annual learning series for youth activism and development. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: | UU College of Social Justice The UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) is structured as a joint program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), jointly governed by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and UUSC for the benefit of both organizations under the terms of a joint operating agreement. UUCSJ's mission is to inspire and sustain faith-based activism for justice, on issues of local, national, and global importance. We accomplish this through a variety of experiential learning programs, and through workshops and resources designed for use in our UU congregations. We work closely with UUSC to center frontline grassroot partner needs and to activate UU's to serve in movement with them. One of the major initiatives we undertook this past year before the pandemic hit was to support the UUA's UU the Vote Initiative leading up to the Fall 2020 election including, recruiting and supporting young adults as poll workers in states where the communities of color faced voter restrictions. As part of this work, we created the 2020 Democracy Defense & Action Resource Guide, that was available online through January 2021 with the incoming change in the US government with the Biden Administration. Beginning almost immediately with the pandemic, UUCSJ staff and Program Leaders began experimenting with entirely new online offerings (in addition to adapting in-person versions to an online platform). We have now developed and offered a wide range of Community Action Circles to UU constituents and donors, ministers and religious educators, and organizers/activists with accompaniment networks, youth and young adults among others. Our Community Action Circles on zoom are a way to foster community-building, energetic grounding and connection, and collective action-taking, even while we were all physically distanced. Using interactive google slides, we created visually rich spaces that allowed people to feel less isolated, while offering timely political education and concrete opportunities to respond to action alerts from social movements in which we and our partners are involved. It has been an iterative process that we had adapted for multiple groups (including congregations, youth groups, UUA partners, the UUSC board, and national events such as the UU@UN Spring Seminar and the most recent General Assembly). We have received rave reviews for these gatherings and continue to offer templates, training-by-doing, and coaching to congregations and other UU justice groups that want to learn to facilitate their own. We've engaged roughly 250 participants through action circles over the last year and the ripple effect of our impact is harder to predict as we've trained and mentored many activists to bring these action circles to their own communities. Our ability to transition to online workshops has enabled us to reach many more congregations and develop new engaging workshops with alumni from our programs, our network of CSJ program leaders and others to broaden our offerings. Our workshops have served as a positive way to strengthen our relationships with State Action Networks and the congregations they serve. We led approximately 20 workshops this year reaching over approximately 250 participants through workshops such as The Revolution Will Not Be Colonized, Re-socializing for the Revolution, Arts and activism, Faith in Action, Speaking Justice in our Language of Faith, Saying Yes and Saying No, The Answer is in our Bodies, How do we Imagine Justice, Praxis in the Borderlands and our new program focused on Settler Colonialism 101. This past year has brought challenges to our youth constituents and for those who seek to offer them meaningful opportunities for learning and connection amidst so much disruption to their social and educational lives. We have remained a resource and collaborator, whether working directly with congregational leaders or with our youth ministry focused colleagues at the UUA, bringing interactive online practices we have learned and our focus on justice education to joint endeavors. We have also remained in close contact with our partners at the organization, BORDERLINKS so that when it is safe to resume travel, we will be well equipped to welcome youth groups back into immersive learning journeys. A recent stakeholder assessment of UUCSJ's work particularly highlighted the important contributions that we continue to make to the youth ministry landscape, even in these ever-shifting times. As one stakeholder stated, "UUCSJ really does center young people in a way that feels whole." At a time when many online programs have struggled to sustain participation, the online fellowship version of our GROW (Grounded & Resilient Organizers Workshop) has expanded and sustained engagement from young adults, ages 18-35, during the past year, with more than 50 total participants who have gathered weekly for facilitated sessions to build their organizing skills in spiritually nourishing and relationally rich ways. Participants have grappled with themes related to Governance & Power, Conflict, Care, Time & Imagination, as well as the ongoing work of dismantling white supremacy, and growing their understanding of intersectional social movements. These activists were supported in contextualizing their local contexts, whether campus, congregation, and/or community and mapping power and possibilities for ongoing meaningful action, including in concert with one another. As with our prior in-person iterations of GROW, we continue to hear how meaningful and even "life changing" this program is for many young adult participants, several of whom have returned repeatedly to participate in evolving iterations and who have stayed engaged with UUCSJ in other ways, including serving as paid facilitators and leaders of our emerging programs. Two years ago, at General Assembly, the UUA put out a call to congregations to members to strengthen their ties with indigenous partners. Since this time, UUCSJ has hosted several programs and offerings in response to this call starting with the Settler Colonialism 101 workshop in Spring of 2020. From there, we've built relationships and created new program offerings with several indigenous leaders, including some already within the UU network. We've supported non-indigenous UUs in deepening their understanding of indigenous solidarity through our Being a Good Relative workshop series and direct actions at the Treaty People Gathering in Minnesota in June 2021. Creating such offerings have allowed participants to expand their knowledge in multiple fronts, as there were participants who attended our first Settler Colonialism workshop and Being a Good Relative series who later became agitators against the Enbridge Line 3 pipelinea new w section of Enbridge pipeline is set to carry 760,000 barrels a day of tar sands oil across protected Indigenous treaty lands. 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 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 -29,287. |
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