Advocacy for Busy People – You Can Make a Difference!

UUCville Ministry for Earth Legislative Advocacy The VA General Assembly only meets for 60 days (Jan 10 – Mar 10) so your advocacy is needed NOW! Here are pending bills of interest organized by topic. You can write to your legislators to ask for their support (some organizations provide ready...

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January Social Action Collection: PHAR

Click here to donate during January Founded in 1998, the Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR) mission is to educate and empower low-income residents to protect and improve our own communities through collective action. The Board has always been majority Black, and is the local non-profit governed by low-income...

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39th Annual C’ville Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration

“Honoring the Dream” Sunday, January 21, 2024 5:00 pm Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church, 105 Lankford Ave., Charlottesville, VA 22902    Keynote Speaker: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson  Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is the author of My Monticello, a fiction debut that was called ‘a masterly feat’ by the New York Times...

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December Social Action Collection: Meal Packets

This is the fourteenth year that UU Charlottesville has operated our Hospital Meal Packet Ministry. We use your donations to buy food that need no preparation beyond use of a microwave oven or adding hot water to put together “Meal Packets”: one gallon plastic bags that hold enough food to...

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Rivanna Clean Up November 18

Our friends at Rivanna Conservation Alliance are asking for our help in the Dunlora neighborhood on November 18. Join Ellie Syverud of UUCville Ministry For The Environment at Dunlora Farm Road for a short work project, 10am to 12:00pm. We will be removing invasive plants from one of our recent...

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Switch to Zero Emission Busses

C3 (Charlottesville Climate Collaborative) is sponsoring a petition drive to encourage the City of Charlottesville to switch to zero emission busses. According to their petition: Our transportation system can be a catalyst for combating climate change and uplifting community health. It has a profound influence on both our environment and...

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November Social Action Collection: Birth Sisters

Birth Sisters of Charlottesville is a women of color community based doula collective supporting women of color through their birth journey and into motherhood. Our aim is to amplify the resiliency of Black, Indigenous, Women of Color by drawing on life experiences, shared values, training, and sacred legacies to provide...

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Grant Us Peace the Mission of PACEM

Jayson Whitehead Executive Director at PACEM   This year we host PACEM for the men from November 11 to 25 and the women from November 25 to December 9, 2023.  Other congregations will feed our guests for the first three weeks. We partner with Ebenezer Baptist Church to feed our...

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