VOTE May 16 on 2021-22 Social Action Collections

The 2021-2022 Social Action Collection applications are now finalized and ready for review. We have some amazing non-profits applying for our monthly collection, doing work you can believe in, and any congregational member can vote to choose who receives the monthly collection. UUC members will vote for next year’s recipients...

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Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR): Social Action Collection Apr 18-May 17, 2021

Founded in 1998, the Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR)’s mission is to educate and empower low-income residents to protect and improve our own communities through collective action. We provide educational and leadership development opportunities for our residents, support for housing redevelopment, and community organizing events across the seven...

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PACEM: Social Action Collection January 2021

  A message from PACEM Executive Director, Jayson Whitehead: This time last year we were in the middle of our 16th PACEM shelter season. In many ways, it felt like any other season. We numbered almost 40 guys a night and nearly a dozen women. Every night, we offered a...

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Our Social Action Collections Have Been A Big Success!

2020 was a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of our neighbors without jobs and struggling to provide food and shelter for their families. Over the past six months, Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville have contributed generously to six local non-profits whose social justice purposes are in...

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Sin Barreras: Social Action Collection Dec. 2020

Donate to Sin Barreras here. Over seven years, Sin Barreras has become one of Central Virginia’s preeminent Hispanic non-governmental organizations.  We have benefitted from the generosity of the Unitarian Universalists of Charlottesville for three years, and having this support come from concerned-citizen donors means as much to us as the actual...

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