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How UUSC Invests Your Guest at Your Table Donation


“We had several tables in center of worship circle so children could color as stories were read — could then use drawing as place mat while family filled box.”

—Melissa Sandoe,
UU of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pa.

The following list illustrates the many ways in which UUSC translates support from our donors during Guest at Your Table into tangible projects to advance human rights.

Gifts of $20 and up


  • $20 pays for training in survey collection for a worker member of the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center to collect data from poultry-processing workers on their wages, working conditions, and the most serious issues facing them on the job. The center will use these surveys to launch an organizing campaign against a local poultry plant in the area.
  • $25 can inspire future leaders in the Middle East and northern Africa by helping a youth activist to print and distribute five Arabic-language copies of The Montgomery Story, a comic book about Martin Luther King Jr.'s use of nonviolence during bus boycotts in Alabama. 
  • $40 helps 30 families in Myanmar bring their crops to market successfully. Participating in revolving loans allows farmers to buy food and meet basic needs while waiting for their harvest, when they will be able to sell their rice at a better and fairer price.
  • $60 pays to distribute 15 copies of the Restaurant Opportunities Center United National Diners' Guide, which will be released in late 2011. The guide will educate consumers about the labor practices of the 150 most popular fast-food, casual, and fine-dining restaurants in the country.
  • $75 helps workers in Arkansas, enabling the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center to conduct outreach and education projects tailored to specific challenges faced by poultry-processing and construction workers.

Gifts of $100 and up


Remember, your gift of $100 or above qualifies for a matching gift from the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock, in Manhasset, N.Y.!

  • $100 spreads the word by paying for 25 copies of STITCH's Women, Labor, and Leadership curriculum, which trains women workers in organizing and empowers them to make an impact through their unions. STITCH is a network of women unionists, activists, and organizers that educates women workers about gender, globalization, and unionism, and connects women in Central America and the United States so that together they build their voices for economic justice.
  • $170 supplies water-testing strips and chemicals for one month to members of indigenous communities in San Marcos, Guatemala, to carry out water-quality monitoring of rivers downstream from the GoldCorp mine.
  • $200 provides one ox for a group of families returning home from post-war camps in northern Uganda.
  • $200 pays for the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center to rent a booth and print flyers for a local fair to educate poultry-processing workers in Springdale, Ark., about their right to healthy and safe working conditions in the poultry plants.
  • $250 supports one youth activist create a public education forum in their area to train 10 additional youth on voting rights and distribute materials in their hometowns in Egypt and Tunisia.
  • $350 pays for baskets, ribbon, and brochures for the Southern Alternatives Agricultural Cooperative to more effectively market its pecans and pecan candies to consumers who make purchasing choices based on their values.

Gifts of $500 and up


  • $500 supports one woman restaurant worker's plane ticket to participate in an international convention of women restaurant workers. There they will be sharing skills and strategies as well as planning a coordinated campaign against a common restaurant employer, targeting unjust employment practices, including gender discrimination.
  • $500 enables the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition to fund travel for a U.S.-based torture survivor to Washington, D.C., for Torture Awareness Week. During the week, they will learn effective healing techniques, support each other's recovery, and lobby Congress to end state-sponsored torture.

Gifts of $1,000 and up


  • $1,065 would purchase a professional video camera and materials to document the worldwide struggle for water justice and make videos available for educational campaigns on the human right to water.
  • $5,000 trains 15 youth members of our partner Muungano (a name that means "togetherness") near the Kenya-Uganda border. Muungano supports youth with livelihood training in preparing nutritious meals with traditional food crops, planting organic foods to challenge genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and taking care of the environment.


Please note: Your generous Guest at Your Table gift is unrestricted. This means that UUSC will use it where the need is greatest.

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