UUSC congregational awards

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Unitarian Universalist congregational support enables UUSC to continue to thrive as a powerful voice for justice. Through our congregational awards, we proudly honor the congregations sustaining our work through exceptional levels of giving and membership.

Each congregation honored is recognized in UUWorld magazine and UUSC's annual report.

Congregational awards for membership recognize exceptional levels of individual UUSC memberships within a congregation.

  • Creating Justice Banner Society celebrates congregations with 25-49 percent* UUSC membership. A banner is sent to a congregation the first year it earns the award and a streamer to attach to the banner is sent in subsequent years.

  • Vision of Justice Banner Society celebrates congregations with 50-74 percent* UUSC membership. A banner is sent to a congregation the first year it earns the award and a streamer to attach to the banner is sent in subsequent years.
  • New Award! Beacon of Justice Banner Society celebrates congregations with 75-99 percent* UUSC membership. A banner is sent to a congregation the first year it earns the award and a streamer to attach to the banner is sent in subsequent years.
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  • Spirit of Justice Chalice Society celebrates those extraordinary congregations with 100 percent* UUSC membership. Congregations honored with this award for the first time receive an engraved UUSC pewter chalice.

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    * Calculation of congregational membership awards:

    The total number of UUSC memberships which begin and expire during the fiscal year (July 1 - June 30) is compared to the total number of congregation members published by the UUA.

    Your congregation can achieve a membership award. Contact UUSC's associate for member development at 617-868-6600 or 800-766-5236, ext. 307, or volunteerservices@uusc.org, to learn how.

    Congregational corporate giving awards recognize congregations that consecrate their commitment to justice and to human rights through a gift to UUSC from their own congregational operating budget. Such gifts institutionalize a UU church's commitment to justice and human rights through the work of UUSC.

    Congregational corporate giving does not qualify the congregation or its members for UUSC membership.

    Helen Fogg Chalice Award celebrates congregations that contribute a gift equal to $25 per church member through their own congregational operating budget. Congregations honored with this award for the first time receive a UUSC chalice. Repeat honorees receive a certificate suitable for framing.

    • Helen Fogg (1904-1980) led a life of service, as an active member of the First Parish Church in Norwell, Mass., and as a tireless worker for UUSC. Her association with the Service Committee began as a volunteer in 1947 when she worked with Spanish Republican refugees in Toulouse, France. Soon after, she became the director of UUSC's overseas programs. Among her many accomplishments at UUSC, she established a child care institute in Germany, a children's home in Czechoslovakia, social work training projects in Greece and Jamaica, a department of social work at South Korea's Seoul National University and a teacher education program in Cambodia.

    James Luther Adams Award celebrates congregations that contribute at least $1 for each member of its congregation through its own operating budget.

  • James Luther Adams (1901-1994) often spoke of the prophetic core of Unitarian Universalism and the moral imperative to justice, particularly as demanded by poverty and racism. Ordained a Unitarian minister in 1927, Adams served as minister of the Second Church in Salem, Mass., and the First Unitarian Society in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Later, he joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School where he inspired generations of students. Adams' faith led him to work for significant change in the world, so it is particularly appropriate for UUSC to honor him.
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    Your congregation can achieve a corporate giving award. Contact UUSC's associate for member development at 617-868-6600 or 800-766-5236, ext. 307, or volunteerservices@uusc.org, to learn how.

    When sending in any congregational gift, please clearly note what the gift is (i.e., donation from congregational budget) and send it in time to be counted toward the correct fiscal year. Mail your donation to:

    UUSC
    ATTN: Congregational Awards
    689 Massachusetts Avenue
    Cambridge, MA 02139