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GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF UUSC’S HUMAN RIGHT WORK

65 organizations in 27 countries: ASIA

AfghanistanChinaIndiaIndonesiaIraqMyanmarPhilippinesPakistanSri LankaThailand

AFRICA

EgyptGhanaKenyaSouth AfricaSudanTanzaniaUganda

THE AMERICAS

ArgentinaBoliviaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasMexicoNicaraguaPeruUnited States

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies.

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee envisions a world free from oppression and injustice, where all can realize their full human rights.

On the front cover: For many girls and women in Afghanistan, attend-ing specialized schools, like those organized by UUSC program partner Barakat, is the ony way to develop literacy skills and complete their education. With UUSC funding, teachers in Barakat schools have been trained in human rights so they can introduce these subjects in their classrooms.

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Dear UUSC members and supporters,

Our partner-based strategy is designed to achieve a long-term impact on the causes of justice and human rights by building civic activism.

Firstly, we support the efforts of our domestic and international partners by providing seed grants and technical support and by facilitating their collaboration in broader social movements. Secondly, we influence public and private institutional policies and monitor their implementation. Thirdly, we link the work of our program partners with our constituents, providing issue-related information and skills that make our human-rights advocates even more effective.

Over the last year, UUSC worked with the Technical Development Corporation (TDC), one of Boston’s oldest not-for-profits, on a midcourse evaluation of our Strategic Plan (2005-2010). As part of this work, TDC spoke with UUSC board members, staff, volunteers, and other stakeholders — and randomly chose a sample of UUSC partners for in-depth interviews. The feedback from our partners was overwhelmingly positive.

According to TDC’s summary, “UUSC partners consistently reported their partnership…had been very positive and had brought about numerous tangible and intangible benefits.” TDC concluded, “In working with hundreds of nonprofit organizations, it is rare to find grantees and funders so closely aligned in mission and purpose and that clearly hold one another in such high esteem.”

We hope you appreciate reading the perspectives of several of our partners in this annual report. These brave individuals take daily risks as they confront unjust power structures and are the ones with whom we stand when we mobilize to challenge oppressive policies. We are grateful for your support, which makes these partnerships — this joining of many hands — possible.

Sincerely,

William F. Schulz Charlie ClementsChair, Board of Trustees President and CEO

Charlie Clements

William Schulz

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UUSC’s response to the Kenya crisis was a shining moment for the organization, testing its strength as a forward-looking crisis responder and magnifying the value of its long-term partnerships with grassroots groups. Under the leadership of an emergency response task force, UUSC staff, partners, allies, members, and supporters came together to support the people of Kenya and demand fair and open elections. UUSC’s work to alleviate the hardship of those caught in the post-election violence is ongoing. The immediate response began with a rapid mobilization to assess the causes of the crisis and the needs of those most affected.

Located on the former Eldoret Show Grounds, this tent city grew quickly, with more than 25,000, mostly Kikuyu, inhabitants and 300 new daily arrivals. Ten-year-old Walter was separated from his family during the violence.

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December 27, 2007Citing gross irregularities, national and interna-tional monitoring groups call Kenya’s general elections flawed. Demonstrations by opposition supporters and others meet excessive use of force by Kenyan police and security forces. Over 1,500 die and hundreds of thousands are displaced as a political and humanitarian crisis grips the country.

January 4, 2008UUSC calls on the Kenyan government to take steps to create conditions for free and fair elections and the U.S. government to support that process.

January 9, 2008Believing UUSC could play a unique role in raising awareness of the situation, given its partnerships and long-term experience in Kenya, UUSC forms an interdepartmental Emergency Task Force. The group maintains round-the-clock contact with UUSC’s Kenyan partners the Rock Women Group and KENASVIT who immediately set to work with survivors of the violence, of all ethnic groups.

January 15, 2008UUSC, in collaboration with the UUA, launches the Kenya Crisis Fund to give concerned individu-als a way to support and stand in solidarity with Kenyans. Donations reach over $75,000.

January 17, 2008UUSC members and supporters call and write to President George W. Bush, urging him to support the demands by civil-society organizations in Ke-nya for an independent audit of the election results and press for a fair election result.

January 19–25, 2008A three-person UUSC Emergency Assessment Mission visits the country to investigate the humanitarian implications of the crisis and meet with program partners, civil society leaders, and displaced persons. The delegation includes UUSC President Charlie Clements, UUSC Program

Director and native Kenyan Atema Eclai, and UU Minister Rosemary Bray McNatt. In most areas, they are the first representatives of an international organization on the scene.

January 30, 2008The Boston Globe website publishes an article by Clements titled, “Kenya ‘on the edge of a precipice.’” With situation reports from UUSC’s Programs Department and daily blogs by Clements posted from Kenya, visits to UUSC’s website reach a record high of 6,003 for January.

February 6, 2008UUSC staff submit testimony to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health and reports to congressional staff, the State Department, and the World Bank. They report that those hardest hit by the violence are low-income families and members of marginalized groups, who were already among Kenya’s most vulnerable populations.

February 28, 2008Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga come to a power-sharing agreement, bringing an end to the violence. But for millions of Kenyans, who have lost their homes, their businesses, their jobs, and their trust in their neighbors, the crisis continues.

March 2–14, 2008UUSC sends a second mission to Kenya, composed of Martha Thompson, manager of UUSC’s Rights in Humanitarian Crises Program, and, again, Eclai. They make a deeper needs assessment and develop a long-term response.

March–June, 2008Strengthening existing partnerships and building new partnerships, UUSC reaches out to those who are being overlooked by mainstream recovery efforts, in particular women, children, and members of low-income and other marginalized communities.

Crisis Response Timeline

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Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, a war that has now lasted longer than WWII, we have seen more than 4,000 Americans killed and tens of thousands wounded. We have also heard reports of hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi citizens and an estimated 5 million Iraqis displaced from their homes. In financial terms, the staggering cost of this war could exceed $3 trillion dollars, with no end in sight.

In June 2008, UUSC’s efforts to responsibly end the Iraq war took center stage at the UUA General Assembly, under the banner Who Pays the Price for the Iraq War?

UUSC put a human face on the war, with dynamic speakers who have all paid a personal price for this conflict. We brought together military veterans, families of veterans, Muslim Americans, and peace activists for powerful workshops, training programs, and discussions. Together, we explored

possible paths to justice, peace, and a stronger democracy. We also shed light on how the current administration is bypassing national and international laws as a short-sighted means of confronting the challenges that the international community now faces.

In an interactive display at GA, UUSC used life-size cutouts of real people and personal quotes to raise awareness about some of the hidden costs of the war. One cutout was of human-rights activist Nasser Weddady, of Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance (HAMSA), a UUSC program partner.

Weddady shared his experience of discrimination and racial profiling after 9/11: “Here in the United States there has been a clear rise in anti-Muslim sentiment. As Muslim Americans...our positions and our motivations are always questioned.”

During Justice Sunday events in March 2008, UUSC challenged people around the country to examine the full cost of the war — not just in terms of human costs, but also in terms of the cost to our vision of creating a free and just world.

UUSC has consistently stood for civil liberties, peace, and justice. With our program partners — Appeal for Redress, Iraq Veterans Against the War, HAMSA, Military Families Speak Out, Muslim Advocates, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Veterans for Peace, the Win Without War Coalition, and others — we work in defense of civil liberties and democratic processes, nationally and internationally.

“UUSC has a strong ideological bent. HAMSA shares that. We are not looking for government to provide solutions. It’s important to build coalitions across lines of different groups… UUSC understands the importance of grassroots struggle, which is rare, much appreciated, and gives us encouragement in the face of great odds.”

–Nasser Weddady, Hands Across the Mideast

Support AllianceOpposite page: AIC-Egypt Director Dalia Ziada (second from left) poses with HAMSA’s Director of Outreach Nasser Weddady (left) and Civil Liberties Program Manager Wayne Smith and Associate Fatema Haji-Taki (right), after leading a discussion at UUSC about the struggle for women’s rights in Egypt.

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UUSC Program Partner Profile: Let Justice RollRaising the minimum wage above poverty level is perhaps the most effective way to combat poverty and support the human rights of children, women, and people of color in the United States. No other single issue or movement can so directly improve the lives of the working poor in this country.

Let Justice Roll is an alliance of 80 grassroots, faith-based, labor, and community organizations that have put the right to a living wage back on the map as an issue that unites people across wide divides — religious and secular, labor and business, liberal and conservative.

Under the slogan, “A job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it,” the coalition helped to win minimum-wage increases in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and Ohio. These cumulative victories helped to gain congressional and presidential approval in 2007 for the first raise in the federal minimum wage in 10 years!

According to The Nation, “No group was more fundamental to the effort of linking the minimum wage to morality — and mobilizing these ‘values voters’ — than Let Justice Roll.”

As a proud member of the Let Justice Roll Living Wage campaign,

UUSC and its volunteers were integral to the success of these statewide and national grassroots campaigns.

Let Justice Roll, with strong UUSC support, is continuing the fight for living wages by promoting “$10 by 2010,” an important, reasonable step toward bringing the federal minimum wage closer to a living wage and winning back losses in consumer buying power since the 1960s.

“Let Justice Roll’s relationship with UUSC is critical to our success. They are one of our most, if not the most, significant partner... They are a unique funder because they have other resources to provide. A UUSC staff member is on our board of directors. We need their continued support going forward.”

– Rev. Jennifer Kottler,Let Justice Roll

Opposite page: Georgia Minimum Wage Coalition organizer speaks in support of raising the minimum wage at a January 2008 press conference at the Georgia State Capitol.

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Only in a handful of countries is access to water legally protected by their constitutions.

But UUSC, through its Environmental Justice Program, partners with two grassroots groups that are working to guarantee the human right to water for all citizens through the adoption of constitutional amendments and challenges where the human right to water is being violated. These groups – El Movimiento Mi Cometa, in Ecuador, and the Coalition Against Water Privatisation (CAWP), in South Africa – have built local water-justice movements that are impacting the development of water justice globally.

El Movimiento Mi Cometa (My Kite Movement)With UUSC’s support, Mi Cometa played an active role in pushing through draft provisions that enshrine the human right to water and makes privatization of water services illegal under Ecuador’s new constitution.

Over the last year, a democratically elected body in Ecuador called the Constituent Assembly has rewritten the national constitution. Community organizers and leaders from Mi Cometa and its auxiliary organization, Los Observatorios Ciudadano de Servicios Publicos, lobbied as private citizens to shape the outcome of this process. They educated the public on water issues, involved youth, and lobbied those who were drafting water provisions.

Thanks in part to the strong leadership of Mi Cometa, water could become a “fundamental and

inalienable human right” in Ecuador when Ecuadorians vote in September 2008 to approve the new constitution.

Coalition Against Water PrivatisationSouth Africa’s 1996 constitution enshrines the human right to water for all South Africans. Yet in 2003, the “corporatized” public water utility Johannesburg Water began installing prepaid water meters in low-income black townships in Soweto, but not in white areas. Set up in the front yard of each house, the meters auto-matically shut off when a family hits the monthly limit, which is less than the 25 liters per person per day established by the World Health Organization as the minimum necessary for human survival.

With UUSC’s support, the Coalition Against Water Privatisation (CAWP) helped local residents file a successful lawsuit against Johannesburg Water in the High Court of South Africa, charging violations of their constitutional rights to water and equality. In a landmark decision, the court found that Johannesburg Water had violated citizens’ constitutional and human right to water and ordered the utility to increase the free basic water allotment to low-income families, remove the prepaid meters, and end its discriminatory policies in Soweto.

Opposite page: El Movimiento Mi Cometa Director César Cárdenas Ramírez speaks at a rally in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in support of the human right to water provision to be included in Ecuador’s new draft constitution.

“The right to water is a fundamental and inalienable human right. It is a strategic national heritage of public use, inalienable, imprescriptible, unattachable and essential to life.”

– Art. 12, Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador 2008

Translated by UUSC’s Environmental Justice Program Manager, Patricia Jones

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Over the last year, UUSC has strategically allocated funds donated by thousands of supporters in the wake of major disasters to help redraw the balance of power in favor of marginalized groups.

Cyclone Nargis, MyanmarThough the UUSC-UUA Cyclone Nargis Relief Fund, UUSC is partnering with grassroots orga-nizations in Myanmar (formerly Burma), including local Buddhist monasteries and nunneries, to sup-port cyclone survivors. Despite all obstacles, these groups are steadily moving aid in the form of food, wa-ter-treatment supplies, and health care to affected villages in the Ir-rawaddy River Delta, an area hard hit by the cyclone. UUSC is also supporting assistance for unaccom-panied children, and livelihoods for women widowed by the cyclone.

Kenya crisisThrough the UUSC-UUA Kenya Crisis Fund, UUSC has supported current and new partners to promote community reconciliation and assist families who were driven out of their communities by violence. Please see pages 4–5

for complete details on UUSC’s emergency response.

Genocide in DarfurAfter five years of violence in Darfur, more than 300,000 Darfurians have been killed and two million displaced. UUSC works to weave a web of protection for Darfurian women and girls, who are particularly vulnerable to violence. Through its partners, UUSC established women’s centers in two camps in Darfur to train women in rights, leadership, and income generation inside the camp. UUSC also trained male camp leaders in 10 camps to increase their sensitivity to women’s safety issues. As a result, leaders have established gender protection groups in three camps. For information on UUSC’s Drumbeat for Darfur campaign, please see page 15.

Gulf Coast relief On the second anniversary of Katrina, UUSC joined with partner organizations in the Gulf Coast in a campaign called “29 homes in 29 days,” helping hurricane survivors return to New Orleans. This year, UUSC distributed the final Gulf

Coast Relief fund grants to support community mental-health work and strengthen grassroots activism where communities have returned to face a struggle for their rights.

Indian Ocean tsunami and South Asia earthquakeIn November 2007, UUSC brought members of BEDARI, a Pakistani earthquake program partner, to Aceh, Indonesia, to meet Indone-sian tsunami partners to share strat-egies and experiences on their com-mon work to help widows assert their right to their husband’s lands. UUSC disbursed the final monies from the UUSC-UUA Tsunami Re-lief fund to empower and support Burmese migrants affected by the tsunami in Thailand and women tsunami survivors organizations in eastern Sri Lanka. This grant also supports a new international women’s network of tsunami survi-vors to address common challenges of women tsunami survivors.

“UUSC keeps faith in human rights above everything else. They are politically aware people. They are not just donors. We have a friendship, a relationship, working together gives us confidence.”

– Saleem Malik, BEDARI

“We are growing stronger and stronger. UUSC put us in the public eye on the Internet, showed us how to write grants, and helped us get volunteers from Unitarian churches. They gave us a solid foundation to work from. They respected what we were doing and wanted to enhance it…They based our relationship on the needs of the people here.”

– Rev. Tyrone Edwards, Zion Travelers Cooperative Center

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Opposite page: In Myanmar’s southern delta region, devastated by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008, Ma Moe Moe Khine, 32, sells water. Widowed by the cyclone and with four children, Ma Khine began this small business with the guidance of a local UUSC partner, which supports recovery projects for widows and other vulnerable women.

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JustWorks camps are a powerful way for people of all ages and backgrounds to put their values into action. Since 1996, UUSC has operated dozens of JustWorks camps in the United States and around the world, providing hands-on learning for more than 2,000 participants. Each summer, the JustWorks Program organizes a week-long Civil Rights Journey through the south, tracing historic events from the U.S. civil rights movement.

Reflection by Camilo Mejía, chair of the board of directors of Iraq Veterans Against the War:

Day 3 of our Civil Rights Journey started at 7 a.m. in Montgomery, Ala. with a traditional southern breakfast at the Capitol Inn’s café. By 8 a.m., we were well on our way to Selma, Ala.

The 45-minute bus ride to Selma wasn’t long enough to finish the episode of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 on the battle against segregation in the lunch counters and downtown stores of Nashville, Tenn. Still, it was a great introduction to a day that would take us down the path of resistance to segregation in two historic marches: Bloody Sunday and Selma-to-Montgomery.

Sam Walker, our guide at The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, gave us a lively presentation about the main events that launched the two historic marches, the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson and the shutting down of registration centers in order to prevent African-American citizens from voting.

We learned how the two marches, initially viewed as setbacks by some, were organized and carried out. They led to two crucial victories in the movement: a federal judge’s decision to uphold the protesters’ right to march and the government’s decision to provide protection for marchers.

JustJourneys are unique educational travel experiences that focus on human-rights and social-justice issues related to UUSC’s four program focus areas. During the course of a typical seven-to-ten-day JustJourney, participants meet UUSC program partners and allies in their communities in order to learn about the struggle for human rights firsthand.

Reflection by Carol Wilsey, of Lakewood, Colo., during a June 2008 JustJourney to Mexico exploring the negative impcat of NAFTA on Mexican workers:

Lucía and I both got tears in our eyes when she told me that her son had migrated to New York with his wife and her grandchild.

Her pain of being separated from them was palpable. We were eating lunch together after meeting in Lucía’s home with a group of workers and union delegates from the maquila [or factory] where she works. (Her maquila produces t-shirts, sweatshirts, and other apparel for export.) She has a good job, with benefits, and holds a position in her union. For now, she is fairly secure, with a nice little house and stable employment; but it was not so for her son.

When I asked Lucía why her son immi-grated she said it was because there was no work for him. This is a familiar story for so many families in Mexico.

Share in the enduring hopes, struggles, and successes of human-rights defenders in the United States and around the world. Come on a JustJourney!

“So many well-qualified people are dedicating their lives to creating a more just Mexico. I am humbled because there is so much I don’t know — but also energized, recognizing that lots of work has been accomplished, and it’s my job to continue the struggle.”

— Holly Williams, of Lancaster, Penn., who participated in the

2008 JustJourney to Mexico

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JustJourneyer Susan Skaer (left) with a member of SITEMEX, one of the few truly worker-led unions in Mexico, during a May 2008 JustJourney exploring the effects of NAFTA on Mexican workers.

Standing alongside our partners, the brave women and men with whom we collaborate to confront unjust power structures, are the dedicated members and supporters of UUSC. Their efforts — your efforts — were inspired, organized, and sustained by UUSC’s newest department: Outreach and Mobilization.

UUSC is strategic in organizing advocacy actions. Sometimes, we mobilize UUSC activists to join larger movements, and at other times, UUSC takes the lead. What drives all of UUSC’s efforts is a shared commitment to raising our voice for justice and maximizing the impact of that collective voice.

Here are a few of our achievements this past year:

Through our Drumbeat for Darfur campaign, UUSC activists helped to win congressional approval of over $700 million to support the joint United Nations/African Union Darfur Peacekeeping Force (UNAMID). UUSC activists also helped win passage of the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act, which permits state and local governments to divest from companies doing business with Sudan and protects them against lawsuits. In addition, UUSC and our supporters are urging the House and Senate human rights subcommittees to provide oversight of the UNAMID mandate to protect women and girls from violence.Through our partnership with The KatrinaRitaVille Express (KRV), a national road show featuring one of FEMA’s toxic trailers, UUSC pushed for the passage of the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act. We held lobbying events in Hartford, Conn., and Birmingham, Ala., at the district offices of Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the chair and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Banking Committee, where the bill had stalled. The

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pressure culminated in Congress’s approving $146 million for housing on the Gulf Coast.

JustWorks camps are a powerful way for people of all ages and backgrounds to put their values into action. Since 1996, UUSC has operated dozens of JustWorks camps in the United States and around the world, providing hands-on learning for more than 2,000 participants. Each summer, the JustWorks Program organizes a week-long Civil Rights Journey through the south, tracing historic events from the U.S. civil rights movement.

Reflection by Camilo Mejía, chair of the board of directors of Iraq Veterans Against the War:

Day 3 of our Civil Rights Journey started at 7 a.m. in Montgomery, Ala. with a traditional southern breakfast at the Capitol Inn’s café. By 8 a.m., we were well on our way to Selma, Ala.

The 45-minute bus ride to Selma wasn’t long enough to finish the episode of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1985 on the battle against segregation in the lunch counters and downtown stores of Nashville, Tenn. Still, it was a great introduction to a day that would take us down the path of resistance to segregation in two historic marches: Bloody Sunday and Selma-to-Montgomery.

Sam Walker, our guide at The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, gave us a lively presentation about the main events that launched the two historic marches, the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson and the shutting down of registration centers in order to prevent African-American citizens from voting.

We learned how the two marches, initially viewed as setbacks by some, were organized and carried out. They led to two crucial victories in the movement: a federal judge’s decision to uphold the protesters’ right to march and the government’s decision to provide protection for marchers.

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“It became apparent to me that what Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, the Congress of Racial Equality, and others were fighting for was not just civil rights. These men and women were engaged in a struggle for human rights; They were fighting for a common dignity.”

— Giles Holt, UUSC JustWorks intern and participant in Freedom Summer:

A Civil Rights Journey 2008

“I am grateful to have had the opportunity to see the KatrinaRitaVille Express trailer with UUSC’s Outreach and Mobilization staff. Experiences like this keep the Gulf Coast disaster at the top of the mind. It’s easy to forget that even now people are still living in these FEMA trailers.”

— Carrie Wittenstein, UUSC-UUA Gulf Coast Volunteer Program alumna and member of

the Unitarian Church in Westport, Conn.

Sam Walker, of The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, in Selma, Ala., helped to bring the civil rights movement alive for Civil Rights Journeyers.

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UUSC recognizes and thanks those who donated planned gifts, unrestricted gifts, and gifts for a designated purpose during the fiscal year July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008. Honor Roll of Annual Fund Major Donors

Martha and Waitstill Sharp Society ($50,000 and over)UUSC founders Martha and Waitstill Sharp led the first Unitarian relief efforts, aimed at helping victims of persecution and genocide in WWII Europe. They later served as ambassadors extraordinary for the Unitarian Service Committee’s work in France.

Gordon and Elizabeth BawdenDoyle BortnerNancy MarshKriss Wells and Martha Easter-WellsAlan and Leanne Zeppa

Eleanor Clark French Society ($25,000 - $49,999)Eleanor Clark French was director of the Unitarian Service Committee’s post-WWII rest home at Monnetier, France, which served refugees as a place for comradeship, food, and rest to help in their recovery.

Anonymous (1)Richard and Mildred EberleHenry and Marjorie HarveyTodd and Lorella HessGilbert and Mina PerlowJames RossJohn and Aline Schwob

Rev. Carleton Fisher Society ($10,000 — $24,999)Carleton Fisher served as the first executive director of the Universalist Service Committee and supervised post-WWII relief efforts in the Netherlands. He was instrumental in coordinating early cooperation between the Universalist Service Committee and the Unitarian Service Committee.

Anonymous (3)Helen BrownThomas Crane and Susan ShawHarriet DenisonLyda Dicus and Robert HansonAnne and Julius GoldinBeth Graham and William SchulzAlan Jones and Ashley GarrettWesla KerrSy and Linda MackCathryn MannChristian PetersonLois and Robert WhealeyA. Lee and Margaret Zeigler

Dr. Ary Bordes Society ($5,000 - $9,999)For more than a decade, Ary Bordes worked with UUSC to establish progressive health care programs for the people of Haiti. His vision helped provide thousands of children with food and medical services.

Anonymous (2)Holly Bell and Matthew KaufmannSue BielawskiDerry Bortner-RyderR. Ken and Lois CarpenterThomas CleweDavid and Mary ColtonRichard and Carol FenclMaria Geigel and Stephen WeyerJames Gunning and Ellen EwingBenjamin and Ruth HammettRuth HarrisGary Hartz and Teri WissJeffery Keffer and Suzanne CostelloCurtis and Kathleen MarbleJanet Mitchell and Jerry CromwellMakanah and Robert MorrissRobert PhelpsShelley Powsner and Stephen SkrovanHomaune Razavi and Christine ShearerRobert SchuesslerSusan ShaneMary Ann StanleySarah Stevens-MilesAl and Ellen TrumplerPeter and Carolyn WoodburyElizabeth Zimmermann

Hans Deutsch Society ($1,000 - $4,999)When the Nazis invaded Paris, Austrian artist Hans Deutsch abandoned all he had there and fled to Portugal, where he was assisted by the Unitarian Service Committee’s early relief efforts. He later became an agent of the USC and designed its logo, the flaming chalice.

Anonymous (5)S. James and Mary AdelsteinPeter Aitken and Maxine OkazakiNicholas and Jeanne AldrichLinda AllenSuzanne and Roger AmesNancy AndersonPaul and Joan ArmstrongHoward and Susannah ArnouldGordon AsselstineJonathan and Deanne AterReed AuerbachGale Zander BarlowJudith BarnetKaren Bartley and Nicole BerreyGeorge BauerJohn and Astrid BaumgardnerBeverley Baxter

Diana BennettSally Benson and Stephen NicholsReuben BerganRalph and Gretchen BerggrenChristine Bishop and Paul ArkemaJanet BlanchfeldTom BliffertBeverly BlumFrank BlumenthalStephen Boelter and Karen CombsGay BoylstonBonnie BraeBruce and Junelle BrandtDaniel and Julia BrodyPaul and Carol BrodyRichard Brown and Linda Jean BonkRobert BrownR. Rae BuckleyWayne and Cynthia BullaugheyMichael BurkholderJohn and Irene BushLeonard CampbellRozlind CarrollLarry and Christine CarsmanElaine and Steve CastlesRobert and Phyllis ClementCharles Clements and Gigi WizowatyMayre Lee and Kelly CliftonSherry ClineStanley and Kim CorfmanLisa CottrellGeorge CowgillClarice CoxFred CoxJoan CummiskeyLinda CunninghamGeorge Dale and Stefanie Etzbach-BaceHarriet DannMartha DavisWayne and Barbara DerrickJulian and Alice DewellErnest DieterichWilliam and Jean DillDavid and Robin DitzlerKeith and Anne DixonDoyle DobbinsJohn and Sheryl DowningAlvin and Eileen DrutzErica Eddy and Stuart HansenLeroy and Patricia EgenbergerDonna EkstrandJane Engle SmithDuane and Marjorie ErwayDavid Fenner and Pauline LeukhardtBruce Field and Lucia Santini-FieldW. Burns and Ellen FisherJohn FlanaganA. Irving and Margery ForbesFrederick and Bonnie ForteKathy FosnaughHarrison and Anne FrahnJason FrankelStephanie Garber and David CollinsPaula GerdenJohn Gibbons and Sue BaldaufJohn and Margaret GibsonKathleen GilmoreBill and Irmgard GimbyDavid and Irma GoldknopfLaura GoodDebra Lopez GottesmanMelissa Graf-Evans and Jonathan EvansFrederick Grafton

Frances GrahamShoshanna GreenAllen GreenleafGay Ann GustafsonW. Mark and Marian GutowskiRichard and Denise HaightKatherine HallKaren HamalainenSylvia HamptonMargaret HargroveWilliam and Connie HarperRichard and Catharine HarrisThomas HartlJoan HayJosefine Heim-HallJean Helz and Wayne ZimmermannWarner and Barbara HendersonLawrence and Suzanne HessHerbert Hethcote and Leslie MarshallJohn HickeyWilliam and Beth HilligWilliam and Deborah HoldenMary-Ella Holst and Guy QuinlanBill and Diantha HortonLouise HuddlestonBarclay and Kerstin HudsonDaniel and Kathleen HuxleyDr. Beal B. HydeMary Ruth IdsoAddison and Deborah IgleheartWayne Itano and Christine Yoshinaga-ItanoJohn and M. Barbara JacksonLaura JacksonVernon and Dorrit JacobJanice Jacobson-CooperLyssa Jenkens and Patricia HouckCharlotte Jones-CarrollRobert JonesRoger and Gloria JonesTodd and Allison JonesJohn and Katherine KaufmannDavid and Joanne KelleherDouglas and Carol KerrJames Kitendaugh and Lynne CavanaughGordon KlauberJudith Kleen and Robert MillsFiona KnoxA. Lawrence and Ruth KolbeGeorge and Edwynne KrummeLarry La Bonte and Kathryn ShawGisela Lachnitt and Uwe GreifeJeff and Sonya LamiareTony LarsenE. C. Louise LarsonBrock and Julie LeachPhilip and Elsa LichtenbergJohn and Janice LimbHarold and Kyong LischnerRuth LittleIngeborg LockSharon and Neal LockwoodJohn LongAdelma LoPrestDavid LysyDusan and Janet LysyFrank and June MacArtorHunter MacWilliams and Diane BaillieNicholas and Mona MagnisHarold and Caroline MaldeSusan Mann and G. William SkinnerBennet and Anne ManvelA. William and Margaret MarchRichard Mark and Ellis Robinson

Thomas and Eva MarxHugh MathesonKeith and Joan MathewsCarol and John MathisDorothy McConnellMartha and Michael McCoyPatrick McDermottDonald McLarenDouglas and Susan McLeodTeresa McShaneWalter Roy and Ellen MellenJames Michaud and Barbara Shane-MichaudDiane MillerPaul and Laura MilneJames and Melanie MilnerV.J. and Shantha MohanRobert and Donna MohrRonald and Barbara MolineCraig and Madelyn MooreGay and Betty MorrowSara MoserH. Joseph and Ann MyersLaura and Harry NagelFranklin and D. Joan NeffLinda and Andrew NeherLouise NobleNancy and Leonard NowakFelicia OldfatherPhyllis OlinAnita OrlikoffFranklin and Priscilla OsgoodWilliam OthersenJohn and Susan OwickiEmily PalmerRichard and Marjorie ParkElsie PaullEleanor PelcygerPhyllis PennellJon PetersonXavier and Penelope Pi-SunyerEric and Jacqueline PierceWilliam and Mary PiezStephen PolmarPaul PopenoeSally PopperRichard and Laura PrattSonya Prestridge and Arvid StraubeJune PulciniGeraldine QuinlanCaroline RaynerDoris ReedMary RichardsSharon RichardsWarren Riley and Margery AbelMark and Cynthia RobinsonTom Rocklin and Kimberly EphgravePeter and Sally RosenbergJacqueline Russell and Jane MillerJohn and Maggie RussellBetty SandersFannette SawyerHugh and Georgia SchallJohn and Patricia SeubertMarilyn SewellRobert Lee and Regina ShirleyMichael ShonseyBarbara Simonetti and Charles SandmelElizabeth Simpson and John WurrLisa SinclairAubrey and Billye SmithKathryn Smith and FamilyMrs. Livingston SmithMary Sorensen

Don and Kathleen SouthworthWilliam Spears and Robin MacIlroyCharles Spence and Burt PeachyAnne St. GoarJimmy StanleyMartha SteeleJeffrey StockerRobert and Ruth StrausHugo and Barbara SwanCharles SzaboAlan Taylor and Angelica Taylor-CortesDiane Teichert and Donald MiltonRaymond ThomasErling ThoresenAubrey TobeyHoward and Nina TolleyThomas Townsend and Dorothy WavrekWayne and Lynn TrenbeathAlice Trexler and Downing ClessJohn and Helen TryonGail and Richard UllmanPatricia Vanderlaan-Post and Martin

VanderlaanGerry VeederChrissie VidasSuzanne ViemeisterKenneth and Jerusha VogelBeverly VolicerMoritz WagnerBrooke Walker and Forrest ConrathRichard and Barbara WeissTrudy and Bob WendtRalph Whaley and Carole WomeldorfAndrew and Janet WilsonOliver and Helen WolcottMargaret WoodwardRobert and Carol WoolfsonRobert and Lynn YoungMargaret and Martin Zonligt

Compass Club ($500 to $999)

Anonymous (14)Roxie A’UnoAvis AdeeEric and Nancy AlmquistHerbert Altholz and Emalee AndreMr. and Mrs. Bruce AmbuelGodfrey and Janet AmphlettWilliam AndersonWalter and Melinda AndrewsEllen and Jeffrey AngleyDaniel and Harriet AtenJames Auler and Paula MurphySusan Avery and Joseph HolmesPhillip and Ruth BackupJohn and Audrey BallNorman and Jane BannorJohn Barga and Susan O’DellKaren Barlow and David ReeseJune BarrettGordon and Janet BartelsNancy Bartlett and John HammondDouglas Becknell and Carol FitzgeraldFrederick and Mary BellamyAlan BenfordM. Bruce BerberichJoan BernaGeorgia BertcherLizabeth Anne Bitner and Gregg Brown

Anne BlackBrenda Blair and Larry YarakBenton BleeMr. and Mrs. Peter BlickensderferDonald and Patricia BloughDavid and Debra BogashSteven and Mary BoltonMichael BostonStephen BoydDavid and Eva BradfordEllis Bradford and Clara GolaySteven BrecklerEmil Britt and Bobbi BermanEric Broadbent and Susan MacraeDavid and Linda BrownDeborah BrownJeffrey and Jane BruneMr. and Mrs. Thomas BrunnerJohn BuehrensWilliam and Jean BullivantJennifer BungerPhilip and Micheline BurgerJames and Dorothy CaldieroErnest and Marion CarlsonVictor and Catherine CarpenterGeorge and Fanny CarrollRichard and Phyllis CasselKatherine CaveHelen ChapellJoanne ChaseJanet ChildsStanley and Elin ChristiansonRobert and Suzannah CierniaRuth ClarkPattie Jean CluckRenee CoatesGail CobeRoger ColeLaurel Garcia Colvin and Helio Fred GarciaWilliam and Katherine ConnorAnne Copeland and James WomackRichard and Laurel CorelleDeane and David CorlissJames CrawfordGrace CreceliusKevin and Barbara CrottyThomas CrowellJohn and Jo CunninghamMr. and Mrs. David CurlMargaret Curry and Julie GillMary Rose CurtisRussell Curtis and Joanne GianninoCynthia DavidsonKaren DaviesTheadora Davitt-CornynRaymond I. Dawson, Jr.Steven and Donna DeaconStanley and June DeanFranklin and Suzanne deBeersNancy DelandSusan DelaneyPeter and Shirley DenisonKurt and Diana DeWeesePamela DiLavoreRichard and Joanne DirienzoJanet DixonJames and Jean DoanePeter and Marian DownsJean DunlapGregory and Lynn EastwoodCharles Eby and Lisa RossPatricia EckelsJosephine Elosua

Barbara ElrodMargaret and Carl EngelhartRichard and Martha EnglandClaire Ernhart and Edward PsottaCarol EvansMark and Deborah FerrenzTheodore and Jane FetterGary FirldmanHilarey FindeisenRuth FleckPaul FletcherJane and Walter FoggKristen FowksJoanne FraserLuanne Frey and Mark LukowRichard and Diane FreyRichard FriedbergElizabeth FullerMargaret FullerJames GageMartin and Janneane GentOscar and Dell GersterRonald and Ann GilbertJohn Glasson and Victoria SmithKenneth Goggins and L. Gerald ParchmanCarol GoldsteinNeil Goldstein and Jean WallaceFranklin and Mary GouldMichael Grady and Ellen GrimmMadeleine GrantWalter and Patricia GrayGeorgina GregoryMary GrigsbyPatricia HaffJohn Hain and Jennifer AllenRichard HaleCharles and Ann HalstedSally and Aaron HamburgerAnne HardingRobert HardingKenneth and Jan HarperBert and Val HarropJames and June HartRobert and Lisa HartmanPeter Hartzell and Elizabeth HarrisonWilliam and Kimberly HayesJames and Anne HaysThomas Healy and Erin ColcannonCarrie HedgesLinda HeffnerCynthia HeinickeHelen HelsonOrrin HelstadKurt HemrThomas and Elizabeth HendersonKirsten HenricksonPeter and Mary HepokoskiCynthia Hiatt and R. Thompson ArrisonChip and Susie HiderJennie Hobson and Frederick CrimiG. June HochDavid HoffmanDonna Hoffman and Richard DumEileen Hoffman and David MunroPatricia HokDouglas and Barbara HoldridgeLu HornerTerence and Margaret HoskenWilliam and Patricia HouffCeleste HowardJane HowardJohn and Elizabeth HowellHal and Maureen Hoyt

David and Katharine HudsonRobert and Tracey HughesThomas and Mary Alice HungerfordJames HuntDavid Hunter and Kirsten MuellerJonathan and Elizabeth HutchinsonHeather Hyde and Bruce StowellKarl and Beth IrikuraEric Jacobs and Jean ShapiroGertrude JacobyEdward and Myrna JenkinsStephen and Kathy Jens-RochowRalph and Patricia JohnsMark JohnsonRobert Johnson and Priscilla RaughleyTimothy Johnson and Jo Wiese JohnsonDouglas and Meg JonesMary Jones and S. Kingsley MacomberDan JoslynMary Anne Joyce and Catha LoomisRichard and Jocelynn KaiserRuth Kandel and Kevan HartshornRichard KarkTrudy Karlson and David WeberRomeo KassarjianMary KeaneRobert and Irene KeimDavid Keller and Julie MeyersHolly KerrScott and Heather KleinerRichard and Barbara KohlhaasAndrew and Nancy KosseffHarm and Marian KraaiRamanujachary Kumanduri and Cristina

RomeroGeorge and Sandra KunkleEmily KunreutherJohn LampertiJames and Mary LandfriedFrederick and Constance LandmannDaniel LarsenPatricia LeeRichard and Patricia LeggatDavid and Mary LeonardCatherine LessThomas and Janet LeverseeMr. and Mrs. David LewisJames and Paula LiebJudith LittRichard LoescherJeffrey and Wendy LottFrancis and Victoria LowellPhilip and Madeleine LowryElwyn LudingtonLorraine LymanElizabeth MacGowanRobert and Ann MacPhersonJennifer and John MagruderMarjorie MainJohn MaiselMichael Majewski and Anita FeldmanKatherine Manker and Bruce GardnerRollo MarchantElliot and Jean MarvellOwen Masters and Jocelyn ButlerSusan Mathews and Christopher GilkersonVirginia McAninchHenry and Yvelyne McCarthyDebra and Richard McChaneWilliam and Mary McFeelyPatrick McGuireElinor McKayCatherine McKegney

Dolores McKellarR. Michael McKinlayRaymond and Nancy McKinleyHugh and Alice McLellanMichael and Kok-Heong McNaughtonMark and Jean McPeakKathryn MedinaBarbara MeislinCathy and Ron MenendezMarvin MercerAxel and Cecile MeyerKeith and Patricia MielkePatricia and Merrill MillerSarah and John MillspaughJonathan MollerChristine MossUta Mueller TsaiRonald and Sarah MunsonW. Michael NailorJerry and Janis NeffJill NicholsEric and Elizabeth NordgrenJoseph L. NortonJanet Nussmann and Robert CaryKevin O’NeillWilliam and Marian O’ReganMary Ann OakleyKristin OckershauserMart and Karen OjamaaCraig Oliner and Alyson OwenCarol Orme-JohnsonG. Timothy and Francene OrrokPhilip Osborn and Suzanne Rich-OsbornMeda Lou PaddenEmily PardeeKathleen Paulson and Jeffrey HeathLaurence Paxson EggersRobert and Karen PeakeEleanor PeckhamRosetta PervanBarbara Pescan and Ann TyndallCarl and Susan PetersonJean PetersonLois Pettinger and Dianne EricksonJanet PfefferPatricia PickfordMel and Carol PineDiane PinkhamPatricia PogueAndrew Prokop and Linda WinsorStephen and Mary PuckettBalaram Puligandla and Linda OkaharaLurma RackleyBeth RagerHenry Raichle and Virginia CarverPaul RandelHenry and Susan RauchDon and Shirley RawsonMark and Kimberly RayRoger and Carol ReimersJohn and Elizabeth RichardsAlbert and Peggy RichardsonLori and Bob RittleMichelina RizzoChristine Robinson and William BakerG. Jane RockDavid and Rachel RockafellowElspeth RootBruce and Carol RossArlin and Sarita RoyNancy RussellJohn and Millicent RutherfordPhilip and Alice Saunders

Peter and Marjorie SchellenbergNancy SchrollRuth SchwebkeAlfred SchwendtnerRobert and Elizabeth ScottPerry and Dianne SeiffertLouis and Barbara SemrauJ. Laverne SensibaJohn and Elinor SeveringhausCharles and S. Jeanne ShawBruce SherwoodSandy SigalRobert and Shelley SitzmanVioleta SmadbeckKathleen Smith-DiJulio and Donald DiJulioKathryn SmithNancy SmithLisa SnellingsLenore SnodeyJune SnodgrassLaurel SpriggAlex and Mary SproulRuth SproullRobert and K. Ann StebbinsDouglas StewartLinda StollerJames SturmDavid Suehsdorf and Janet MuirKathryn Sullivan and Chad HassonWoodruff and Jennifer SuttonEdith SwallowDorothy SwerdloveErik and Kerriann TavzelLeonard and Martha TaylorGordon and Amy TeelJohn ThomasWilliam Thomas and Helen Burke ThomasMichael and Kelly ThomeBetty ThompsonAnn ThroopFrances TibbitsJonathan and Cathi TiedemanCharlotte TompkinsPeter and Nancy TorpeyMay TownRobert and Alice Jane TownsendJerry Trammell and Katherine HoffmanJonathan and Linda TuckLindsey Tweed and Claudia KingNancy and Rick Van DykeAlice Van WormerFrancesca VollaroRobert and Karin WamstadJoel and Linda WatsonThomas and JoAnne WayMichael Weeda and Joanne MichalskiElizabeth WeinstockSandra WelshSteve and Deborah WentworthSarah WestFarley and Virginia WheelwrightCynthia White-Johnson and John JohnsonDale and Corinna Whiteaker-LewisHenry O. WhitesideEdward WightCatherine WilliamsJay and Karen WilliamsAlexander and Edith WilsonRobert WinsorStanley and Susan WintersAnne WolfgangRobert and Betsy WonesJohn and Geraldine Wood

Jordan Wood and David LeppikJerry and Nancy WorshamNigel WrightPeter and Katherine WyckoffWilliam and Barbara WymerFrank Wyse and Barbara TrojanMary and Robert ZimmerSara ZimmermanGregory Zupan

Estate donors

UUSC honors individuals whose realized estate bequests exceeded $25,000 or more this fiscal year.

May L. BrookBetty J. BrothersMark Eisner, Jr.Frances FucileEdna J. Hilberg Gilbert and Mina Perlow

Foundations

The following foundations made grants to UUSC of $1,000 or more during this fiscal year.

ALMI Foundation, Inc.The Boston FoundationHolthues TrustJoukowsky Family FoundationThe Lucius N. Littauer FoundationNamaste FoundationPeace Development FundSacajawea FoundationThe Sister Fund

These lists cover the period July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008. The compilers have carefully reviewed the names that are included. However, errors and omissions may have occurred. If your name or institution has been omitted, misspelled, or listed incorrectly, please accept our apologies and bring the mistake to our attention. Contact Institutional Advancement Annual Report Listings, UUSC, 689 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139-3302, e-mail development@uusc.org, or call 800-766-5236.

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Anonymous (1)Lois AbbottPeter and Susan AldenGordon AsselstineDr. John BaileyRachael BalyeatBeverley BaxterGeorge and Peggy BellI. Inka BentonLaurel BlossomMichael BoblettAnn BoothDoyle BortnerPaul and Irma BraunsteinHelen BrownFrances and Laurence BrundallEvelyn ChidesterElizabeth Clark

Deirdre Cochran and Daniel Couch

Bruce CornishMildred CourtleyJoan Cudhea and Tomas FirleCarol DavisL. Patton DavisTheadora Davitt-CornynFrances DewJulian and Alice DewellLyda Dicus and Robert HansonRuth DonnellCarol DonovanImogene DraperMary Ann ElyClaire Ernhart and Edward

PsottaMartha and John Ferger

Elizabeth FordAnne ForsythRichard and Hillary FuhrmanCarrie Gillespie and Krishna

KaushikAnne and Julius GoldinLaura GoodMichael GoodmanSara GrindlayJames Gunning and Ellen EwingJohn and Eileen HamlinJoseph and Yvonne

HammerquistHenry and Marjorie HarveyWilliam and Jean HellmuthWarner and Barbara HendersonMary-Ella Holst and Guy QuinlanHanna Hopp

Lu HornerMartha JewettEllen and Barry Johnson-FayAlex KarterWesla KerrPeter LandeckerCorinne LeBovitJack LepoffDiana Ruth LevitanJustin and Phyllis LewisSharon and Neal LockwoodAimee LykesMs. Mitchell LymanEleanor MayCatherine McConkieGordon and Phyllis McKeemanHugh and Alice McLellanBarbara McMahon and Eric

Spelman

Audrey and Donald MicklewrightRee and Maurice MillerMalcolm MitchellVirginia MooreLeigh and Thomas MundhenkRobert and Elsa NewVivian NossiterMary Ann OakleyRene OehlerVernon OlsonG. Timothy and Francene OrrokEmily PalmerCharlotte PalmerBrydie and Erdman PalmoreJanice ParkDorothy and Tracy PattersonLaurence Paxson EggersEdgar and Phyllis Peara

Diana PetersWilliam PrattWilliam and Lillis RaboinVerna RenfroLee and Judith ReynardDavid RileyMary Rose and Leonard

PellettieriJean RoxburghDavid RubinHilda RushJohn and Maggie RussellJohn and Millicent RutherfordBetty SandersJ. David and Fia ScheyerRobert SchuesslerDick and Jill ScobieNeil and Lillie Shadle

Sulochana ShermanJoan ShkolnikPaul Siegler and Ruth BoomanElizabeth Simpson and John

WurrClarence Lee SmallSherry and Thornton SmithLenore SnodeyGloria SnyderCharles S. Spence and Burt

PeachyRobert and Marion StearnsJames and Mary StephensonJoseph SternJack and Nancy StiefelJoan StockfordSally and Robert StoddardJames and Matilde Taguchi

William Thomas and Helen Burke Thomas

Fred TopikElsie TrachselHelen TrueJohn and Helen TryonArthur and Arliss UngarMary VedderAlice WallaceLeslie Ann WeinbergErnest WellerKriss Wells and Martha Easter-

WellsHerbert and Myrna WestLois and Robert WhealeyRobert and Susan WhitneyMargaret WoodwardElizabeth Zimmermann

Margot Adler *Joan Armstrong Davis *Howard Arnould *Susannah Arnould *George August *Beverly August *William BakerNancy BartlettBeverley BaxterLarry BeckSarah Benson *Thomas Bliffert *Jean BliffertHelen Brown *Clayton BrownRichard BrownJames Caldiero *

Dorothy Caldiero *Barbara CheathamRichard CheathamDaniel CheeverDavalene Cooper *Fred Cox *Kim Crawford Harvie *Theadora Davitt-CornynSuzanne deBeers *Franklin deBeersJulian DewellAlice DewellDanielle DiBonaDavid DierdorffSayre DixonFranklin EvansEllen Ewing

Richard Fuhrman *Hillary FuhrmanAnnella Furtick *William FurtickIrmgard Gimby *William GimbyJames Gunning *Aaron Hamburger *Sarah Hamburger *John HammondRobert HardiesJohn HickeyBruce HockadayWilliam HoldenDeborah HoldenMary-Ella HolstCharles Hopper *

Dorothy HopperWilliam HortonDiantha HortonEllen Johnson-FayBarry Johnson-FaySarah Karstaedt *Fiona KnoxJ. Douglas KnoxMadeleine Lefebvre *Kenneth MacLeanLinda Marquardt *Daniel Marquardt *James McCorkel *Peter MoralesPhyllis MoralesKem MoreheadJanet Muir

Stephen Murphy *Stephen NicholsCheryl Nikonovich-KahnRichard Nikonovich-KahnWinifred Norman *Mary Ann OakleyKristin OckershauserGloria OhanianAbe OhanianCarolyn Owen-TowleThomas Owen-TowleEmily Pardee *Dorothy PattersonTracy PattersonLaurence Paxson Eggers *Laura Pedersen *Margaret Pipes

Ernest PipesJune Pulcini *Guy QuinlanCharles Reed *Charles ReedRoberta ReedThomas RhodesLettice RhodesChristine RobinsonLucile RossWarren RossWarren SalingerMartha SalingerRichard Scobie *Jill ScobieMarilyn Sewell *Neil Shadle

Lillie ShadleLawrence Shafer *Alice ShaferTheodore ShapinRuth ShapinDonald SouthworthKathleen SouthworthBetty StaplefordThomas StaplefordDavid SuehsdorfCatherine Taylor *Betty ThompsonChester ThompsonAlfred TrumplerEllen TrumplerNancy Van Dyke *Reinhardt Van Dyke

P.D. WadlerRichard Weiss *Barbara Weiss *Lois Whealey *Robert WhealeyThomas WintleColin WoodhouseLatifa WoodhouseElizabeth Zimmermann *

* Honorary Ambassador

Thomas H. AndrewsStanley L. CorfmanJohn GibbonsKatherine C. HallBarclay HudsonTodd JonesCharlotte Jones-CarrollDavid LysyDiane MillerCarolyn PurcellLurma Rackley

Rev. Dr. William SchulzSusan ScrimshawCharles C. SpenceFasaha Traylor

Nancy AndersonGeorge and Beverly AugustGordon and Elizabeth BawdenBevery Baxter and Doyle

DobbinsHolly Bell and Matthew

KaufmannSue BielawskiDoyle BortnerDerry Bortner-RyderD. Clark BoykinHelen BrownBooker and Janet BushR. Ken and Lois Carpenter

Rozlind CarrollDavid and Mary ColtonThomas Crane and Susan

ShawHarriet DenisonLyda Dicus and Robert HansonRichard and Carol FenclMaria Geigel and Stephen

WeyerAnne and Julius Goldin Beth Graham and William

SchulzJames Gunning and Ellen EwingBenjamin and Ruth Hammett

Henry and Marjorie HarveyDaniel Hausman and Catherine

KautskyTodd and Lorella HessAlan Jones and Ashley GarrettJeffery Keffer and Suzanne

CostelloWesla KerrGeorge and Betsey KrusenSy and Linda MackCurtis and Kathleen MarbleNancy MarshJanet Mitchell and Jerry

Cromwell

Makanah and Robert MorrissPaticia and Frank OsgoodChristian PetersonRobert PhelpsStephen and Carolyn PurcellHomaune Razavi and Christine

ShearerRobert SchuesslerJohn and Aline SchwobSusan ShaneTheodore and Ruth ShapinSarah Stevens-MilesRev. Karen StoyanoffHugo and Barbara Swan

Al and Ellen TrumplerMark and Anne VeldmanKriss Wells and Martha Easter-

WellsLois and Robert WhealeyPeter and Carolyn WoodburyA. Lee and Margaret ZeiglerAlan and Leanne ZeppaElizabeth Zimmermann

Flaming Chalice Circle

Ambassadors Council

Trustee Annual Fund Partners Council

The Flaming Chalice Circle recognizes supporters who have included UUSC in their estate plans or have made a planned gift to UUSC.

Ambassadors Council members assist UUSC staff and board with their leadership, advancing UUSC’s resource development and promoting its broader efforts.

The members of the UUSC’s Board of Trustees take seriously their fiduciary responsibility, showing their support for our work not only in the board room, but also financially, with 100 percent participation.

More than 50 individual donors participated in the inaugural year of UUSC’s Partners Council. Their cumulative support totaled more than $800,000.

Honor Roll of Annual Fund Major Donors continued

“Most people want to do something good, to give back.

Through UUSC, each individual’s giving is spread by a network

of helping hands in partnerships around the world. One of the

most rewarding things about contributing to the Trustee Annual

Fund at UUSC is the knowledge that the donation is magnified

through many organizations that UUSC supports.”

– Lurma Rackley, UUSC Trustee

Named endowment fundsUUSC has a growing number of named endowment funds established by individual donors, often to honor the memory of a friend or family member, or to commemorate a special occasion. The income from these funds provides an important source of revenue for UUSC, both for its larger mission and specific programs, as designated by donors.

Mary Frances Aldrich Endowment Fund

Arlene A. Bartlow Endowment Fund

Beverley V. Baxter Endowment Fund

Rev. Shannon Bernard Memorial Fund

Arnold and Julia Bradburd Endowment Fund

Mildred K. Bickel Endowment Fund

Domitila Barrios de Chungara Endowment Fund

Doyle and Alba Bortner Endowment Fund

Martha Sharp Cogan Children’s Endowment Fund

Warren H. Cudworth Endowment Fund

Rev. John W. Cyrus Endowment Fund

William Emerson Endowment Fund

Anne Sharples Frantz Endowment Fund

Eleanor Clark French Library Endowment Fund

Robert Goodman Endowment Fund

Johanna Henn Endowment Fund

Mary-Ella Holst and Guy C. Quinlan Endowment Fund

Hu Endowment Fund

Dorothy Baker Johnson Endowment Fund

Mary Kornblau Endowment Fund

Rev. Donald W. McKinney Endowment Fund

Alexander McNeil Endowment Fund

Katharine L. Morningstar Endowment Fund

William U. Niss Endowment Fund

Rev. Carolyn Owen-Towle Endowment Fund

Dorothy Smith Patterson Endowment Fund

Dr. Richard S. Scobie Endowment Fund

Waitstill H. Sharp Endowment Fund

Mary Trumpler Endowment Fund

Howard G. Tucher Endowment Fund

Rev. Charles Vickery Endowment Fund

50th Anniversary Program Endowment Fund

60th Anniversary Program Endowment Fund

Photo: Caroline Joe/CARE

Social Justice Activist AwardsUUSC honors community organizers and leaders each year with its top three awards for outstanding activism.

Social Action Leadership AwardRob Robinson Jefferson Unitarian Church, Golden, Colo.

Mary-Ella Holst Youth Activist AwardRaziq George Brown First Jefferson UU Church, Fort Worth, Tex.

Seminarian Award for Excellence in Social JusticeSeanan Holland Great Lakes Military Ministry Project

Outstanding Local RepresentativesEach year, UUSC honors local volunteers who have shined in their work to promote UUSC and connect its mission to UU values and principles.

Nancy Doyle Murray UU Church, Attleboro, Mass. Judy Ottman White Bear UU Church, Mahtomedi, Minn.

Bobby Robinson First Parish, Wayland, Mass.

Patricia Wellington and Rosemary Hagen UU Congregation, Venice, Fla.

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These awards recognize congregations whose members support human rights and social justice through exemplary levels of UUSC membership.

Spirit of Justice Banner SocietiesHonors congregations in which 100 percent of congregants are UUSC members.

FloridaCocoa

UU Congregation of CocoaVero Beach

UU Fellowship of Vero Beach Inc.Hawaii

Kea’auUU Fellowship of Puna

MarylandGreat Mills

UU Fellowship of Southern Maryland

Beacon of Justice Banner SocietiesHonors congregations in which 75 to 99 percent of congregants are UUSC members.

AlaskaSeward

ArkansasJonesboro

CaliforniaRedondo Beach Whittier

FloridaNorth Palm Beach Port Charlotte

New JerseyNewton

New YorkMuttontown

OregonWest Linn

PennsylvaniaAthens

TexasBrownsvilleNew BraunfelsSan Marcos

WashingtonEllensburgFriday Harbor

WisconsinMilwaukee

Unitarian Fellowship of Milwaukee

FRANCE (Paris)UU Fellowship of Paris

Vision of Justice Banner SocietiesHonors congregations in which 50 to 74 percent of congregants are UUSC members.

AlaskaJuneau

ArizonaSierra Vista Tucson

UU Congregation of NW TucsonArkansas

Hot Springs Village

CaliforniaAuburnBerkeleyFullertonGrass ValleySan RafaelVisalia

ColoradoGreeley

ConnecticutBrooklynMeridenNorwichStorrs

FloridaBrooksvilleLakeland

IllinoisDeKalb

Indiana Columbus

MassachusettsBridgewaterMedfieldPlymouthWeymouth

MissouriRolla

New JerseyParamus

New MexicoLos Alamos

New YorkHamburg

North CarolinaFranklin

OhioAthensBellaire

OklahomaTulsa

Church of Restoration UUOregon

Astoria

PennsylvaniaStroudsburgWest Chester

TexasAbileneAustin

UU Fellowship of AustinLufkin

VirginiaBlacksburg

WashingtonHoquiam

WisconsinWoodruff

Creating Justice Banner SocietiesHonors congregations in which 25 to 49 percent of congregants are UUSC members.

AlabamaAuburnFairhope

AlaskaAnchorageFairbanks

ArizonaChandlerGlendaleGreen ValleyPrescott

Prescott UU FellowshipGranite Peak UU Congregation

SurpriseYuma

ArkansasEureka Springs Fayetteville

CaliforniaAnaheimAptosBakersfieldBaysideCanoga ParkCarmelChicoCosta MesaFremontGrass ValleyHaywardLa CrescentaLaguna BeachLivermoreLos AngelesLos GatosNapaNorth HillsNewhallPalo AltoPasadena

Throop UU ChurchPetalumaRancho MirageRancho Palos Verdes

SacramentoUU Community Church

San FranciscoSan JacintoSan Luis ObispoSan MateoStudio CitySunnyvaleVenturaVistaWalnut Creek

ColoradoBoulder

UU Church of BoulderColorado Springs

All Souls UU ChurchDenver

First Unitarian SocietyLafayetteLovelandPueblo

ConnecticutDanburyMadisonManchesterNew HavenNew LondonStamfordWestport

DelawareWilmington

FloridaBradentonDelandGainesvilleLecantoMiamiJacksonville

Buckman Bridge UU SocietyPensacolaPlantationRockledgeSarasotaTampaTarpon SpringsVeniceWest Melbourne

GeorgiaAtlanta

First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta

BrunswickUU of Coastal Georgia

MariettaEmerson UU Congregation

Sandy SpringsStatesboroValdosta

HawaiiHonolulu

IdahoBoiseCoeur D’ AlenePocatelloKimberly

IllinoisAltonCarbondaleDeerfieldPalatineSpringfieldSycamore

IndianaDanvilleEvansvilleHobart

IowaCedar FallsCedar RapidsClintonDavenportIowa CityMason City

KentuckyBowling GreenLouisville

Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church

MaineBangorBrunswickCastineDexterKennebunkNorwayPortland

The First Parish in PortlandWaterville

MarylandCamp SpringsChurchvilleColumbiaCumberlandHagerstownLutherville

MassachusettsAndoverAtholAttleboroBillericaDanversDuxburyEasthamGardnerGrotonHingham

First Parish in Hingham Old Ship Church

Second Parish UU in Hingham HudsonKingstonLittletonMelroseMiddleboroNewtonNorth AndoverNorth EastonNorwell

First Parish Church

PetershamPittsfieldQuincyRockportSherbornStowSudburySwampscottWatertownWest RoxburyWestwood

MichiganAnn Arbor

First UU CongregationBrightonDetroitFarmington HillsHoughtonMarquetteMount PleasantMuskegonPortageRochesterTroy

MinnesotaBloomingtonBrainerdFridleyHanskaMahtomediWayzata

MissouriEllisvilleJefferson City

MontanaKalispellMissoula

NevadaReno

New HampshireAndoverDurhamKeeneManchesterMilfordPeterboroughTamworth

New JerseyAbseconBranchburgMontclairMorristownOrangePlainfieldRidgewood

New MexicoAlbuquerque

Albuquerque UU FellowshipFirst Unitarian Church

Las CrucesRio RanchoSilver City

New YorkAlbany

Big FlatsBridgehamptonCanandaiguaCentral SquareFlushingFredoniaHastings-on-HudsonJamesportJamestownKingstonManhassetMohegan LakeOneontaQueensburySyracuse

May Memorial UU SocietyWilliamsville

North CarolinaBlack MountainBrevardHillsboroughMorehead City

North DakotaBismarckFargo

OhioBereaCincinnati

First Unitarian ChurchDaytonDelawareFairlawnFindlayLewis CenterNew MadisonOberlinToledoWarrenWooster

OklahomaLawton

OregonAshlandBendFlorenceNorth BendPortland

First Unitarian ChurchWy’east UU Congregation

Roseburg

PennsylvaniaBeach LakeBethlehemCollegevilleDevonErieIndianaPhiladelphia

UU Church of the RestorationPittsburgh

Allegheny UU ChurchUU Church of the South Hills

SmithtonState College

Rhode IslandProvidence

Church of the MediatorSouth Carolina

Port RoyalBluffton

TennesseeCookevilleMemphis

Peter Cooper UU FellowshipNashville

Greater Nashville UU Congregation

TexasAmarilloDentonHouston

Unitarian Fellowship of HoustonKerrville

UU Church of the Hill CountryLongviewMidlandSan Antonio

Community UU ChurchTylerVictoriaWaco

VermontBenningtonBrattleboroChesterMiddleburyNorwichRutlandSouth StraffordSpringfield

Virgin IslandsFrederiksted

VirginiaGlen AllenHarrisonburgLynchburgWilliamsburg

WashingtonBellinghamBlaineKirklandMarysvilleRichlandTacomaVashonWoodinville

West VirginiaBeckley

WisconsinAppletonEau ClaireKenoshaMadison

Prairie UU SocietyMarshfieldRice LakeRipon

Membership Awards

Honor Congregations of 2008

These awards recognize congregations who demonstrate their strong commitment to justice and human rights through institutional giving.

Helen Fogg Chalice Society Honors congregations for their generous line-item contribution of a gift from their annual budget of at least $25 per church member.

MarylandGreat Mills

MassachussetsBerlinEasthamWestwood

New YorkManhasset

James Luther Adams AwardHonors congregations for their generous line-item contribution of a gift from their annual budget of at least $1 per church member.

ArizonaPrescott

Granite Peak UU CongregationSurprise

ArkansasFayettevilleHot Springs Village

CaliforniaEscondido

FresnoFullertonModestoMontclairPalo AltoRedondo BeachSan FranciscoSan JacintoSan Luis ObispoSan MateoStudio CityVentura

ColoradoGoldenGrand JunctionLovelandPagosa Springs

ConnecticutHamdenHartfordWestport

FloridaBoca RatonClearwaterGainesvilleNaplesPlantationSarasotaTampaVero Beach

IllinoisAltonPalatine

IowaDavenportDes Moines

KansasLawrence Manhattan

KentuckyBowling Green Louisville

Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church

MaineCastine

MarylandBethesda

River Road UU CongregationCedar Lane UU Church

Camp SpringsCumberland

MassachusettsAmherstBelmontBoston

Community Church of BostonDuxburyFraminghamHarvardHingham

Old Ship Church First Parish in Hingham

KingstonLittletonNeedhamNorwell

First Parish ChurchReadingSterlingWatertownWaylandWellesley HillsWeston

MichiganAnn Arbor

Ann Arbor Unitarian FellowshipFlintMidland

MinnesotaMankatoSaint CloudWillmarWinona

NevadaReno

New HampshireMilford

New JerseyTitusville

New YorkFredoniaHuntingtonNew York

Community Church of New YorkUnitarian Church of All Souls

OneontaRochester

First Unitarian ChurchSchenectady Syracuse

May Memorial UU SocietyNorth Carolina

DurhamEno River UU Fellowship

RaleighUU Fellowship of Raleigh

North DakotaBismark

OhioBereaCincinnati

First Unitarian ChurchColumbusLewis CenterWooster

OklahomaOklahoma City

OregonHillsboroNewport

PennsylvaniaYork

South CarolinaClemson

TennesseeCookevilleNashville

First UU Church of NashvilleOak RidgeTullahoma

TexasEl PasoHouston

Unitarian Fellowship of HoustonEmerson Unitarian Church

PlanoSan Antonio

First UU Church of San AntonioVirginia

BurkeFredericksburg

WashingtonBellinghamEdmondsMarysvilleSeattle

University Unitarian ChurchSpokane

WisconsinMadison

First Unitarian SocietyMilwaukee

First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee

Sister Bay

France (Paris)UU Fellowship of Paris

Guest At Your Table Special RecognitionHonors congregations whose members gave a total of $5,000 or more to UUSC through Guest at Your Table.

ColoradoGolden

FloridaVero Beach

GeorgiaAtlanta

UU Congregation of Atlanta

MinnesotaMahtomedi

WisconsinAppletonMilwaukee

First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee

Congregational Corporate-Giving Awards

UUSC celebrates these honor congregations for their lasting investments in human rights.

For more information about how your congregation can play a critical role in supporting UUSC, contact Rachel Jordan at 800-766-5236 or volunteerservices@uusc.org, or visit our website at www.uusc.org.

Membership awards are calculated by comparing the number of UUSC memberships with the church size as reported by the UUA this fiscal year. These awards cover the period July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008. The compilers have carefully reviewed the names that are included. However, errors and omissions may have occurred. If your congregation has been omitted, misspelled, or listed incorrectly, please accept our apologies and bring the mistake to our attention. Contact Volunteer Services, UUSC, 689 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-3302, e-mail volunteerservices@uusc.org, or call 800-766-5236.

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“We chose to support UUSC because of its worldwide presence and partnerships with organizations promoting human rights and social justice. Our Charitable Gift Annuity is a win–win deal. We receive an attractive rate of return, plus have the satisfaction of knowing that our contribution will live on beyond our lifetimes.”

– Gordon and Liz Bawden

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted restricted restricted Total Total 5,685,093 1,135,397 3,250 6,823,740 6,155,143 1,215,608 (1,226,933) 11,325 0 0

6,900,701 (91,536) 14,575 6,823,740 6,155,143

6,002,880 6,002,880 5,288,476 938,291 938,291 877,807 422,410 422,410 444,419

7,363,581 7,363,581 6,610,702 (a) (462,880) (91,536) 14,575 (539,841) (455,559) (b) (1,407,389) 73,456 (4,322) (1,338,255) 2,299,311

(a+b) (1,870,269) (18,080) 10,253 (1,878,096) 1,843,752 13,666,085 1,705,141 2,867,573 18,238,799 16,395,047

11,795,816 1,687,061 2,877,826 16,360,703 18,238,799

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Financial Statements For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008 (with comparative totals for June 30, 2007)

Functional ExpensesProgram services n Environmental Justice 24% 1,760,256 n Economic Justice 28% 2,033,241 n Civil Liberties 19% 1,388,358 n Rights in Humanitarian Crises 11% 821,025 Total program services 82% 6,002,880 Supporting services n Management 6% 422,410 n Fundraising 12% 938,291 Total supporting services 18% 1,360,701 Total functional expenses 100% 7,363,581

n Environmental justicen Economic justicen Civil libertiesn Rights in

humanitarian crises

n Management n Fundraising

Statement of Activities

2008 2007

Public support & revenueNet assets released from restrictions

Total public support and revenue and net assets released from restriction

Expenses Program services Fundraising Management

Total expenses

Income/(loss) from operations

Net non-operating activities

Net Assets Change in net assets Beginning of the year End of year

“I am glad to support UUSC’s Front Lines Campaign because I have a lot of confidence in the organization. It works on vital issues. I like the approach of partnering with organizations around the world. I like the opportunities UUSC provides for supporters to be involved in making a difference. UUSC must have a strong financial base to secure its work for years to come.”

– Martha Easter-Wells

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June 2008 June 2007AssetsCash & equivalents: Cash Money market fund Total cash and cash equivalents

InvestmentsNote receivable — program partnerAccounts and interest receivablePledges receivable, netPrepaid expenses and other assetsCash — escrowProperty and equipment, net

Total Assets

Liabilities and Net AssetsAccounts payable and accrued expensesAccrued compensationPooled income deferred revenueUnearned revenueBond payablePlanned giving obligations: Gift annuities Trust agreements Pooled income

Total liabilities

Net Assets: Unrestricted Temporarily restricted Permanently restricted Total net assets

Total Liabilities and Net Assets

Statement of Financial Position

385,914 258,817 644,731

15,086,917 122,758 163,619

818,088 118,924

1,650,743 5,026,110

23,631,890

216,236 150,669 287,283

13,409 3,486,696

1,108,900 122,245

7,653

5,393,091

13,666,085 1,705,141

2,867,573 18,238,799

23,631,890

423,310 91,497

514,807

13,750,220 91,442

187,232 799,326 113,435 575,717

5,981,680

22,013,859

255,716 203,279 271,318 11,880

3,416,228

1,370,850 116,848

7,037

5,653,156

11,795,816 1,687,061 2,877,826

16,360,703

22,013,859

UUSC has a new address: 689 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. Our decision to move was prompted by our growth and success in leading human-rights movements around the globe.

Designed in the Beaux-Arts style, this building was constructed in 1904 for the Cambridgeport Savings Bank. True to this history, there are still bank vaults on all the floors!

Steps away from the Central Square stop on the MBTA Red Line, our new building provides us with exciting, new ways to engage our neighbors as fellow activists. We are sharing office space with local organizations that advance missions closely aligned with ours, and we plan to refurbish the basement to create a meeting space for community groups. We also hope to use our new space to engage college students, who are more than 200,000 strong in Boston.

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William F. Schulz ChairKatherine C. Hall Vice ChairDavid Lysy SecretaryStanley Corfman TreasurerTom AndrewsJohn E. GibbonsBarclay HudsonTodd Jones

Charlotte Jones-CarrollDiane MillerCarolyn PurcellLurma RackleySusan C. ScrimshawCharles SpenceFasaha Traylor

STAFF FISCAL YEAR 2008

BOARD FISCAL YEAR 2008

ExecutiveCharlie Clements President and Chief Executive OfficerMark McPeak Executive DirectorLinda Lee Executive AssistantMaxine Hart Human Resources ManagerQuang Nguyen Compensation and Benefits Specialist

ProgramsAtema Eclai Director of ProgramsGretchen Alther Associate for Rights in Humanitarian CrisesXenia Barahona Senior Associate for JustJourneysAnna Bartlett Administrative AssistantRebecca Brown Associate for Environmental JusticeFatema Haji-Taki Associate for Civil LibertiesAriel Jacobson Associate for Economic JusticePatricia Jones Program Manager, Environmental JusticeKim McDonald Senior Associate, Education and ActionJohanna Chao Kreilick Program Manager, Economic JusticeWayne Smith Program Manager, Civil LibertiesMartha Thompson Program Manager, Rights in Humanitarian CrisesNguyen Weeks Program Associate, Youth

Outreach And MobilizationMyrna Greenfield Director, Outreach and MobilizationNancy Moore Executive Liaison to the Denomination and CongregationsCristin Martineau Events CoordinatorShelley Moskowitz Manager of Public Policy, Washington, D.C.Kara Smith Campaign Assistant

CommunicationsKi Kim Director of CommunicationsMeredith Barges Editor/WriterDick Campbell Media and Public Affairs CoordinatorEric Grignol Production CoordinatorSarah Peck Communications AssistantMark Simon Senior Associate, Web Administration and Graphic Design

Institutional AdvancementMaxine Neil Director of Institutional AdvancementJohn Anderson Gift Processing AssistantLaurie Brunner Prospect Research AssistantKenneth Dolbashian Capital Campaign ManagerRachel Jordan Senior Associate for Member DevelopmentEric Kreilick Senior Associate, Major Gifts and FoundationsSusan Mosher Associate for Donor Services

Finance and OperationsMichael Zouzoua Chief Financial OfficerEthan Adams Senior Facilities and Operations AssociateAiesha Cummings Operations AssistantJayme Donnelly Senior Associate for Information TechnologyMayckon Gaspar Staff AccountantShari Yeaton Senior Operations AssistantMohamed Zine abidine Accountant

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

689 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139

www.uusc.org • info@uusc.org 617-868-6600

Photography

Front cover, 2008 Courtesy of BarakatPage 3

top, 2005 Courtesy of Danielle Sinkford bottom, 2008 Eric Grignol/UUSC

Page 4, 2007 Courtesy of Sarah ElliottPage 5

top, 2008 Courtesy of Rock Women Group middle and bottom, Courtesy of Sarah Elliott

Page 7, 2008 Meredith Barges/UUSCPage 9, 2008 Courtesy of Georgia Minimum

Wage Coalition

Page 11, 2007 Courtesy of Mi CometaPage 13, 2008 Courtesy of MBEANPage 14, 2008 Meredith Barges/UUSCPage 15

left, 2008 Giles Holt/UUSC right, 2008 Kara Smith/UUSC

Page 19, Courtesy of Caroline Joe/CAREPage 21, Courtesy of Gordon and Liz BawdenPage 22, Courtesy of Martha Easter-WellsPage 23, 2007 Sarah Peck/UUSCBack cover, 2008 Gretchen Alther/UUSC

Editor Meredith Barges

Design Julie Decedue

Production Eric Grignol

Layout Julie Decedue and Mark Simon

© 2008 All rights reserved. A publication of the UUSC Communications Department.

After Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar (Burma) on May 3, 2008, UUSC has channeled relief aid through international Buddhist relief agencies and individuals who have strong relationships with local monastaries and nunneries to support child care and education for orphans and unaccompanied children.