Justice

Changing the World

• Social Justice Task Forces

  Social justice permeates all that we do together at the UU Church of Bloomington, and is integral to our worship services and Lifespan Religious Education programs. Our Social Justice Task Forces are formed when a number of people wish to work together around a specific social justice area.

  • Information for Social Justice Leaders

    Including Social Justice business information, policies, procedures, and helpful forms.

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  • Green Sanctuary Task Force

    The Green Sanctuary Task Force on Global Climate Change helps promote mindful, Earth-centered living, working to educate and motivate individuals and institutions to take positive steps toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Habitat Task Force

    The Habitat Task Force educates the congregation about local housing needs, including the purpose and accomplishments of Habitat for Humanity and other housing-related groups.

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  • Homelessness Task Force

    The Homelessness Task Force provides services to people experiencing homelessness in Bloomington and Monroe County, and educates the congregation and community of the struggles associated with homelessness and the way we can help.

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  • Hunger Task Force

    The Hunger Task Force provides food to lessen food insecurity for low income and unhoused people in Bloomington.

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  • International Outreach Task Force

    The International Outreach Task Force (IOTF) provides direct financial, material, and humanitarian support to Spurgeons Academy, a school for AIDS orphans in Kibera, a sprawling slum in Nairobi.

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  • Just Peace Task Force

    We are the nucleus for congregational peace activism to communicate, educate, and mobilize on issues of war and peace. 

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  • Racial Justice Task Force

    The Racial Justice Task Force works to dismantle racism in ourselves and our institutions through education and action.

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  • Rainbow Rights Task Force

    The Rainbow Rights Task Force seeks to revive, document, and advance the knowledge, concerns, and rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, communities, and causes, advocating for spiritual wholeness in relation to gender and sexuality.

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  • Refugee/Immigration Support and Education Task Force

    The RISE (Refugee and Immigrant Support and Education) Task Force sponsors a family who arrived here in Bloomington from Afghanistan in December, 2021, to help them and other refugees until they can get on their feet and feel safe and welcomed.

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  • Reproductive Justice Task Force

    The Reproductive Justice Task Force supports the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.

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• Social Justice Coordinating Team

  The Social Justice Coordinating Team is responsible for coordinating activities of Social Justice Task Forces, the Social Justice Circle, the Social Justice Funds Committee, and Social Justice Projects.

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• Social Justice Circle
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• Social Justice Grants
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• 25% Sunday Plate Fund

  Our congregation gives 25% of undesignated Sunday Plate donations to a local project or service agency. The Social Justice Funds Committee facilitates the selection of the recipient of this fund. In the spring the committee accepts nominees for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1. The congregation will have chances to learn about the nominees through announcements in the church newsletter, displays in the building, and presentations during services. At our June congregational meeting, church members vote on the recipient of this fund.

  Learn more: Guidelines and Application (Deadline for nominations is April 15)

  Current recipient for 2024-25: Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County

  

  Historic Giving Amounts

  Past recipients

  • 2023-24: All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center
  • 2022-23: Bloomington Refugee Support Network
  • 2021-22: The Nest Early Childhood Education
  • 2020-21: Monroe County United Ministries COMPASS Early Learning Center
  • 2019-2020: Volunteers in Medicine
  • 2018-19: Spencer Pride
  • 2017-18: All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center
  • 2016-17: New Leaf – New Life

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  The Social Justice Funds Committee (SJFC) provides information regarding possible funding for social justice activities and administers two UUCB programs (Fall Grants and the Sunday Plate Fund).

  Committee members: Denise Ogren, Steve Mascari, Scott Sanders, Sarah Kopper, Sandy Davoren | Advisor: Jackie Hall

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