UUSC Congregational Award Winners

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. UUSC congregational awards are awarded annually, after the closing of UUSC's fiscal year (June 30). Each honor congregation is recognized in UUWorld magazine and UUSC's annual report.

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Your congregation can achieve a membership giving or corporate giving award. To learn how, please contact UUSC's senior associate for member development at 617-868-6600 or 800-766-5236, ext. 307, or by using this e-mail contact form.

Congregational awards for membership

The following awards 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Congregational corporate giving awards

The following 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. Congregationalcorporate 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.

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

How to make congregational gifts to UUSC

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 02139-3302

*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.