Unitarian Universalist Association: Fund for a Just Society

The Fund for a Just Society, a program of the Unitarian Universalist Association, provides grants to nonprofit organizations addressing issues of social and economic justice. Grants are given to projects that use community organizing to bring about systemic change.

The Fund supports non-Unitarian Universalist groups in the U.S. and Canada that:

• use community organizing to bring about systemic change leading to a more just society;
• mobilize those who have been disenfranchised and excluded from resources, power, and the right to self-determination; and,
• have an active focused campaign to create systemic change.

Priority is given to active, specific campaigns to create change in the economic, social, and political structures that affect their lives. The Fund welcomes projects that are less likely to receive conventional funding because of the innovative or challenging nature of the work or the economic and social status of the constituency.

Types of support include project support and challenge and matching grants.

Funding is not provided to/for:

• social services;
• educational programs;
• advocacy projects;
• individuals or training for individuals;
• re-granting;
• equipment;
• capital campaigns;
• politically partisan efforts;
• educational institutions;
• medical or scientific research; or,
• cultural programs.

Films, publications, and curricula are supported only if they are part of a strategy leading to collective action for social change.

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