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Growing Green curriculum
Submitted by Abigail Westwood, Unitarian Universalist Church of Pittsfield
The goal of this project is to create a living curriculum that empowers students to follow the path of their food from the seeds they plant to the meals they prepare to the waste and recycling left over to new soils and plants.
Amount Granted: $2,500
Theme Talk Recording for Star Island Lifespan Religious Education Conference 2009
Submitted by Laura Beth Brown, Dean of RE Conference
The theme is "Seeds for Growing a Spirited Life." In six session recordings, the theme speaker, the Rev. Meg Barnhouse, will help participants explore a spirited life: what does one look like, and how do we know if we are growing one for ourselves and those who are in relationship with us? Meg will also include her music compositions throughout these talks.
Amount Granted: $3,000
The Last Lecture: A Discussion Guide for Coming of Age Mentors and Youth
Submitted by Sara Sautter
Propose to create a discussion outline for 61 stories and sensitive subjects for youth and mentors from the book, "The Last Lecture".
Amount Granted: $2,500
Revise "Perspectives on Disability" (an 8 session/adult curriculum) written in 2003-2004
Submitted by Rev Laurie Thomas
Expands the established curriculum so that it appeals to wider spectrum of faith communities.
Amount Granted: $3,000
DVD of the LREDA Fall Conference 2008 on Building Multigenerational Faith Communities
Submitted by Cathy Seggel and Jesse Jaeger
The goal would be to give religious educators and others a tool to make change in the congregations and to make information accessible to those who cannot afford to come to the fall conference.
Amount Granted: $3,000
AWARDED GRANTS 2007/2008
Challenging Faiths
Submitted by Allison Gammons, West Hills UU Fellowship, Portland, OR.
This is a youth-geared 30, one-hour long session which encourages youth leadership and examines both Western and Eastern faiths. This overview of religion (relations between and mutual influences that have shaped many faiths, and historical events that have had influence over the roots of belief) is used to frame the development and questioning of the participants beliefs while equipping them with an understanding of a few of the varied ways faith and belief take root in the world.
Amount Granted: $1,300
Keepers of the Earth Supplement
Submitted by Dawn Star Borchelt, CRE; Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church, MD.
This supplement supports UU religious educators to make use of Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children (Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac) in a summer or regular RE class setting. The supplement is UU seventh principle-based, uses a multi-sensory approach with an anti-oppressive lens.
Amount Granted: $1,120
Digital Archive of out-of-print curricula
Submitted by Jamie Gross, First Unitarian Church of Alton, Alton, IL
This project will collect and digitally store out-of-print UU curricula to be used as a virtual lending library to congregations and organizations, both, to preserve a portion of the history of UU religious education materials, and to make available historical reference material. This project will be available on line through the First Unitarian Church of Alton.
Amount Granted: $3,000
LREDA Multigenerational Faith Community DVD Project
Submitted by Cathy Seggel and Jesse Jaeger, LREDA Board
This DVD will record Building A Multigenerational Faith: Creating Wholeness in our Congregations, presentations from the 2008 LREDA Fall Conference; Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, keynote speaker; UUA Staff and other practitioners, presenters.
Amount Granted: $3,000
Exploring Our Universe
Submitted by Leslie Ross, First Unitarian Society of Madison, WI.
40 session curriculum; will be available on disc. Overall goal is to provide children the intellectual and spiritual space to develop a sense of their own place within the cosmic narrative of the evolution of the universe and life on Earth.
Amount Granted: $3,000
Families TUUgether
Submitted by Rev. Christopher Holton Jablonski, UU Church of Berkeley.
Asking for $3,000. This is a multicultural curriculum designed to compliment any Life Span RE program. It is designed to help families establish some of the crucial first relationships as they enter into a spiritual home, and to rekindle commitment and enthusiasm in families who might have drifted from active engagement.
Amount Granted: $3,000
"The Theological and Cultural Antecedents of the New Beacon Series," a dissertation by David Parke.
Submitted by Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Strong and Joan White
This dissertation contains valuable information about the development of Unitarian religious education from the earliest catechisms to the publication of the New Beacon series by the Unitarians in the 1930s. The book would eventually be available on Amazon.com.
Amount Granted: $3,000
Peacemaking DVD and Peacemaking Learning Guide
Submitted by John B. Hooper, the UUA Commission on Social Witness
Through the efforts of the Peacemaking CSAI Core team, will complete a "Peacemaking DVD" and package it with a Learning Guide. By interviews with UU activists and scholars the DVD will introduce our congregations to the contemporary challenges of sustainable and enduring peace.
Amount Granted: $3,000
Dancing the Living Tradition: a DVD of eight Liturgical Dances
Submitted by Sunsue Fleming, DRE, First Parish Duxbury, Mass.
Instructional DVD of liturgical dances, meant for all ages, choreographed to music from our hymnal "Singing the Living Traditions".
Amount Granted: $1,750
AWARDED GRANTS 2006/2007
Young Adult Prophets Seminar video and web project
Submitted by Neil MacLean, Steering Committee member, UU Young Adult Prophets Project, Continental UU Young Adult Network, C*UUYAN
A video capture, edit, and web distribution of a seminar focused on a critical social and theological context for UU anti-racism justice work.
Amount Granted: $2,000
CLiF Notes: A Curriculum for Families and Small Groups
Submitted by Lorraine Dennis, Church of the Larger Fellowship
A CD containing 10 months of curriculum designed for use by families and mixed-age small groups, easy-to-use lessons on the topics of UU Identity, World Religions, UU Principles in Practice and Intergenerational Worship; each week includes a time of spiritual practice, called centering, as well as background information and activities; also includes audio files to help educators and children learn songs which may be included in the lessons.
Amount Granted: $2,000
"Bundle of Life:" Children/youth ministry summer camp project
Submitted by First Parish Brewster, MA
This project is a multi-age (7-10) school vacation/summer camp curriculum that focuses on helping children know their place in the unity of the world. UU values are at the core with love, service, truth, justice, respect and kindness.
Amount Granted: $875
AWARDED GRANTS 2005/2006
Compass Points
Submitted by the UU Fellowship/North Nevada
A full year program for middle schoolers (grades 6-8) exploring themselves, their beliefs, their UU faith, their relationships with others and the world and is easily adapted for use with high school groups.
Amount Granted: $1,000
Spiritual Enrichment Program
Submitted by First Unitarian Madison
Amount Granted: $3,000
Experiencing the Music of our Being: A New Theology of Faith
Thandeka, Theme Talks at Star Island RE Week 2006
Submitted by Star Island Religious Education Conference
Amount Granted: $1,000
A Faith-Based Sexuality Education Guide for the Inclusion of Children and Youth with Special Needs
Submitted by Sally Patton, Project Coordinator, Winchester Unitarian Society, MA
Amount Granted: $3,000
Coming of Age: Deepening Ties within the Congregation
Submitted by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing, MI
This year-long program has two goals: 1. Offer a rich COA experience to all Unitarian Universalist youth that provides them with tools to direct their own spiritual lives; and 2. Deepen the ties within our congregations.
Amount Granted: $3,000
AWARDED GRANTS 2002/2003
Who Are Our Unitarian Universalist Partners Around The World?
Submitted by the Partnership Church RE Materials Task Force.
The grant is for development of seven program sessions focusing on UU partnership congregations from 6 areas of the world. Sessions will include board games, worship, songs and other activities that will provide information and experiential learning. Author: Betsy Williams, Advisor: Reverend Gretchen Thomas
Amount Granted: $3,000
The Larger Message: Universalist Religious Education's Response to Theological and Cultural Challenges: 1790 to 1930
This grant help cover the cost for the publication of a doctoral dissertation on Universalist Religious Education. The book will be available to theological students, Adult RE classes and can serve as a resource for sermons and stories adapted for children. Submitted by Reverend Elizabeth Strong Amount Granted: $1,000
Follow The Gleam: A History of Liberal Religious Youth Movements
The grant is for research, writing and publishing a revised and updated edition of the original "Follow The Gleam", a history of the UU youth movement. This project is being developed by Reverend Wayne Arnason and Rebecca Scott.
Amount Granted: $1,000
Small Congregations, Strong Congregations
This grant was given to the Church of the Larger Fellowship to help them expand and revise the existing Church on Loan program. The newly revised program will include updated religious education materials and web accessibility.
Amount Granted: $3,000
To Live A Truer Life
The grant is partially funds a children's picture book, which depicts the life of the Hopedale community and its founder, Universalist minister, Adin Ballou. Submitted by the Friends of Adin Ballou, author Lynn Gordon Hughes.
Amount Granted: $1,000
Unitarian Universalist Worship Website Project
The grant is to help cover the cost of maintaining the website, promoting and marketing its use and for continued research and development of scripts. The USSS funded the development of this project in 1999. Reverend Greg Ward is the project director.
Amount Granted: $1710
Humility, Anger and Grace, Thoughts on Education and Faith
The grant helps to defray some of the costs incurred in publishing this book. Reverend Nancy Crumbine received funding from the USSS for the writing of this manuscript in November 2001.
Amount Granted: $3,000
Taking It Home: Families and Faith, pamphlet Series
This grant was submitted by the Family Matters Task Force, UUA in March. A decision was made by the directors to postpone their decision until their May meeting. The Board approved a matching grant of $3,500 for completion of stages 2and 3 of the "Taking It Home: Families and Faith", pamphlet series.
Amount Granted: $3,500
AWARDED GRANTS 2001/2002
Spirit Play
The project is for development of a curriculum based on the Montessori Method of Education, modeled after "Godly Play", a Christian education program developed by Jerome Berryman. USSS granted partial funding for project.
Amount of Grant: $2000
Involve: A Guide for the Inclusion of Children & Youth with Differences
The project is being developed by Sally Patton. The goal is to provide a resource guide for religious educator and ministers for accessing information on the wide variety of common disabilities in our churches. It will include information and strategies necessary for creatively weaving children with special needs into R.E Ministry and the spiritual fabric of the church community.
Amount of grant: $5000
Church of the Larger Fellowship Website Development
The project will be a live website, accessible to all, linked to the UUA and CLF It will include easily accessible religious education materials suitable for home use. Lessons and activities will be taken from existing R.E curricula and other resources. Once the site is fully established it will be managed by CLF.
Amount of Grant: $1,088.00
Education Materials for Emerson Bicentennial
Project was submitted by the Emerson Bicentennial committee to develop an activity book for children to engage them in the tri-centennial celebration of Emerson' birth in 2003. Activities will include stories, games, arts & craft projects. Betsy Hill William (DRE of CLF, editor of UU & ME) will be the principal writer and editor. USSS granted partial funding for project.
Amount of Grant: $3000
Holding Our Faith Up To The Light: Toward a Philosophy of Education
Grant was submitted by Reverend Nancy Jay Crumbine. The project is to write a book on the philosophy of education drawing from the excellent work within our own tradition, from the history of philosophy, theology and literature and from her experience as educator and UU minister.
Amount of Grant: $3000
Super Heroes
Submitted by Gaia Brown. The completed project will be a Jewish/Christian Bible Stories curriculum for Grades 1-3 based on a revision of UUA curricula, Adventures in God Folk. Available June 2002
Amount of Grant: $1340
"Taking It Home" Families & Faith Pamphlet Series
Submitted by Family Matters Taskforce, UUA. Project is to design a series of pamphlets for families that are faith based and can assist in articulating the UU theology as it applies to family and family values. USSS granted partial funding for project.
Amount of Grant: $3500
Creating Website & Resource Catalog for UU Jewish Awareness (UUJA)
Project is to create a user-friendly website to serve as a networking tool for information and resources with the goal of integrating Judaism into our UU experience. USSS granted partial funding of project.
Amount of Grant: $1600