Trans YOUniting is a black Trans femme-led local nonprofit that centers and uplifts black trans and gender non-conforming community members through mutual aid, and workshops, job support, entrepreneurial training, housing assistance, and short-term shelter through Haven House. The average stay is three months, although we have … read more.
Tree Pittsburgh celebrates 17 years of growing and protecting our urban forest through tree planting, care, education, and advocacy. The organization ensures all people have equal access to the many benefits trees provide by directing resources where they are needed the most. As the impact … read more.
Our Share the Plate Recipient for the month of April is CeaseFirePA of
Western Pennsylvania. CeaseFirePA is our Commonwealth’s Gun
Violence Prevention Organization. Their work is far reaching: They
organize with communities closest to the issue, educate the public,
hold those in power accountable and work to support and … read more.
We thank you, dear congregants, for your participation in developing our new Share the Plate program.
Late last year (2022), We invited the congregation to submit NOMINATIONS for Justice organizations (who share and implement our UU values) to be RECIPIENTS of a plate sharing month. We … read more.
Our congregation has been in partnership with the Unitarian-run Annie Margaret Barr Higher Secondary School in the rural village of Kharang in the Khasi Hills of North East India since 2003.
Our financial goal continues to be to support the two additional teachers that were needed … read more.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh is a nonprofit working to provide affordable homeownership and home repairs to limited-income families in the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County since 1986.
Habitat Pittsburgh has assisted 110 families in becoming first-time homeowners. Many of these families would not … read more.
The East End Cooperative Ministry (EECM) changes the lives of people facing the impacts of poverty. For over 50 years, EECM has been a community leader in addressing the issues that affect our area’s most at-risk and underserved populations. From its beginnings as an interfaith … read more.
During the month of November, we will be sharing our weekly offering with a wonderful human rights organization: the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, or UUSC.
UUSC works in the US and internationally, supporting grassroots movements on behalf of people who are confronting unjust power structures … read more.
UUPLAN was organized ~ 22 years ago, and the involvement of 1st UU has waxed and waned through the years. In the early years, our congregation provided strong leadership for the Reproductive Justice Team and the LGBTQ team, as well as participants for the Environmental … read more.
