UUFP Spring Grant for ICUUW
Organizing UU Women for Action
Written By: Laura NagelPublished: Thursday, June 17, 2010
Membership:
Increase ICUUW membership by 4% from 632 current members.
Include in marketing materials the rationale for the on line membership dues. The very affordable, recommended amount of $10.00 per year ensures that the highest level of security is maintained in the database. Grant support enables ICUUW to offer this service at a very affordable rate; it should be noted that members are not required to pay but are urged to do so. International members will be offered free membership.
On Line Community and Database of Program Initiatives:
Add and evaluate functionalities which encourage uninterrupted conversation between and amongst members (message board) and between members on program initiatives in the database. ICUUW will be developing the interrelationships between the program database with members’ skills and talents in an effort to involve members in program initiatives.
Add and evaluate new data in database such as individuals’ interests and expertise for resource recruitment to global initiatives.
Global Sisters Council:
Identify six global initiatives in the three focus areas of the ICUUW – education of women, health care and anti-violence with an emphasis on effective poverty mitigation through entrepreneurship and empowerment of women.
Global Program Initiatives:
Organize and support group international travel to India, December 27, 2010 – January 13, 2011 with visits to global initiatives of the Women’s Wing of the Unitarian Union in Khasi Hills, and two Holdeen partners: the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in Gauhati and Vivek Pandit’s organization, Vidhayak Sansad, located outside Mumbai, which works with landless laborers.
Africa Fund:
With Global Sisters’ Council Ad Hoc Committee, complete evaluation of how the ICUUW will invest the $10,000 raised at the 2009 international Convocation. Analysis will include but not limited to an assessment of how these funds might be granted to projects in Africa (that support women and children in the three ICUUW priority areas) and/or invested through micro-credit intermediary programs already successfully operating such as FINCA, Grameen Foundation, ACCION and KIVA, to name several well-known entities. The evaluation will include a discussion about alternative ways to sustain the effort, an evaluation of potential partnering organizations other than those mentioned above and a timeline for implementation.
International Meetings and Convocations:
Support IALRW Convocation in India September 2010. Barbara Kres Beach has accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker at the Convocation entitled “Women as peacemakers” and to speak on the future of the women’s movement among liberal religious women.
July 2010 Meeting in Kolozsvár (20th anniversary of the UUPCC). Barbara Kres Beach will attend. Barbara will also attend a meeting with the Transylvanians who are planning the September 2011 International Convocation.
Provide technical assistance to next ICUUW in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, September 2011.
Organize the Request for Proposals from UU organizations to host the ICUUW in 2016.