Working for Social Justice

UUFE is involved in numerous projects aimed at
promoting social justice in the community and in the
world at large with our funds, our energy and our hearts.

  • Sponsor Outreach Collections throughout the year

  • Partner with many local organization (please see below)

  • Conduct special collections during the winter holidays

  • Present Sunday services such as the service in October 2023 based on the book The Big Fix, the November 2024 service on the book Solito, and the October 2025 service on the book On Tyranny.

  • Host special presentations such as Movie Night, Training for Registered Voters & Gender Education classes.

  • Maintain contact with UUFE members & friends soliciting input on important issues & topics.

  • Lead monthly A.D.O.R.E. A Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity conversations.

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Partner Organizations

Delmarva Pride Center

The Delmarva Pride Center is a community service organization dedicated to creating a positive environment inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Through Delmarva Pride Center’s efforts, the Delmarva Peninsula will be a safe community where everyone lives authentically with access to all services and supports required to live fully.

Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center (ChesMRC )

ChesMRC empowers people from different cultures to become successful and engaged members of our community. They envision a multi-culturally vibrant population that is economically productive, politically engaged and socially committed to human dignity.

Talbot Interfaith Shelter

TIS fights homelessness by providing shelter, stability, support and a path to success for families and individuals in need. Their vision is that no one will ever have to spend a night on the streets, in a car or in the woods because they cannot find housing.

UUA Side With Love

Side With Love is the Organizing Strategy Team of the UUA. We harness the power of love to confront and transform systems of oppression and build a world where all people can thrive. The Action Center priorities are climate justice, democracy and electoral justice, decriminalization and LGBTQIA+ and gender justice.

Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake (IPC)

IPC works to engage congregations in being good caretakers of the Chesapeake Bay, our shared watershed. The UUFE Environmental Action Team works with the local chapter of IPC, Talbot Green Hands. They organize a community garden, provide composting of food scraps and yard litter, remove invasive vines and assist with native plantings. They encourage environmentally responsible gardening and lifestyles through education.

Talbot County Interfaith Hunger Coalition

Since the COVID pandemic, CarePacks has been meeting monthly in various locations to put together bags of food for approximately 260 school children, they are then distributed weekly. Since the old Black & Decker building is no longer available, they are looking for a permanent location where they can collect and store the food, prepare the bags and distribute them. And, hopefully, get back to providing meat and fresh produce again.

Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of Maryland (UULM-MD)

UULM-MD is a statewide action network of UUs who work to advocate for specific issues before the Maryland General Assembly. Working in coalition with local, state and national organizations, we promote and affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all, reverence for the interdependent web of all existence, and justice, health and equity in society. We approach each issue through an anti-racism/anti-oppression lens to deepen an understanding of the impact of policies on historically marginalized communities and people of color.

Email the Social Justice team

Tips on Writing to Your Elected Officials

 (adapted from ACLU)

Keep it brief

  • less than one page
  • limit to one issue
  • be concise

State who you are and what you want up front

  • tell your legislator that you are a constituent
  • identify the issue about which you are writing
  • identify it by its bill number (e.g. H.R. ____ or S. _____)

Hit your three most important points

  • choose the three strongest points that will be most effective in persuading your legislator to support your position and flesh them out

Personalize your letter

  • tell your elected official why this legislation matters in their community or state
  • include a personal story that shows how this issue affects you and your family, a constituent’s personal stories can be the very persuasive

Personalize your relationship, tell this elected official 

  • if you ever voted for them
  • if you ever contributed time or money to their campaign
  • if you are familiar with them through any business or personal relationship
  • the closer your legislator feels to you, the more powerful your argument is likely to be.

You are the expert

  • your legislator’s job is to represent you
  • be courteous and to the point, but don’t be afraid to take a firm position
  • often your elected official may know no more about a given issue than you do. 

Environmental Action Team

Check out our Environmental Action Team, hosted at UUFE — this is a group of people who are passionate about the environment. Working within our Social Justice team, we help protect the planet so that we have clean air, clean water and a healthy community.

Connect with the Social Justice Team

Co-chairs: Lynn Dolinger and David Stevens

Outreach Collection Coordinator: Carol Meredith

Environmental Action Team Lead: Carol Meredith

Please email us at socialjustice@uufeaston.org