Download the Revised Social Justice Empowerment Handbook!

We are field-testing the handbook with congregations this fall and will begin updating the online sections within the next few weeks. You can download the entire revised handbook  here.

Table of Contents

1. Characteristics of UU congregations involved in successful social change ministry
2. Integrating social justice into life of the whole congregation
3. Role of congregation and board of trustees in social justice ministry
4. How to structure social justice in local congregations
5. Effective committees and task groups
6. Social justice committee job description
7. Create caring community for those who are involved in doing social justice ministry
8. Ways of getting people involved in social justice programs
9. How to motivate people to do social justice
10. Financial resources for social justice program
11. The social change cycle
12. Structures for democratic decision making about social justice issues
13. Voting method for setting priorities for social action projects
14. Preparing an action plan
15. Strategies for managing conflict in congregations about social justice issues
16. Social concerns and the uua statements of conscience  process
17. Bibliography

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