Goal 3: Live out our commitment to justice, equity, and compassion
Objectives:

1. Deepen, individually and organizationally, our understanding of our role in perpetuating
racism and that anti-racism work is a spiritual practice

2. Understand and address how all forms of privilege impact our community and
congregation

3. Develop and implement strategies to be more welcoming and inclusive as a
congregation

4. Assess impact from living out our commitment to justice, equity, and compassion on
current organizational infrastructure

Action Plan:

1. Expand Racial Justice Team

a. Recruit members who have skills and awareness appropriate to the task
b. Create charter
c. Explore resources from the Unitarian Universalist Association and Black Lives UU
to learn how to create accountability to people of color

2. Build common understanding among team members and congregation about privilege,
implicit bias at systemic, personal, and congregational levels through programming and
activities

3. Organizational assessment

a. Identify a tool
b. Establish a process
c. Administer
d. Report on results
e. Make recommendations to address results

4. Organize and communicate about opportunities for action

5. Create “Path to Involvement”: a continuum of activities with avenues to different kinds
of engagement on racial justice issues

a. Coordinate with social justice pathway leads

6. Develop more actions based on the organizational assessment