During the State of the Union address earlier this month, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke invited Milton Perez, a longtime leader of Veatch grantee, VOCAL-NY, to attend the speech as her guest. VOCAL-NY is a community organizing group dedicated to ending the drug war, mass incarceration, and...
As we close Women’s History Month, we are happy to share news from a New Jersey-based grantee that organizes immigrant workers, the Education and Training Institute. On March 8th, International Women’s Day, this amazing Veatch grantee—which helped to win a Domestic Workers Bill...
Recently, a new movie about the life and activism of Rosa Parks began streaming on Peacock+. This movie, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," is based on a 2021 young adult book by the same name and published by Beacon Press—a longtime Veatch grantee. The NAACP-image...
On Saturday March 11th at 4pm, join the UUCSR Social Justice Committee and Veatch Program for a special screening of a new film about Rosa Parks with the film's director, Yoruba Richen. Rosa Parks is one of the most well-known U.S. women of the 20th century, and yet much of what has been...
Please join us on January 29 for Veatch Sunday, a beloved and long standing Shelter Rock tradition. Veatch Sunday offers a wonderful opportunity to hear directly from one of our over 180 Veatch grantees. This year, the Veatch Board of Governors is excited to welcome Dorian Warren, co-president...
“This is what democracy looks like: bottom-up social movements with the vision and numbers to demand change.” — Dorian Warren, co-President, Community Change Ten years ago, hundreds of fast food workers in New York City walked out of their jobs and into the streets for a...
Recently, Maritza Silva Farrell, executive director of ALIGN NY—a Veatch grantee working at the intersection of the labor and environmental movements—was a guest on Power Station, a podcast that explores efforts to create change in overlooked and underinvested...
This Thursday March 24t5h, from 7-8pm, we are thrilled to be hosting a virtual panel discussion with two inspiring Veatch grantees: Georgia STAND-UP and New York-based Community Voices Heard (CVH). These groups represent just two of the many Veatch grantees throughout the country...
Join us is recalling the powerful moment a year ago, when Amanda Gorman stepped to a mic on the steps of a battered and bruised U.S. Capitol and recited her poem: The Hill We Climb. At 22 years of age, our youngest-ever presidential inaugural poet challenged us across generations: If we’re...
Join the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock for the online Veatch Sunday event on January 30, 2022. The schedule for the event is below: 11:00am – Worship Service Live Streamed HERE 12:00pm – Veatch Annual Meeting with Panel Discussion Register...
