Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian human rights organization based in Cambridge’s Central Square. It works with an international network of grassroots partners on climate justice, democracy and civil liberties, humanitarian crisis response and the rights of people in migration. Its approach centers on the people most affected by injustice, funding community-led solutions and advocating for institutional and systemic change.

UUSC’s roots go back more than 80 years to efforts helping Jewish people flee Nazi Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Since then it has supported communities from Central America to Ukraine, where partners work on clean water, medical care and legal recognition under wartime conditions. Its staff and board include activists, Unitarian Universalist faith leaders, researchers, policy experts, attorneys and philanthropy professionals, and it publishes explainers on issues such as climate reparations and Temporary Protected Status.

What to Know

• UUSC maintains 119 grassroots partnerships around the world.
• The organization provided $3.2 million in grant funding in fiscal year 2025.
• Nearly 14,000 individual donors supported UUSC in fiscal year 2025.
• It responds to humanitarian crises by backing grassroots relief efforts where access to aid is most limited.