This week URI North America hosted a webinar to share fundraising resources with the URI community and beyond. We hosted three speakers with a wide variety of experience in the fundraising sector:
Cooperation Circles and other organizations in the Los Angeles area will come together for Peace Sunday just before International Day of Peace in September! Read the story to find out more.
Peacebuilders from California and Palestine, joined by their connection to United Religions Initiative, gathered in the San Francisco Bay Area last week. During a meeting at Sausalito Presbyterian Church, nine people gathered in a circle -- Christians and Jews, one Palestinian and eight Northern Californians, all members of the global United Religions Initiative family.
In this latest issue of the URI North America e-newsletter, we are excited to welcome our newest Cooperation Circle member and wish another a happy 50th anniversary. Scroll down for an invitation to join the North America Leadership Council, resources for the International Day of Peace, and much more!
On June 26, we will be enter our 15th anniversary year! Is your Cooperation Circle having an event on or around this date – or sometime during this celebratory year? My name is Ardisanne (Ardey) Turner and I want to share with you my story the day of the URI Charter signing on June 26, 2000.
What if every faith center and house of worship would commit to educate themselves on the issue of human trafficking and then become catalysts for a broader public awareness in their neighborhoods and cities? It is time to work together to end this scourge in our world. Join URI North America for a webinar on May 27 to discuss how we can accomplish this!
Yesterday, three Muslim students were shot and killed near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. URI Global Council Trustee Sam Wazan urges us to speak words of peace.