URI Stories of Impact

On March 22nd, 2014, more than 300 attendees, including interfaith community leaders and key local philanthropists, gathered at the URI annual Circles of Light gala.

Learn more about URI's three featured Cooperation Circles.

Holi, the Hindu “festival of colors,” begins tonight. Blessings and well wishes are coming in from friends of URI all over the world. Here are some of the messages we’ve received so far.

For World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015, Cooperation Circles worldwide celebrated by organizing group interfaith prayers for peace, compassion, and unity.

“Our mission is to deepen the connection between ecology and faith, emphasizing that alleviating climate change is a moral responsibility,” explains founder Rev. Sally Bingham.

"I have written a few words in the name Welcome URI and I wish to share these words with URI. Thanks to all leaders of URI." - Kala Sahithy Nature CC poet Ramachandran Parameswaran Krishman.

Listening happens for 30% with our ears and for 70% with our heart. The correct words at the right moment can do wonders, because they can comfort, heal and help liberate. 

Founded in 2006, the Euphrates Institute works to promote sustainability and peace in the Middle East by uniting cultures that would otherwise be divided by lack of understanding each other.

Musaique grew out of a URI Assembly in 2008 in Jordan, when Arab Jordanian Jamil Sarraj and Jewish Israeli Lee Ziv, along with Amir, an Iranian musician, met and played music together for the first time.