To Learn More About Social Justice Ministry

To learn more about social justice ministry, check out the UUA Social Justice Empowerment Program Handbook:

Together New Orleans (TNO)

TNO is a community-based network organized to address issues, large and small, affecting families and communities in the New Orleans area. The coalition is deliberate about crossing the lines of race, religion, neighborhood, and political affiliation.

TNO' s History: In 2015, organizers from the Industrial Areas Foundation (the nation's oldest and largest community organizing network) began meeting with New Orleans area clergy to develop a local network of religious and nonprofit organizations, to expand the statewide community organizing network called Together Louisiana (TLA). As the network developed over the next few years, FUUNO members joined TLA’s efforts to:

* expose Louisiana’s Industrial Tax Exemption Program (ITEP) as the most expensive state or local corporate welfare program in the nation;

* join a statewide effort to increase voter turnout, and

* attend candidate forums for the gubernatorial and mayoral races.

TNO formally organized in 2021, and FUUNO became a member organization in June 2022.

In 2022, FUUNO was chosen to be included in the pilot phase of TNO’s Community Lighthouse Project, an action plan to address the needs of residents in our neighborhoods during prolonged power outages. (For more about Community Lighthouse and other projects mentioned above, visit togethernola.org and togetherla.org)

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Kit Senter

Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast

For over 20 years, First Church has hosted a monthly morning meeting of social activists called the Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast. The breakfast group meets from 9:30 a.m. until noon on the second Saturday of every month to network and share information about new and exciting social justice programs.

Typically there is a guest speaker/lecturer with a presentation and a question and answer period at each Gillespie-Senter Breakfast.

Contact info@thecommunitybreakfast.org to find out more about the Gillespie-Senter Breakfast schedule and guest presenters. Also, see the Gillespie-Senter Memorial Community Breakfast blog for announcements, archives and comments.

The Albert D'Orlando Lectureship on Social Justice

The Albert D'Orlando Lectureship on Social Justice was established by the First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. D'Orlando's ordination. During his long tenure as minister of this church, the Rev. Dr. D'Orlando tirelessly fought for social justice in this city. Learn more about Rev. Dr. D'Orlando,

The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception is held in the church following the lecture. Contributions to the lectureship are welcome.

Past Speakers include:

2019 Bill Quigley

2015 Dr. Willie Parker

2014 Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré

2013 Dr. John Clark

2011 Mark Winne

2010 Joe Cook

2009 Kim Gandy

2008 Rabbi Michael Lerner

2004 Rev. Carlton W. Veazey

2003 Edd Doerr

2002 Jim Hightower

2001 Rev. Dr. William Schulz

2000 Barbara Majors

1999 Tom Teepen

1998 David Dellinger

1997 Sr. Helen Prejean

1996 Clarence L. Barney