PRISM

PRISM (People Responding In Social Ministry) is a social service agency that helps local families during times of financial hardship.  RUCC serves on PRISM's Faith Partners Board.  We were a chartering faith community over 40 years ago.

• Donate here.
• Get involved through RUCC.

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Habitat For Humanity

Robbinsdale UCC is happy to sponsor an immigrant family in their new home.  We are working with our quilting group  and wider church to help a family furnish their home with beds, bedding, kitchen supplies, and all the things that pop up after a move.  We also participate in regular build events.  Contact Kate Menendez for information.

Families Moving Forward

Families Moving Forward is a faith-based nonprofit organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota that provides temporary emergency shelter, permanent affordable housing and supportive services to low income families with children.  Donate Here.

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Personal Energy Transportation: The PET Project

The PET gets its name from Personal Energy  Transportation.  The PET is a 3-wheeled, hand-cranked, sturdily built wheel chair with hauling capacity; it will go where an ordinary wheel chair will not go, and it's designed for the Third World where the roads and trails are bad and rough and the people need to haul things.  Donate here. [ more ]

Simpson's Housing Services

This is our Men's Group serving a meal at Simpson's Housing Services, an organization which houses, supports, and advocates for people experiencing homelessness.  They take a "housing-first", "other-needs-second" approach to their work.

• Donate here.
• Volunteer here.
• Get involved through RUCC.

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Creating A Culture Of Peace

Creating a Culture of Peace

Peace Training

(CCP) is a nationwide program for community-based peacemaking. CCP provides a holistic and practical foundation in spiritually-grounded active nonviolence. Participants come to recognize their own power for making personal and social changes without violence and improve their skills for respectful engagement with opponents, instead of confrontation that polarizes and demonizes.

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Common Hope

Common Hope partners with Guatemalan families in educating their children.  They provide free health care, school supplies, housing, and food support.

• Donate here.
• Get involved through RUCC.

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Emerson North Family Housing Development

We Support Access to Affordable Housing

The tornado is still with us.  Quality, affordable housing is a real need in North Minneapolis.  We stand with Families Moving Forward and the Portico Interfaith Housing Collaborative in developing Emerson North.

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Breaking Free

Breaking Free educates and provides services to women and girls who have been victims of abuse and commercial sexual exploitation (prostitution/sex trafficking) and need assistance escaping the violence in their lives. Donate Here. [ more ]

Robbinsdale And Crystal Oppose Anti-Marriage Amendment

MN AIDS Walk

Even though the 2013 AIDS walk is over, you can donate to the MN AIDS Project any time via Michelle Connealy's page here .

Founded in 1983 as a statewide nonprofit agency, the Minnesota AIDS Project envisions a world free of AIDS. Its mission is to lead Minnesota's fight to stop HIV through prevention, advocacy, awareness and services.

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