Our Community Partners
UU Petaluma supports the work of many local organizations, as well as those beyond our immediate region, through our monthly “Give the Plate” program, which sends our entire offering to a group whose values align with UUP. We are also an institutional member of the North Bay Organizing Project. Many of our members volunteer with community organizations as a way of living their values.
Here is a list of groups we’ve supported recently.
The North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP) is a grassroots, multiracial, and multi-issue organization comprised of twenty faith, environmental, labor, student, cultural and community-based organizations in Sonoma County. Together, we unite people to build leadership and grassroots power for social, economic, racial and environmental justice.
At Committee on the Shelterless, our mission is to assist those experiencing homelessness to find and keep housing, increase self-sufficiency, and improve well-being. For over 35 years, COTS has supported those most vulnerable in our community by providing hot and nutritious meals daily to anyone in need and a range of services to support people in reaching their short- and long-term housing, healthcare and employment goals. COTS staff collaborates between case management, medical care, and community resources to ensure clients have access to the care they need, whether they are staying in short-term shelter or are in one of our long-term housing programs. All of our services are designed to give clients a chance at finding and keeping housing.
Cool Petaluma is a nonprofit that inspires local climate action through community building. By gathering people, we create a collaborative team spirit that makes it enjoyable to learn from each other and take action together. This collective effort becomes more powerful than the sum of its individual parts.
Emergency Prep Help for Seniors prepares seniors for natural disasters and other emergencies. EPH was started in 2021 by Indigo Perry, Lynn Stanton, and Lyn Van Tighem, who have worked in the nonprofit sector for a combined total of 60+ years. They noticed that seniors weren’t getting the help they needed to be prepared for the next emergency – which could be right around the corner.
UNICEF USA is committed to living out diversity, racial equity and belonging (DREB) in our organization, our work and our communities. We know this work calls for radical and transformative change, bringing with it sustained action to dismantle racist and oppressive systems, policies, practices and ideologies within ourselves, our organization and our sector. We are committed to shifting our culture and our consciousness so that we can be a truly equitable, inclusive and explicitly anti-racist organization. To us, being an anti-racist organization means we are guided in our work and our relationships by the principles of intentionality, truth, empathy, courage and solidarity.
Petaluma Blacks for Community Development exists to share Black history and culture with our community. We do this through our annual Black History program, Black History exhibit and other events that we share with our community free of charge to encourage attendance by all. Our vision is to help make our community free of hate and get rid of those issues that divide us based on color. Our values are those of uplifting all children, being a positive role model, and sharing the ideas that we feel help to make us a better community together.
Petaluma Bounty’s mission is to create a thriving local food system with healthy food for everyone through collaboration, education and promoting self-reliance. Most small scale farmers can’t afford to feed low-income people and most low-income consumers can’t afford to buy locally grown produce. Petaluma Bounty seeks to design community solutions, pushing beyond hunger relief toward community food security (and hunger prevention) through programming that expands our community’s capacity to feed ourselves. Petaluma Bounty’s vision is to grow a thriving local food system where consumers make informed decisions; farmers make a decent living while prioritizing ecological stewardship of the land; and all people – regardless of income – have access to healthy food.
Petaluma People Services Center is dedicated to improving the social and economic health of our community by providing programs that strengthen the dignity and self-sufficiency of the individual.
Petaluma Pride envisions a community where people of all sexualities and genders are welcomed, honored, and celebrated. Pride is all about love: loving each other and ourselves despite the odds. Pride is about recognizing how far the LGBTQIA+ community has come and honoring the queer and trans trailblazers that came before us while looking toward a better and brighter future every day.
For more than 25 years, Rebuilding Together Petaluma has been dedicated to repairing the homes of our low-income neighbors in need. Our work falls across the entire spectrum of home repair and accessibility modifications. Sometimes it is ordering a water heater replacement for a senior who has not had hot water for several months, calling in the exterminator for a veteran with a major rat infestation, or organizing volunteers to build a ramp for a disabled individual with no accessible way in and out of their home. Whatever the need, we rely on an extensive network of partners, local businesses, and our force of over 600 highly skilled and community volunteers to respond quickly and effectively.
The Village Network of Petaluma is a non-profit membership organization of active older adults 50+ in the Petaluma-Penngrove area. As part of an innovative nationwide movement begun in 2004, we are one of several hundred Villages revolutionizing the experience of aging. Members and volunteers offer each other support services and social connections to improve quality of life and expand choices. We collaborate with other organizations to build a more age-friendly Petaluma.