About Side with Love

Side With Love is the Organizing Strategy Team of the Unitarian Universalist Association—a network of organizers, leaders, congregations, and justice partners faithfully working to transform our world.

We organize with love at the center. Not love as sentiment, but love as strategy, ethic, and spiritual practice. Love that is bold enough to confront systems of oppression, and grounded enough to sustain the long work of building something better.

Our work is rooted in the conviction that every person has inherent worth and dignity, and that all life is bound together in sacred interdependence. From that foundation, we equip individuals, congregations, and communities to live their faith in public: developing leaders, deepening political education, building collective power, and acting in deep solidarity with frontline movements.

We don't just respond to crises. We organize toward a vision: a world where all people are free and thriving, all bodies are sacred, and communities are grounded in care, equity, and collective liberation. We root that vision in joy, spiritual nourishment, and the liberatory dreaming our faith calls us to practice.

Through campaigns, organizing programs, and movement partnerships, Side With Love accompanies communities across the country as they move from values to action, faithfully, strategically, and together.

This is not simply advocacy. It is a way of being in the world.

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Our Organizing Framework

At Side With Love, organizing is not just a strategy. It is a spiritual practice, rooted in love, animated by faith, and sustained by our commitment to one another and to the world we are building together.

This Organizing Framework describes our approach to advancing our UU values in the world. We design our programs and offerings rooted in these broad values, practices & key methods to support you, UU leaders, to learn, use, apply, and skill up on the elements of the framework to faithfully organize in your context and community.

With love at the center, and anti-oppression praxis woven through everything we do, Unitarian Universalists faithfully organize by:

  • Re-Imagine Thriving

    We deepen our Unitarian Universalist faith, theology and practices to re-imagine a world where all beings and the planet thrive. This roots our organizing in hope, flourishing, joy, and possibility.

  • Ground in Context

    We get to know our congregation and communities, including those most harmed by local conditions and the resources we can share.  This roots our organizing in justice, relationship, and accountability.  

  • Nourish Community

    We center relationships in all that we do. This roots our organizing in love, care, and interdependence.

  • Explore Possibilities

    We pause before we act to consider opportunities that are connected, expansive, and accountable.  This roots our organizing in solidarity, relationship, and curiosity.

  • Mobilize Action

    We move our energy and resources faithfully and strategically to transform the present into a flourishing future.  This roots our organizing in generosity, equity and intention.

  • Anti-Oppression Praxis

    We ask how our organizing confronts white supremacy, centers the leadership of those most impacted, and builds toward a world where all people are genuinely free.

Ready to learn more? Explore our resources, connect with our campaigns, and find your place in this work.

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