BIPOC

2nd Offering recipient: BRAVE Communities

01/16/2025

As we continue living out our mission and values, this quarter (January, February, and March 2025) we are focusing our outreach and donations to an organization who uplifts the Beloved Community: BRAVE Communities. You are invited to learn more about them at this link: https://bravecommunities.org/

Their mission is to cultivate BRAVE spaces for people of diverse backgrounds to come together and Build Relationships Awareness Voices and Engagement so we can co-create more just and equitable communities.

Below are programs offered by Brave:

  • BRAVE Young Leaders: Equipping local young people, ages 14-24 year old, with the tools to be agents of change for social good, while creating meaningful connections, and gaining hands-on experience to be community leaders and organizers.
  • BRAVE Communities Connections: Experience powerful, free community-building events with neighbors who want to change the narrative by listening deeply, and connecting with others in a brave space. 
  • Global Social Impact Programs: BRAVE partners with the U.S. Department of State to empower young global leaders, to facilitate their city immersion experience in Austin, for their social innovation programs, fostering leadership and collaboration to address critical community issues worldwide.
  • MakeATXBRAVE Health & Well-Being: Support communities disproportionately impacted by health disparities. From providing meals and resources to tackling food injustice and mental health stigma, this initiative engages young people in learning and advocacy while driving solutions for health equity and climate change.
  • BRAVE Fest: This citywide event unites local underrepresented artists, businesses, nonprofits, and community groups to foster connections across cultures and generations. 

The objectives of our Second Offerings is to deepen our understanding and work with the chosen nonprofit recipient, and to highlight the good work happening in the community outside of our church walls.

Throughout the quarter we will highlight other ways we can engage with BRAVE Communities including opportunities for Wildflowers and friends to volunteer, to learn, to participate in BRAVE programming, and to serve as a sponsor for events held in our Community Room.

DRUUMM Village at General Assembly (June 19-22, 2024)

05/29/2024

UUA Connectional Event: The Power of Our Stories, Our Unity, and Our Love (Diverse & Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM) Event Info)

DRUUMM Village at General Assembly 2024 is a virtual event concurrent with the UUA General Assembly. (General Assembly is the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Annual Meeting.)

The Village is where members of DRUUMM (and those curious about us) can have the opportunity to fellowship, be seen, be heard, and be held in beloved community and in faith. We will hold space for you and for each other. Whether you have registered for the main UUA General Assembly or not, DRUUMM Village programming is open to all People of Color in Unitarian Universalism and BIPOC friends of DRUUMM. Our events will be held virtually via zoom or YouTube, and are predominately BIPOC-only spaces.

This year’s DRUUMM Virtual Village will feature:

  • DRUUMM In Gathering- Wednesday- June 19, 5:30 pm EST
  • Virtual Meditation Brunches and Connection- Thursday- June 20 & Friday- June 21, 10:30 am EST
  • Annual Meeting- Saturday, June 22, 10:30 am EST
  • Virtual Party with Music a various offerings from the DRUUMM community. – Saturday, June 22, 8:30 pm EST

Interested in joining DRUUMM? Wildflowers can sign up via our Group Membership Form. Event Registration links are sent directly to DRUUMM members.

Membership is open to those who affirm DRUUMM’s mission and values, self-identify as a Black, Indigenous and/or Person of Color/Person of the Global Majority, and make a modest, meaningful, contribution of presence at one or more of our events or programs each year, volunteer at any of our DRUUMM events or community projects, and/or support financially (as you are able). (Wildflower had paid for a group membership. There is no fee for an individual to join through our Wildflower DRUUMM membership.)