Benefits of Belonging
- URI’s Preamble, Purpose, and Principles offers common purpose and shared vision and values for building peace, justice, and healing
- Connections, relationships, and friendships
- Opportunities to connect with and share ideas and experiences with like-minded groups (CCs) across the globe
- Opportunities to collaborate with other CCs
- Recognition as a member of an international grassroots interfaith organization
- Elevated profile and visibility
- Unlimited potential to create cross-border interfaith/intercultural partnerships
- Training and capacity building opportunities provided by URI Staff and CCs
- Participation in worldwide events such as World Interfaith Harmony Week and the International Day of Peace.
- Opportunities to link with potential funders and resources
- Becoming a co-builder of a global transformative network
- Sharing diverse expressions of the Sacred while working towards common goals
- Sharing hope and higher purpose while making friends and making a difference.
Connecting with the Network
- Have regular communication with your URI Regional Coordinator or URI Regional Leadership Team, share information, experiences, and photos of your CCs' work.
- Actively reach out to other CCs to share experience, form partnerships, and collaborate to achieve common goals.
- Reach out to contribute your expertise to CCs in the network - be a friend and mentor?
- If your CC specializes in training, offer the opportunity for members of other CCs to participate.
- Ask Regional Coordinators or other CCs for help that your CC needs.
- Get involved with worldwide peacebuilding projects such as International Day of Peace, World Interfaith Harmony Week, and Golden Rule.
- Send messages of recognition, appreciation, acknowledgment to honor the work of others.
Testimonials
Our CC benefits because of a sense of solidarity with the CC’s in other countries.
UDAAN CC
Ahmedabad, India
ASIA
Coexister CC and URI both benefit by expanding our networks and
exchanging experience so our vision reaches the largest public.
Coexister CC
France
Europe
We are expecting that URI will offer us an opportunity to engage,
share knowledge and experiences with our own CC members.
Youth Center for Development CC
Sangkat Boeung, Cambodia
Southeast Asia and South Pacific
We benefit by exchanging experience with URI's global network,
and by our own interfaith activities that accomplish the purpose of URI.
Action of Dialogue & Development for Life CC
Deir-Koubel, Lebanon
Middle East and North Africa
What we are doing locally is not small,
but even better to be a part of a bigger global community.
Charlotte Red Bench Garden CC
Matthew, North Carolina, USA
North America
Our CC benefits from tested models and best practices,
awareness of local/regional people and organizations.
Silicon Valley Interreligious Council
San Jose, California, USA
North America
Having a global platform is something we have dreamt of.
We have projects with a vision - and with shared goals,
we can put these projects together with others.
This is our love to expand together is absolutely wonderful.
Apithan Ministries
Arizona, USA
Multiregion
We want to share our stories with a bigger community
and exchange experiences with peacebuilders all over the globe.
This will benefit our group and URI as we share the same ultimate goal.
URI for Interfaith Dialogue & Peacemaking CC
Baghdad, Iraq
Middle East and North America
Being a member of a global community inspires us
to continue our own efforts in our own community.
A-CAUSE-TICS CC
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Expanding our network with URI
allows us to carry our work forward in a secure forum
where others of like-mind can take up the work and
carry it for us when we are no longer able to do so.
South Eastern Indigenous Interfaith Council CC
Talking Rock, Georgia, USA
North America