URI Stories of Impact

Yesterday, three Muslim students were shot and killed near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. URI Global Council Trustee Sam Wazan urges us to speak words of peace.

Can you believe our wonderful fortune in hiring these two highly qualified people to work with URI? 

One of the areas in which URI Cooperation Circles work is around issues of women – positioning them as leaders in their communities. 

Joyce Ng’oma, tenderly called by Mama Joyce by many in URI, recently passed away in her home country, Malawi.

There are special moments in life when things just click, when something you thought you knew takes on new life. That happened for me yesterday with compassion.

The Building Creative Communities Conference mission is to motivate, encourage, empower and inspire community advocates by sharing ideas, learning new skills, and fostering positive change. 

Twelve years ago when we started the Holy Books Conference series, we never expected it to become so important an international interfaith event. 

As we begin a new calendar year, it’s always good to pause, reflect and savor what we know and what we don’t know.