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Welcome to the 2021 Unity Walk’s Virtual Resource Fair! Here you can learn about organizations and faith communities engaged in faith-based work around the region. We encourage you to use the tabs to visit all of our Resource Fair participants. The Resource Fair will remain available throughout the day and after the walk. Come learn about these wonderful organizations and find out how you can get involved in support of their great work!
Click to jump to the organizations in this tab: Bna'i Israel
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Bna'i Israel Congregation (Rockville, Md.)
B’nai Israel Congregation is a dynamic, warm, welcoming and inclusive Conservative synagogue in Rockville, MD committed to the spiritual growth of our members. Our community is grounded in the core values of Judaism: study of our tradition, worship of God, social action, and concern for the needs of the Jewish people worldwide. We welcome you to learn more. Visit our website.
At B’nai Israel, we pledge to educate ourselves and pursue justice so that the human rights of all Americans are ensured and protected. Our plans to fulfill this pledge span all the activities of our congregation, from clergy-level relationships to worship to educational opportunities for children and adults. We are committed to working with other local faith congregations and organizations to build a community that is just, equitable and inclusive of all.
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Click to jump to the organizations in this tab: Center for Spiritual Living Metro | D.C. Tutoring and Mentoring Initiative | Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America
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Center for Spiritual Living Metro
Serving the Greater Washington D.C. Metro Area from Arlington, Va.
Are you living an inspired life? Are you feeling less than fulfilled? Would you like to hang out with others who are opening to greater possibilities? We believe that each and every one of us is an essential thread in a grand tapestry of life We are here to support you in living richly – fully-expressing your Divine individuality. At Center for Spiritual Living Metro, we are inclusive, honoring all spiritual paths and celebrating the uniqueness of each individual. Wherever you are on your life journey, you are welcome at CSL Metro. We invite you to “be YOU with US!” … authentically expressing who you are. Join us in loving community for meditations, Sunday gatherings and social and educational events as, together, we grow our awareness of the presence of Spirit. Visit our website.
D.C. Tutoring and Mentoring Initiative
DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative is a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to getting a tutor or mentor for the 2 out of 3 DC students – 60,000+ kids – reading below grade level or with other academic or non-academic needs. (We also serve organizations in the close-in suburbs.) We recruit volunteers at farmers markets and other outdoor spaces and events; work with employers, neighborhood groups, religious congregations, and universities; and, more broadly, work to create a civic culture where all of us feel empowered to actively work together to make a better world, whether through tutoring or mentoring or other activities. When people sign up to volunteer with us, they are placed with one of our 50+ partner nonprofit tutoring or mentoring organizations or schools based on when they are available to help (mornings, afternoons, evenings any day of the week), what neighborhoods are convenient for them (or virtual); and whether they want to work with elementary, middle or high school students. For more information visit our website.
Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA)
FEZANA is a non-profit religious group which serves as the coordinating body for 27 Zoroastrian Associations in the United States and Canada. We promote the study, understanding and practice of the Zoroastrian faith and the welfare of Zoroastrian communities and gather and disseminate information to Zoroastrian Associations and others relating to the Zoroastrian faith and communities. We foster and encourage Zoroastrian fellowship in the North American continent, and represent the religious interests of its Membership in national and international forums. We also engage in many charitable activities. Visit our website. | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Additional Resources: Information on the Zoroastrian Faith | Promoting Universal Fellowship | FEZANA Information Research Education System (FIRES) | Zoroastrian Scriptures
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Click to jump to the organizations in this tab: Guru Gobind Singh Foundation | Hill Havurah | Interfaith Power & Light - DMV | Islamic Relief USA
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Guru Gobind Singh Foundation
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Hill Havurah
Hill Havurah is an independent, Jewish community based on Capitol Hill and serving people from across the Washington metropolitan area. We have a mission to meet and anticipate the spiritual, educational, religious, cultural and life cycle needs of a growing and evolving Jewish community. Hill Havurah's many activities support our members' interests in advancing Jewish culture, identity, education and a commitment to community service. A warm, inclusive and informal spirit is part of what has made Hill Havurah so special for two decades. Visit our website.
Interfaith Power & Light - DMV
Interfaith Council’s grassroots climate program, Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA), works with hundreds of congregations of all faiths across DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia to save energy, go green, and respond to climate change. Stop by our table in front of St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral during the Unity Walk to learn more about how we can work with you to start or strengthen a green team in your congregation, and to shift your facility or homes to cleaner power and greener ways of living.Visit our website. Sign up for email updates here. Follow @IPLdmv on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram.
Islamic Relief USA
Islamic Relief USA is a community of diverse people sharing a set of common values: excellence, sincerity, social justice, compassion, and custodianship. We provide relief and development in the United States and around the world in a dignified manner regardless of gender, race, or religion, and work to empower individuals in their communities and give them a voice in the world. Our advocacy work additionally aims to amplify the voices and concerns of the communities we serve and to build the public and political will to end poverty, hunger, and suffering. Visit our website.
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Click to jump to the organizations in this tab: JAMAAT - Jews and Muslim Allies Acting Together | Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington | Lazarus Leadership Fellows Program
JAMAAT - Jews and Muslim Allies Acting Together
Building Unity, Countering Hate, Enhancing Partnerships, Promoting Social ActionIt is a moral imperative that Muslims and Jews come together to support one another and to build ties of communication and cooperation cultivating a closer relationship born of understanding and respect for one another.
We are a group of Jews and Muslims based in the Washington D.C. Metro area engaged in social action, advocacy, and interfaith dialogue to improve the lives of our fellow citizens. Our story began in 2018 in the aftermath of the 4th Imams and Rabbis Summit organized by the Greater Washington MUSLIM-JEWISH FORUM (GW-MJF), Jewish Islamic Dialogue Society of Washington (JIDS), Interfaith Action For Human Rights (IAHR). Facebook | Twitter | Mailing List Form
Read our Mission Statement and learn more by viewing this video. You may also RSVP for our October 10 General Assembly here.
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington (JCRC)
JCRC is the central community relations agency of the organized Jewish community in our nation's capital. The JCRC endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society which affords Jews, and all people, the conditions most conducive to individual security, equal opportunity and creative group survival. JCRC accomplishes this goal through their work in four pillars: government relations, Israel advocacy, inter-group relations, and social justice.
On behalf of over 100 constituent agencies, organizations and synagogues in the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland, the JCRC determines a consensus on the broad range of public policy issues central to Jewish conscience and concern and then promulgates those concerns to Washington area legislators and civic, public opinion, media and interfaith leaders. The JCRC also coordinates community programs of information and advocacy on priority domestic and international issues. Visit our website.
JCRC Student to Student Program
Student to Student program is a bigotry-reduction program for teens that is sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC). Our participants, Jewish high school juniors and seniors, give presentations to students in the greater DC area schools as well as participating in teacher trainings throughout the region. They talk about their lives as Jewish teens--a powerful antidote to stereotyping and anti-Semitism. In addition to presentations, our teens participate in Interfaith dialogue with religious youth groups throughout the region. The students who have participated in thesel dialogues enthusiastically receive these peer-presented programs and especially enjoy the small group breakouts with facilitated questions led by teens of both faiths.
Watch this video of teachers and participants discussing their experiences with Student-to-Student.
If interested in a presentation or an interfaith dialogue, learn more on our website or reach out to Sara Winkelman at [email protected].
Lazarus Leadership Fellows Program
Since 1997, Lazarus Fellows at B-CC High School have completed more than 68,000 hours of community service. In addition to volunteering at A Wider Circle, the 15 Lazarus Fellows each Spring work to restore a former Germantown farm as a living museum to teach the story of the lives of slaves in pre-Civil War Montgomery County. They participate in a ropes course and visit the KID Museum, Strathmore, Bethesda Magazine, Bethesda Urban Partnership, B-CC Rescue Squad, and the National Center for Children and Families. In the summer, each Lazarus Fellow carries out a 200 hour community service project that the Fellow designs. After a reflection session in early September, there is a graduation ceremony at the Strathmore Mansion.Visit the website.
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Click to jump to the information in this tab: Masjid Muhammad - The Nation's Mosque | MobileMed | National Faith & Blue Weekend | One Journey | NOVA Friends of Refugees
Masjid Muhammad - The Nation's Mosque (Washington, D.C.)
MobileMed
MobileMed provides high quality, culturally competent, comprehensive primary health care and specialty care to our patients. These services are provided at no or low-cost to our patients. Serving adults and seniors living in Montgomery County, we have clinics throughout the county, including Silver Spring, Rockville, Gaithersburg and Germantown. Tele-health and tele-therapy options too. Medicaid and Medicare-eligible, MCares, uninsured. No one is ever turned away for the inability to pay!Visit our website.
National Faith & Blue Weekend
National Faith and Blue Weekend is a powerful initiative that builds bridges to more engaged communities. At the heart of this initiative is the reinforcement of connections between law enforcement professionals and the communities they serve through the reach of houses of worship. There is no resource that can match the depth of the faith community in facilitating productive engagement with law enforcement, which is needed now more than ever. Visit our website.
National Faith & Blue Weekend Planning Toolkit
2020 National Faith & Blue Weekend Impact Report
One Journey
Many Paths, One Journey
Our Vision: A world where refugees and other displaced people are welcomed, valued, and supported so they and their host communities can thrive together.
Our Mission: One Journey amplifies refugee voices and enhances public awareness of refugee talents and contributions. We strive to build enduring allies for refugees and use cultural and technological tools to facilitate human connections between refugees and their host communities.
Our signature event is the annual One Journey Festival, which returns to the National Cathedral on June 25, 2022. The Festival celebrates refugee talents and stories through the common languages of humanity: music, dance, food, art, storytelling, and technology. Other programming includes, special gatherings nationwide, refugee employment and entrepreneur workshops, film showings, and we partner with the Kennedy Center as a member of its Culture Caucus of community arts organizations in residence at The REACH. Virtual programming includes the Journeys Home series featuring refugee musicians and activists, the Refugee Ally Collective platform for One Journey partners serving refugees, and the Virtual Global Marketplace.Visit our website.
How to Help Afghan Refugees: One Journey and its sister organization NOVA Friends of Refugees are now assisting the Afghan Refugee Response by engaging and organizing volunteers in the DMV and sharing the information with all area resettlement agencies and refugee-serving organizations. Focusing on urgent priorates like housing, transportations and mental health, our Volunteer Interests survey link has now attracted responses from more than 530 volunteers. Plans are now underway for a “Welcome to America Soccer Fest” in October and a Refugee Employment Workshop in the Fall.
Images from the One Journey Festival
NOVA Friends of Refugees
NOVA Friends of Refugees is a grassroots network dedicated to assisting refugees, creating welcoming communities, and raising awareness of the many ways refugees add to our culture, communities, and nation.
Our Vision: To make every refugee feel welcome and every resident a welcoming friend.
Our Mission: Leveraging our network to welcome, assist, and advocate for refugees. We focus on four areas: life-skills support, advocacy, referral network, and community events. Plus, we connect members with volunteer opportunities and respond to urgent requests for help. Visit our Facebook page.
How to Help Afghan Refugees: One Journey and its sister organization NOVA Friends of Refugees are now assisting the Afghan Refugee Response by engaging and organizing volunteers in the DMV and sharing the information with all area resettlement agencies and refugee-serving organizations. Focusing on urgent priorates like housing, transportations and mental health, our Volunteer Interests survey link has now attracted responses from more than 530 volunteers. Plans are now underway for a “Welcome to America Soccer Fest” in October and a Refugee Employment Workshop in the Fall.
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Click to jump to the organizations in this tab: Religion Communicators Council | Rock Spring Congregational United Church of Christ | Rumi Forum
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Religion Communicators Council
Religion Communicators Council (RCC) is a professional association whose mission is to provide opportunities for networking and professional development for people working in communications for a wide variety of faith-based organizations. RCC recognizes and cultivates excellence in communications of religious faith and values, as well as advances the public’s religious literacy. Website | Washington, D.C. Chapter | Become a Member | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Flickr
Rock Spring Congregational United Church of Christ
We are so glad you are here. Rock Spring is a vibrant community and we are enriched by all who take part in our community life. No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here. Visit our website.
Rumi Forum
Rumi Forum was founded in 1999 with the mission to foster interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding. It has since been a leading institution where faith leaders, scholars and lay people connect and strive to advance interfaith engagement. The Forum enhances the impact of interfaith efforts for the greater good by bridging the gaps among these stakeholders and mobilizing their work. Visit our website. | Twitter | Facebook
Join us for a live chat from 11-12pm on Sunday, September 12th. RSVP by email at [email protected] for the Zoom link.
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Click to jump to the organizations in this tab: Temple Beth Ami | Temple Sinai | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Temple Beth Ami
Temple Beth Ami is a vibrant, inclusive, innovative community that embraces the beauty, meaning, and inspiration found in Reform Judaism. Founded in 1971 in Rockville, MD, this year marks our Jubilee Anniversary! We welcome all inquiries regarding the High Holy Days, membership or rentals. Visit our website.
Temple Sinai
Temple Sinai, organized in 1951, has over 1,200 member families and is one of the largest Reform Jewish congregations in the Washington, DC area. The Temple Sinai community offers a great breadth of opportunities for participating in worship, programs, and services for all ages, as well as a remarkable Religious School program and NAEYC-accredited Nursery School. The temple’s mission statement and core values incorporate the primary reasons members belong to Temple Sinai – ritual observance, Jewish education, tikkun olam (repairing the world), belonging to a Jewish community and concern for Israel as a Jewish homeland. Temple Sinai has a distinguished tradition in each of these areas, with our particular focus through the lens of Reform Judaism. Temple Sinai is committed to undertaking transformational internal steps to affirm and enhance our identity as a multiracial Reform Jewish community. Visit our website. | Facebook
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The video discusses the announcement of the open house for the Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (originally scheduled for last year but delayed because of COVID-19), which will now take place in 2022. This is a great occasion for us to open the doors of the temple for our friends, members of the Washington, D.C., community, people and partners of all faiths and backgrounds to come and join us and to experience the beauty and peace that is the temple of the Lord. Read the announcement.
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Click to jump to the organizations in this tab: World Zoroastrian Organization | ZAMWI- Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc.
World Zoroastrian Organization
Globally supporting Zoroastrianism, it's people and traditions.
We are an international forward-looking Zoroastrian organisation that still has at its heart the desire to assist those in need and to provide information about Zoroastrianism. We operate an inclusive policy for all Zoroastrians and since 1993, our membership criteria allow non-Zoroastrian spouses married to Zoroastrians to become full members. We are a progressive organization that will meet the challenges facing Zoroastrians in a changing world. Visit our website.
ZAMWI - Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc.
The Zoroastrian community presents a collage of faith-inspired interactions on crucial issues of human rights, justice, and equality, through the exercise of individual responsibility as emphasized in our scriptures. Zoroastrianism promotes unity and universality among its diverse adherents and accords mutual respect and admiration to all faiths for the betterment of the common good.Founded in 1978, ZAMWI (Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc.) serves the religious and cultural needs of Zoroastrians who live in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., area. ZAMWI holds religious and cultural events throughout the year. Visit our website.
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