Regular updates from UUCF’s Board of Directors. Please click on headings to read in full.
Updates on Endowment Funds & Grants
Dear UUCF Community, As part of our annual commitment to transparency and stewardship, we are pleased to share important updates about UUCF’s endowment funds and grant opportunities. These changes strengthen our ability to receive and manage legacy gifts while continuing to support meaningful projects within the congregation. What’s New? Improved Grant Calculation: The Board of Directors has adopted a new practice for determining available grant funds. Starting this year, the annual distribution amount will be calculated using a seven (7) quarter rolling average of the Endowment Fund’s market value. This approach ensures we are responsive to market conditions while prioritizing the use of these funds for meaningful projects that benefit UUCF. Creation of the Basic Fund: We have established a new Basic Fund, designed to hold legacy and planned gifts for long-term congregational needs. Unlike the Endowment Fund, the Basic Fund does not distribute grants. Instead, it provides flexibility to address strategic priorities and essential needs, including operating and capital
Capital Campaign Update
September 30, 2025. Dear UUCF Community, Seventy years ago, a small group of people of faith came together near here to found the Fairfax Unitarian Church, now the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax. At its founding, our congregation was nothing but our founders’ time, treasure, and commitment to one another. Without property, a minister, or staff, they had a vision that a liberal religious faith would be a beacon of truth and meaning for one another and for the society around them. We share that vision, which we make manifest each time we gather and care for one another and the broken world that surrounds us. Almost 2 years ago, your Board of Directors started the Living the Mission process, where we reached out to you to better understand what our vision of Grow, Connect, and Serve means in this different time, and for the people who sit beside us, shaded by the trees planted so many years ago. Throughout
Focus Groups Need Your Feedback
September 3, 2025. Dear UUCF Community, You have likely seen messages about a series of focus group sessions, designed by UUCF’s Board of Directors. What are these all about? Basically, it’s about setting the stage for what we, as a congregation, want to focus on, during a potential capital campaign this coming congregational year. UUCF has reached an important period in its 70-year history, and your participation and feedback in the focus groups is essential. Your feedback will inform the Board’s decision-making, and we have already received valuable input about UUCF’s critical needs, financial security, and campus upgrades. During focus groups in August, you asked about many topics – the history behind past attempts at a septic field upgrade, why we’re looking to grow our endowment, and how we will promote social justice efforts in our community and beyond, among other things. The Board has listened and adjusted our plans as we gather these great ideas, and will continue to