Resources Unlimited Foundation
In service to the connections between thought and action

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What is the mission...who we are?

Some of the most thoughtful and passionate organizations use Resources Unlimited Foundation to become more thoughtful and more passionate, and more successful.

A one-of-a-kind grassroots educational institute. Through special projects the activist education institute provides research-based educational, consultation, planning, and support services to community centered organizations working in boundary-crossing areas of social justice and partnership building. The projects and programs, serving a network of like-minded nonprofit and civic organizations, help draw the connections between the theory of care and the action of care, between the words used and the meaning of the words. Six educational and experiential service programs deploy dozens of practical ideas and methods for teaching and demonstrating concrete ways of crossing the boundaries of separation and isolation in an age made more complex by identity politics and intense pluralism. Results of the programs include positive, measurable improvements in capacity building.

The improvements address critical human service needs through new forms of shared leadership as well as new understandings of an individual’s capacity for service to others through volunteerism and civic engagement.  Service programs teach and train institutions and individuals to recognize and maximize the use of moral, social, and political resources to build community (and to build communities) of justice, equity, and purpose.


The six programs are Dialogues in Democracy, Supper & Conversation, Intergenerational Mentoring, Festival of Potluck Foods, Faces of Community, and Conversations That Matter. The programs help to improve methods of advocacy, volunteer growth, community engagement and outreach, and policy shaping and making. Most important, programs teach and show ways of using the skills of personalism to create untried collaborations and to generate renewed understandings of the dignity of the human person. 

Program services include designing and organizing conferences, forums, dialogues, and conversations as cooperative public events of empowerment in celebration of human worth and possibility.  Because programs teach a range of moral-ethical frameworks for problem-solving, they are able to build capacity for creating transformative experiences respectful of human complexity.

MISSION:  An activist grassroots educational institute of thought and action in community service and volunteerism.  

Improving civic, social, educational, religious, engagements in service to others.   

Education and research services build caring social justice partnerships that actively affirm the values of person to person engagement and leadership in democracy.


Today


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roviding capacity building services through special project

work in education, training and research

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trengthening and creating new partnerships

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uilding capacity to change

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aluing human dignity and possibility

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acilitating ways to grow program services



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Trustees

Rev. Dr. Edward Bergstraesser
 

Mr. Jim Boushay
 

Rev. Dr. Stanley L. Davis, Jr.
 

Ms. Stacey Flint
 

Ms. Laurie Fried

Mr. James J. McClure, Jr.
 

Ms. Brooke McMillin
 

Rev. Calvin S. Morris, Ph.D.
 

Ms. Allison Purdie
 

Mr. Chet Stewart
 

Rev. Dwight Stewart

Mr. Rickey Sain Sr.

Executive Director 

Mr. Case Hoogendoorn, J.D.
(of Counsel)

 

 

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