Gratitude Gone Wrong: A Lesson In Being Thanked

By Heather L. Melton, staff officer for the United Thank Offering Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a great deal about moments when our desire to be grateful has gone wrong. May is time where many people are recognized and thanked for their participation, support or achievements, but for those doing the thanking, […]

2021 UTO Grant Process Update

Thank you to everyone who applied for a UTO Grant during this spring cycle of COVID-19 grants. The grant list will be sent to Executive Council for approval in April, and applicants will be notified of the status of their request shortly thereafter. We will announce the list in the May E-News, and grant brochures will […]

Spring Webinars!

We have two awesome webinars coming up over the next two months. We hope you’ll join one or both.  April Webinar: Introduction to Straw Bale Gardening April 22 at 7pm Eastern Now that the COVID-19 grants are awaiting final approval by Executive Council, the Board is turning our thoughts and energy to the 2022 Grant Process which […]

Applications Now Available for the Julia Chester Emery Internship 2021-2022

In 2015, the UTO Board launched the Julia Chester Emery internship program for young adults in honor of the countless women who served as UTO missionaries. The 2021-2022 internship will be a collaborative effort between The Episcopal Church’s Reconciliation, Justice, and Creation Care team (RJCC) and the Johnson Service Corps House, an affiliate of Episcopal […]

Applications now available for the Young Adult Board Member Position 2021-2024

See below for the full press release regarding an opening on the Board for a young adult — please share! What is UTO? The United Thank Offering (UTO) began in 1883 with a thank offering gathered by the Women’s Auxiliary in response to the needs expressed in the mission field. From this first offering, the […]

2021 UTO Scholars Conference Call for Proposals

United Thank Offering, along with the Diocese of Massachusetts and the Cathedral of Saint Paul, will host the second annual Theology of Gratitude Conference on October 15-17, 2021.  We seek to bring together scholars from a variety of fields to foster interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary research on Theology of Gratitude. Proposals and papers exploring connections that […]

2020 Annual Report

By Sherri Dietrich, UTO Board President The 2020 UTO Annual Report is now available for download. The year 2020 was a year like no other, and while we are sad to share that the Ingathering is down in 2020, we are so very proud of all the COVID-19 relief projects the Ingathering has funded and will […]

See, I am Making All Things New

By the Rev. Canon Heather L. Melton, Staff Officer for the United Thank Offering Often Episcopalians will be heard to say, “We are an Easter people,” as a way of explaining our faith. I’ve always struggled with this turn of phrase because as Episcopalians, we aren’t super great at letting anything die (I think we all […]

United Thank Offering Contact Update

2021 UTO Grant Process Update

Thank you to everyone who applied for a UTO Grant during this spring cycle of COVID-19 grants. If your grant application was complete, it is currently being reviewed by the UTO Board. If your application was not complete, you will receive notification shortly so you can look for funding elsewhere. The grant list will be […]