Equipping, inspiring, and empowering leaders for social justice.
The Center currently offers a tuition-free nine-month continuing education program in Leadership for Social Justice for congregational pastors in Minnesota and surrounding states.
The program equips pastors with the skills to effectively address a broad range of social issues—including struggles for economic, racial, gender, sexual, and ecological justice—in ways that are reflective, practical, relational, and faithful. The program supports pastors in developing and/or deepening contextually-sensitive, sustainable, and community-based ministries in social justice responsive to what God is doing in our world, in our congregations, and in our communities.
The Hawkinson Fund for Peace and Justice, now a program of the Leadership Center, offers scholarships to students who demonstrate a commitment to peace and justice. The Center is a vibrant expression of United’s mission: preparing innovative and compassionate leaders for the equipping of churches, other faith communities, and society toward justice and peace.
For detailed information on how to give, please contact Rev. Dr. Cindi Beth Johnson, Vice President for Advancement, via email or at 651-255-6137. Online gifts can be made at any time.
Other Ways to Give
Whether you give to United’s Leadership Center for Social Justice by establishing a recurring gift or by making a one-time contribution, our goal is to make the entire process as quick and easy as possible. You can designate gifts for the Leadership Center in the following ways:
- online giving (credit or debit card gifts)
- gifts by check
- cash donations
When making a gift by check designated to the Center, please make the check out to “United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities” and, in the memo line, write “Leadership Center for Social Justice.”
You can also support the continued operations of United by making a contribution to the United Fund (formerly known as the Annual Fund), United’s unrestricted annual fund.
Give for Transformed Communities
The Center serves as a hub for critical conversations about a range of contemporary social and political issues, offering spiritual leaders and communities of faith a place for reflective and deeply engaged continuing theological education.
Support Student Scholarships
The Hawkinson Fund for Peace and Justice offers scholarships to students who demonstrate a commitment to peace and justice. Each year, the Hawkinson Fund also offers an honorary award to individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions to peace and justice.