Meet Our Community Partners!
THEOLOGICAL HORIZONS IS GRATEFUL FOR ITS MANY DEDICATED COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHO HELPED PUBLICIZE AND PROMOTE THIS SPECIAL EVENT AMONG A WIDE VARIETY OF FAITH, JUSTICE, STUDENT, AND OTHER LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO ENSURE ALL COULD TAKE PART IN WELCOMING MR. STEVENSON TO CHARLOTTESVILLE. WE APPRECIATE YOU!
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
BLACK STUDENT LAW ASSOCIATION
The Black Law Student Association's mission is to increase the number of culturally responsible black and minority attorneys who excel academically succeed professionally and positively impact the community.
Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion*
The Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is deeply committed to enhancing the wellbeing, safety and success of all UVA faculty, students, staff, alumni, visitors and our neighbors.
Law Christian Fellowship |UVA
LCF provides an interdenominational forum for Law students to grow and serve as Christians during their law school years at UVA.
LIFETIME LEARNING
The University of Virginia Lifetime Learning program enriches the intellectual life of UVA’s alumni, friends, and families through faculty lectures and online resources.
Meriwether Lewis Institute For Citizen Leadership
The Meriwether Lewis Institute for Citizen Leadership at the University of Virginia is a multi-year fellowship that prepares students for a lifetime of leadership at the University and beyond.
Public Interest Law Association | UVA Law
PILA is a student organization dedicated to the promotion of public interest law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
The Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy is committed to solving the world’s toughest policy challenges.
The Project on Lived Theology at UVA*
The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia is a research initiative, whose mission is to study the social consequences of theological ideas for the sake of a more just and compassionate world.
Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach
Academic Outreach augments UVA’s mission to graduate ethically-minded leaders by amplifying programs that clearly serve the public, and by supporting research that leads the Commonwealth, the nation, and the world toward a better future.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
100 Black Men of Central Virginia | Charlottesville, VA
The 100 Black Men of Central Virginia advocate for the elimination of the achievement gap of African American males in grades K -12.
Abundant Life Ministries | Charlottesville, VA*
Abundant Life demonstrates God’s love through holistic community development in the Prospect neighborhood of Charlottesville.
ArkWise Wealth, Ameriprise Financial | Charlottesville, VA
A private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Arrabon | Richmond, VA
Arrabon is a spiritual formation ministry that equips the American Church to actively and creatively pursue racial healing in their communities by offering a discipleship process that results in a new action.
BTE Productions | Keswick, VA
BTE Productions provides consultation services that reimagines equitable community engagement educational processes through practice of compassionate professionalism and by expression of ethnographic storytelling
City of Promise | Charlottesville, VA
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Community Mental Health and Wellness Coalition |Charlottesville, VA
We are a network of diverse organizations, collaborating to improve outcomes in mental health and substance use in the City of Charlottesville, and in Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson counties.
State Delegate Sally Hudson | Virginia
Sally Hudson is an economist and state legislator in Virginia. Elected in 2019, she is the first woman to represent the 57th district in the Virginia House of Delegates. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Second Chancer Foundation | Charlottesville, VA
Each year in America more than 600,000 people are released from state and federal prison. Millions serve shorter periods in local jails. After release, they return to incarceration at one of the highest rates in the world. Periods of incarceration do little to address the issues and unmet needs that often lead people to prison in the first place and often add further trauma. We seek to humanize the experience of reentry and drive both awareness and resources toward the process.
Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA | Charlottesville, VA
The Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA will serve as the collective voice of all descendants of enslaved and free Black communities who labored at the University of Virginia through research, education, and preservation.
Equal Justice USA Evangelical Network | Charlottesville, VA*
The EJUSA Evangelical Network promotes a justice system centered on redemption and healing. It is a national organization working to transform the justice system by promoting responses to violence that break cycles of trauma.
Interfaith Action for Human Rights | Washington, DC
IAHR represents people of faith who educate and advocate in Maryland, DC and Virginia for corrections systems that avoid unnecessarily punitive practices such as solitary confinement and that instead focus on rehabilitation and successful reentry.
International Rescue Committee | Charlottesville, VA
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people affected by humanitarian crises—including the climate crisis—to survive, recover and rebuild their lives.
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center|Charlottesville, VA*
Located in the Jefferson School City Center, The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center’s mission is to honor and preserve the rich heritage and legacy of the African-American community of Charlottesville-Albemarle, Virginia and to promote a greater appreciation for, and understanding of, the contributions of African Americans and peoples of the Diaspora locally, nationally and globally.
Lending Hands | Charlottesville, VA
Lending Hands acts as a liaison with support agencies in Charlottesville to meet the needs of all ex-offenders in the community.
ReadyKids | Charlottesville, VA
Kids are ready for life when they are safe, healthy, nurtured and prepared for school. To ensure kids are ready, ReadyKids provides the Charlottesville area with counseling, family support and early learning opportunities.
Resilience Education | Charlottesville, VA*
Resilience Education stops cycles of incarceration by improving employment outcomes and reentry success through high-quality business education.
Rumi Forum | Washington, DC
Rumi Forum was founded in 1999 with the mission to foster interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding. The Forum, aims to stimulate the exchange of opinions in order to advance the culture of democracy, freedom of thought, human rights and peace.
Selena Cozart Consulting | Charlottesville, VA
Cozart Consulting, Inc. has extensive expertise in facilitating dialogue and community engagement in the service of equity and justice while hosting a diverse and full range of skills that affect community change through written and spoken conversation and action.
Through the services of Executive Coaching, Facilitation and Training, and Strategic Planning involving race, equity, diversity, inclusion (REDI), justice, and antiracism, Cozart Consulting, Inc. helps individuals and organizations function at an all-inclusive and optimal level.
State Senator Creigh Deeds | Charlottesville, VA
Creigh Deeds is a Democratic Virginia State Senator serving the state's 25th District. He is Co-Chair of the State Senate Judiciary Committee and also serves on the Commerce and Labor, Finance and Appropriations, Privileges and Elections, and Rules Committees.
The Fountain Fund | Charlottesville, VA
The Fountain Fund increases economic opportunities for formerly incarcerated people to improve their lives and remain in their communities
Home to HoPE | Charlottesville, VA
Home to Hope serves clients using authentic, lived experience to impact and inspire "time-served" individuals by introducing resources, providing peer support, and advocating for fairness, thereby advancing our community.
The Uhuru Foundation | Charlottesville, VA
The Uhuru Foundation (TUF) works to interrupt the poverty to prison pipeline by providing financial literacy training, business skill development, and credible messenger mentoring, to transform the thinking, attitude, and behavior of high-risk youth and adults so their past circumstances don’t define their futures.
The Women’s Initiative | Charlottesville, VA
The mission of The Women’s Initiative is to provide women with effective counseling, social support and education so they can transform life challenges into positive change and growth.
Virginia Organizing Project | Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Organizing is a non-partisan statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives.
Virginia Prison Birth Project | Charlottesville, VA
The Virginia Prison Birth Project aims to nurture well-being, connection, and hope by providing skilled support and compassionate presence for pregnant and postpartum people in prison.
Voices of Jubilee | Richmond, VA
We are a community of incarcerated youth, returning citizens, former prison guards and all those longing for an embodied faith and the liberative word of the Gospel.
SCHOOLS AND STUDENT GROUPS
Bonner Leader Program at University of Lynchburg | Lynchburg, VA
The University of Lynchburg Bonner Leader Program is an initiative of The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation and the University of Lynchburg’s Center for Community Engagement that invites annual student leaders to serve 10 hours a week at a nonprofit, school, or government agency in exchange for federal work-study funding.
Church Hill Academy | Richmond, VA
Church Hill Academy is Richmond's East End’s only fully accredited, private, Christian high school that equips students to achieve academic success, develop character, and serve their community.
Falls Church City Public Schools | Falls Church, VA
University of Richmond Christian Law Fellowship
Christian Law Fellowship is a law student organization of fellowship and Christian learning that is welcoming of Christians from many traditions.
Western Albemarle High School
Western Albemarle High School is a public high school located in Crozet, Virginia.
Men of Color, Honor, and Ambition at Charlottesville High School | Charlottesville, VA
The Men of Color, Honor, and Ambition (MOCHA) programs at the University of Virginia and nearby school districts are designed to develop successful leaders of tomorrow, and today.
Women of Color, Honor, and Ambition at Charlottesville High School | Charlottesville, VA
The Women of Color, Honor, and Ambition (WOCHA) programs at the University of Virginia and nearby school districts are designed to develop successful leaders of tomorrow, and today.
FAITH COMMUNITIES
Aldersgate Methodist Church
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All Souls Charlottesville | Charlottesville, VA
All Souls is a church community whose members seek to intentionally rearrange their lives to receive and then give away God’s hospitality, God’s restoration, and God’s shalom.
Charlottesville Clergy Collective | Charlottesville, VA
The Charlottesville Clergy Collective is a group of faith and allied community leaders who gather regularly to discuss and address the challenge of racial justice and equity in the Charlottesville-Albemarle Region of Central Virginia.
Church of the Good Shepherd | Charlottesville, VA
Church of the Good Shepherd is an Anglican church plant in Charlottesville, Virginia. We are a community seeking to grow into Christ’s likeness for the glory of God, for the abundance of our own lives, and for the good of our neighbors.
Church of the Resurrection | Charlottesville, VA
Shaped by the truth that He is risen, Resurrection seeks to be a Gospel community marked by celebration, invitation, and formation.
Congregation Beth Israel | Charlottesville, VA
Congregation Beth Israel is a diverse and inclusive Jewish community, welcoming people of all ages, backgrounds, family structures, and worship styles.
Coracle | Arlington, VA*
Coracle exists to inspire and enable people to be the presence of God in the brokenness of the world through spiritual formation for Kingdom action.
First Presbyterian Church | Charlottesville, VA*
First Presbyterian Church is friendly community of 1000 members in downtown Charlottesville and a congregation of the Presbyterian Church USA.
Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville | Charlottesville, VA
Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville (IMCC) is an organization grounded in Buddhist teachings.
Mt Zion First African Baptist Church | Charlottesville, VA
A warm and compassionate community of Believers who are committed to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Restoration Anglican | Arlington, VA
Restoration Anglican Church connects people to God, to others, and to the needs of the world.
Sojourners United Church of Christ | Charlottesville, VA
Sojourners UCC is a community of faith, called to be on a journey together with other sojourners, always open to God’s call to move on.
St. Paul’s Memorial Church | Charlottesville, VA*
St. Paul's is a welcoming, serving, praying congregation located directly across from the Rotunda on Rugby Road.
The Center for Christian Study | Charlottesville, VA
The Center for Christian Study is an educational and outreach ministry at UVA.
Trinity Presbyterian Church | Charlottesville, VA
Trinity presbyterian church is a community seeking to share in god's renewal of all things—our life with god, our own selves, our relationships with others, and our world—through the gospel of jesus christ.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation | Charlottesville, VA
A welcoming community that reveres the interconnected web of life.
Westminster Presbyterian Church | Charlottesville, VA
Westminster is a fully welcoming and inclusive Christian faith community serving the University of Virginia and the greater Charlottesville and Albemarle areas.