Ongoing Projects
- In cooperation with the Boyertown Area Ministerial Association, the BAUC has helped to plan and facilitate the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrations held in January 1999, 2000, and 2001.
- A banner honoring Dr. King, full of buttons in many different shapes, sizes, and colors symbolizing
the commitment of the community to the principles of diversity and understanding, has been circulating among area churches.
- At the 34th Annual Boyertown Sidewalk Expo in June 1999, the button banner was decorated with many more buttons tagged with the names of those individuals who sewed them on.
- In May 1999, the Unity Coalition met at Trinity E. C. Church near the Presidential Estates housing development to discuss with residents ways in which to respond to the past distribution of hate literature within the neighborhood.
- The organization appeared in a Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission training film about community responses to the presence of hate groups, "Stopping the Hate With Harmony," and in a nationally distributed SPLC publication, "Ten Ways to Fight Hate" (September 1999).
- The BAUC has donated funds and materials (books, videotapes, and posters) to the Boyertown Community Library and helped set up displays for Black History and Women's History Months, and for Holocaust Remembrance.
- The Unity Coalition sponsored the "Boyertown Dream Team 2001" project to honor the life, work, and ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Posters made by 168 Boyertown elementary students were displayed by businesses throughout Boyertown for Black History Month.
- The BAUC has networked with groups nationwide to start a "Project Lemonade" in their communities. And, of course, the BAUC will run its own "Project Lemonade" as needed.
