OBIC Board Highlights — February 2025

Did you know that UUCC owns ~90% of the entity that is the Owen Brown Interfaith Center? We share ownership with Christ United Methodist Church (CUMC). You can learn more about this arrangement here.  

The success of OBIC is integral to the success of UUCC: not only are we financially responsible for the operations of OBIC, but OBIC is a tangible way we live our pluralistic values here in Howard County. 

OBIC is its own 501(c)3 nonprofit separate from the two owning congregations with its own management, staff, and board of directors. UUCC is represented on the board by 5 UUCC congregants. This year’s representatives are Ed Gaddy, Gregory Seidman, Lindsay Thompson, and Richard Yocum. 

To help UUCC congregants understand and learn how to support OBIC (and UUCC as a result), our UUCC OBIC directors will share highlights and updates from the OBIC board here in this Good Governance blog.

The OBIC Board met over Zoom on Friday, February 28 for regular business. We discussed child safety, what we can do to signal our opposition to ICE raids, and taking on a donation bin that had previously been at Joann’s before the store was scheduled to close. The Board continues to work toward reducing costs and increasing revenue to keep a balanced budget, as well as pursuing the reinstatement of OBIC’s 501(c)(3) tax exempt nonprofit status. The Board closed by choosing Tuesday, March 25 for the next meeting.